Finding Books in the Library
Locating books on your topic will help you understand the full scope of your topic. You do not need to read the entire book, but you should read the chapters that are relevant and interesting to you that focus on a specific aspect of the topic. Below are suggestions for further reading on the topics assigned to this course.
Search the library catalog for print and online books. Type your keywords into the box below, for example race discrimination AND education. Limit to the type of source you want, for example books, articles, newspaper articles, videos, etc., by choosing the appropriate box from the options to the left of your search results. For more information on locating print books and using eBooks see these library pages:
Examples of sources
Below are examples of print and electronic sources related to the topics for this course. For eBooks, click on the blue link. You will need to log in using MYTC credentials. For print books write down the call number to locate the book on the shelf.
1870s to 1920s
Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1902-1931: The Negro National nd Eastern Colored Leagues by
In this book, Lomax takes a closer look at the marketing and promotion of the Negro Leagues by black baseball magnates. He explores how race influenced black baseball's institutional development and how it shaped the business relationship with white clubs and managers.
Inventing Modern: Growing Up with X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins by Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern, John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern. Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco,skyscrapers, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Buck Rogers, the culture of the open road--Burma Shave, Kerouac, and White Castles--lie driving forces that set this account of Modern apart.
Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor by The word "shantytown" conjures images of crowded slums in developing nations. Though their history is largely forgotten, shantytowns were a prominent feature of one developing nation in particular: the United States.
The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America by Between 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the first time the histories of these black and white migrants, James Gregory traces their paths and experiences in a comprehensive new study that demonstrates how this regional diaspora reshaped America by "southernizing" communities and transforming important cultural and political institutions.
Great Depression and the Middle Class: Experts, Collegiate youth and Business Ideology, 1929-1941 by This book explores how middle-class college students navigated the rocky terrain of Depression-era culture, job market, dating marketplace, prospective marriage prospects, and college campuses by using expert-penned advice and business ideology to make sense of their situation.
The Triangle Fire by A work of history relevant for all those who continue the fight for workers' rights and safety, this edition of Leon Stein's classic account of the fire features a substantial new foreword by the labor journalist Michael Hirsch, as well as a new appendix listing all of the victims' names, for the first time, along with addresses at the time of their death and locations of their final resting places.
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920 by Richard Hamm examines prohibitionists' struggle for reform from the late nineteenth century to their great victory in securing passage of the Eighteenth Amendment. Because the prohibition movement was a quintessential reform effort, Hamm uses it as a case study to advance a general theory about the interaction between reformers and the state during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
The Palmer Raids and the Red Scare: 1918-1920: Justice and Liberty for All by Nick Shepley explores the roots of American anti Communism and how a strong and independent left wing movement in the USA was broken during and immediately after World War One. Essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of America in the 1920s and beyond.
The Electric Car in America, 1890-1922: A Social History by Call Number: TL 220 .S44 2019The electric vehicle seemed poised in 1900 to be a leader, or even the dominant force. It had large advantages over vehicles driven by the other two main motive powers, steam and gasoline.
Prohibition Gangsters by Mappen strips way the many myths and legends from television and movies to describe the lives gangsters lived and the battles they fought. Placing their criminal activities within the context of the issues facing the nation, from the Great Depression, government crackdowns, and politics to sexual morality, immigration, and ethnicity, he also recounts what befell this villainous group as the decades unwound.
1930s - 1950s
A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and the U.S. Economic Growth by This bold re-examination of the history of U.S. economic growth is built around a novel claim, that productive capacity grew dramatically across the Depression years (1929-1941) and that this advance provided the foundation for the economic and military success of the United States during the Second World War as well as for the golden age (1948-1973) that followed.
The Burning House: Jim crow and the Making of Modern America by A startling and gripping reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers.
The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America by In May 1937, seventy thousand workers walked off their jobs at four large steel companies known collectively as "Little Steel." The strikers sought to make the companies retreat from decades of antiunion repression, abide by the newly enacted federal labor law, and recognize their union.
Social Security: History and Politics from the New Deal to the Privatization Debate by Call Number: HD 7125 .B23 2005Daniel Béland answers the call for objective information with a short history that provides context and clarity for the current debates. Covering six decades through the beginning of the current century, Béland chronicles how Social Security and the controversy surrounding its solvency have evolved, offering along the way new insights into its past, present, and future.
The Lost Submarines of Pearl Harbor by "One of the last remaining and persistent mysteries of the Pearl Harbor attack is that of the Japanese Midget Submarines. It is a fascinating story of innovation, courage, secrets, and failed expectations.
D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II by Call Number: D 810 .S7 C766 2019In D-Day Girls, Sarah Rose draws on recently declassified files, diaries, and oral histories to tell the thrilling story of three of these remarkable women.Beyond Rosie : A Documentary History of Women and World War II by
Rosie the Riveter became the most enduring image of women's involvement in World War II. What Rosie represented, however, is only a small portion of a complex story. As wartime production workers, enlistees in auxiliary military units, members of voluntary organizations or resistance groups, wives and mothers on the home front, journalists, and USO performers, American women found ways to challenge traditional gender roles and stereotypes.
Zoot Suit Riots by Call Number: F 869 .L89 M4223 2014The Zoot Suit Riots in 1943 and the infamous Sleepy Lagoon murder trial of the preceding year represent a turning point in the cultural identity and historical experience of Mexican Americans in the United States. This engaging study of these regrettable events provides context for understanding the continuing battles in the 21st century over immigration policy and race relations.
The Thunder of Angels : The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow by The heroism of those involved in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott is presented here in poignant and thorough detail. The untold stories of those, both black and white, whose lives were forever changed by the boycott are shared, along with a chilling glimpse into the world of the white council members who tried to stop them. Based on extensive interviews conducted over decades and culled from thousands of exclusive documents, this behind-the-scenes examination details the history of violence and abuse on the city buses.
All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America by As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock 'n roll--and the outraged reception to it--in fact can tell us a lot about the values of the United States in the 1950s, a decade that saw a great struggle for the control of popular culture.
1960s - 2000s
Native Vote : American Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and the Right to Vote by This book explains the history and expansion of Indian voting rights, with an emphasis on seventy cases based on the Voting Rights Act and/or the Equal Protection Clause.
Transplanting the Great Society : Lyndon Johnson and Food for Peace by Uses recently declassified sources to trace the successes and limitations of the Johnson administration's efforts to use food aid as a diplomatic tool during the Cold War, both to gain support for U.S. policies and to reward or punish allies such as Israel, India, and South Vietnam
The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration? by The fact that at least 2.1 million Vietnamese – soldiers, parents, grandparents, children – also died in that war will be largely unknown and entirely uncommemorated. And U.S. history barely stops to record the millions of Vietnamese who lived on after being displaced, tortured, maimed, raped, or born with birth defects, the result of devastating chemicals wreaked on the land by the U.S. military.
The Words of César Chávez by Cesar Chavez's relentless campaign for social justice for farm workers and laborers in the United States marked a milestone in U.S. history. Through his powerful rhetoric and impassioned calls to action, Chavez transformed as well as persuaded and inspired his audiences.
Betty Friedan and the Making of "The Feminine Mystique" by Daniel Horowitz persuasively demonstrates in this illuminating and provocative biography, the roots of Friedan's feminism run much deeper than she has led us to believe.
Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present by Call Number: KF 3771 .Z54 2020With the Supreme Court likely to reverse Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion decision, American debate appears fixated on clashing rights. The first comprehensive legal history of a vital period, Abortion in America illuminates an entirely different and unexpected shift in the terms of debate. Rather than simply championing rights, Mary Ziegler shows, those on opposing sides battled about the policy costs and benefits of abortion and laws restricting it.
Woodstock: The Oral History by The definitive oral history of the Woodstock rock festival.
An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings by Harvey Milk was one of the first openly and politically gay public officials in the United States, and his remarkable activism put him at the very heart of a pivotal civil rights movement reshaping America in the 1970s. An Archive of Hope is Milk in his own words, bringing together in one volume a substantial collection of his speeches, columns, editorials, political campaign materials, open letters, and press releases, culled from public archives, newspapers, and personal collections.
Eyewitness to Watergate by Decades after the resignation of President Nixon, the impact of the Watergate scandal continues to affect the institutional power of the president of the United States. This landmark event is a major subject of in-depth study at the high school and college levels. Now, CQ Press has published the definitive resource on this event for students researching this political era in U.S. history.
Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis by Viewing contemporary history from the perspective of the AIDS crisis, Jennifer Brier provides rich, new understandings of the United States' complex social and political trends in the post-1960s era.
Journalism and Justice in the Oklahoma City Bombing Trials by More than 2,000 national and international journalists covered the trials through a media consortium. Through interviews with the lead attorneys for both McVeigh and Nichols, Nye exposes the difficulties defense attorneys faced defending their clients in the courtroom and also in the court of public opinion. He concludes that to truly understand this trial and its final outcome, one must understand the role of fair trial/free press issues.
