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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

HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ISSUES

Eric Foner, ed., The New American History, rev. ed. (1997)
Anthony Mohlo and Gordon S. Wood, eds., Imagined Histories: American Historians Interpret Their Past (1998) [See esp. chapter by Daniel Rodgers on exceptionalism.]
Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession (1988)
Gary B. Nash, History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the American Past (1997)
David Thelen, “The Nation and Beyond: Transnational Perspectives on United States History,” Journal of American History 86 (1999)
Stephen Tuck, “The New American Histories,” Historical Journal 48 (2005). August Meier and Elliott Rudwick, Black History and the Historical Profession, 1915-1980 (1986)
Thomas Bender, “Strategies of Narrative Synthesis in American History,” American Historical Review 107 (2002).
Thomas Bender, “Whole and Parts: The Need for Synthesis in American History,” Journal of American History 73 (1986)
David A. Hollinger, "The Return of the Prodigal: The Persistence of Historical Knowing," American Historical Review 94: 3 (1989)
James T. Kloppenberg, "Objectivity and Historicism: A Century of American Historical Knowing," American Historical Review 94: 4, (1989)