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

THE 1920s

General
Lynn Dumenil, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (1995)
David J. Goldberg, Discontented America: The US in the 1920s
William E Leuchtenburg, The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932 (1958)
Ellis Hawley, The Great War and the search for a modern order : a history of the American people and their institutions, 1917-1933 (1979)
David L. Lewis. When Harlem Was in Vogue. New York: Knopf, 1981.
Klan/Nativism
John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925, rev. ed. (2002), ch. 6-11
Stanley Coben, ‘A Study in Nativism: The American Red Scare of 1919-1920 Political Science Quarterly (1964)
David A. Horowitz, Inside the Klavern: The Secret History of a Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s (1999)
Kenneth T. Jackon, The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930 (1967)
Shawn Lay (ed) The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New Interpretation of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s (1992)
Shawn Lay, Hooded Knights on the Niagara: The Ku Klux Klan in Buffalo, New York (1995)
Nancy McLean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (1994)
Coben, Stanley, "Ordinary White Protestants: The KKK of the 1920s (Review Essay)," Journal of Social History 28 (1994) pp. 155-165.
Nancy Maclean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (1994)
Leonard Moore, "Historical Interpretations of the 1920's Klan: the Traditional view and the Populist Revision," Journal of Social History 24 (1990):341-57
Society
William H. Chafe, The American woman; her changing social, economic, and political roles, 1920-1970
George M. Marsden, Fundamentalism and American culture : the shaping of twentieth century evangelicalism, 1870-1925
Warren I. Susman, '"Personality' and the Making of Twentieth-Century American Culture" and "Culture and Civilisation: The Ninteen Twenties" in Susman, Culture as History
Charles W. Eagles,"Urban-Rural Conflict in the 1920s: A Historiographical Assessment," Historian, 49 (November, 1986).
Estelle B. Freedman, "The New Woman: Changing Views of Women in the 1920s", Journal of American History, Vol. 61, No. 2. (Sep., 1974), pp. 372-393
Politics
Robert K Murray, Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919-20 (1955)
Joan Hoff Wilson, Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive (1975)
William J. Barber, From New Era to New Deal: Herbert Hoover, the Economists and American Economic Policy, 1921-1933 (1985)
Ellis W Hawley, "Herbert Hoover, the Commerce Secretariat, and the Vision of an 'Associative State' 1921-1928", Journal of American History, 61: 1 (June 1974)