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Anderson, Devery S. Emmett Till: the Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Modern Civil

Rights Movement

Bailey, Beth Sex in the Heartland

Bell, Joyce Marie The Black Power Movement and Social Work

Berger, Dan The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism

Brickman, Barbara Jane New American Teenagers: the Lost Generation of Youth in 1970s Film

Burrough, Bryan Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of

Revolutionary Violence

Bynum, Thomas NAACP Youth and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1936-1965

Cadbury, Deborah Space Race: the Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of

Space

Carosso, Andrea Cold War Narratives: American Culture in the 1950s

Carson, Clayborne In Struggle SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s

Casteldine, Jacqueline L. Cold War Progressives: Women’s Interracial Organizing for Peace and Freedom

Coontz, Stephanie The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap

Cottrell, Robert C. Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll: the Rise of America’s 1960s Counter Culture

Costello, Matthew J. Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America

Cowie, Jefferson Stayin’ Alive the 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

Daniel, Peter Lost Revolutions The South in the 1950s

D’Antonio, Patricia American Nursing: A History of Knowledge, Authority, and the Meaning of Work

Davis, Blair The Battle for the B’s: 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low Budget Cinema

D’Emilio, John Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United

States 1940-1970

Delmont, Matthew F. The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock ‘n Roll, and the Struggle for

Civil Rights in Philadelphia

Dudziak, Mary L. The Cold War and Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy

Echols, Alice Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture

Eig, Jonathan The Birth of the Pill How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution

English, Bonnie A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Flippen, J. Brooks Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the Religious Right

Gaddis, John Lewis The Cold War a New History

Geary. Daniel Beyond Civil Rights: the Moynihan Report and its Legacy

Garcia, Gilbert Reagan’s Comeback: Four Weeks in Texas That Changed American Politics Forever

Goldberg, Michelle The Means of Reproduction Sex Power and the Future of the World

Halberstam, David The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

Haydock, Michael D. City Under Siege: the Berlin Blockade and Airlift, 1948-1949

Herring, George C. America’s Longest War: the United States and Vietnam 1950-1975

Johnson, David K. The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal

Government

Kalic, Sean N. U.S. Presidents and the Militarization of Space, 1946-1967

Judis, John B. Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Isreali Conflict

Kurlansky, Mark 1968 the Year that Change the World

Lamb, Chris Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball

Lepore, Jill The Secret History of Wonder Woman

MacKenzie, F. Calvin and Robert Wisebrot, The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in

the 1960s

Maurer, Noel The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property

Overseas, 1893-2013

May, Elaine Tyler America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation

May, Elaine Tyler Homeward Bound American Families in the Cold War Era

May, Gary Bending Towards Justice: the Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American

Democracy

Mendez, Antonio J. Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History

Morgan, George D. Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America’s First Rocket Scientist

Miller, James Flowers in the Dustbin: the Rise of Rock and Roll 1947-1977

Murphy, Gareth Cowboys and Indies: the Epic History of the Record Industry

Ngai, Mae M. Impossible Subjects Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

Oshinsky, David M. Polio: an American Story

Perlstein, Rick The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

Pleck, Elizabeth Not Just Roommates: Cohabitation After the Sexual Revolution

Rampersand, Arnold Jackie Robinson: a Biography

Ridel, Bruce What We Won: America’s Secret War in Afghanistan 1979-89

Robinson, Greg After Camp: Portraits in Mid-Century Japanese American Life and Politics

Rosen, Ruth The World Split Open How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America

Rivers, Daniel L. Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States

Since World War II

Rubin, Rachel Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture

Samuel, Lawrence R. Shrink: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in America

Shapiro, Laura Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America

Shilts, Randy And the Band Played On

Shrecker, Ellen Many Are the Crimes McCarthyism in America

Skal, David J. The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror

Skloot, Rebecca The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Smith, Ken Mental Hygiene: Better Living Through Classroom Films 1945-1970

Souder, William On a Further Shore: the Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring

Theorhis, Jeanne The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Turner, James Morton The Promise of Wilderness: American Environmental Politics Since 1964

Vuic, Kara Dixon Officer, Nurse, Woman: the Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War

Watson, Bruce Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 that Made Mississippi Burn and Made

America a Democracy

Weisz, Jessica To Have and to Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom and Social Change

Weiner, Tim Enemies: A History of the FBI

Weiner, Tim Legacy of Ashes: the History of the CIA

Weiner, Tim One Man Against the World: the Tragedy of Richard Nixon

Zemeckis, Leslie Behind the Burly Q: the Story of Burlesque in America