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Book List for Reviews

You may choose one book from the following list to write your review/response paper on. These books are monographs: peer-reviewed studies of specific topics based on original research and written by professional historians. I have added some key topics of each of these books to the citations listed below, in order to help you choose one that fits with your personal interests. Canaday, Margot. The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. Key Topics: Gender, Sexuality, Politics, Government, Social History Cowie, Jefferson. Stayin’ Alive: the 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class. The New

Press, 2012. Key Topics: Labor, Working Class Studies, Popular Culture, Politics, Unions Crouch, Tom. A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905. New York, NY:

W.W. Norton, 2002. Key Topics: Technology, Aviation, Government, Engineering, Science Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ:

Princeton University Press, 2002. Key Topics: Race, Nationalism, Politics, Civil Rights Honey, Michael K. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last

Campaign. W.W. Norton, 2008. Key Topics: Civil Rights, Race Relations, Labor, 1960s, Southern History May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era, 20th anniversary

edition. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2008. Key Topics: American Families, Social History, Women’s History, Cold War McCartin, Joseph. Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of

Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921. Raleigh, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Key Topics: World War I, Labor, American Government, Unions, Progressivism McCarthy, Tom. Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment. New Haven, CT: Yale

University Press, 2007. Key Topics: Cars, Consumerism, Environmentalism, Technology, Government McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right, updated edition.

Princeton, NY: Princeton University Press, 2015. Key Topics: 1960s, Conservatism, Suburbia, Political Activism, Social History