LibGuides: Modern History: General Resources

Historical Overviews

American Myth, American Reality
Call Number: 973 R651a
Publication Date: 1980
The American Century: A History of the United States Since the 1890s
Call Number: 973.9 LaFeber
Publication Date: 1998
American Issues in the Twentieth Century
Call Number: 973.908 F862a
Publication Date: 1966
American Passages: A History of the United States, Brief Edition (Volume II: Since 1863)
Call Number: 973 Ayers
Publication Date: 2005
The Americans: The History of a People and a Nation
Call Number: 973 J82a
Publication Date: 1983
Booknotes: Stories from American History
Call Number: 973 B724L
Publication Date: 2001
A Concise History of the American Republic
Call Number: 973 M861c
Publication Date: 1977
Don’t Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History But Never Learned
Call Number: 973 D262d
Publication Date: 1990
Empire for Liberty: The Genesis and Growth of the United States of America, Volume 2
Call Number: 973 M257e
Publication Date: 1960
The Great Transition: A Short History of Twentieth-Century America
Call Number: 973.9 N249g
Publication Date: 1971
A History of the American People
Call Number: 973 J68h
Publication Date: 1998
A History of the American People Volume 2
Call Number: 973 C287h-2
Publication Date: 1960
A History of Civilizations
Call Number: 909 B825h
Publication Date: 1995
A History of the Twentieth Century
Call Number: 909.82 G465h
Publication Date: 1997
In Search of America: Transatlantic Essays, 1951-1990
Call Number: 973.02 C972i
Publication Date: 1991
Out of Many: A History of the American People, Volume 2
Call Number: 973 Faragher v.2
Publication Date: 2012
A People's History of the United States
Call Number: 973 Z78p
Publication Date: 1990
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
Call Number: 973/WOO
Publication Date: 2004
Problems in American History
Call Number: 973 L587p-2
Publication Date: 1957
Reality Isn't What it Used to Be: Theatrical Politics, Ready-to-Wear Religion, Global Myths, Primitive Chic and Other Wonders of the Postmodern World
Call Number: 909.82/AND
Publication Date: 1990
A Thread of Years
Call Number: 909.82/LUK
Publication Date: 1998
Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
Call Number: 309.104 Quigley
Publication Date: 1966
Understanding the American Promise: A Brief History
Call Number: 973 Roark
Publication Date: 2011
The United States Since 1865
Call Number: 909 M624h v.02
Publication Date: 1959
The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American people
Call Number: 973 B858u
Publication Date: 1993
A Concise History of the World
Call Number: 909 R645c
Publication Date: 1995
Western Civilization: A Brief History (Volume 2: Since 1300)
Call Number: 909.09812 Spielvogel
Publication Date: 1998
The Western Heritage
Call Number: 909.09821 Kag
Publication Date: 1991
The Western Tradition Volume 2
Call Number: 909.09821 W527w
Publication Date: 1995

The American City: A Documentary History
Call Number: 301.36 G541a
Publication Date: 1963
American Urban History: An Interpretive Reader with Commentaries
Call Number: 301.36 C163a
Publication Date: 1969
Boston in the Age of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Call Number: 909 C397c v.18
Publication Date: 1966
California: An Illustrated History
Call Number: 979.4 Watkins
Publication Date: 1973
Chicago
Call Number: 909 C397c v.13
Publication Date: 1964
Hearst Castle, San Simeon
Call Number: 708.19478 Aidala
Publication Date: 1984
Los Angeles, A Profile
Call Number: 909 C397c v.24
Publication Date: 1968
Media Made in California: Hollywood, Politics, and the News
Call Number: 302.23 T927m
Publication Date: 1981
Mississippi: The Closed Society
Call Number: 301.451 S587m
Publication Date: 1964
Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City
Call Number: 974.886 Lorant
Publication Date: 1964

The 60s Experience: Hard Lessons about Modern America
Call Number: 973.92 M847s
Publication Date: 1991
The Angry Decade: The Sixties
Call Number: 973.916 G979a
Publication Date: 1947
Anxiety and Affluence: 1945-1965
Call Number: 973 D637hd v.8
Publication Date: 1966
Art of the 1930s: The Age of Anxiety
Call Number: 709.043 Lucie-Smith
Publication Date: 1985
Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960's
Call Number: 973.921 O58c
Publication Date: 1971
The Connecticut Mutual Life Report of American Values in the '80s: The Impact of Belief
Call Number: 973.927 P776c
Publication Date: 1981
Culture in an Age of Money: The Legacy of the 1980s in America
Call Number: 973.927 M657c
Publication Date: 1990
The Discontent of the Intellectuals: A Problem of the Twenties
Call Number: 973 B512a v.5
Publication Date: 1963
The Failure of Independent Liberalism 1930-1941
Call Number: 320.973 Lawson
Publication Date: 1971
The Fifties: The Way We Really Were
Call Number: 973.92 M647f
Publication Date: 1977
The New Servants of Power: A Critique of the 1980s School Reform Movement
Call Number: 370.973 Shea
Publication Date: 1990
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
Call Number: 973.91 A425oy
Publication Date: 1957
The Proud Decades: America in War and in Peace, 1941-1960
Call Number: 973.9 D573p
Publication Date: 1988
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Call Number: 973.922 G536s
Publication Date: 1987
Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Call Number: 305.5 Cowie
Publication Date: 2012
Teapot Dome: Oil and Politics in the 1920s
Call Number: 973.914 N776t
Publication Date: 1980
The Urban Nation, 1920-1960
Call Number: 973 M235d v.6
Publication Date: 1965
War and Society: The United States, 1941-1945
Call Number: 909 C934p v.12
Publication Date: 1972

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