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The 1920s
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World War II
Segregation in the South
American society and the Cold War
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WORLD WAR II

General
Carl Abbott, "The Federal Presence" in Clyde A Milner II, Carol A O'Connor and Martha Sandweiss, The Oxford History of the American West (1994) 469-500
John Morton Blum, V was for Victory: Politics and Culture during World War II
Alan Brinkley, The End of Reform, esp. cc 7-10
John W. Jeffries, Wartime America: the World War II home front (1996)
Daniel Kryder, Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State during World War II (2000)
Government and Labor
Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II (1982)
Bruce J. Shulman, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: federal policy, economic development, and the transformation of the South, 1938-1980 (1991) esp. pp. 88-134
Theodore Wilson, 'The United States: Leviathan' and Charles C. Alexander, 'The United States: The Good War?' in David Reynolds et al eds. Allies at War: the Soviet, American, and British experience, 1939-1945 (1994)
Bartholomew H Sparrow, From the outside in: World War II and the American state (1996)
Women
Susan Hartmann, The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s
Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work: the dynamics of job segregation by sex during World War II
Karen Tucker Anderson, "Last Hired, First Fired: Black Women Workers during World War II", Journal of American History, Vol. 69, No. 1. (Jun., 1982), pp. 82-97
Politics
Richard Polenberg, “The National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government, 1937-1941,” Journal of American History, 52 (1965-66): 582-598.