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BIBLIOGRAPHY

The 1920s
Great Depression and the New Deal
World War II
Segregation in the South
American society and the Cold War
Cold War Politics, 1945-1960
1960s: Culture and Society
The Civil Rights Movement
Politics, 1960-1980
Politics since 1980
Society and Culture since 1980
Historiographical Issues
Background Reading
Internet Resources

SOCIETY AND CULTURE SINCE 1980

Donald T Critchlow, Intended consequences: birth control, abortion, and the federal government in modern America
Jane deHart and Donald Matthews, The Failure of the ERA
David Garrow, Liberty and Sexuality: The right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v Wade
Faye D. Ginsburg, Contested Lives: The Abortion debate in an American Community
Claudia Goldin, Understanding the Gender Gap
Susan Hartman, From Margins to Mainstream
Leonore Weitzman, The Divorce Revolution
Lawrence W. Levine, The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History (1996
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students (1987)

Ethnicity, Race and Multiculturalism
Desmond S. King, Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (2000)
Keith Fitzgerald, The Face of the Nation: Immigration, the State, and National Identity (1996)
David M. Reimers, Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration (1998
Russell A. Kazal, "Revisiting Assimilation: The Rise, Fall, and Reappraisal of a Concept in American Ethnic History," American Historical Review 100:2, 1995
David A. Hollinger, Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (1995)
Robert Hughes, Culture of Complaint; the Fraying of America (1993)
Wendy F. Katkin, Ned C. Landsman, and Andrea Tyree, eds., Beyond Pluralism: The Conception of Groups and Group Identities in America (1998)
Orlando Patterson, The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America's "Racial" Crisis (1997)
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (1992)