U.S. 2

Synthesis
*U.S. in the World: Empire Making, Capitalism, and the Politics of Identity and Citizenship
*Twentieth-Century U.S. History: Transnational Connections and the Rights Revolution
*The Transnational Turn: Re-Interpreting Twentieth-Century U.S. History
*Inherent Tensions: Race and Democratic Ideals in Twentieth-Century American History
Themes
*Immigration, Ethnicity, and Race
*Civil Rights and Black International Politics
*Cold War Politics and U.S. "Development" in the World and At Home
*Social Movements
Chronology/Key Events
*1890-1910s
*1910-1930s
*1940s-1950s
*1960s-1980s
Reading List
Migration, Immigration, and the Politics of Identity
Bald, Vivek. Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.
Blower, Brooke. Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 
Gugliermo, Thomas A. White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890 – 1945. New York: Oxford, 2004.
Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Aboard, 1876-1917. Hill and Wang, 2001. 
Putnam, Lara. Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. 
Empire, "Development" and the Cold War
Borstellman, Thomas. The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. 
Brands, Hal. Latin America's Cold War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. 
Elkbadh, David. The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.
Immerwahr, Daniel. Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. 
Klein, Christina. Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. 
Kramer, Paul A. The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Rotter, Andrew. Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947-1964. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. 
Tyrell, Ian. Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. 
Zimmerman, Andrew. Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. 
Civil Rights 
Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita, and Clarence Lang. “The "Long Movement" as Vampire: Temporal and Spatial Fallacies in Recent Black Freedom.” The Journal of African American History 92, no. 2 (Spring, 2007): 265-288.
Ewing, Adam. The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. 
Gaines, Kevin. American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates in the Civil Rights Era. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 
Gilmore, Glenda, Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950. W.W. Norton Press, 2009. 
Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past.” Journal of American History 91, no. 4 (March 2005).
Immerwahr, Daniel. "Caste or Colony?: Indianizing Race in the United States," Modern Intellectual History 4 (2007): 275-301.
Joseph, Peniel. Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America. New York: Henry Hold and Co., 2006. 
Kelley, Robin G. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression.Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. 
--------- “’But a Local Phase of a World Problem’: Black History’s Global Vision, 1883-1950. Journal of American History, Vol. 86, No. 3 (Dec. 1999), pp. 1045-1077. 
McGuire. Danielle L. At The Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance – A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. New York: Vintage, 2011.
Morris, Aldon, Origins of the Civil Rights Movement. Free Press, 1986. 
Murch, Donna. Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Payne, Charles M. I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Plummer, Brenda Gayle. In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956-1974. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Sugrue, Thomas J. Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North. New York: Random House, 2008.
Tyson, Timothy B. Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 
Von Eschen, Penny. Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937- 1957. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Social Movements – From the Labor to Women’s Rights
Anderson, Terry H. The Movement and The Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. 
Chauncey, George. Gay New York Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books. 1994.
Cohen, Robert, When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America’s First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 
Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Evans, Sara. Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left. Vintage, 1980. 
Gordon, Linda; Cobble, Dorothy Sue; Henry, Astrid. Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements. Liveright, 2014. 
Isserman, Maurice, If I had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left. Basic Books, 1987. 
Jay, Karla, and Allen Young, eds. Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation. New York: NYU Press, 1972.
Matson, Kevin. Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy. State College: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. 
Martin, Klimke. The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. 
McGerr, Michael. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870 – 1920. New York: Oxford, 2003.
McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
Miller, James A. Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. 
Rorabaugh, W.J. Berkeley at War: The 1960s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. 
Sellers, Christopher. Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Suri, Jeremi. Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. 
Tzu-Chun Wu, Judy. Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013.