General Readings in American Social and Intellectual History

Ahlstrom, Sydney E., A Religious History of the American People, vol. 1 and vol. 2
(Image Books, 1975)

Bailey, Thomas A., A Diplomatic History of the American People (Prentice-Hall,
1980)

Barber, James David, Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White
House (Prentice-Hall, 1992)

Boyer, Paul S., The Oxford Companion to United States History (Oxford University
Press, 2001)

Carman, Harry J., et al, A History of the American People, v. 1. To 1877–v. 2. Since
1865, 3rd edition (Alfred A. Knopf, 1967)

Foner, Eric, The Story of American Freedom (W.W. Norton, 1998)

Glover, Jonathan, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century (Yale
University Press, 2001)

Gordon, John Steele, An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic
Power (New York: 2004)

Hobsbaum, Eric, Interesting Times (Pantheon Books, 2002)

Hofstadter, Richard, The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It,
(Alfred A. Knopf, 1973)

Howard, Michael and William Roger Louis, The Oxford History of the Twentieth
Century (Oxford University Press, 1998)

Hymowitz, Carol and Michaele Weissman, A History of Women in America (Bantam,
1984)

Loewen, James, Lies My Teacher Told Me (Touchstone, 1996)

McNeill, J.R. and William H. McNeill, The Human Web: A Bird’s-Eye View of World
History (W.W. Norton, 2003)

Miller, Neil, Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present
(Vintage, 1995)

Mills, C. Wright, Power, Politics, and People: The Collected Essays of C. Wright Mills
(Ballantine Books, 1963)

Morison, Samuel Eliot, A Concise History of the American Republic (Oxford University
Press, 1983)

Patterson, James T., America in the Twentieth Century: A History (Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, 1976)

Phillips, Kevin, Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
(Broadway Books, 2002)

Reeves, Thomas C., Twentieth-Century America: A Brief History (Oxford University
Press, 2000)

Schlesinger, Arthur M., The Cycles of American History (Houghton Mifflin, 1999)

Wiebe, Robert H., Who We Are: A History of Popular Nationalism (Princeton
University Press, 2002)