A Short History of the United States

340 Reading List

Charles P. Roland, The Story of the Civil War ( 1991 ).
James M. McPherson, The Battle Cry of Freedom ( 1988 ).

ch a p t er 6: Reconstruction and the Gilded Age

Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877
( 1988 ).
C. Vann Woodward, Reunion and Reaction ( 1956 ).
Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform ( 1955 ).
Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in
the Gilded Age ( 1982 ).
Edward Kirkland, Industry Comes of Age: Business, Labor, and Public
Policy, 1860–1897 ( 1961 ).
Morton Keller, Affairs of State: Public Life in the Late Nineteenth Century
( 1977 ).
H. Wayne Morgan, From Hayes to McKinley, 187 7–1890 ( 1967 ).
Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion ( 1998 ).

ch a p ter 7: Manifest Destiny, Progressivism, War,

and the Roaring Twenties

Wa lter LaFeber, The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Ex-
pansion, 1860–1898 ( 1998 ).
Alfred Chandler Jr., The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in
American Business ( 1977 ).
Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progres-
sive Movement in America, 187 0–1920 ( 2003 ).
Robert H. Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1887–1920 ( 1967 ).
Oliver W. Larkin, Art and Life in America ( 1949 ).
George E. Mowry, The Era of Theodore Roosevelt ( 1958 ).
Arthur Link, Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era ( 1954 ).
David J. Goldberg, Discontented America: The United States in the 1920 s
( 1999 ).
William Leuchtenburg, The Perils of Prosperity, 1914–1932 ( 1958 ).
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., The Crisis of the Old Order ( 1957 ).