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 GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL

General
Anthony J. Badger, The New Deal; The Depression Years 1933-1940 (1990)
Ronald Edsforth, The New Deal: America's response to the Great Depression (2000)
David M Kennedy, Freedom from fear: the American people in depression and war, 1929-1945 (1999)
William E Leuchtenburg, Franklin D Roosevelt and the New Deal (1963)
George McJimsey, The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (2000)
Labor
Irving Bernstein, The Lean Years, A History of the American Worker, 1920-33 (1955)
Colin Gordon, The New Deals: Business, Labor and Politics, 1920-1935
Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-39 (1990)
Melvyn Dubofsky, Labor in America: A History (1999)
Nelson Lichtenstein, The most dangerous man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the fate of American labor (1995)
Irving Bernstein, The Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941 (1969)
David Brody, "The Emergence of Mass Production Unionism" and "Reinterpreting the Labor History of the 1930s," in Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle (1980)
Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren Van Tine, John L. Lewis: A Biography 1977)
Steve Fraser, Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the rise of American labor(1991)
Women and Blacks
Patricia Sullivan, Days of hope: race and democracy in the New Deal Era (1996)
Susan Ware, Beyond Suffrage: Women in the New Deal (1981)
Susan Ware, Holding Their Own: Women in the 1930s (1982)
Harvard Sitkoff, A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue (vol 1, 1978)
Nancy Weiss, Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR (1983)
Lois Scharf, To Work and to Wed: Female Employment, Feminism and the Great Depression (1980)
Winifred D. Wandersee, Women's Work and Family Values, 1920-1940 (1981)
Economics and Business
Michael Bernstein, The Great Depression (1987)
Bernard Bellush, The Failure of the NRA (1975)
Ellis Hawley, The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly (1966)
Peter Fearon, War, Prosperity and Depression. The US Economy, 1917-1945 (1987)
Politics, Ideology and Culture
Alan Brinkley, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (1995)
Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order ch 3,4 (1989)
Jordan Schwarz , The New Dealers: Power Politics in the Age of Roosevelt (1993)
David Plotke, Building a democratic political order: reshaping American liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s (1996)
Richard H Pells, Radical visions and American dreams: culture and social thought in the Depression years (1984)
Frank Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt
Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Couglin and the Great Depression (1983)
James T. Patterson, America's Struggle Against Poverty, 1900-1980 (1981)
James T. Patterson, Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal: The Growth of the Conservative Coalition in Congress, 1933-1939 (1967)
James T Patterson, “A Conservative Coalition Forms in Congress, 1933-1939,” Journal of American History 52(1965-66): 757-72.
Robert P. Ingalls, “Antiradical violence in Birmingham During the 1930s,” Journal of Southern History, Vol. 47, No. 4 (November 1981) pp. 521-544
Historiographical
Dubofsky, ed. The New Deal: Conflicting Interpretations and Shifting Perspectives (1992)