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Global American History

• Gabaccia, Donna R., Foreign relations: American immigration in global perspective, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, c2012Compulsory* (Available as e-book through UUB.)
• Hoganson, Kristin L., The heartland: an American history, New York, Penguin Books, 2020Compulsory*
• Holsti, Ole R, To see ourselves as others see us: how publics abroad view the United States after 9/11, 2008Compulsory* (E-book through UUB.)
• Immerwahr, Daniel, How to Hide an Empire: a Short History of the Greater United States, London, The Bodley Head, 2019Compulsory*

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Current Issues in American Politics

• Alba, The Great Demographic Illusion, Princeton University Press, 2020Compulsory*
• Putnam, Robert D., Our kids: the American dream in crisis, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2015Compulsory*
• Ziegler, Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present, Cambridge University Press, 2020Compulsory*
• Marietta, Morgan; Barker, David C., One nation, two realities: dueling facts in American democracy, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2019Compulsory*
• Coates, Ta-Nehisi, We Were Eight Years in Power, Penguin, 2018Compulsory* (Selected chapters.)

John Sides, Chris Tausanovitch, and Lynn Vavreck, The Bitter End: The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2022). Selected chapters. Available as e-book through UUB.

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Memory and Heritage in American Culture

• Bruyneel, Kevin, Settler memory: the disavowal of indigeneity and the politics of race in the United States, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, [2021]Compulsory*
• Cook, Robert, Civil War memories: contesting the past in the United States since 1865, Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017Compulsory*
• Gordon, Tammy S., The Spirit of 1976: Commerce, Community, and the Politics of Commemoration, Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]Compulsory* (Selected chapters. Available as e-book through UUB.)
• Janney, Caroline E., Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation, The University of North Carolina Press, 2013Compulsory*
• Lepore, Jill, The whites of their eyes: the Tea Party's revolution and the battle over American history, Princeton, Princeton University Press, cop. 2010Compulsory* (Selected chapters. Available as e-book through UUB.)
• Horton, James Oliver, Slavery and public history: the tough stuff of American memory, 2006Compulsory* (Chapter 6: "Recovering (from) Slavery: Four Struggles to Tell the Truth". E-book through UUB.)
• Meringolo, Denise D., Museums, monuments, and national parks: toward a new genealogy of public history, 2012Compulsory* (Selected chapters. Available as e-book through UUB.)
• Savage, Kirk, Monument wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the transformation of the memorial landscape, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, University of California Press, 2011Compulsory* (Selected chapters. Available as e-book through UUB.)
• Sturken, Marita, Tourists of history: memory, kitsch, and consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero, Durham, Duke University Press, 2007Compulsory* (Selected chapters. Available as e-book through UUB.)

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Current Research in American Studies

• Cooley, Timothy J., Surfing about Music, University of California Press, 2014Compulsory*
• Comer, Krista, Surfer girls in the new world order, Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, cop. 2010Compulsory*
• Scott Laderman, Empire in Waves: A Political History of Surfing, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (E-book through UUB.)
• Sotelo Eastman, Alexander; Hough-Snee, Dexter Zavalza, The critical surf studies reader, Durham, Duke University Press, [2017]Compulsory* (Selected chapters. Available as e-book through UUB.)

Walker, Isaiah Helekunihi, Waves of Resistance: Surfing and History in Twentieth-Century Hawai'i (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2011). Selected chapters.

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* Compulsory