Addams, Jane Twenty Years at Hull-House, autobiographical notes, with a foreword by Henry Steele Commager, drawings by Norah Hamilton, with a rev. and updated bibl. New York: New American Library, 1961, 1981. 320 p. : ill. ; Series: A Signet classic CE1564. Originally published 1961.
Almaguer, Tomas. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1994. 282 p.; bibliographical references (p. 259-274) and index. racism in California had deep roots.
Appy, Christian G. Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993, paper. 365 p.; bibliography notes and index. says 80% of U.S. enlisted men were working class, most motivated by socioeconomic factors and self-advancement, not patriotism; were brutalized in basic training, inflicted brutality on the Vietnamese, had no idea why they were fighting in Vietnam, and after returning home were profoundly distrubed by the experience. This is the same interpretation as the HBO tv movie Letters Home from Vietnam. This interpretation is opposed by Harry Summers in the 1982 On Strategy who argues that soldiers fought in Vietnam for the same reasons as WWII and their problems were due to the antiwar movement and a failure of political leadership at the top. Movies like Born on the Fourth of July are slanderous to veterans, and incidents like My Lai were aberrations rather than a result of policy. The oral histories in Otto Lehrack's 1992 No Shining Armor and Eric Bergerud's 1993 Red Thunder suggest a great variety of soldier experiences.
Baker, William J. Jesse Owens: An American Life. New York: Free Press,1986. 289 p., [16] p. of plates: ill.; bibliography: p. 238-273 and index.
Barth, Gunther. City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980, paper. 289 p., [6] leaves of plates: ill.; bibliography: p. 265-275 notes and index.
Bergman, Andrew. We're In the Money. Depression America and Its Films. New York, Harper & Row, 1971. 200 p. illus. 21 cm. Includes bibliography. Originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Wisconsin.
Bernardi, Daniel, ed. The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of U.S. Cinema. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1996. 378 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-362) and index.
Bethel, Elizabeth. Promiseland, a century of life in a Negro community. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981. 329 p.; bibliography: p. [317]-324 and index. Promised Land in Abbeville Co., SC, was an all-black community after the civil war, where the South Carolina Land Commission (see Carol Bleser book) sold the land to freedmen for $3.25 per acre; school was estab 1870; subsistence agri, not cotton; black juries by 1872; Zion AME church 1875. Was a success story of the reconstruction era for black freedmen. See also Carol Bleser, Promised Land; the history of the South Carolina Land Commission, 1869-1890, University of South Carolina Press, 1969.
Biel, Steven. Down with the Old Canoe: a cultural history of the Titanic disaster. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1996. 300 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-280) and index.
Bilstein, Roger E. Stages to Saturn: a Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles. Washington, DC: NASA History Office, 1996. 11 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm Series The NASA history series NASA SP ; 4206 Gov doc# NAS 1.21:4206 Note Shipping list no.: 97-0125-P "Original publication date: 1980." Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-500) and index.
Bilstein, Roger E. The American Aerospace Industry: from workshop to global enterprise. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. 280 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 271-273) and index. Series: Twayne's evolution of modern business.
Biskind, Peter. Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties. New York : Pantheon Books, 1983. 371 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index
Blaszczyk, Regina Lee. Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 380 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Series Studies in industry and society. Note Includes bibliographical references and index. this book won the Hagley Prize in Business History.
Brandon, Craig. The Electric Chair: an Unnatural American History. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1999. 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-273) and index.
Brannon, Beverly W. and David Horvath, eds. A Kentucky Album: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1943; with a foreword by Jim Wayne Miller. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. 148 p.: chiefly ill.; bibliography: p. 148.
Brayer, Elizabeth. George Eastman: a Biography. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 637 p.: ill., ports.; bibliographical references (p. [539]-607) and index.
Bredbenner, Candice Lewis. A Nationality of Her Own: women, marriage, and the law of citizenship. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 294 p. ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-279) and index the law in 1855 gave citizenship to foreign women who married American men, and the law in 1907 expatriated American women married to foreign men.
Brenner, Jol Glenn. The Emperors of Chocolate: inside the secret world of Hershey and Mars. New York: Random House, 1999. 366 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-343) and index.
Brewster, Bill and Frank Broughton. Last Night a Dj Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey. New York: Grove Press, August 2000, paper ($12.60). 336 p.
Brown, Julie K. Contesting Images: photography and the World's Columbian Exposition. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994. 185 p.: ill., map; bibliographical references (p. 163-175) and index. focuses on why images were selected for the expo that "reflected the developing polarization between industry and art" (p. 17) and visitors did not see the full range of photography being produced in 1893. Disturbing images were kept out, such as fozen bodies of explorers on expeditions to the Arctic in the Signal Corps exhibit
Carlebach, Michael L. and Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. Farm Security Administration Photographs of Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993. 127 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. [119]-124) and index.
Carr, Carolyn K., ed. Ohio, a Photographic Portrait, 1935-1941: Farm Security Administration Photographs. Akron, Ohio: Akron Art Institute, 1980. 96 p.: ill.; exhibition organized by Carolyn Kinder Carr; bibliography: p. 95.
Carson, Gerald. Cornflake Crusade. New York: Arno Press, 1976, 1957. 305 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. Series: Getting and spending. Note: Reprint of the ed. published by Rinehart, New York. Includes index "Sources and authorities" :p. 261-[288], digital text at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/umhtml/umhome.html
Cayleff, Susan E. Babe: the Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. 327 p., [16] p. of plates: ill.; bibliographical references (p. [267]-310) and index. Series: Women in American history.
Chan, Sucheng, ed. Entry Denied: Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America, 1882-1943. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. 286 p. ; 25 cm. Series Asian American history and culture. Includes bibliographical references.
Chen, Constance M. "The sex side of life" : Mary Ware Dennett's pioneering battle for birth control and sex education. New York : New Press, 1996. 374 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-[368]) and index "In 1894, at the age of 22, Mary was head of the department of design and decoration at Philadelphia's Drexel Institute of Art. in 1900 she married a young architect, William Hartley Dennet. Within ten years Hartley abandoned Mary and their two sons. From her private pain, Dennett built a magnificent public service career as a suffragette, peace activist, and founding member of the National Civil Liberties Bureau (which would evolve into today's American Civil Liberties Union). Her greatest achievements were in the areas of birth control and sex education. She established the first birth control organization in the country and in 1915 wrote "The Sex Side of Life: An Explanation for Young People" which became the subject of a landmark censorship case based on that pamphlet's distribution."
Clark, Claudia. Radium Girls, women and industrial health reform: 1910-1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-280) and index.
Clegg III, Claude Andrew. An Original Man: the life and times of Elijah Muhammad. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997. 377 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Note Based on the author's doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-366) and index
Cohen, Michael P. The History of the Sierra Club, 1892-1970. San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, 1988. 550 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Collins, Douglas. America's Favorite Food: the story of Campbell Soup Company. New York, N.Y. : H.N. Abrams, 1994. 216 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm. Includes index.
Conn, Peter J. Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Cooper, Gail. Air-conditioning America: engineers and the controlled environment, 1900-1960. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 28 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Series Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-221) and index
Corn, Joseph J. The Winged Gospel: America's romance with aviation, 1900-1950. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. 177 p., [24] p. of plates: ill.; bibliographical references and index.
Courtwright, David T. Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001. 277 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-213) and index. Contents: Introduction: The psychoactive revolution -- The big three: alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine -- The little three: opium, cannabis, and coca -- The puzzle of distribution -- The sorcerer's apprentices -- A trap baited with pleasure -- Escape from commodity hell -- Opiates of the people -- Taxes and smuggling -- About-face: restriction and prohibition -- Licit and illicit drugs
Cowan, Geoffrey. People vs. Clarence Darrow: The Bribery Trial of America's Greatest Lawyer. NY: Times Books, 1993. 546 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. [503]-529) and index. Darrow defends himself successfully in 1911 against the charge of bribing a juror in the Iron Workers Union and McNamara brothers 1911 trial for bombing the Los Angeles Times building.
Current, Richard. Those Terrible Carpetbaggers: A Reinterpretation. 1988 475 p.
Curtis, Susan. Dancing to a Black Man's Tune: a Life of Scott Joplin. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994. 265 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 239-257) and index. Series: Missouri biography series. good on historical context of Joplin's life but not as good on his music as Edward Berlin's 1994 King of Ragtime. Shows impact of ragtime on visitors of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair where it supposedly was first performed, and discrimination suffered by Joplin at 1904 St. Louis Expo.
Czitrom, Daniel J. Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982. 254 p.: ill.; bibliography: p. [227]-245 and index.
Daniels, Roger. Coming to America: a history of immigration and ethnicity in American life. 2nd ed. New York: Perennial, 2002. 515 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-491) and index.
Daniels, Roger. Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988. 384 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Bibliography: p. 345-372 and index.
Davis, Flora. Moving the Mountain: the Women's Movement in America since 1960. University of Illinois Press, 1999. 628 p. ; 23 cm Note Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1991. With new introd. and last chapter "Illini books edition" Includes bibliographical references (p. 597-605) and index
Davis, Margaret L. Dark Side of Fortune: Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 339 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-323) and index
Davis, Susan G. Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 313 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-304) and index
Denning, Michael. Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture America. New York : Verso, 1987. 259 p. ; 23 cm. Includes index and Bibliography: p. 242-254. "arguably the most generative account of early working-class culture in the U.S."
Denning, Michael. The Cultural Front: the laboring of American culture in the twentieth-century. New York : Verso, 1996. 556 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Series: The Haymarket series. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-543) focuses on the 1930s, similar to Steven Ross's history of labor film that shows the working-class shaping culture 1900-1920s
Denton, Sally and Roger Morris. The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America. New York: Knopf, 2001. 479 p.
DeVeaux, Scott. Birth of Bebop: a social and musical history. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997. 572 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 521-534) and index "Recordings cited": p. 535-544
Dinnerstein, Leonard and David M. Reimers. Ethnic Americans: a history of immigration. 4th ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 250 p. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-216) and index.
Dittmer, John. Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994, paper. 530 p.: ill., maps; bibliographical references (p. [439]-512) and index. Series: Blacks in the New World. the best history of the Miss. movement, where the basic struggle was the right to vote. Medgar Evers and NAACP faced increasing violence after the 1954 Brown decision. Young SNCC and CORE activists were local leaders who emerged to form a new indigenous leadership, such as Anne Divine, Victoria Gray, Fannie Lou Hamer. Robert Moses began the political revolution with SNCC and CORE bus riders into Miss in 1961, and were joined by white riders in 1964, local leaders joined and spread to Jackson and to the Delta, the poorest and most oppressed region. The NAACP had worked with middle class in the cities, but SNCC worked among the sharecroppers and rural poor. After the political revolution, the activists were replaced by moderate middle-class leaders, the poor were forgotten, and the social revolution failed. Dittmer downplays the conflict within the movement that is shown in Maryanne Vollers 1995 book. Winner of the 1995 Bancroft Prize in American History.
Douglas, S. J. Where the Girls Are: Growing up Female with the Mass Media. New York: Times Books, 1994. 340 pp. examines television shows such as Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, and The Flying Nun in the context of the women's movement and Betty Friedan; in these TV shows, "seemingly normal-looking female characters possessed magical powers, which men begged them not to use." Shows such as Queen for a Day offered a consumerism solution to every problem and never questioned a male-dominated social system.
Dow, Bonnie J. Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement since 1970. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. 240 p. ; 24 cm. Series: Feminist cultural studies, the media, and political culture. Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-234) and index. makes a good comparison of Murphy Brown and Mary Tyler Moore
DuBois, Ellen Carol. Harriot Stanton Blatch and the winning of woman suffrage. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997. 353 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm . Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-343) and index sought protections for working-class women, recruited marchers from the Women's Trade Union League, urged a more militant strategy of activism and protest on leaders such as Carrie Chapman Catt.
Durden, Robert F. Dukes of Durham, 1865-1929. Duke University Press, 1975. 295 p., [8] leaves of plates: ill.; bibliographical references and index. Bull Durham brand was dominant around Durham, NC in the 1870s. The Duke family would build the American Tobacco Co. empire, investing heavily in the region, esp. an electric power co.; by 1930, Piedmont of both Carolinas were part of the most industrialized region of the South, thanks to Duke investment.
Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: on (not) getting by in America. New York : Metropolitan Books, 2001. 221 p. ; 22 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references. about the experience of a writer who took a variety of low-paying jobs "to see if the 4 million women about to enter the labor market via welfare reform can survive on near-minimum wage salaries. "
Eliot, Marc. Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince. NY: HarperCollins, 1993, paper. 372 p.; sources notes and index. describes well the rise of Disney but overemphasizes the psychological interpretation. See the Steven Watts 1995 article in Journal of American History for better interpretation of Disney as modernist and populist.
Ellsworth, Scott. Death in a Promised Land. The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999, paper.
Ely, Melvin. Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon. New York: Free Press,1991. 322 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 301-309) and index.
Farrell, Ronald A. The Black Book and the Mob: the untold story of the control of Nevada's casinos. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. 286 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 264-275) and index.
Felsenthal, Carol. Alice Roosevelt Longworth. New York : Putnam, 1988. 320 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.: Includes index and Bibliography: p. 301-308.
Findlay, John M. Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940. Berkeley: University of Californai Press, 1992. 394 p.; maps; bibliographic essay notes and index. examines 4 magic kingdoms: Disney land, Seattle World's Fair (a new kind of fair with its legacy of the Space Needle), Stanford Industrial Park (the 1st suburban campus industrial park), Sun City (one of the 1st senior citizen housing developments by Del Webb that opened 1960 near Phoenix)
Fischer, Claude S. America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992, paper. 424 p.: ill., map; bibliographical references (p. 379-412) and index.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Appetite for Life: the Biography of Julia Child. New York : Doubleday, 1997. 569 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm Note Includes bibliographical references and index
Flink, James J. The Car Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press,1975. 260 p.; bibliographical references and index. a standard interpretation of the influence of the automobile on American culture.
Foster, Carrie A. The Women and the Warriors: the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915-1946. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1995. 422 p.; bibliographical references (p. 391-403) and index. Series: Syracuse studies on peace and conflict resolution.
Fountain, Charles. Sportswriter: The Life and Times of Grantland Rice. NY: Oxford University Press, 1993 327 p.; illus; bibliography notes and index. weak on the historical contest, but good on the biography of one of the founders of the Gee Whiz school of sportswriting. Wrote the famous phrase in the Nashville Tennessean in 1908: "For when the one Great Scorer somes to write against your name,/ He marks -- not that you won or lost -- but how you played the Game."When the NY Tribune bought out the NY Hearld in 1924, Rice signe a contract for $1000 per week, same as Babe Ruth's 1925 salary. Was the best known and highest paid sportswriter in the first half of the 20th century.
Friedel, Robert. Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty. NY: Norton, 1994, paper. 288 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 255-277) and index. The zipper was invented 100 years ago by Whitcomb Judson, a frustrated man with a penchant forcomplexity.
Gabbard, Krin. Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1996. 360 pp., illus.
Gabler, Neal. Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of the Celebrity. NY: Knopf, 1994, paper. 681 p.; illus.; bibliography notes and index. was the voice of a populist democracy and a new form of journalism in the 1920s, the Broadway gossip beat, in a jazz age hip language, "to challenge the mature, elitist, bookish culture of Lippmann... and inaugurate a new mass culture of celebrity, centered in NY and Hollywood and Washington, fixated on personalities, promulgated by the media, predicated on publicity, dedicated to the ephemeral and grounded on the principle that notoriety confers power." (p. xiii). At Bernarr MacFadden's NY Evening Graphic in the 20s, then Hearst's NY Journal in the 30s, supported FDR and the New Deal, Hoover's FBI, and Joseph McCarthy. was the narrator of ABC's Untouchables 1959-63. Burt Lancaster's Hunsecker character in the 1957 film Sweet Smell of Success was based on Winchell
Gabler, Neal. Empire of their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. New York: Crown Publishers, 1988. 502 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes index and Bibliography: p. 482-487
Garvey, Ellen Gruber. The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture, 1880s to 1910s. New York: Oxford University Press,1996. 230 p.
Gehring, Wes D., foreword by Steve Bell. Populism and the Capra legacy. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995. 129 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 121-126) and filmography p. 115-119 and index.. Series: Contributions to the study of popular culture ISSN: 0198-9871; no. 44. not very good on the concept of populism. "Sets the comedy films of Frank Capra (1897-1991) firmly in the populist tradition of Will Rogers during the1930s and 1950s, shows how populism came under attack during the McCarthy era, explores a film movement that built on Capra's legacy in the 1970s and 1990s, and profiles Ron Howard as a contemporary example of pushing Capra's principles into new areas."
Giddins, Gary. Visions of Jazz: the First Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, paper. 690 p. : music ; 24 cm. Includes indexes
Gitlin, Todd. The Sixties: years of hope, days of rage. New York: Bantam Books, 1987. 513 p.; bibliography: p. [441]-483 and index.
Goldberg, Robert and Gerald. Citizen Turner: the Wild Rise of an American Tycoon. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1995. 525 p.: ill.; bibliographical reference (p. [463]-507) and index.
Gonzalez, Juan. Harvest of Empire: a history of Latinos in America. New York: Viking, 2000. 346 p. : maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-324) and index.
Gordon, Ian. Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890-1945. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-226) and index
Gorn, Elliott J. Mother Jones: the Most Dangerous Woman in America. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001. 408 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-394) and index.
Guthrie, Woody. Bound for Glory. New York: New American Library, 1970, 1943. illustrated with sketches by the author
Guttmann, Allen. Games and Empires: modern sports and cultural imperialism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. 275 p., [16] p. of plates: ill.; bibliographical references (p. [227]-252) and index.
Guttmann, Allen. From Ritual to Record: the nature of modern sports. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. 198 p.; bibliographical references and index.
Haddow, Robert H. Pavilions of Plenty: Exhibiting American Culture Abroad in the 1950s Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. 240 pp., ill. emphazises the Col War context of the 1958 Brussels World's Fair.
Haiken, Elizabeth. Venus Envy: a history of cosmetic surgery. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. 370 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-352) and index
Haller, Mark H., edited by Allen F. Davis. The Peoples of Philadelphia: a History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790-1940. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. 303 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. : Originally published 1973 by Temple University Press. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Handler, Richard. The New History in an Old Museum: creating the past at Colonial Williamsburg. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-257) and index.
Harris, Daniel. Cute, Quaint, Hungry, and Romantic: the aesthetics of consumerism. New York : Basic Books, 2000. 270 p.
Hasse, John E. Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington. NY: Simon and Shuster, 1993. 479 p.; illus; filmography, discography, notes and index. shows how Ellington wrote for the dance hall, the microphone (especially Mood Indigo), the three-minute record, the LP, and the jazz festival. Book title is also the title of a Smithsonian exhibit curated by the author.
Hays, Samuel P. Beauty, Health, and Permanence: environmental politics in the United States, 1955-1985. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 630 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Series: Studies in environment and history.: Includes Bibliography: p. 544-604 and index. a "culturalist' interpretation, not just the environmental movement
Heinze, Andrew R. Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants, Mass Consumption, and the Search for American Identity. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990, paper. 276 p., [8] p. of plates: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 261-270) and index. Series: The Columbia history of urban life.
Hennessey, Thomas J. From Jazz to Swing: African-American Jazz Musicians and their Music, 1890-1935. Wayne State University Press, 1994. 217 p.; bibliographical references (p. 199-206) and index. Series: Jazz history, culture, and criticism series.
Henstell, Bruce. Sunshine and Wealth: Los Angeles in the twenties and thirties. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1984. 132 p.: ill.; index.
Higashi, Sumiko. Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture: the Silent Era. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. 264 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 209-252) and filmography: p. 205-208 and index.
Hoffman, Dennis E. Scarface Al and the Crime Crusaders: Chicago's private war against Capone. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993. 192 p.: ports.; bibliographical references (p. 177-188) and index.
Hofstadter, Richard. The Paranoid Style in American Politics, and other essays. New York, Knopf, 1965. 314 p. 22 cm. Bibliographical footnotes.
Hood, Clifton. 722 miles: the building of the subways and how they transformed New York. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993, paper. 335 p.: ill., maps; bibliographical references and index.
Hooglund, Eric J., ed. Crossing the Waters: Arabic-speaking immigrants to the United States before 1940. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. 188 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Note Bibliography: p. 187-188.
Isenberg, Andrew C. The Destruction of the Bison: an Environmental History, 1750-1920. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 206 p. : ill., maps ; Studies in environment and history. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Israel, Paul. Edison: a life of invention. New York : John Wiley, 1998. 552 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-531) and index examines the process of invention through the 5 million pages of papers and 1,093 patents of the founder of American industrial research
Jakle, John A. and Keith A. Sculle, Jefferson S. Rogers. The Motel in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 387 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm Series The road and American culture Note Errata slip inserted Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-378) and index
Jancovich, Mark. Rational Fears: American Horror in the 1950s. Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1996. 324 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-317) and index.
Johanningsmeier, Edward P. Forging American Communism: the life of William Z. Foster. Princeton University Press, 1994. 433 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. [355]-421) and index.
Johnson, Brooks. Mountaineers to Main Streets: the Old Dominion seen through the Farm Security Administration Photographs. Norfolk, Va.: Chrysler Museum, 1985. 165 p. : ill. ; bibliography: p. 163-165. Dates of the exhibition: May 3 to June 16, 1985.
Jones, Jacqueline. American Work: four centuries of black and white labor. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998. 543 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-528) and index.
Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black women, work, and the family from slavery to the present. New York : Basic Books, 1985. 432 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.: Includes index and Bibliography: p. 406-415
Josephson, Matthew. The Money Lords; the great finance capitalists, 1925-1950. New York: Weybright and Talley, 1972. 374 p. 22 cm Note Includes bibliographical references
Kammen, Michael G. Mystic Chords of Memory: the Transformation of Tradition in American Culture. New York: Knopf, 1991. 864 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.: Includes bibliographical references (p. [709]-825) and index.
Kanigel, Robert. The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the enigma of efficiency. New York : Viking, 1997. 675 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; Sloan technology series; Includes bibliographical references (p. 646-656) and index
Kennedy, Rick. Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Studios and the Birth of Recorded Jazz. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. 233 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. [225]-227) and indexes.
Kenny, Kevin. Making Sense of the Molly Maguires. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. 336 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-328) and index repudiates the myth of marauding Irish killers
Kessler, David. A Question of Intent : A Great American Battle With A Deadly Industry. New York: Public Affairs, 2001. 400 p.
Kevles, Daniel. In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985, paper. 426 p.; bibliographical references and index. see also Reilly book on sterilization.
Kluger, Richard. Ashes to Ashes: America's hundred-year cigarette war, the public health, and the unabashed triumph of Philip Morris. New York: Knopf, 1996. 807 p.; bibliographical references (p. [768]-772) and index.
Kolata, Gina. Flu: the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. 330 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-320) and index
Kolko, Gabriel. Triumph of Conservatism: A Re-Interpretation of American History, 1900-1916. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1963, 1967, paper. 344 p.; bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 307-331)
Krause, Paul. Battle for Homestead, 1880-1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992, paper. 548 p. pro-union account of the Homestead strike of 1892, but reliable and analytical. State militias intervened in 23 strikes in 1892 from New Orleans docks to Minnesota iron mines; the Amalgamated was a strong union of 4000 since its merger in 1876. The Homestead plant on 90 acres had 3800 workers, of which 25% were AmalgamatedCarnegie sought to build an efficient mill as Krupp had done at Essen
Kroeger, Brooke. Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist. New York: Times Books, 1994. 631 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 607-614) and index.
Laird, Pamela W. Advertising Progress: American business and the rise of consumer marketing. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 479 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Series: Studies in industry and society. Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-465) and index. is an example of the broad approach of recent advertising histories, emphasizes transition from producer-oriented system in which companies ignored consumers, to a consumer-oriented system beginning in 1890s, e.g. Welch grape juice, and especially after WWI, a system that emphasized new idea of progress based on consumption, not production.
Lane, Roger. Murder in America: a History. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 1997. 399 p.: ill.; The history of crime and criminal justice series. Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-365) and index
Larson, Edward J. Summer for the Gods: the Scopes trial and America's continuing debate over science and religion. Harvard University Press, 1997. 318 p. : ill. ; Includes bibliographical references and index
Lears, T. J. Jackson. Fables of Abundance: a cultural history of advertising in America. New York: Basic Books, 1994, paper. 492 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. [415]-476) and index.
Lederer, Susan E. Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1995 198 p.; bibliography notes and index. discusses experiments such as Tuskegee, WWII nerve and mustard gas, nuclear medicine from William Roentgen's discovery of x-rays in 1895, to the MIT boys science club breakfast food tests at the Fernald School, to the Cold War human radiation tests of the DOE. ASPCA was established c1870 to protect horses, SPCC 1875 to protect children. Sinclair Lewis's book Arrowsmith popularized research scientists in the 1920's and, with the 1930s movie, quieted opposition to medical experimentation.
Leibman, Nina C. Living Room Lectures: the Fifties Family in Film and Television. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995, paper. 338 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 309-320) and filmography p. 321-329. and index. Series: Texas film studies series. emph. masculine control in shows such as Father Knows Best, Leave It to Beaver, Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Donna Reed, My Three Sons.
Leslie, Kent Anderson. Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995. 225 p., [8] p. of plates: ill.; bibliographical references (p. [179]-211) and index. is the biography of the daughter of a white planter and an unconsenting slave in antebellum Georgia, born 1849, died 1893. "Amanda America Dickson confounded and ultimately triumphed over the harsh racial strictures that ordered her world. Legally a slave well into her adolescence, Dickson inherited most of her father's half-million-dollar estate after his death in 1885, making her the largest landowner in her county and the wealthiest black woman in the post-Civil War South."
Lester, Robin. Stagg's University: the rise, decline, and fall of big-time football at Chicago. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. 301 p., [16] p. of plates: ill.; bibliographical references and index. Series: Sport and society.
Levenstein, Harvey. Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America. NY: Oxford University Press, 1993. 337 p.; illus; notes and index. examines fodd habits chronologically from 1930s to the 1990s, relating it to class, gender, consumerism, politics, Ralph Nader, the paradox of hunger amid bountiful production, the rise of fast food chains in the 1960s and eating disorders in the 1980s, government's alliance with big business. Uses David Potter's 1954 People of Plenty for the concept of abundance.
Levenstein, Harvey A. Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. 275 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography: p. 213-260 and index.
Levine, Lawrence. The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History. NY: Oxford, 1993, paper. 372 p.; 26 halftone illus. shows that popular culture is polysemic, capable of multiple sigfnificance. "A new look at America by one of our most important historians. In this brilliant new collection of essays, Levine discusses American history and historiography at large, African-American culture, and the Great Depression during which film, radio, photography, and even the comic strip emerged as significant manifestations of a changing American popular culture.
Levine, Lawrence W. Highbrow/Lowbrow the Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988. 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Series: The William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization.: Includes index and Bibliography: p. [257]-293.
Levy, Jacques E. Cesar Chavez: autobiography of La Causa. New York: Norton, 1975 546 p., [16] leaves of plates: ill.; index.
Lewis, David L. W.E.B. DuBois: biography of a race, 1868-1919. New York: Holt, 1993. 735 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 581-708) and index. (pronounced "due-boyss") winner of the Pulitzer Prize; 1st of planned 2-volume biography of the first black PhD at Harvard, shows DuBois's support for Washington's Atlanta Compromise in 1896, but the final break came in 1903 with the book Souls of Black Folk. Was co-founder of the Niagra Movement 1905 and joined NAACP 1910. William Jordan's article in the 1995 Journal of American History argues Du Bois was less radical and more accomodationist in WWI.
Lott, Eric. Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 314 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Series: Race and American culture.: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-303) and index.
Love, Spencie. One Blood: the Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew, with a foreword by John Hope Franklin. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996. 373 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. [333]-359) and index. deflates 3 legends about Drew: that he discovered blood plasma and the blood bank (there were other scientists and programs equally important), that he resigned from the Red Cross in April 1941 because it refused black donors (he left before the controversy); that he died in 1950 after a whites-only hospital refused treatment (he received treatment).
Lowenthal, David. Possessed by the Past: the heritage crusade and the spoils of history. New York: Free Press, 1996. 338 p. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-314) and index.
MacKay, James A. Allan Pinkerton: The First Private Eye. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997. 256 p.
Maland, Charles J. Chaplin And American Culture: The Evolution of a Star Image. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. 442 pp., Illustrated.
Mangano, Joseph J. Living Legacy: how 1964 changed America. Lanham: University Press of America, 1994. 221 p. ; bibliographical references (p. [173]-179) and index.
Manning, Kenneth. Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just. New York : Oxford University Press, 1983, paper. 397 p., [10] p. of plates: ill., ports.; bibliographical references and index, is a good biography of biologist E.E. Just
Manring, M. M. Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemimah. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Series: The American South series. Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-206) and index.
Marchand, Roland. Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. 448 p.: ill. (some col.); bibliography: p. 365-418 and index.
Marling, Karal Ann. As Seen on TV: the Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994. 328 p.: ill., map; bibliographical references (p. [289]-318) and index. Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book 1st pub'd in 1950, Kitchen Debate of 1959, sack dress chemise featured at 1958 Brussels World's Fair.
Mason, Alpheus T. Bureaucracy Convicts Itself; the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy of 1910. New York, The Viking Press, 1941. 224 p. incl. plates. 22 cm Note "First published in February 1941." "Bibliographical note": p. 211-214. "Sources": p. 215-220
May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. New York: Basic Books, 1988, paper. 284 p.: ill.; bibliography: p. 247-278 and index. cultural study of the cold war
McCarthy, Kathleen D. Women's Culture: American philanthropy and art, 1830-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-308) and index.
McGrath, Tom. MTV: the making of a revolution. Philadelphia : Running Press, 1996. 208 p. : ill.
McShane, Clay. Down the Asphalt Path: the automobile and the American city. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. 288 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. [229]-276) and index. Series: The Columbia history of urban life.
Meikle, Jeffrey L. American Plastic: a cultural history. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1995. 403 p.: ill. (some col.); bibliography and index.
Meyerowitz, Joanne, ed. Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960. Phliadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994. 411 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Series: Critical perspectives on the past.: Includes bibliographical references. finds "multiple construction of gender" in women's magazines, not just Elaine May's "domestic containment"
Miller, John E. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little Town: Where History and Literature Meet. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1994. 208 p.: ill., map; bibliographical references (p. [175]-202) and index.
Miller, Sally M. From Prairie to Prison: The Life of Social Activist Kate Richards O'Hare. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993. 261 p.; illus; bibliography notes and index. was the female counterpart of Debs, a socialist reformer and marxist, made antiwar speeches in WWI, jailed in 191 as "the most dangerous woman in America" but commuted by Wilson May 29, 1920, emphasized penal reform and women's rights in 1920s and 1930s.
Milner, E.R. Lives and Times of Bonnie and Clyde. Southern Illinois Press, 1995. 168 p.; illus.; bibliography and index. "Milner (history and government, Tarrant College) uncovers new information in primary source interviews, personal memoirs, newspaper articles, official records, diaries, and letters, to once again tell the story of the infamous lover/outlaws Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. The romance and mythology surrounding Bonnie and Clyde have led to a number of books, articles, and also films. This account seeks to discover the reality in the myth, but nevertheless remains infused by the all-too-prevalent fascination with violence which is more difficult to adequately explain." (Book News)
Mintz, Steven and Susan Kellogg. Domestic Revolutions: A History of American Family Life. New York: Free Press, 1988. 316 p., [17] p. of plates: ill.; bibliography: p. 253-307 and index.
Misa, Thomas J. A Nation of Steel: the making of modern America, 1865-1925. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. 367 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. [283]-354) and index. Series: Studies in the history of technology.
Miscevic, Dusanka D. Chinese Americans: the immigrant experience. Southport, CT: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 2000. 240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 34 cm. Includes index.
Moore, Brenda L. To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: the Story of the only African American WACS Stationed Overseas during World War II. New York: New York University Press, 1996. 272 p., 16p. of plates : ill.; bibliographical references (p. 257-263) and index.
Moore, Leonard J. Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, 1921-1928. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991, paper in Feb. 1997. 259 p.; bibliographical references (p. 229-249) and index. part of the new interpretation of the Klan, that it was not aberrant extremism but a mainstream social movement , from a balanced cross-section of white male Protestants, and while racist and bigoted, rarely engaged in violence. The KKK was the largest social organization in Indiana and focused on improved law enforcement, schools, city reform, preserving traditional values. The KKK was and instrument of discontent and political protest.
Morgan, Dan. Rising in the West: The True Story of an "Okie" Family From the Great Depression Through the Reagan Years. New York: Knopf, 1992, paper. 532 p.: ill., maps; bibliographical references (p. [529]-532). True story of the Tatham family from Oklahoma that migrated to California in the 1930s, but unlike Steinbeck's stereotype Joad family, do not become migrant farmers but instead acquired wealth and prestige and adopted conservative and fundamentalist beliefs; winner of a LA Times Book Prize for History.
Moschovitis, Christos J. P. and Hilary Poole, Tami Schuyler, Theresa M. Senft. History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843 to the Present. Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-CLIO, 1999. 312 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-292) and index. Summary; A chronology of telecommunications from Babbage's earliest theories of a "Difference Engine" to the impact of the Internet in 1998 to future trends.
Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization. New York: Harcourt, 1934. 495 p. front., plates. 25 cm Bibliography: p. 447-474
Nadel, Alan. Containment Culture: American narrative, postmodernism, and the atomic age. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. 332 p.: ill. ; bibliographical references and index. Series title: New Americanists.
Nasaw, David. Going Out: the rise and fall of public amusements. New York: BasicBooks, 1993. 312 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. [259]-302) and index.
Naughton, John. A Brief History of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet Years in a Lifetime. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2000. 327 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-298) and index.
Nelson, Jack. Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews. University Press of Mississippi, 1993, paper. 287 p. antisemitism was a major part of the KKK, and Jews were a target of terror as were blacks. The FBI solicited money from Jews in Jackson to pay a KKK informer about the bombing of a Jackson synagogue.
Norris, James D. Advertising and the Transformation of American Society, 1865-1920. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. 206 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. [193]-199) and index. Series: Contributions in economics and economic history, no. 110.
Numbers, Ronald L. Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism. NY: Knopf, 1992. 458 p.; illus; notes and index. examines the 4 eras of the development of creationism: 1870-1915 and the writing of The Fundamentals (1910-15) by men like George Frederick Wright; 1915-1925 and the attack on "infidel science" by men like boxer Harry Rimmer, and centering on the Scopes Trial (1925); 1925-1950 and George M. Price with his flood theory in the textbook The New Geology (1923) that was influence by the Seventh Day Adventist founder Ellen White; 1950-present and the Genesis Flood 1961 book of Henry Morris and John Whitcomb that emphasized biblical inerrancy and attracted Southern Baptists and Missouri Synod Lutherans and devloped into "creation science" for the public school classroom until stopped by the 1981 Arkansas case.
Ohmann, Richard. Selling Culture: Magazines, Markets, and Class at the Turn of the Century. New York: Verso, 1996. 411 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Series The Haymarket series. Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-400) and index.
Peebles, Curtis. Watch the Skies!: a Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. 342 p.; bibliographical references and index.
Pegram, Thomas R. Battling Demon Rum: the struggle for a dry America, 1800-1933. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1998. 207 p. ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-201) and index
Peiss, Kathy. Hope in a Jar: the making of America's beauty culture. New York : Metropolitan Books, 1998. 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-318) and index. chronicles the change from mid-1800's "paint" to 1920's "makeup" and how in the 20th century the cosmetic business was built by women for women, including immigrant and black and working-class women
Peiss, Kathy L. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. 244 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Includes index and Bibliography: p. [189]-235.
Platt, Harold. Electric City. 390 p. rise of Samuel Insull in 1890's Chicago
Rader, Benjamin G. Baseball: A History of America's Game. University of Illinois Press, 1992. 231 p., [14] p. of plates: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 217-221) and index. Series: Illinois history of sports.
Reid, Robert L., ed. Picturing Minnesota, 1936-1943: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1989. 200 p.: ill.; bibliographical references.
Reid, Robert L., ed. Back Home Again: Indiana in the Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1935-1943. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. 144 p.: ill. ; bibliography: p. 141-142.
Reilly, Philip R. Surgical Solution: A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. 190 p.; bibliography and index. Indiana was 1st state to enact a sterilization statute, following efforts by Eugenic Record Office, Charles Davenport, and 1877 Jukes study by Richard Dugdale. By 1922, 18 states passed statutes and 3233 persons were sterilized. These statutes were upheld by Supreme Court and Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1927 Buck v. Bell, resulting in 11 state statutes passed by 1929; by 1941, 38000 were sterilized. Denmark enacted a statute 1928 and Germany 1933. Sterilization and abortion were included in women's right to privacy in the 1973 Roe v. Wade case.
Remnick, David. King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero. NY: Random House, 1998 326 pages, amazon.com hardback $17.50 Clay trained for several weeks at Archie Moore's camp in Ramona after winning gold medal in 1960 Olympics in Rome
Rhodes, Richard. Dark Sun: the making of the hydrogen bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. 731 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. [691]-703) and index. Series: Sloan technology series. "The Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb now tells the defintive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the H-Bomb and the birth of the Cold War, based on secret files found in the United States and the former Soviet Union. A dark tale told with gripping intensity." (Washington Post)
Rich, Doris L. Queen Bess: daredevil aviator. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. 153 p., [16] p. of plates: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 137-141) and index.
Riley, Glenda. The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. 252 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. [237]-241) and index. Series: The Oklahoma western biographies: v. 7.
Rivers, Caryl. Slick Spins and Fractured Facts: How Cultural Myths Distort the News. NY: Columbia University Press, 1996. 250 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. [225]-240) and index. Identifies class, gender, and racial biases in the coverage of the news bythe print and broadcast media in the United States.
Roberts, Randy. Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes. New York: Free Press, 1983. 274 p. : port. ; 25 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Roediger, David R. The Wages of Whiteness: race and the making of the American working class. New York: Verso, 1991. 191 p. ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. "a pioneering labor history"
Rogin, Michael. Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1996. 339 pp., illus.;
Root, Waverly and Richard de Rochemont. Eating in America: A History. New York: Morrow, 1976. 512 p. ; 26 cm. Bibliography: p. 483-488 and index.
Ross, Steven J. Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1998. 367 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-351) and index. focuses on social context of movie rception not just the cinematic text itself, and integrates working-class history with film history, showing how workers contested and shaped the packaged cinematic forms presented to them, similar to Denning's history of labor in the 1930s that shows the working-class shaping culture. Follows a multi-channel approach to show many reasons for the failure of working-class films, included rejction of radical films by workers' own leadership; also rise of middle-class movie palaces, increasingly large corporate organization of movie production, rise of censorship
Rossiter, Margaret W. Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. 584 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; bibliographical references (p. [531]-556) and index.
Rothman, Hal. Bargains: tourism in the twentieth-century American West. Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 1998. 434 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-425) and index.
Russell, Herbert K. with a foreword by F. Jack Hurley. Southern Illinois Album, A: Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1936-1943. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990. 126 p., [1] leaf of plates: chiefly ill.;
Rydell, Robert W. All the World's a Fair: visions of empire at American international expositions, 1876-1916. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes index and ibliography: p. 293-316.
Rydell, Robert W. World of Fairs: the century-of-progress expositions. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1993. 269 p. ill.; bibliographical references and index.
Salvatore, Nick. Eugene V. Debs: citizen and socialist. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982. 437 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Series: Working class in American history. Includes index Bibliography: p. [403]-423.
Sandos, James A. and Larry E. Burgess. The Hunt for Willie Boy: Indian-hating and popular culture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. 182 p.: ill., map; bibliographical references (p. [162]-170) and index.
Schiffer, Michael B. The Portable Radio in American Life. ucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991. 259 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. Series Culture and technology Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-239) and indexes.
Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. 288 p.
Schmidt, Leigh E. Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays. Princeton University Press, 1995. 363 p.; illus, notes and index. focuses on 4 holidays: Valentine's Day (1840's, then Joyce C. Hall mail-order postcard co. in 1910 that became Hallmark), Christmas, Easter (from church floral decorations of 1860s), Mother's Day (Anna Jarvis 1908 to official reconition by Wilson 1914 to 1918 slogan of Society of American Florists: "Say It With Flowers")
Schwartz, Hillel. Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles. Cambridge: MIT Press Zone Books, 1997 566 p.; 60 illus.
Secrest, Meryle. Frank Lloyd Wright. New York: Knopf, 1992. 634 p.: 121 ill.; bibliographical references (p. [605]-609) and index.
Sellars, Richard West. Preserving Nature in the National Parks: a history. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. 380 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-360) and index. book is critical of National Park Service for putting tourism ahead of nature in management of national parks.
Severa, Joan L. Dressed for the Photographer: Ordinary Americans and Fashion. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1995. 592 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 555-565) and index.
Slotkin, Richard. Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in 20th-Century America. NY: Atheneum, 1992, paper. 850 p.
Smith, Carl. Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. 408 p.; 30 illus. theme that disorder is natural to modern cities.
Sperber, Murray. Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football. NY: Holt, 1993, paper 634 p.; illus; bibliography notes and index. well-researched muckraking study of Notre Dame football before WWII, exposing the mystique and myths of Knute Rockne, the Gee Whiz sportswriters, college public relations.
Staiger, Janet. Bad Women: Regulating Sexuality in Early American Cinema. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1996. 223 pp., illus.
Starr, Kevin. Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915. NY: Oxford University Press, 1973. 494 p. ports. 24 cm. Bibliography: p. 460-479. Series includes Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (1973); Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era (1985); Material Dreams : Southern California through the 1920s (1990); Endangered Dreams: the Great Depression in California (1996); The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s (1990)
Steel, Ronald. Walter Lippmann and the American Century. NY: Vintage, 1980, paper. 669 p.
Stowe, David W. Swing Changes: Big-Band Jazz in New Deal America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994. 299 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 247-288) and index.
Strouse, Jean. Morgan: American Financier. New York: Random House, 1999. 796 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.: Includes bibliographical references (p. [691]-699) and index.
Susman, Warren. Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984. 321 p.: ill.; bibliography: p. 291-309 and index.
Tobey, Ronald C. Technology as Freedom: the New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 316 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-310) and index it was not 1920's but FDR in 1930's that put an emphasis on the home; radio was the "breakthrough purchase starting in late 1920s
Toplin, Robert B. Hollywood as Mirror: Changing Views of "Outsiders" and "Enemies" in American Movies. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993. 168 p.; bibliographical references and index. Series: Contributions to the study of popular culture ISSN: 0198-9871; no. 38. has two articles on depictions of blacks and plantations and slavery; Van Deburg essay on Roots and Beulah Land; articles on Nazis and Cold War
Tsai, Shih-shan Henry. The Chinese Experience in America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. 223 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Series: Minorities in modern America. Bibliography: p. 214-219 and index.
Underhill, Lois Beachy. The Woman Who Ran for President: the many lives of Victoria Woodhull. Bridgehampton, N.Y.: Bridge Works Pub., 1995. 347 p., [8] p. of plates; bibliographical references (p. 313-322) and index. about "the first woman to address Congress regarding the suffrage issue, the first to publish her own weekly newspaper, the first to establish and operate her own Wall Street brokerage firm, and, in 1872, the first to be a presidential candidate. She played a pivotal role in the inauguration of the National Woman Suffrage Association and she publicly exposed the multiple marital infidelities of renowned clergyman Henry Ward Beecher. Woodhull's denunciation of Beecher's hypocrisy culminated in her arrest, imprisonment, and self-imposed exile in Europe." (ALA)
Vlasich, James A. Legend for the Legendary: The Origin of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Bowling Green State University Press, 1990, paper. 266 p. debunks the myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown in 1839. However, this was the conclusion of Albert Spalding's commission in 1907 and led promoter Alexander Cleland and Singer heir Stephen Clark to build the Baseball Hall of Fame 1934-39.
Waldrep, Christopher. Night Riders: defending community in the Black Patch, 1890-1915. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993. 264 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. [231]-253) and index.
Warren, Donald I. Radio Priest: Charles Coughlin, the father of hate radio. New York: Free Press, 1996. 376 p., [8] p. of plates: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 349-363) and index. finds Coughlin to be one of the origins of the American Right, not an aberration.
Watts, Steven. The Magic Kingdom. Walt Disney and the American Way of Life. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1997. 526 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-512) and index. "In his fascinating new book, historian Steven Watts ratifies both views of Walt Disney -- as an innovative artist and a willfully commercial entrepreneur."
Wexler, Laura Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America NY: Scribner, 2002 288 p.
White, Richard. It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A History of the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. 644 p.; illus, bibliography and index. is an example of the new western history that treats the west as a region, not a moving frontier, and includes race, gender, ethnicity, environment. In this book, the words "Frederick Jackson Turner" and "frontier" do not appear in the text. Over half of the book deals with the 20th century west, populists, wobblies, progressives, green corn rebels, Goldwater, Reagan, federal government
Whitfield, Stephen J. The Culture of the Cold War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991, paper. 261 p.; bibliographical references (p. [231]-252) and index. Series: The American moment.
Wilkins, Thurman. John Muir: apostle of nature. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. 302 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 275-283) and index. Series: The Oklahoma western biographies: v. 8.
Wood, Nancy C. Heartland New Mexico: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1943. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989. 125 p.: ill.; bibliography: p. 123-125.
Wyman, Mark. Round-Trip to America: the immigrants return to Europe, 1880-1930. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993. 267 p.: ill., map; bibliographical references (p. 213-259) and index.