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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

Excerpts, digitally available or provided by teacher:

• Briggs, Laura, How all politics became reproductive politics: from welfare reform to foreclosure to Trump, Oakland, University of California Press, [2017]Compulsory*
• Denvir, Daniel., All-American Nativism, Verso Books, 2020Compulsory*
• Desmond, Matthew, Poverty, by America, [London], Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2023Compulsory*
• Alba, Richard D., The great demographic illusion: majority, minority, and the expanding American mainstream / Richard Alba, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Excerpts. Digitally available or provided by teacher.)
• Grossmann, Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2024Compulsory*
• Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, Abolition geography: essays towards liberation, London, Verso, 2023Compulsory*
• Neel, Phil A., Hinterland: America's new landscape of class and conflict, London, Reaktion Books, 2018Compulsory*
• Schlozman, Daniel; Rosenfeld, Sam, The hollow parties: the many pasts and disordered present of American party politics, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, [2024]Compulsory*
• Winant, Gary, The Next Shift: the fall of industry and the rise of healthcare in Rust Belt America, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory*
• Ziegler, Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present, Cambridge University Press, 2020Compulsory*

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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*
• Cox, Karen L., No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• 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*
• Landsberg, Alison, Engaging the past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge / Alison Landsberg, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• 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.)
• Melish, Joanne, "Recovering (from) Slavery: Four Struggles to Tell the Truth", Part of: Slavery and public history [electronic resource]: the tough stuff of American memory / edited by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory*
• 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

Excerpts, digitally available or provided by teacher:

• Beck, Richard, Homeland: the war on terror in American life, London, Verso, 2025Compulsory*
• Dubber, Markus Dirk., The police power: patriarchy and the foundations of American governmentCompulsory*
• Anne Gray Fischer, Streets Belong to Us, University of North Carolina Press, 2022Compulsory*
• Go, Julian, Policing Empires, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC, 2023Compulsory*
• Reimagining the National Security State: Liberalism on the Brink, Cambridge University Press, 2019Compulsory*
• Grewal, Inderpal, Saving the security state: exceptional citizens in twenty-first-century America, Durham, Duke University Press, 2017Compulsory*
• Masco, Joseph, The theater of operations: national security affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror, Durham, Duke University Press, 2014Compulsory*
• Preston, Andrew, Total defense: the New Deal and the invention of national security, Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2025]Compulsory*
• Schrader, Stuart, Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory*
• Simon, Jonathan, Governing through crime: how the war on crime transformed American democracy and created a culture of fearCompulsory*
• Singh, Nikhil Pal, Race and America's long war, Oakland, California, University of California Press, [2017]Compulsory*

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* Compulsory