I
would like each book to be 2-3 pages. For each book I would like the following included.
Thank you
Title:
Book’s Thesis: (include page
number where it is stated)
Sources: (What kind?)
Research Question: (include page
number where it is stated)
Methodology:
Historiographical Intervention:
(include page number where it is stated)
For each chapter include “Chapter
Title: And Subtitle” and Argument/Summary: (include page number where the main
argument can be found) Include Introductions and Conclusions
Weaknesses (CRs): (include page
number referring to examples of where the book falls short)
Strengths:
Future Research Questions (FRQs):
(include page numbers to places where the ideas came into your mind) only if
you can think of anything that can be related to presidents, politics, psychology,
personality, family, or family systems theory.
Book List:
Richard
White, The Republic for Which
it Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, Oxford UP, 2017.
Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War
and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution, Norton, 2019.
David Nasaw, Andrew
Carnegie, Penguin, 2006.
Lisa
Tetrault, The Myth of Seneca
Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898, UNC Press, 2014.
Beth
Lew-Williams, The Chinese
Must Go! Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of Alien America, Harvard UP, 2018.
James Green, Death
in the Haymarket: A Story of
Chicago, The First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age
America,
Charles Postel, The
Populist Vision, Oxford UP,
2007.
Michael McGerr, A
Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in
America, 1870-1920, Free
Press, 2010.
Clif
Stratton, Education for
Empire: American Schools, Race, and the Paths of Good Citizenship, University of CA Press, 2016.
Marilyn
Fischer, et. al., eds. Jane
Addams and the Practice of Democracy, University of IL Press, 2009.
Nancy
Bristow, American Pandemic:
The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Flu Epidemic, Oxford UP, 2017.
Jennifer Keen, Doughboys,
the Great War, and the Remaking of America, JHUP, 2003.
Lisa McGirr,
The War on Alcohol:
Prohibition and the Rise of the American State, Norton, 2015.