William G.Robbins, Colony and empire:the capitalist transformation of the American west(Lawrence:University Press of Kansas, 1994)
Richard Slotkin, Fatal environment:the myth of the frontier in the age of industrialization, 1800-1890(New York:Atheneum Publishers, 1985)
Henry Nash Smith, Virgin land :the American west as symbol and myth(Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 1950)
RichardWhite, “It's your misfortune and none of my own”:a newhistory of the American west(Norman:University of Oklahoma Press, 1991)
Donald Worster, Under western skies:nature and history in the American west(New York:Oxford University Press, 1992)
The Gilded Age/Progressive Era
Sven Beckert, The monied metropolis:New York City and the consolidation of the American bourgeoisie, 1850-1896(Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Edward J.Blum, Reforging the white republic:race, religion, and American nationalism, 1865-1898(Baton Rouge:Louisiana State UniversityPress, 2005)
John M.Cooper, Jr., Pivotaldecades:The UnitedStates, 1900-1920(New York:W.W.Norton and Co., 1990)
StevenJ.Diner, A very differentage:Americans of theprogressive era(New York:Hill and Wang, 1998)
Judith N.McArthur, Creating the new woman:the rise of women's progressive culture in Texas, 1893-1918(Urbana and Chicago:University of Illinois Press, 1998)
Nell Irvin Painter, Stand ing atArmageddon:the United States, 1877-1919(New York:W.W.Norton and Co., 1987)
Stephen Skowronek, Building a new American state:the expansion of national administrative capacities, 1877-1920(New York and Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1982)
Robert Wiebe, The search for order, 1877-1920(New York:Hill and Wang, 1980)
America between the wars
Michael C.C.Adams, The best war ever:America and World War II(Baltimore:The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994)
AnthonyJ.Badger, The New Deal:The Depression years, 1933-1940(Basingstoke:Macmillan, 1989)
John Morton Blum, V was for victory:politics and American culture in World War II(New York:Harcourt Brace and Company, 1976)
James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt:the lion and the fox(New York:Harcourt Brace and Company, 1956)
John Diggins, The proud decades:America in war and peace, 1941-1960(New York:W.W.Norton and Co., 1988)
David S.Foglesong, America's secret war against Bolshevism:U.S.intervention in the Russian civil war, 1917-1920(Chapel Hill:The University of North Carolina Press, 1995)
Ellis W.Hawley, The Great War and the search for a modern order:a history of the American People and their institutions, 1917-1933(New York:St Martin's Press, 1979)
David M.Kennedy, Overhere:the First World War and American society(New York:Oxford University Press, 1980)
David M.Kennedy, Freedom from fear:the American people in depression and war, 1929-1945.New ed.(New York:Oxford University Press, 2001)
William Leuchtenburg, Franklin D.Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940(New York:Harper and Row, 1963)
William Leuchtenburg, The perils of prosperity, 1914-32.2nd ed.(Chicago:The University of Chicago Press, 1993)
Michael E.Parrish, Anxious decades:America in prosperity and depression, 1920-1941(New York:W.W.Norton, 1992)
Cold War America
Stephen Ambrose, Nixon, 3 Vols:Vol.1, the education of a politician;Vol.2, the triumph of a politician, 1962-1972;Vol.3, ruin and recovery , 1973-1990
(New York:Simon＆Schuster, 1987, 1991)
Larry Berman, No peace, no honor:Nixon, Kissinger, and betrayal in Vietnam(New York:The Free Press, 2001)
Irving Bernstein, Promises kept:John F.Kennedy's new frontier(New York and Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1991)
John Morton Blum, Years of discord:American politics and society, 1961-1974(New York:W.W.Norton and Co., 1991)
Paul Boyer, By the bomb's early light:American thought and culture at the dawn of the atomic age(Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 1994)
Taylor Branch, Parting the waters:America in the King years, 1954-63(New York:Simon＆Schuster, 1988)
Taylor Branch, Pillar of fire:America in the King years, 1963-65(New York:Simon＆Schuster, 1998)
Carl M.Brauer, John F.Kennedy and the second reconstruction(New York:Columbia University Press, 1977)
Mary Charlotte Brennan, Turning rightin the Sixties:the conservative capture of the GOP(Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 1995)
Thomas R.Brooks, Walls come tumbling down:a history of the civil rights movement, 1940-1970(Englewood Cliffs, NJ:Prentice-Hall, 1974)
H.W.Brand s, The devil we knew:Americans and the Cold War(New York:Oxford, 1993)
David Caute, The great fear:the anti-communist purge under Truman and Eisenhower(New York:Simon and Schuster, 1978)
Robert J.Cook, Troubled commemoration:the American civil war centennial, 1961-1965(Baton Rouge:Louisiana State University Press, 2007)
Alastair Cooke, A generation on trial:U.S.A.v.Alger Hiss(New York:AlfredA.Knopf, 1951)
Robert Dallek, John F.Kennedy:an unfinished life.Rev.ed.(New York:Penguin, 2004)
Robert Dallek, Lyndon B.Johnson:portrait of a president(New York and Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2004)
Robert Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger:partners in power(New York:Harper Collins, 2007)
Gareth Davies, From opportunity to entitlement:the transformation and decline of Great Society liberalism(Lawrence:University Press of Kansas, 1996)
Robert A.Divine, Blowing on the wind:the nuclear test ban debate, 1954-1960(New York:Oxford University Press, 1978)
Robert A.Divine, The Sputnik challenge:Eisenhower's response to the Soviet satellite(New York:Oxford University Press, 1993)
Adam Fairclough, To redeem the soul of America:the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr.(Athens:University of Georgia Press, 1987)
