A-8 ★ SUGGESTED READING
for the vote without challenging the subordinate status of African-
Americans.
Greene, Julie. The Canal Builders: Making American Empire at the Panama Canal
(2009). Tells the story of the construction of the Panama Canal and the
tens of thousands of workers who did the work.
Grossman, James R. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great
Migration (1989). An in- depth study of the migration of blacks to one
American city.
Healy, David. Drive to Hegemony: The United States in the Caribbean, 1898–1917
(1988). Examines American foreign policy in the Caribbean from
McKinley to Wilson.
Jensen, Kimberly. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War
(2008). Examines the participation of women in the war effort and its
impact on gender relations.
Kennedy, David M. Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980).
A comprehensive account of how the war affected domestic life in the
United States.
Manela, Erez. The Wilsonian Moment (2007). Details how the Wilsonian ideal of
self- determination was received around the world, with results Wilson did
not anticipate.
Meier, August. Negro Thought in America, 1880–1915 (1966). A pioneering study
of the ideas of black leaders, including W. E. B. Du Bois.
Mitchell, David J. 1919: Red Mirage (1970). A global account of the upheavals
of 1919.
Preston, William, Jr. Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals,
1903–1933 (1963). An influential study of the federal government’s efforts
to suppress dissenting ideas, especially during and immediately after
World War I.
Renda, Mary A. Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Impe-
rialism, 1915–1940 (2001). Examines the causes and consequences of the
American occupation of Haiti.
Stein, Judith. The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society
(1986). Places the Garvey movement in an Atlantic perspective linking
Africa, the United States, and the West Indies.
Sullivan, Patricia. Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights
Movement (2009). A sweeping history of the country’s preeminent civil
rights organization, from its founding to the 1950s.
Tuttle, William. Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 (1970). A vivid
account of the most violent racial upheaval of the era.