Reading list
for 11th-grade U.S. History
1. Students analyze the significant events in the founding of
the nation and its attempts to realize the philosophy of government
described in the Declaration of Independence.
Eric Foner, The Story of American Freedom
2. Students analyze the relationship among the rise of industrialization,
large-scale rural-to-urban migration, and massive immigration from
Southern and Eastern Europe .
Nicholas Lemann, The Promised Land: the Great Black Migration
and How it Changed America
David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace,
the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925
James R. Grossman, Land of Hope : Chicago , Black Southerners,
and the Great Migration
Christine Stansell, City of Women : Sex and Class in New York
, 1789-1860
3. Students analyze the role religion played in the founding of
America , its lasting moral, social, and political impacts, and issues
regarding religious liberty.
Nathan Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity
Nancy MacLean, Behind the mask of chivalry: the making of
the second Ku Klux Klan
Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American
Right
4. Students trace the rise of the United States to its role as
a world power in the twentieth century.
Gail Bederman, Manliness & civilization: a cultural history
of gender and race in the United States , 1880-1917
5. Students analyze the major political, social, economic, technological,
and cultural developments of the 1920s.
Dana Frank, Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender,
and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929
David Levering Lewis (editor), The Portable Harlem Renaissance
Reader (New York: Viking, 1994) .
George Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture,
and Identity in Chicano LA, 1900-1945
Roland Marchand, Advertising the American Dream: Making Way
for Modernity, 1920-1940
6. Students analyze the different explanations for the Great Depression
and how the New Deal fundamentally changed the role of the federal
government.
Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago
, 1919-1939
Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: the Laboring of American
Culture in the Twentieth Century ( New York: Verso, 1996) .
Robin D. G Kelley, Hammer and hoe: Alabama Communists during
the Great Depression
Lawrence Levine, "American Culture and the Great Depression," Yale
Review, 74 (Jan. 1985).
Robert S. McElvaine, The Great Depression: America , 1929-1941
Carey McWilliams, Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory
Farm Labor in California
Studs Terkel, Hard Times : an Oral History of the Great Depression
7. Students analyze America 's participation in World War II.
John Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific
War
8. Students analyze the economic boom and social transformation
of post-World War II America.
Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics
of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
Gary S. Cross, An all-consuming century : why commercialism
won in modern America
Thomas Hine, Populuxe
Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization
of the United States
Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the
Cold War Era (New York: Basic Books, 1988).
Lisa McGirr, Suburban warriors : the origins of the new American
Right
D.J. Waldie, Holy Land : A Suburban Memoir
9. Students analyze U.S. foreign policy since World War II.
Michael Barson and Steven Heller, Red Scared! The Commie Menace
in Propaganda and Popular Culture
Paul S. Boyer, By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought
and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age
Mary Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of
American Democracy
Michael Herr, Dispatches
Stephen Kinzer, All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup
and the Roots of Middle East Terror ( Hoboken , N.J. : John
Wiley & Sons, 2003).
Laura McEnaney, Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization
Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties
Victor S Navasky, Naming names
Thomas Paterson, On Every Front: The Making and Unmaking of
the Cold War
Marilyn B. Young, The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990
10. Students analyze the development of federal civil rights and
voting rights.
Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years,
1963-1965
Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years,
1954-63
Clayborne Carson, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening
of the 1960’s
William Chafe, Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro , North
Carolina , and the Black Struggle For Freedom
John Dittmer, Local People: the Struggle for Civil Rights
in Mississippi
Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: years of hope, days of rage
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Jim Miller, Democracy is in the street: from Port Huron to
the Siege of Chicago
11. Students analyze the major social problems and domestic policy
issues in contemporary American society.
Alice Echols, Daring To Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America
, 1967-1975
Thomas Byrne Edsall, and MaryEdsall, Chain Reaction: The Impact
of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics
Sara M. Evans, Personal politics: the roots of women's liberation
in the civil rights movement and the new left
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