A-10 ★ SUGGESTED READING
Marsden, George M. Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of
Twentieth- Century Evangelicism, 1870–1925 (1980). Traces the ups and
downs of American fundamentalism, culminating in the Scopes trial.
McGirr, Lisa. The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
(2015). A penetrating analysis of Prohibition’s impact on American society
and government.
Murphy, Paul L. World War I and the Origin of Civil Liberties in the United States
(1979). An analysis of how the repression of free speech during World War I
paved the way for a heightened awareness of the importance of civil liberties.
Ngai, Mae. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
(2004). An influential examination of immigration policy toward Mexicans
and Asians, and the development of the legal category of “illegal alien.”
Ross, William G. Forging New Freedoms: Nativism, Education, and the Constitution,
1917–1927 (1994). Discusses battles over cultural pluralism in the 1920s
and how they laid the groundwork for an expanded definition of personal
liberty.
WEBSITES
Chicago and the Great Migration: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam011
.html
Emergence of Advertising in America: http://library.duke.edu
/digitalcollections/eaa/
Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy: http://
memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html
Scopes Trial: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm
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BOOKS
Blackwelder, Julia Kirk. Women of the Depression (1998). Examines how female
members of three communities— Anglo, Mexican- American, and black—
coped with the Great Depression.
Brinkley, Alan. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depres-
sion (1982). An account of the political careers of two key figures of the
New Deal era and their influence on national events.
Carpenter, Joel A. Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamental-
ism (1999). Shows how evangelicals adapted to the Depression and used
mass communications to spread their message.
Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939
(1990). Describes how the assimilation of immigrants and their children
paved the way for the creation of the New Deal political coalition.