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12. T
HE
E
MPIRE AND THE
P
EOPLE
  • Aptheker, Herbert, ed.
    A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States.
    New York: Citadel, 1973.
  • Beale, Howard K.
    Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power.
    New York: Macmillan, 1962.
  • Beisner, Robert.
    Twelve Against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898–1902.
    New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.
  • *Foner, Philip.
    A History of the Labor Movement in the United States.
    4 vols. New York: International Publishers, 1947–1964.
  • *______.
    The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth of American Imperialism.
    2 vols. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972.
  • Francisco, Luzviminda. “The First Vietnam: The Philippine-American War, 1899–1902,”
    Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars,
    1973.
  • *Gatewood, Willard B.
    “Smoked Yankees” and the Struggle for Empire: Letters from Negro Soldiers, 1898–1902.
    Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971.
  • Lafeber, Walter.
    The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion.
    Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1963.
  • Pratt, Julius. “American Business and the Spanish-American War,”
    Hispanic-American Historical Review,
    1934.
  • Schirmer, Daniel Boone.
    Republic or Empire: American Resistance to the Philippine War.
    Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman, 1972.
  • Williams, William Appleman.
    The Roots of the Modern American Empire.
    New York: Random House, 1969.
  • ______.
    The Tragedy of American Diplomacy.
    New York: Dell, 1972.
  • Wolff, Leon.
    Little Brown Brother.
    Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1961.
  • Young, Marilyn.
    The Rhetoric of Empire.
    Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968.
13. T
HE
S
OCIALIST
C
HALLENGE
  • *Aptheker, Herbert.
    A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States.
    New York: Citadel, 1974.
  • *Baxandall, Rosalyn, Gordon, Linda, and Reverby, Susan, eds.
    America's Working Women.
    New York: Random House, 1976.
  • Braverman, Harry.
    Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century.
    New York: Monthly Review, 1975.
  • Brody, David.
    Steelworkers in America: The Non-Union Era.
    Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960.
  • Chafe, William.
    Women and Equality: Changing Patterns in American Culture.
    New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
  • Cochran, Thomas, and Miller, William.
    The Age of Enterprise.
    New York: Macmillan, 1942.
  • Dancis, Bruce. “Socialism and Women,”
    Socialist Revolution,
    January-March 1976.
  • Dubofsky, Melvyn.
    We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World.
    New York: Quadrangle, 1974.
  • Du Bois, W. E. B.
    The Souls of Black Folk.
    New York: Fawcett, 1961.
  • Faulkner, Harold.
    The Decline of Laissez Faire 1897–1917.
    White Plains, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1977.
  • *Flexner, Eleanor.
    A Century of Struggle.
    Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975.
  • Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley.
    The Rebel Girl.
    New York: International Publishers, 1973.
  • Foner, Philip, ed.
    Helen Keller: Her Socialist Years.
    New York: International Publishers, 1967.
  • *______.
    A History of the Labor Movement in the United States.
    4 vols. New York: International Publishers, 1947–1964.
  • Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.
    Women and Economics.
    New York: Harper & Row, 1966.
  • *Ginger, Ray.
    The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs.
    New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1969.
  • Goldman, Emma.
    Anarchism and Other Essays.
    New York: Dover, 1970.
  • Green, James.
    Grass-Roots Socialism: Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895–1943.
    Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978.
  • Hays, Samuel. “The Politics of Reform in Municipal Government in the Progressive Era,”
    Pacific Northwest Quarterly,
    October 1964. (Reprinted by New England Free Press.)
  • Haywood, Bill.
    The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood.
    New York: International Publishers, 1929.
  • Hofstadter, Richard.
    The American Political Tradition.
    New York: Random House, 1954.
  • James, Henry.
    The American Scene.
    Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968.
  • Jones, Mary.
    The Autobiography of Mother Jones.
    Chicago: Charles Kerr, 1925.
  • Kaplan, Justin.
    Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography.
    New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966.
  • *Kolko, Gabriel.
    The Triumph of Conservatism.
    New York: Free Press, 1977.
  • *Kornbluh, Joyce, ed.
    Rebel Voices: An I.W.W. Anthology.
    Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1964.
  • *Lerner, Gerda, ed.
    Black Women in White America.
    New York: Random House, 1973.
  • *______.
    The Female Experience: An American Documentary.
    Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977.
  • London, Jack.
    The Iron Heel.
    New York: Bantam, 1971.
  • Naden, Corinne J.
    The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, March 25, 1911.
    New York: Franklin Watts, 1971.
  • Sanger, Margaret.
    Woman and the New Race.
    New York: Brentano's, 1920.
  • Schoener, Allon, ed.
    Portal to America: The Lower East Side, 1870–1925.
    New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967.
  • Sinclair, Upton.
    The Jungle.
    New York: Harper & Row, 1951.
  • Sochen, June.
    Movers and Shakers: American Women Thinkers and Activists, 1900–1970.
    New York: Quadrangle, 1974.
  • Stein, Leon.
    The Triangle Fire.
    Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1965.
  • Wasserman, Harvey.
    Harvey Wasserman's History of the United States.
    New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
  • *Weinstein, James.
    The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State, 1900–1918.
    Boston: Beacon Press, 1968.
  • *Wertheimer, Barbara.
    We Were There: The Story of Working Women in America.
    New York: Pantheon, 1977.
  • Wiebe, Robert H.
    The Search for Order, 1877–1920.
    New York: Hill & Wang, 1966.
  • *Yellen, Samuel.
    American Labor Struggles.
    New York: Pathfinder, 1974.
  • Zinn, Howard.
    The Politics of History.
    Boston: Beacon Press, 1970.
14. W
AR
I
S THE
H
EALTH OF THE
S
TATE
  • Baritz, Loren, ed.
    The American Left.
    New York: Basic Books, 1971.
  • *Chafee, Zechariah, Jr.
    Free Speech in the United States.
    New York: Atheneum, 1969.
  • Dos Passos, John.
    1919.
    New York: Signet, 1969.
  • Du Bois, W. E. B. “The African Roots of War,”
    Atlantic Monthly,
    May 1915.
  • Fleming, D. F.
    The Origins and Legacies of World War I.
    Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1968.
  • *Fussell, Paul.
    The Great War and Modern Memory.
    New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.
  • *Ginger, Ray.
    The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs.
    New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1969.
  • Goldman, Eric.
    Rendezvous with Destiny.
    New York: Random House, 1956.
  • Gruber, Carol S.
    Mars and Minerva: World War I and the Uses of Higher Learning in America.
    Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975.
  • Joughin, Louis, and Morgan, Edmund.
    The Legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti.
    New York: Quadrangle, 1964.
  • Knightley, Philip.
    The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker.
    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
  • Kornbluh, Joyce, ed.
    Rebel Voices: An I.W.W. Anthology.
    Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1964.
  • Levin, Murray.
    Political Hysteria in America.
    New York: Basic Books, 1971.
  • Mayer, Arno J.
    The Politics and Diplomacy of Peace-Making 1918–1919.
    New York: Knopf, 1967.
  • *Peterson, H. C., and Fite, Gilbert C.
    Opponents of War, 1917–1918.
    Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1968.
  • Simpson, Colin.
    Lusitania.
    Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.
  • Sinclair, Upton.
    Boston.
    Cambridge, Mass.: Robert Bentley, 1978.
  • Weinstein, James.
    The Corporate Ideal in the United States 1900–1918.
    Boston: Beacon Press, 1969.
15. S
ELF-HELP IN
H
ARD
T
IMES
  • Adamic, Louis.
    My America, 1928–1938.
    New York: Harper & Row, 1938.
  • *Baxandall, Rosalyn, Gordon, Linda, and Reverby, Susan, eds.
    America's Working Women.
    New York: Random House, 1976.
  • Bellush, Bernard.
    The Failure of the N.R.A.
    New York: W. W. Norton, 1976.
  • Bernstein, Barton, J., ed.
    Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History.
    New York: Pantheon, 1968.
  • Bernstein, Irving.
    The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920–1933.
    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960.
  • ______.
    The Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933–1941.
    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969.
  • Borden, Morton, ed.
    Voices of the American Past: Readings in American History.
    Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1972.
  • Boyer, Richard, and Morais, Herbert.
    Labor's Untold Story.
    United Front, 1955.
  • *Brecher, Jeremy.
    Strike
    ! Boston, Mass.: South End Press, 1979.
  • Buhle, Paul. “An Interview with Luigi Nardella,”
    Radical History Review,
    Spring 1978.
  • *Cloward, Richard A., and Piven, Frances F.
    Poor People's Movements.
    New York: Pantheon, 1977.
  • Conkin, Paul.
    F.D.R. and the Origins of the Welfare State.
    New York: Crowell, 1967.
  • Cook, Blanche Wiesen.
    Eleanor Roosevelt.
    Vol. 1. New York: Penguin Books, 1992.
  • Cook, Blanche Wiesen.
    Eleanor Roosevelt.
    Vol. 2. New York: Viking Penguin, 1999.
  • Curti, Merle.
    The Growth of American Thought.
    New York: Harper & Row, 1943.
  • *Fine, Sidney.
    Sit-Down: The General Motors Strike of 1936–1937.
    Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969.
  • Galbraith, John Kenneth.
    The Great Crash: 1929.
    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972.
  • General Strike Committee.
    The Seattle General Strike.
    Charlestown, Mass.: gum press, 1972.
  • *Hallgren, Mauritz.
    Seeds of Revolt.
    New York: Knopf, 1934.
  • *Lerner, Gerda, ed.
    Black Women in White America: A Documentary History.
    New York: Random House, 1977.
  • Lewis, Sinclair.
    Babbitt.
    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1949.
  • Lynd, Alice and Staughton, eds.
    Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers.
    Boston: Beacon Press, 1974.
  • Lynd, Robert and Helen.
    Middletown.
    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1959.
  • Mangione. Jerre.
    The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers Project,
    1935–1943. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.
  • Mills, Frederick C.
    Economic Tendencies in the United States: Aspects of Pre-War and Post-War Changes.
    New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1932.
  • Ottley, Roi, and Weatherby, William J. “The Negro in New York: An Informal History,”
    Justice Denied: The Black Man in White America,
    ed. William Chace and Peter Collier. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.
  • Painter, Nell, and Hudson, Hosea. “A Negro Communist in the Deep South,”
    Radical America.
    July-August 1977.
  • Renshaw, Patrick.
    The Wobblies.
    New York: Anchor, 1968.
  • *Rosengarten, Theodore.
    All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw.
    New York: Knopf, 1974.
  • Steinbeck, John.
    The Grapes of Wrath.
    New York: Viking, 1939.
  • Swados, Harvey, ed.
    The American Writer and the Great Depression.
    Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966.
  • *Terkel, Studs.
    Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression in America.
    New York: Pantheon, 1970.
  • Wright, Richard.
    Black Boy.
    New York: Harper & Row, 1937.
  • Zinn, Howard.
    La Guardia in Congress.
    Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1959.
16. A P
EOPLE'S
W
AR
?
  • Alperovitz, Gar.
    Atomic Diplomacy.
    New York: Vintage, 1967.
  • Aronson, James.
    The Press and the Cold War.
    Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970.
  • Barnet, Richard J.
    Intervention and Revolution: The U.S. and the Third World.
    New York: New American Library, 1969.
  • Blackett, P. M. S.
    Fear, War and the Bomb: Military and Political Consequences of Atomic Energy.
    New York: McGraw-Hill, 1948.
  • Bottome, Edgar.
    The Balance of Terror: A Guide to the Arms Race.
    Boston: Beacon Press, 1972.
  • Butow, Robert.
    Japan's Decision to Surrender.
    Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1954.
  • Catton, Bruce.
    The War Lords of Washington.
    New York: Harcourt Brace, 1948.
  • Chomsky, Noam.
    American Power and the New Mandarins.
    New York: Pantheon, 1969.
  • Cook, Blanche Wiesen.
    The Declassified Eisenhower.
    New York: Doubleday, 1981.
  • Davidson, Basil.
    Let Freedom Come: Africa in Modern History.
    Boston: Little, Brown, 1978.
  • Feingold, Henry L.
    The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust.
    New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1970.
  • Freeland, Richard M.
    The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism.
    New York: Knopf, 1971.
  • Gardner, Lloyd.
    Economic Aspects of New Deal Diplomacy.
    Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964.
  • Griffith, Robert W.
    The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate.
    Rochelle Park, N.J.: Hayden, 1971.
  • Hamby, Alonzo L.
    Beyond the New Deal: Harry S. Truman and American Liberalism.
    New York: Columbia University Press, 1953.
  • Irving, David.
    The Destruction of Dresden.
    New York: Ballantine, 1965.
  • Kahn, Herman.
    On Thermonuclear War.
    New York: Free Press, 1969.
  • *Kolko, Gabriel.
    The Politics of War: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1943–1945.
    New York: Random House, 1968.
  • Lemisch, Jesse.
    On Active Service in War and Peace: Politics and Ideology in the American Historical Profession.
    Toronto: New Hogtown Press, 1975.
  • Mailer, Norman.
    The Naked and the Dead.
    New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1948.
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    The Fifties: The Way We Really Were.
    New York: Doubleday, 1977.
  • Miller, Marc. “The Irony of Victory: Lowell During World War II.” Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Boston University, 1977.
  • Mills, C. Wright.
    The Power Elite.
    New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
  • Minear, Richard H.
    Victor's Justice: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial.
    Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1973.
  • Offner, Arnold.
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    New York: W. W. Norton, 1976.
  • Rostow, Eugene V. “Our Worst Wartime Mistake,”
    Harper's,
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    New York: Viking, 1975.
  • Schneir, Walter and Miriam.
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    New York: Doubleday, 1965.
  • *Sherwin, Martin.
    A World Destroyed: The Atom Bomb and the Grand Alliance.
    New York: Knopf, 1975.
  • Stone, I. F.
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    New York: Monthly Review Press, 1969.
  • United States Strategic Bombing Survey.
    Japan's Struggle to End the War.
    Washington: Government Printing Office, 1946.
  • Weglyn, Michi.
    Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps.
    New York: William Morrow, 1976.
  • Wittner, Lawrence S.
    Rebels Against War: The American Peace Movement, 1941–1960.
    New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.
  • *Zinn, Howard.
    Postwar America: 1945–1971.
    Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973.

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