Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Peace now!: American society and the ending of the Vietnam War, New Edition (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001)
Philip Jenkins, The Cold War at home: the red scare in Pennsylvania, 1945-1960 (Chapel Hilclass="underline" The University of North Carolina Press, 1999)
Zachary Karabell, Architects of intervention: the United States, the third world, and the Cold War, 1946-1962 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press,
i999)
Gabriel Kolko, Anatomy of a war: Vietnam, the United States, and the modern historical experience (New York: Pantheon, 1985)
Mark Atwood Lawrence, Assuming the burden: Europe and the American commitment to war in Vietnam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005) Guenter Lewy, America in Vietnam (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978) Scott Lucas, Freedom’s war: the American crusade against the Soviet Union (New York: New York University Press, i999)
David Maraniss, They marched into sunlight: war and peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 (New York: Simon and Schuster 2005)
Elaine Tyler May, Homeward bound: American families in the cold war era (New York: Basic Books, 1988)
Myra MacPherson, Long time passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation (Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1984)
Allen J. Matusow, The unraveling of America: a history of liberalism in the 1960s (New York: Harper and Row, 1984)
Walter A. McDougall, The heavens and the earth: a political history of the space age (New York: Basic Books, 1985)
Lisa McGirr, Suburban warriors: the origins of the new American Right (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001)
James T. Paterson, Grand expectations: The United States, 1945-1974. New ed.
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
Charles M. Payne, I’ve got the light of freedom: the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995) Howell Raines, My soul is rested: movement days in the Deep South remembered (New York: Putnam, 1977)
Ellen Schrecker, Many are the crimes: McCarthyism in America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998)
Neil Sheehan, A bright shining lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (New York: Random House, 1988)
Philip Taubman, Secret empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the hidden story of America’s space espionage (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004)
Martin Walker, The Cold War: a history (New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1993) James H. Willbanks, The Tet offensive: a concise history (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006)
Garry Wills, The Kennedy imprisonment: a meditation on power (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., i985)
C. Vann Woodward, The strange career of Jim Crow (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978)
Daniel Yergin, Shattered peace: the origins of the Cold War and the national security state (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1977)
Modern America/General
Stephen Ambrose, Rise to globalism: American foreign policy since 1938 (New York: Penguin Books, i997)
Adam J. Berinsky, In time of war: understanding American public opinion from World War II to Iraq (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009)
Robert F. Berkhofer, The white man’s Indian: images of the American Indian from Columbus to the present (New York: Knopf: Random House, 1978) Jefferson Cowie, Stayin’ Alive: the 1970s and the last days of the working class (New York: The New Press, 2010)
David Ekbladh, The great American mission: modernization and the construction of an American world order (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010) Adam Fairclough, Better day coming: blacks and equality, 1890-2000. Reprint. (New York: Penguin Books, 2002)
Joseph P. Ferrie, Yankeys now: immigrants in the antebellum United States, 18401860 (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)
Marshall Foletta, Coming to terms with democracy: federalist intellectuals and the shaping of an American culture (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001)
Eric Foner, Free soil, free labor, free men: the ideology of the Republican Party before the civil war (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970)
Susan-Mary Grant, North over south: northern nationalism and American identity in the antebellum era (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000)
John Higham, Strangers in the land: patterns of American nativism (New York: Athaneum Press, 1971)
Reginald Horsman, Race and manifest destiny: the origins of American racial Anglo-Saxonism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981)
Winthrop D. Jordan, White over black: American attitudes toward the Negro 1550-1812 (Chapel Hilclass="underline" The University of North Carolina Press, 1968)
John Lauritz Larson, The market revolution in America: liberty, ambition, and the eclipse of the common good (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Simon P. Newman, Parades and the politics of the street: festive culture in the early American republic (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997) Leonard L. Richards, The slave power: the free north and southern domination, 1780-1860 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000)
Charles G. Sellers, The market revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991)
Jay Sexton, The Monroe doctrine: empire and nation in nineteenth century America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2011)
David Waldstreicher, In the midst of perpetual fetes: the making of American nationalism, 1776-1820 (Chapel Hilclass="underline" The University of North Carolina Press, i997)
Gordon S. Wood, Empire of liberty: a history of the early republic, 1789-1815 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010)
Slavery and the South
Robert E. Bonner, Mastering America: southern slaveholders and the crisis of American nationhood (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2009)
Catherine Clinton, The plantation mistress: woman’s world in the old South (New York: Pantheon Books, 1982)
Carl N. Degler, The other South: southern dissenters in the nineteenth century (1974. Paperback Reprint. New York: Harper and Row, 1975)
William Dusinberre, Them dark days: slavery in the American rice swamps (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)
William W. Freehling, The road to disunion, Vol. I, secessionists at bay, 17761854 (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990)
William W. Freehling, The road to disunion, Vol. II, secessionists triumphant, 1854-1861 (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
Niall Ferguson, Colossus: the rise and fall of the American empire (London and New York: Penguin Books, 2004)
Gary Gerstle, American crucible: race and nation in the twentieth century (Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001)
Paula Giddings, When and where I enter: the impact of black women on race and sex in America (New York: Morrow, 1984)
Michael J. Heale, Twentieth-century America: politics and power in the United States (London: Arnold, 2004)
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, The FBI: a history (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2007)
Linda K. Kerber, No constitutional right to be ladies: women and the obligations of citizenship (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998)
Michael Mann, Incoherent empire (London and New York: Verso, 2003)
James T. Patterson, Restless giant: the United States from Watergate to Bush vs.
Gore. New ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)
Jonathan M. Schoenwald, A time for choosing: the rise of modern American conservatism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
Michael S. Sherry, In the shadow of war: the United States since the 1930s (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, i997)
One of the Founding Fathers of the American nation, Samuel Adams was born in Quincsy, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard College in 1743. He briefly considered a career in the law, and even more briefly, and unsuccessfully, shifted to business, before taking up what would become his permanent career in politics, serving in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and as a member of the Boston Town Meeting in the 1760s. When, in 1763, the British Parliament mooted taxing the colonies to raise revenue to cover the cost of the Seven Years War (or French and Indian War), Adams was instrumental in composing a considered colonial response to this unwelcome suggestion. He argued that