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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. Selected chapters.)
• Michaels, Jeffrey H.; Michaels, US cultural diplomacy after the Cold War: decline, recovery, and fall?, 1st ed., Manchester, UK, Manchester University Press, 2026Compulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• 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:

• Calarco, Jessica McCrory, Holding it together: how women became America's safety net, New York, Portfolio/Penguin, 2024Compulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• Farris, Emily M.; Holman, Mirya., The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States., 1st ed., Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2024Compulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• Grossmann, Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2024Compulsory*
• Lieberman, Robert C; Mettler, Suzanne, The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical ContextCompulsory*
• Marietta, Morgan; Barker, David C., One nation, two realities: dueling facts in American democracy, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2019Compulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• Merrin, William, Sharded Media: Trump's Rage Against the Mainstream, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• McFarlane, Deborah R., Regulating abortion: the politics of US abortion policy, First edition., Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, [2024]Compulsory* (Selected chapters.)

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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.)
• Gienapp, Jonathan, Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique, First edition., New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, [2024]Compulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• 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.)
• 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.)
• Sodaro, Amy., Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U. S. Museums., 1st ed., New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 2024Compulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• Sturken, Marita, Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era, New York University PressCompulsory* (Selected chapters.)

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Current Research in American Studies

Excerpts, digitally available or provided by teacher:

• Hartman, Andrew, A war for the soul of America: a history of the culture wars, Andra upplagan, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2019Compulsory*
• Pandian, Anand., Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down., 1st ed., Redwood City, Stanford University Press, 2025Compulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• Levendusky, Matthew, Our Common Bonds: Using What Americans Share to Help Bridge the Partisan Divide, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• Hochschild, Arlie Russell, Stolen pride: loss, shame, and the rise of the Right, New York, The New Press, [2024]Compulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• Field, Laura K., Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right., 1st ed., Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2025Compulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• Rana, Aziz, Constitutional CollapseCompulsory*

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* Compulsory