These United States: A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
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There are also textbook versions of this book:
- These United States: A Nation in the Making: 1890 to the Present.
- These United States: A Nation in the Making: 1945 to the Present.
Book Reviews:
- David M. Kennedy, "‘These United States,’ by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore and Thomas J. Sugrue," The New York Times, 20 November 2015.
READ KENNEDY'S BOOK REVIEW. - David Gordon, "Gilmore and Sugrue On American History," Mises Wire, 14 November 2015.
- Patricia A. Schechter, "Review," Journal of Southern History, Volume 83, Number 3, Pages 722-723, August 2017.
- Eric Herschthal, "The Unmaking of America," The Slate Book Review, Slate.com, November 2015.
Video: Gilmore & Sugrue
- Glenda Gilmore and Thomas Sugrue, "These United States," Labyrinth Books, Princeton, New Jersey, BookTV, C-SPAN, 20 November 2015.
- Labyrinth Books, Princeton, New Jersey.
Author Information: Glenda Gilmore
- Glenda Gilmore, Department of History, Yale University.
- Glenda Gilmore, Wikipedia.
- Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008.
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Author Information: Thomas J. Sugrue
- Thomas J. Sugrue, New York University.
- Thomas J. Sugrue, personal website.
- Thomas Sugrue, Institute for New Economic Thinking.
- Thomas J. Sugrue, Distinguished Lectureship Program, Organization of American Historians.
- Thomas J. Sugrue, C-SPAN.
- Thomas Sugrue (b. 1962), Wikipedia.
- Thomas J. Sugrue. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit, Updated Edition. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996; 2014.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue, editors. The New Suburban History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Thomas J. Sugrue. Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North. New York: Random House, 2008.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Thomas J. Sugrue. Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2010.
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Video and Audio: Glenda Gilmore
- Glenda Gilmore, "Defying Dixie," Georgia Center for the Book, Atlanta, Georgia, WGBHForum, 2008?
- Glenda Gilmore and Gus T. Renegade, "The C.O.W.S w: Dr. Glenda Gilmore, North Carolina, Gender and Jim Crow," The Context of White Supremacy, 27 December 2016.
(I recommend you continue listening to the discussion that follows after Prof. Gilmore leaves the program.)
Video and Audio: Thomas J. Sugrue
- Thomas Sugrue, "Jim Crow's Last Stand: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Suburban North," Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities "Cityscapes" Lecture Series, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 18 October 2007.
- Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University.
- Thomas Sugrue and Claudia J. Coulton, "A Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities Interview," Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, October 2007.
- Thomas J. Sugrue, "Michael Harrington and the Political Economy of Post-War America," The Other America: Then and Now, McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, 22 March 2012.
- The Other America: Then and Now, Conferences, McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, College of the Holy Cross.
- Michael Harrington (1928–1989). The Other America: Poverty in the United States. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1962. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.
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- Thomas J. Sugrue, "Beyond the Catholic Ghetto: Integrating Catholicism in Modern American History," 2016 Cushwa Center Lecture, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 28 April 2016.
- Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame.
- Tom Sugrue, "Detroit Rising?: Crisis, Bankruptcy, and the Future of the City," American Association for State and Local History and the Michigan Museum Association, Detroit, Michigan, September 2016.
- Thomas Sugrue and Robert Johnson, "What Caused Detroit’s Demise?" Institute for New Economic Thinking, 2016.
- Thomas Sugrue and Douglas Blackmon, "American Forum: The First Days of a Great Presidency," WVPT, Virginia, December 2016.
- WVPT Public Media, WVPT Shenandoah Valley Educational Television Corporation.
- Miller Center's American Forum, WVPT Public Media.
- Douglas A. Blackmon, Wikipedia.
- Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name.
- Thomas J. Sugrue, "To Understand Race and Economics in America, Study Detroit," Institute for New Economic Thinking, 2017.
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Instead of, or in addition to, These United States, I recommend seeking other more detailed (and probably less overtly leftist than Gilmore and Sugrue) books on twentieth century U.S. history. This is not to say that These United States is devoid of details; the 1960s era receives a disproportionate three chapters plus part of a fourth. Meanwhile Gilmore and Sugrue treat the politics and/or events of some other decades with great brevity. Hence the compulsion I feel to name other histories.
Oxford History of the United States [Publisher; Wikipedia]:
- Bruce Schulman. Are We a Nation: The Birth of Modern America, 1896-1929. New York: Oxford University Press, not yet published.
- David M. Kennedy. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - James T. Patterson. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
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My post on Grand Expectations is here. - James T. Patterson. Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
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My post on Restless Giant is here.
The Norton Twentieth Century America Series, W. W. Norton & Company:
- John Milton Cooper, Jr. Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900-1920. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990.
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My post on Pivotal Decades is here. - Michael E. Parrish. Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992.
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My post on Anxious Decades is here. - John Patrick Diggins. The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941-1960. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1988.
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My post on The Proud Decades is here. - John Morton Blum. Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991.
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My post on Years of Discord is here.