Emmerson, 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War (2013)

Charles Emmerson.
1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War.
New York: PublicAffairs (Perseus Books Group / Hachette Book Group), 2013.

First published as: 1913: The World Before the Great War. London: The Bodley Head, 2013.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Charles Emmerson, his website.
• Charles Emmerson (b. 1976), Wikipedia.
• Charles Emmerson. The Future History of the Arctic. New York: PublicAffairs, 2010.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Charles Emmerson. Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924. New York: PublicAffairs, 2019.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Video: Charles Emmerson

• Charles Emmerson and Peter Slen, "Book Discussion with Charles Emmerson," C-SPAN, 14 March 2013.
• Charles Emmerson, "1913/2013: In Conversation with Charles Emmerson," National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri, 21 October 2013.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• 1913.
• 1910s.
• Causes of World War I.
• World War I.

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Eisenhower, Intervention!: The United States and the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1917 (1993)

John S. D. Eisenhower.
Intervention!: The United States and the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1917.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• John Eisenhower (1922 – 2013), Wikipedia.
• John Eisenhower, C-SPAN.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Mexican Revolution, roughly 1910 – 1920.
• United States involvement in the Mexican Revolution.

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Gamble, The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation (2003)

Richard M. Gamble.
The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation.
Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2003.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Richard M. Gamble, Department of History, Hillsdale College.
• Richard Gamble, C-SPAN.

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Axelrod, Selling the Great War: The Making of American Propaganda (2009)

Alan Axelrod.
Selling the Great War: The Making of American Propaganda.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan / St. Martin's Press, 2009.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Alan Axelrod (b. 1952), Wikipedia.
• Alan Axelrod, C-SPAN.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• George Creel (1876 – 1953).
• Committee on Public Information (1917 – 1919).

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Traxel, Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898-1920 (2006)

David Traxel.
Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898-1920.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House), 2006.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• David Traxel PhD, University of the Sciences, Philadelphia.
• David Traxel. An American Saga: The Life and Times of Rockwell Kent. New York: Harper & Row, 1980.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• David Traxel. 1898: The Birth of the American Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House), 1998.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Video: David Traxel

• David Traxel, "Crusader Nation," National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, C-SPAN, 15 February 2006.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• History of the United States (1865–1918).

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Neiberg, The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America (2016)

Michael S. Neiberg.
The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Prof Michael Neiberg, Department of National Security and Strategy, United States Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
• Michael S. Neiberg: Author and Historian, his website.
• Michael Neiberg, C-SPAN.
• Michael S. Neiberg. Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Video and Audio: Michael S. Neiberg

• Michael Neiberg, "Getting America into the Great War," Foreign Policy Research Institute, First Division Museum at Cantigny Park, Wheaton, Illinois, 09 April 2016.
  • First Division Museum at Cantigny Park, Wheaton, Illinois.
• Michael S. Neiberg and Bob Wintermute, "The Path to War," New Books Network, 28 February 2017.
• Michael Neiberg, "The Path to War," 2017 William E. Colby Military Writers' Symposium, Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont, C-SPAN, 12 April 2017.
  • The William E. Colby Military Writers' Symposium, Norwich University.
  • Multimedia Archive, The William E. Colby Military Writers' Symposium.
• Michael Neiberg, Brian Neumann and Mark Klobas, "Should the U.S. Have Entered World War One?," New Books Network, 24 June 2017.
• Michael Neiberg, "America and the World War, 1914-1917," National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri, 04 November 2017.
  • 2017 Symposium - "1917: America Joins The Fight", National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri, 3-4 November 2017.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• World War I.
• American entry into World War I.

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Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980; 2004)

David M. Kennedy.
Over Here: The First World War and American Society.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1980; 2004.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• David M. Kennedy, Department of History, Stanford University.
• David M. Kennedy (b. 1941), Wikipedia.
• David M. Kennedy, C-SPAN.

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Video: David M. Kennedy

• David Kennedy, "Co-Keynote Address," “The War to End All Wars”: Teaching the First World War in Schools, Pioneer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, 04 April 2017.
  (Kennedy's talk begins at time 11:41.)
  • “The War to End All Wars”: Teaching the First World War in Schools, Pioneer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, 04 April 2017.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• History of the United States (1865–1918) : World War I.
• United States home front during World War I.

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McCartney, The Teapot Dome Scandal (2008)

Laton McCartney.
The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country.
New York: Random House, 2008.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information, Book Reviews, Video:

• Laton McCartney, WyoFile.
• Laton McCartney. Friends in High Places: The Bechtel Story: The Most Secret Corporation and How It Engineered the World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. New York: Ballantine Books (Penguin Random House), 1989.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Laton McCartney. Across the Great Divide: Robert Stuart and the Discovery of the Oregon Trail. New York: Free Press (Simon & Schuster), 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Grimes, "There Will Be Scandal: An Oil Stain on the Jazz Age," The New York Times, 13 February 2008.
• Laton McCartney, "The Teapot Dome Scandal," Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, Colorado, BookTV, C-SPAN, 27 May 2008.
• Laton McCartney and Geoff O'Gara, "The Teapot Dome Scandal," Wyoming Chronicle, WyomingPBS, 23 October 2009.

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Wikipedia Articles, etc.:

• Ron J. Jackson, Jr., "Deadly affair," The Oklahoman and NewsOK, December 2013.
  Article on the death of Jacob Louis "Jake" Hamon (1873-1920).
• Boies Penrose (1860–1921), boss of the Pennsylvania Republican machine; U.S. Senator 1897–1921.
• 1920 Republican National Convention, Chicago, June 1920.
• United States presidential election, 1920, Harding versus Cox.
• Presidency of Warren G. Harding.
• Ohio Gang.
• Little Green House on K Street.
• Teapot Dome scandal.
• Jess Smith (1871–1923).
• Harry M. Daugherty (1860–1941), 1920 Harding campaign manager; U.S. Attorney General 1921-1924.
• Albert B. Fall (1861–1944), Attorney General of New Mexico Territory; U.S. Senator from New Mexico 1912-1921; U.S. Secretary of the Interior 1921-1923.
• Edwin Denby (1870–1929), Secretary of the Navy 1921–1923.
• Harry Ford Sinclair (1876–1956), founder of Sinclair Oil Corporation in 1916.
• Edward L. Doheny (1856–1935).
However, in addition to the various corrupt and incompetent members of the Harding administration (the focus of McCartney's book), the Harding cabinet also included some of the most competent and distinguished people ever to serve in government:
• Andrew Mellon (1855–1937), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury 1921–1932.
• Charles Evans Hughes (1862–1948), U.S. Secretary of State 1921–1925.
• Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), U.S. Secretary of Commerce 1921–1928.

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You can read better books on the Harding administration and its various scandals. McCartney's book is very narrowly focused on the Teapot Dome Scandal; it is not a political or economic history of the era and, I think, is warped by the author's generally anti-business, and particularly anti-oil industry, biases.

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Allen, Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America (1940)

Frederick Lewis Allen.
Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939.
New York: Harper & Row, 1940.
New York: HarperCollins, 1986.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Archive.org; Amazon.com.

(The dates in the book title refer to: (1) the peak of the 1920s stock market boom and thus to the beginning of the 1929 stock market crash and the following Depression; (2) the British declaration of war on Germany after Germany's invasion of Poland.)

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Author Information:

• Frederick Lewis Allen (1890–1954), Wikipedia.
• Frederick Lewis Allen, Harper's Magazine (subscription required).
• Frederick Lewis Allen. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s. New York: Harper & Row, 1931. New York: HarperCollins, 2010.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Hypertext version at University of Virginia, American Studies; Amazon.com.]
  My post on Only Yesterday is here.
• Frederick Lewis Allen. The Lords of Creation. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. Open Road Media, 2014.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frederick Lewis Allen. The Great Pierpont Morgan. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. Open Road Media, 2016.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frederick Lewis Allen. The Big Change: America Transforms Itself: 1900-1950. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1993. London: Routledge, 1993.
  [Publisher, Routledge; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post on The Big Change is here.

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Video: Lectures in History, C-SPAN

I collected links to videos on the 1930s in C-SPAN's "Lectures in History" series in my post for Parrish, Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941 (1992).

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Interwar period.
• History of the United States (1918–1945).
• 1930s.
• Economic history of the United States: From 1929 through World War II.
• Technological and industrial history of the United States.
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• Presidency of Herbert Hoover, March 1929 - March 1933.
• United States presidential election, 1932, Roosevelt versus Hoover.
• Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 1933 - April 1945.
• United States presidential election, 1936, Roosevelt versus Landon.
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• Wall Street Crash of 1929.
• Great Depression.
• Causes of the Great Depression.
• Great Depression in the United States.
• New Deal.
• Dust Bowl.
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• List of years in literature: 1930s
• A novel mentioned several times by Allen, now obscure or even forgotten, but a bestseller during 1933 and 1934:
  Anthony Adverse (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933) by Hervey Allen (1889–1949);
  made into the film Anthony Adverse (1936).
  [Amazon.com.]
• Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1930s.

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Some books referenced by Allen in Since Yesterday:

• Theodore G. Joslin. Hoover Off the Record. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934.
  [Archive.org; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Starr Myers and Walter H. Newton. The Hoover Administration: A Documented Narrative. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Robert S. Lynd and‎ Helen Merrell Lynd. Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937. Mariner Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company), 1982.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Charles A. Beard and Mary Beard. America in Midpassage. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com; Amazon.com with slipcase.]
• Raymond Moley. After Seven Years. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939.
  [PDF at the Mises Institute; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (1931)

Frederick Lewis Allen.
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s.
New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics (HarperCollins), 2010.
First published: New York: Harper & Row, 1931.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Hypertext version at University of Virginia, American Studies; Amazon.com.

(I previously read Only Yesterday during 2013; that post is here. I re-read it as preparation for reading Allen's Since Yesterday.)

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Author Information:

• Frederick Lewis Allen (1890–1954), Wikipedia.
• Frederick Lewis Allen, Harper's Magazine (subscription required).
• Frederick Lewis Allen. The Lords of Creation. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. Open Road Media, 2014.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frederick Lewis Allen. Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939. New York: Harper & Row, 1940. New York: HarperCollins, 1986.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frederick Lewis Allen. The Great Pierpont Morgan. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. Open Road Media, 2016.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frederick Lewis Allen. The Big Change: America Transforms Itself: 1900-1950. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1993. London: Routledge, 1993.
  [Publisher, Routledge; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post on The Big Change is here.

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Video: Lectures in History, C-SPAN

I collected links to videos on the 1920s in C-SPAN's "Lectures in History" series in my post for Parrish, Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941 (1992).

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Roaring Twenties.
• 1920s.
• History of the United States (1918–1945).
• List of years in literature: 1920s
• Wall Street Crash of 1929.

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