History and Politics of Post-War America  | History and Politics of the Post-War South  | History and Politics of Post-War Georgia  | Civil Rights and Race in America  | Cold War and McCarthyism  | The Media and Editorial and Political Cartooning  | Presidents and the Presidency  | Vietnam War  | Watergate  | Women in America

History and Politics of Post-War America

• Busch, Andrew. Truman’s Triumphs: The 1948 Election and the Making of Postwar America. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2012.
• Carnes, Mark C., ed. The Columbia History of Post-World War II America. Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
• Chafe, William Henry. The Unfinished Journey: America since World War II. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Clecak, Peter. America's Quest for the Ideal Self: Dissent and Fulfillment in the 60s and 70s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
• Diggins, John P. Proud Decades: America in War and in Peace, 1941-1960. New York: Norton, 1988.
• Gitlin, Todd. The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage. Toronto, New York: Bantam Books, 1989.
• Graebner, Norman. America as a World Power: A Realist Appraisal from Wilson to Reagan: Essays. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1984.
• Hamby, Alonzo. Beyond the New Deal: Harry S. Truman and American Liberalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973.
• Jacobson, Gary C. The Politics of Congressional Elections. 4th ed. New York: Longman, 1997.
• Leuchtenburg, William E. A Troubled Feast: American Society Since 1945. New York: Harper Collins, 1983.
• Nixon, Richard. Six Crises. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.
• Patterson, James T. America's Struggle against Poverty in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
• Siegel, Frederick F. Troubled Journey: From Pearl Harbor to Ronald Reagan. New York: Hill & Wang, 1984.
• Sundquist, James. Politics and Policy: The Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson Years. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1968.
• Susman, Warren I. Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
• Williams, William A. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy. New York: Norton, 1988.
• Zinn, Howard. Post-War America: 1945-1971. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973.

History and Politics of the Post-War South

• Fones-Wolf, Ken, and Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf. Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie. Working Class in American History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015.
• Lawson, Steven. Black Politics: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976.
• Lea, James, ed. Contemporary Southern Politics. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
• Raines, Howell. My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England and New York: Penguin Books, 1983.
• Sale, Kirkpatrick. Power Shift: The Rise of the Southern Rim Its Challenge to the Eastern Establishment. New York: Random House, 1975.
• Williamson, Joel. A Rage for Order: Black/White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

History and Politics of Post-War Georgia

• Allen, Frederick. Atlanta Rising: The Invention of an International City, 1946-1996. Atlanta, Ga.: Longstreet Press, 1996.
• Cobb, James. Away Down South : A History of Southern Identity. Oxford, New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Garrett, Franklin M. Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1982-1987.
• Grady-Willis, Winston A. A Changing Tide: Politics and Activism in Atlanta, Georgia, 1960-1977. Ph.D. diss., Emory University, 1998.
• Harmon, David Andrew. Beneath the Image of the Civil Rights Movement and Race Relations: Atlanta, Georgia, 1946-1981. New York: Garland Pub., 1996.
• Henderson, Harold P. Ernest Vandiver, Governor of Georgia. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2000.
• _____. The Politics of Change in Georgia: A Political Biography of Ellis Arnall. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
• Henderson, Harold P., and Gary L. Roberts, eds. Georgia Governors in an Age of Change: From Ellis Arnall to George Busbee. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1988.
• Kruse, Kevin M. White Flight : Atlanta And The Making Of Modern Conservatism. Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2007.
• Kytle, Calvin James A. Mackay. Who Runs Georgia? Athens, Ga.: The University of Georgia Press, 1998.
• Trillin, Calvin. An Education in Georgia: Charlayne Hunter, Hamilton Holmes, and the Integration of the University of Georgia. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
• Tuck, Stephen G. N. Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940-1980. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2001.

Civil Rights and Race in America

• Berry, Mary Francis, and John W. Blassingame. Long Memory: The Black Experience in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
• Blauner, Bob. Black Lives, White Lives: Three Decades of Race Relations in America. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1989.
• Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.
• Carmines, Edward G., and James A. Stimson. Issue Evolution: Race and the Transformation of American Politics. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990.
• Carson, Clayborne. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.
• Evans, Sara M. Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left. New York: Knopf, 1979.
• Garrow, David. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. New York: Morrow, 1986.
• Gilmore, Glenda. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950
• . New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.Harding, Vincent. There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.
• Harmon, David Andrew. Beneath the Image of the Civil Rights Movement and Race Relations: Atlanta, Georgia, 1946-1981. New York: Garland Pub., 1996.
• Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. New York: Knopf, 1976.
• Meier, August Elliot Rudwick. CORE, a Study of the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1975.
• _____. Along the Color Line, Explorations in the Black Experience. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1976.
• Morris, Aldon D. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. New York: Free Press, 1986.
• Pratt, Robert A. We Shall Not Be Moved: The Desegregation of The University of Georgia. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2002.
• Raines, Howell. My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England and New York: Penguin Books, 1983.
• Romano, Renee C., ed. The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006.
• Sitkoff, Harvard. The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1992. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.
• Sokol, Jason. There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in The Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
• Trillon, Calvin. An Education in Georgia: Charlayne Hunter, Hamilton Holmes, and the Integration of the University of Georgia. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
• Tuck, Stephen G. N. Beyond Atlanta : The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940-1980. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2001.
• Williams, Patricia J. The Alchemy of Race and Rights. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.
• Williamson, Joel. A Rage for Order: Black/White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
• Woods, Jeff. Black Struggle, Red Scare : Segregation And Anti-Communism in The South, 1948-1968. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2004.
• Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Cold War and McCarthyism

• Allison, Graham T., and Philip Zelikow. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 1999.
• Divine, Robert A. Eisenhower and the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
• Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
• Freeland, Richard M. The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism: Foreign Policy, Domestic Policy, and Internal Security, 1946-48. New York: New York University Press, 1985.
• Fried, Richard M. Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Griffith, Robert. The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy the Senate. 2nd ed. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987.
• LaFeber, Walter. America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1996. 8th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.
• May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. Rev. and updated ed. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
• Michaels, Jonathan. McCarthyism: The Realities, Delusions and Politics behind the 1950s Red Scare. Critical Moments in American History. New York: Routledge, 2017.
• Oshinsky, David M. A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy. New York: Free Press, 1985.
• Wittner, Lawrence S. Cold War America: From Hiroshima to Watergate. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978.

The Media and Editorial and Political Cartooning

• Bennett, W. Lance. News, the Politics of Illusion. 3rd ed. New York : Longman, 1996.
• Dewey, Donald. The Art of Ill Will: The Story of American Political Cartoons. New York: New York University Press, 2007.
• Hess, Stephen and Milton Kaplan. The Ungentlemanly Art: A History of American Political Cartoons. Rev. ed. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1975.
• Hess, Stephen. et al. Drawn & Quartered: The History of American Political Cartoons. Montgomery, Ala.: Elliott & Clark Pub., 1996.
• Hodgson, Godfrey. America in Our Time. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976.
• Manoff, Robert K., and Michael Schudson, eds. Reading the News: A Pantheon Guide to Popular Culture. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.
• Somers, Paul. Editorial Cartooning and Caricature: A Reference Guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998.
• Tower, Samuel A. Cartoons and Lampoons: The Art of Political Satire. New York: Julian Messner, 1982.

Presidents and the Presidency

• Alexander, Charles C. Holding the Line: The Eisenhower Era, 1952-1961. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1975.
• Ambrose, Stephen E. Eisenhower. New York: Simon & Schuster Trade, 1985.
• Ambrose, Stephen E. Nixon. New York: Simon & Schuster Trade, 1987-
• Cannon, Lou. President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime. 1st Public Affairs ed. New York: PublicAffairs, 2000.
• Caro, Robert. The Years of Lyndon Johnson. New York: Knopf, 1982-
• Donovan, Robert J. Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948. New York: Norton, 1977.
• Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.
• Hamby, Alonzo. Beyond the New Deal: Harry S. Truman and American Liberalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973.
• Kutler, Stanley I. The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon. New York: Norton, 1992.
• Lyon, Peter. Eisenhower: Portrait of the Hero. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974.
• Neustadt, Richard E. Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan. New York: Free Press, 1990.
• Parmet, Herbert S. Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy. Norwalk, Conn.: Easton Press, 1986.
• Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. New York: Greenwich House, 1983.
• Wills, Garry. The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power. Boston: Little, Brown, 1982.

Vietnam War

• Anderson, David L. The Vietnam War. Twentieth-Century Wars. NewYork: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
• Herring, George C. America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975. New York : McGraw-Hill, 1996.
• Kahin, George M. Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1987.
• Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam, The War Nobody Won. New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1983.
• Lawrence, Mark Atwood. The Vietnam War: An International History in Documents. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Watergate

• Ambrose, Stephen E. Nixon. New York: Simon & Schuster Trade, 1987-
• Bernstein, Carl, and Robert Woodward. All the President's Men. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
• Haldeman, H. R., with Joseph DiMona. The Ends of Power. New York: Times Books, 1978.
• Kutler, Stanley I. The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon. New York: Norton, 1992.

Women in America

• Eisenmann, Linda. Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
• Evans, Sara M. Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left. New York: Knopf, 1979.
• Hymowitz, Carol and Michele Weissman. A History of Women in America. New York: Bantam Books, 1978.
• Woloch, Nancy. Women the American Experience. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.