GENERAL REFERENCES
GENERAL
John Brooks, The Great Leap: The Past Twenty-five Years in America (New York: Harper & Row, 1966);
Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, and Peter T. Williams, eds. Encyclopedia of American Social History, 3 volumes (New York: Scribners, 1993);
Chronicle of the 20th Century (Mount Kisco, N.Y.: Chronicle, 1987);
Current Biography Yearbook (New York: Wilson, [various years]);
John Patrick Diggins, The Proud Decades (New York: Norton, 1988);
John W. Dodds, Everyday Life in Twentieth Century America (New York: Putnam, 1965);
Paul Johnson, Modern Times: From the Twenties to the Nineties, revised edition (New York: HarperCollins, 1991);
Thomas M. Leonard, Day by Day: The Forties (New York: Facts On File, 1977);
Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek, eds., Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992);
Iwan W. Morgan and Neil A. Wynn, America's Century: Perspective on U.S. History Since 1900 (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1993);
Michael Downey Rice, Prentice-Hall Dictionary of Business, Finance, and Law (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1983);
Barbara Sicherman, Carol Hurd Green with llene Kantrov and Hariette Walker, eds., Notable American Women: The Modern Period, A Biographical Dictionary (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980);
This Fabulous Century, 1940-1949 (Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1969);
Time Lines on File (New York: Facts On File, 1988);
James Trager, The People's Chronology (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979);
Claire Walter, Winners: The Blue Ribbon Encyclopedia of Awards (New York: Facts On File, 1982);
Leigh Carol Yuster and others, eds., Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory: A Classified Guide to Current Periodicals, Foreign and Domestic, 1986-1987, twenty-fifth edition, 2 volumes (New York & London: R.R. Bowker, 1986).
ART
H. Harvard Arnason, History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Photography, third edition (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1986);
Whitney Balliett, American Musicians: Fifty Portraits in Jazz (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986);
Cedric Belfrage, The American Inquisition, 1945-1960 (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1989);
James E. B. Breslin, Mark Rothko: A Biography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993);
Humphrey Carpenter, A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988);
Patrick Carr, ed., The Illustrated History of Country Music (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1980);
Virginia Carr, The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers (New York: Doubleday, 1975);
Riva Castleman and Guy Davenport, eds., Art of the Forties (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991);
Samuel B. Charters and Leonard Kunstadt, Jazz: A History of the New York Scene (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1962);
Gilbert Chase, America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present, revised third edition (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987);
Jonathan Coe, Humphrey Bogart: Take It and Like It (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991);
Malcolm Cowley, A Second Flowering (New York: Penuin, 1984);
Francis Davis, The History of the Blues (New York: Hyperion, 1995);
Emile De Antonio and Mitch Tuchman, Painters Painting: A Candid History of the Modern Art Scene, 1940-1970 (New York: Abbeville, 1984);
Agnes de Mille, America Dances (New York: Macmillan, 1980);
de Mille, Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham (New York: Random House, 1991);
Thomas Doherty, Projections of War (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993);
Philip H. Ennis, The Seventh Stream: The Emergence of Rocknroll in American Popular Music (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1992);
Rusty E. Frank, Tap!: The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and Their Stories, 1900-1955 (New York: William Morris, 1990);
Francis Frascina, ed., Pollock and After: The Critical Debate (New York: HarperCollins, 1985);
Otto Friedrich, City of Nets (New York: Harper and Row, 1986);
John Gassner, ed., Best American Plays: Third Series, 1945-1951 (New York: Crown, 1952);
Addison Gayle, Richard Wright: Ordeal of a Native Son (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor/Doubleday, 1980);
Gary Giddins, Celebrating Bird (New York: Beech Tree Books, 1987);
Ira Gitler, Jazz Masters of the Forties (New York: Macmilian, 1966);
Gitler, Swing to Bop: An Oral History of The Transition in Jazz in the 1940s (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985);
Lois G. Gordon and Alan Gordon, American Chronicle: Six Decades in American Life (New York: Atheneum, 1987);
Martha Graham, Blood Memory (New York: Doubleday, 1991);
Thomas B. Hess, Six Painters (Houston, Tex.: Rice University Press, 1968);
James Howard, The Complete Films of Orson Welles (New York: Citadel Press, 1991);
John Howlett, Frank Sinatra (London: Plexus, 1980);
H. W. Janson, History of Art, fifth edition (New York: Abrams, 1995);
Barry D. Karl, The Uneasy State (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983);
Frederick R. Karl, American Fictions, 1940-1980 (New York: Harper & Row, 1983);
Clayton Koppes and Gregory Black, Hollywood Goes to War (New York: Free Press, 1987);
Allan Lewis, American Plays and Playwrights of the Contemporary Theatre (NewYork: Crown, 1965);
Richard R. Lingeman, Dont You Know There's A War On?: The American Home Front, 1941-1945 (New York: Putnam, 1970);
Bill C. Malone, Country Music, U.S.A. (Austin: University of Texas, 1985);
Edward Margolies, Native Sons (New York: Lippincott, 1968);
Joseph H. Mazo, Prime Movers: The Makers of Modern-Dance in America (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Book Company, 1977);
Don McDonagh, The Complete Guide to Modern Dance (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976);
McDonagh, George Balanchine (Boston: Twayne, 1983);
Anna Moszynska, Abstract Art (New York: Thames & Hudson, 1990);
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, Jackson Pollock: An American Saga (New York: HarperCollins, 1991);
Paul Oliver, Max Harrison, and William Bolcom, The New Grove Gospel, Blues and Jazz (New York: Norton, 1986);
Richard H. Pells, The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age (New York: Harper & Row, 1985);
Regenia Perry, Free Within Ourselves (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in association with Pomegranate Artbooks, 1992);
James A. Porter, Modern Negro Art (Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1992);
David Revill, The Roaring Silence: John Cage: A Life (New York: Arcade, 1992);
Nikos Sangos, Concepts of Modern Art (New York: Thames & Hudson, 1994);
Russell Sanjek, American Popular Music and Its Business Vol III, From 1900 to 1984 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988);
Moira Shearer, Balletmaster: A Dancer's View of George Balanchine (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1986);
Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward, Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style, third edition (Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 1992);
Ernestine Stodelle, Deep Song: The Dunce Story of Martha Graham (New York: Schirmer, 1984);
David Stowe, Swing Changes (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994);
Vera Stravinsky and Robert Craft, Stravinsky in Pictures and Documents (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978);
Nicholas E. Tawa, Serenading the Reluctant Eagle: American Musical Life, 1925-1945 (New York: Schirmer, 1984);
Nick Tosches, Country: Living Legends and Dying Metaphors in Americas Biggest Music (London: Secker & Warburg, 1985);
Katrina Vanden Heuvel, ed., The Nation, 1865-1990 (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1990);
Edmund Wilson, The Forties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983);
William Wright, Lillian Hellman: The Image, the Woman (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986).
BUSINESS AND THE ECONOMY
John Brooks, The Autobiography of American Business (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1974);
Keith L. Bryant, Jr., ed., Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography: Railroads in the Age of Regulation, 1900-1980 (Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman / New York: Facts On File, 1988);
Bryant, and Henry C. Dethloff, A History of American Business (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1983);
Edward F. Denison, The Sources of Economic Growth in the United States and the Alternatives Before Us (New York: Committee for Economic Development, 1962);
John M. Dobson, A History of American Enterprise (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1988);
John Kenneth Galbraith, Economic Development (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1964);
George Gilder, The Spirit of Enterprise (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984);
Charles E. Gilland, Jr., ed., Readings in Business Responsibility (Braintree, Mass.: D. H. Mark, 1969);
James R. Green, The World of the Worker: Labor in Twentieth-Century America (New York: Hill & Wang, 1980);
William M. Leary, ed., Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography: The Airline Industry (Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman / New York: Facts On File, 1992);
Ann R. Markusen, The Rise of the Gunbelt: The Military Remapping of Industrial America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991);
George S. May, ed., Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography: Banking and Finance, 1913-1989 (Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman / New York: Facts On File, 1990);
Glenn Porter, ed., Encyclopedia of American Economic History: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas, 3 volumes (New York: Scribners, 1980);
Joseph C. Pusateri, A History of American Business (Arlington Heights, 111.: Harlan Davidson, 1984);
John B. Rae, The American Automobile: A Brief History (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1965);
Sidney Ratner, James H. Soltow, and Richard Sylla, The Evolution of the American Economy (New York: Basic Books, 1979);
Graham Robinson, Pictorial History of the Automobile (New York: W. H. Smith, 1987);
Larry Schweikart, ed., Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography: Banking and Finance, 1913-1989 (Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman / New York: Facts On File, 1990);
Bruce Seely, ed., Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography: Iron and Steel in the Twentieth Century (Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman / New York: Facts On File, 1993);
Herbert Alexander Simon, The New Science of Management Decision (New York: Harper & Row, 1960).
FASHION
Pierre Balmain, My Years and Seasons (London: Cassell, 1964);
Michael Batterberry and Ariane Batterberry, Mirror, Mirror: A Social History of Fashion (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1977);
Helen L. Brockman, The Theory of Fashion Design (New York: Wiley, 1965);
The Changing American Woman: 200 Years of American Fashion (New York: Fairchild, 1976);
Mila Contini, Fashion: From Ancient Egypt to the Present Day (New York: Odyssey, 1965);
Maryanne Dolan, Vintage Clothing, 1880-1960: Identification and Value Guide (Florence, Ala.: Books Americana, 1984);
Elizabeth Ewing, History of Twentieth Century Fashion (Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble, 1986);
Harper's Bazaar: 100 Years of the American Female (New York: Random House, 1967);
Sandra Ley, Fashion for Everyone: The Story of Ready-to-Wear, 1870-1970s (New York: Scribners, 1975);
Valerie Lloyd, The Art of Vogue Photographic Covers: Fifty Years of Fashion and Design (New York: Harmony, 1986);
Lloyd, Fabric and Fashion: Twenty Years of Costume Council Gifts (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1974);
Lloyd, McDowell's Directory of Twentieth Century Fashion (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1985);
Mary Shaw Ryan, Clothing: A Study in Human Behavior (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966);
Donald Stowell and Erin Wertenberger, A Century of Fashion 1865-1965 (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1987);
Jane Trahey, ed., Harper's Bazaar: 100 Years of the American Female (New York: Random House, 1967);
Trahey, The Mode in Costume (New York: Scribners, 1958);
Barry James Wood, Show Windows: Seventy-five Years of the Art of Display (New York: Congdon & Weed, 1982).
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
Gar Alperovitz, Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965);
Stephen E. Ambrose, Rise to Globalism, seventh revised edition (New York: Penguin, 1993);
Harry Elmer Barnes, Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace: A Critical Examination of the Foreign Policy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (New York: Greenwood Press, 1969);
Richard J. Barnet, The Roots of War (New York: Atheneum, 1972);
John Morton Blum, V Was For Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976);
Robert A. Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981);
Robert A. Divine, Roosevelt and World War II (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1969);
Robert J. Donovan, Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948 (New York: Norton, 1977);
Henry L. Feingold, The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocausto 1938-1945, expanded and updated edition (New York: Holocaust Library, 1980);
Herbert Feis, The Road To Pearl Harbor (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971);
Richard M. Freeland, The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthy ism: Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics, and Internal Security, 1946-1948 (New York: Schocken, 1974);
Frank Freidel, FDR: Launching the New Deal (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973);
John Lewis Gaddis, The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987);
Gaddis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1972);
John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960);
Eric F. Goldman, A Rendezvous With Destiny: A History of Modern American Reform (New York: Knopf, 1952; revised and abridged edition, New York: Vintage, 1956);
Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994);
William Graebner, The Age of Doubt: American Thought and Culture in the 1940s (Boston: Twayne, 1990);
Alonzo L. Hamby, Beyond the New Deal: Harry S Truman and American Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1973);
Hamby, ed., Harry S Truman and the Fair Deal (Lexington, Mass.: Heath, 1974);
Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It (New York: Knopf, 1948);
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese-American Experience during and after the World War IIInternment (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973);
William R. Keylor, The Twentieth-Century World: An International History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984);
Walter LaFeber and others, The American Century (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990);
Melvyn P. Leffler, A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War (Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 1992);
Richard Lingeman, Don V You Know There's a War on? The American Home Front, 1941-1945 (New York: Putnam, 1970);
Haskell Lookstein, Were We Our Brothers Keepers?: The Public Response of American Jews to the Holocaust, 1938-1944 (New York: Hartmore House, 1985);
Thomas McCormick, America's Half-Century: United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989);
Seymour Melman, Pentagon Capitalism: The Political Economy of War (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970);
Melman, The Permanent War Economy: American Capitalism in Decline (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974);
Arnold A. Offner, American Appeasement: United States Foreign Policy and Germany, 1933-1938 (New York: Norton, 1976);
Geoffrey Perrett, Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph: The American People, 1939-1945 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985);
Richard Polenberg, War and Society: The United States, 1941-1945 (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1972);
Bruce M. Russett, No Clear and Present Danger (New York: Harper & Row, 1972);
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Age of Roosevelt, 3 volumes (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956-1960);
Schlesinger, ed., The History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-1968 (New York: Chelsea House, 1971);
Schlesinger, ed., History of U.S. Political Parties (New York: Chelsea House, 1973);
Edward H. Spicer, Asael T. Hansen, Katherine Luomala, and Marvin K. Opler, Impounded People: Japanese-Americans in the Relocation Centers (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1969);
C. L. Sulzberger, The American Heritage Picture History of World War II (New York: American Heritage Publishing, 1966);
James L. Sundquist, Dynamics of the Party System: Alignment and Realignment of Political Parties in the United States, revised edition (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1983);
William Appleman Williams, The Contours of American History (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1966);
John E. Wiltz, From Isolation to War, 1931-1941 (New York: Crowell, 1968);
Allan M. Winkler, Home Front U.S.A.: America During World War II (Arlington Heights, 111.: Harlan Davidson, 1986);
David S. Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 (New York: Pantheon, 1984);
Daniel Yergin, Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977);
Howard Zinn, Postwar America, 1945-1971 (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973).
LAW
John C. Armor and Peter Wright, Manzanar (New York: New York Times Books, 1988);
Allan Bosworth, America's Concentration Camps (New York: Norton, 1967);
Harold W. Chase, Security and Liberty; The Problem of Native Communists, 1947-1955 (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1955);
Steven Chin, When Justice Failed: The Fred Korematsu Story (Austin, Tex.: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1993);
Commission On The Bicentennial Of The United States, The Supreme Court Of The United States—Its Beginnings And Its Justices 1790-1991 (Washington, D.C.: Commission On The Bicentennial Of The United States, 1992);
Robert F. Cushman, Leading Constitutional Decisions (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1977);
William O. Douglas, The Court Years, 1939-1975 (New York: Random House, 1980);
Kermit L. Hall, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992);
Maureen Harrison and Steve Gilbert, eds., Landmark Decisions Of The United States Supreme Court II (Beverly Hills: Excellent Books, 1992);
Alger Hiss, Recollections Of A Life (New York: Holt, 1988);
Alfred H. Kelly, Winfred A. Harbison, and Herman Belz, The American Constitution, Its Origins and Development—Volume II, seventh edition (New York: Norton, 1991);
Jethro K. Lieberman, The Enduring Constitution, A Bicentennial Perspective (New York: West, 1987);
Robert G. McCloskey, The American Supreme Court (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960);
Robert Morris, ed., Encyclopedia of American History, sixth edition (New York: Harper & Row, 1982);
Jay Robert Nash, Bloodletters And Badmen (New York: Evans, 1973);
Bernard Schwartz, The American Heritage History of The Law In America (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974);
John Tateishi, And Justice For All—An Oral History Of The Japanese American Detention Camps (New York: Random House, 1984);
Telford Taylor, The Anatomy Of The Nuremberg Trials (New York: Knopf, 1992);
Treaties And Alliances Of The World (New York: Scribners, 1968);
Sanford J. Ungar, FBI (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown, 1976).
LIFESTYLES AND SOCIAL TRENDS
Michael Barone, Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan (New York: Free Press, 1990);
A. Russell Buchanan, Black Americans in World War II (Santa Barbara & London: Clio, 1977);
William Chafe, The American Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic, and Political Roles, 1920-1970 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1972);
Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (New York: Basic Books, 1992);
John P. Diggins, The Proud Decades: America in War and in Peace, 1941-1960 (New York: Norton, 1988);
Diggins, Up From Communism: Conservative Odysseys in American Intellectual History (New York: Harper & Row, 1975);
Andreas Feininger, New York in the Forties (New York: Dover, 1978);
Peter G. Filene, Him/Her/Self: Sex Roles in Modern America (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974);
John Hope Franklin and Isidore Starr, The Negro in Twentieth Century America (New York: Random House, 1967);
Estelle B. Freedman and John D'Emilio, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (New York: Harper & Row, 1988);
Susan M. Hartmann, The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s (Boston: Twayne, 1982);
Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985);
Ulysses Lee, The Employment of Negro Troops, United States Army in World War II Special Studies no. 8 (Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, United States Army, 1966);
Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (New York: Basic Books, 1988);
Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg, Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life (New York: Free Press, 1988);
John Modell, Into Owns Own: From Youth to Adulthood in the United States, 1920-1975 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989);
Rosalind Rosenberg, Divided Lives: American Women in the Twentieth Century (New York: Hill & Wang, 1992).
MEDIA
Association of National Advertisers, Magazine Circulation and Rate Trends: 1940-1967 (New York: ANA, 1969);
Charles O. Bennett, Facts Without Opinion: First Fifty Years of the Audit Bureau of Circulation (Chicago: ABC, 1965);
Mike Benton, The Comic Book in America: An Illustrated History (Dallas: Taylor, 1989);
Tim Brooks, The Complete Directory to Prime Time TV Stars: 1946-Present (New York: Ballantine, 1987);
Robert Campbell, The Golden Years of Broadcasting: A Celebration of the First 50 Years of Radio and TV on NBC (New York: Scribners, 1972);
Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik, Watching TV: Four Decades of American Television (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982);
John Dunning, Tune in Yesterday: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio 1925-1976 (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976);
Walter B. Emery, National and International Systems of Broadcasting: Their History, Operation, and Control (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1969);
Amy Janello and Brennon Jones, The American Magazine (New York: Abrams, 1991);
Laurence W. Lichty and Malachi Topping, American Broadcasting: A Source Book on the History of Radio and Television (New York: Hastings House, 1975);
J. Fred MacDonald, Dont Touch That Dial: Radio Programming in American Life from 1920 to 1960 (Chicago: G. K. Hall, 1979);
MacDonald, Television and the Red Menace (New York: Praeger, 1985);
Alexander McNeil, Total Television: A Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948-1980 (New York: Penguin, 1980);
Christopher Sterling, ed., Broadcasting and Mass Media: A Survey Bibliography (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1974);
Sterling, ed., The History of Broadcasting: Radio to Television, 32 volumes (New York: New York Times/Arno, 1972);
Sterling, ed., Telecommunications, 34 volumes (New York: New York Times/Arno, 1974);
Vincent Terrace, The Complete Encyclopedia of Television Programs: 1947-1979, second edition (New York: Barnes, 1980);
Antoon J. van Zuilen, The Life Cycle of Magazines: A Historical Study of the Decline and Fall of the General Interest Mass Audience Magazine in the United States During the Period 1946-1972 (Ulthoorn, The Netherlands: Graduate Press, 1977).
MEDICINE AND HEALTH
Leonard Berkowitz, Aggression: A Psychological Analysis (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962);
The Cambridge World History of Human Disease (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993);
Rick J. Carlson, The End of Medicine (New York: Wiley, 1975);
Frederic Fox Cartwright, Disease and History (New York: Crowell, 1972);
James H. Cassedy, Medicine in America: A Short History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991);
Faith Clark, ed., Symposium III: The Changing Patterns of Consumption of Food, International Congress of Food Science and Technology, Proceedings of the Congress
Symposia, 1962, vol. 5 (New York: Gordon Sc Breach Science, 1967);
Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine (London: Routledge, 1993);
Bernard Dixon, Beyond the Magic Bullet (New York: Harper & Row, 1978);
John Patrick Dolan, Health and Society: A Documentary History of Medicine (New York: Seabury, 1978);
Martin Duke, The Development of Medical Techniques and Treatments: From Leeches to Heart Surgery (Madison, Conn.: International Universities Press, 1991);
Esmond R. Long, A History of Pathology (New York: Dover, 1965);
Albert S. Lyons, Medicine: An Illustrated History (New York: Abrams, 1978);
William A. Nolen, A Surgeons World (New York: Random House, 1972);
Sherwin B. Nuland, Doctors: the Biography of Medicine (New York: Knopf, 1988);
John R. Paul, A History of Poliomyelitis (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1971);
Stanley Joel Reiser, Medicine and the Reign of Technology (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978);
Rosemary Stevens, American Medicine and the Public Interest (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971);
Elliot S. Valenstein, Great and Desperate Cures (New York: Basic Books, 1986).
RELIGION
Sydney E. Ahlstrom, A Religious History of the American People, 2 volumes (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975);
Catherine Albanese, America, Religions and Religious (Belmont, Cal.: Wadsworth, 1981);
Nancy T. Ammerman, Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1987);
Bernham P. Beckwith, The Decline of U.S. Religious Faith, 1912-1984 (Palo Alto, Cal.: Beckwith, 1985);
Robert N. Bellah and Frederick E. Greenspahn, eds., Uncivil Religion: Irreligious Hostility in America (New York: Crossroads, 1987);
Robert Benne, Defining America; A Christian Critique of the American Dream (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1974);
John C. Bennett, Christians and the State (New York: Scribners, 1958);
Charles C. Brown, Niebuhr and His Age: Reinhold Niebuhrs Prophetic Role in the Twentieth Century (Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1992);
Jackson W. Carroll, Beyond Establishment: Protestant Identity in a Post-Protestant Age (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox, 1993);
Samuel McCrea Cavert, The American Churches in the Ecumenical Movement, 1900-1968 (New York: Association Press, 1968);
John Cooney, The American Pope: The Life and Times of Francis Cardinal Spellman (New York: New York Times Books, 1984);
Jay P. Dolan, The American Catholic Experience: A History from Colonial Times to the Present (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1985);
Robert F. Drinan, Religion, the Courts, and Public Policy (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963);
John L. Eighmy, Churches in Cultural Captivity: A History of the Social Attitudes of Southern Baptists (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987);
Henry L. Feingold, A Time for Searching: Entering the Mainstream, 1920-1945 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992);
James Hennesey, American Catholics: A History of the Roman Catholic Community in the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981);
Arthur Hertzberg, The Jews in America: Four Centuries of an Uneasy Encounter: A History (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989);
Darryl Hudson, The Ecumenical Movement in World Affairs (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969);
Winthrop S. Hudson, Religion in America: An Historical Account of the Development of American Religious Life (New York: Scribners, 1981);
William R. Hutchinson, The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976);
Donald G. Jones and Russell E. Richey, eds., American Civil Religion (San Francisco: Mellen Research University Press, 1990);
Edward L. Long, The Christian Response to the Atomic Crisis (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1950);
Martin Marty, Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984);
Leo Pfeiffer, Church, State, and Freedom, second edition (Boston: Beacon, 1967);
Russell E. Richey, American Civil Religion (New York: Harper & Row, 1974);
Ralph Lord Roy, Apostles of Discord, A Study of Organized Bigotry and Disruption on the Fringes of Protestantism (Boston: Beacon, 1953);
Mark Silk, Spiritual Politics: Religion and America since World War II (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988);
Ronald H. Stone, Reinhold Niebuhr: Prophet to Politicians (Nashville: Abingdon, 1972);
Joseph Tussman, ed., The Supreme Court on Church and State (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962);
Brooks R. Walker, Christian Fright Peddlers (Garden City, NX: Doubleday, 1964);
Edmund Wilson, The Dead Sea Scrolls, 1947-1969 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1969);
Robert Wuthnow, The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988).
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Gary M. Abshire, ed., The Impact of Computers on Society and Ethics: A Bibliography (Morristown, N.J.: Creative Computing, 1980);
Garland Allen, Life Science in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978);
Jack Beizer, Albert G. Holzman, and Allen Kent, eds., Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, 16 volumes (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1975-1981);
Paul Boyer, By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (New York: Pantheon, 1985);
Arthur Holly Compton, Atomic Quest: A Personal Narrative (New York: Oxford University Press, 1956);
Joseph J. Corn, The Winged Gospel: America's Romance with Aviation, 1900-1950 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983);
Hamilton Cravens, The Truimph of Evolution: American Scientists and the Heredity-Environment Controversy, 1900-1941 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978);
Carl N. Degler, In Search of Human Nature: the Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991);
Laura Fermi, illustrious Immigrants: The Intellectual Migration from Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968);
Donald Fleming and Bernard Bailyn, eds., The Intellectual Migration (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969);
Charles Coulston Gillespie, ed., Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 18 volumes (New York: Scribners, 1970-1990);
Herman H. Goldstein, The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972);
Leslie R. Groves, Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project (New York: Harper, 1962);
J. Haugelan, Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985);
G. Kass-Simon and Patricia Fames, eds., Women of Science (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1990);
Leslie Katz, ed., Fairy Tales for Computers (Boston: Nonpareil Books, 1969);
Evelyn Fox Keller, A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock (New York: Freeman, 1983);
Daniel J. Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (New York: Knopf, 1985);
Kevles, The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America (New York: Knopf, 1978);
Anthony O. Lewis, ed., Of Men and Machines (London: Dutton, 1963);
Ernst Mayr and William B. Provine, The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980);
Frank McGill, Great Events From History II, Science and Technology Series; Volume 3, 1931-1952 (Pasadena, Cal.: Salem Press, 1991);
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, fourth edition, 14 volumes (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977);
Sam Mescowitz, ed., The Coming of Robots (New York: Collier, 1963);
N. Metropolis, ed., A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century (New York: Academic Press, 1980);
Lewis Mumford, The Myth of the Machine: The Pentagon of Power (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1964);
Science & Technology Desk Reference, edited by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Science and Technology Department (Detroit: Gale Research, 1993);
Martin J. Sherwin, A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance (New York: Knopf, 1975);
Robert Silverberg, ed., Men and Machines (New York: Meredith Press, 1968);
Herbert Alexander Simon, Sciences of the Artificial (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1969);
C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1961);
Arnold Thrachray, Jeffrey Sturchio, P. Thomas Carroll, and Robert Bush, Chemistry in America, 1876-1976 (Dordrecht, Holland: Reidel, 1985).
SPORTS
Charles C. Alexander, Our Game: An American Baseball History (New York: Holt, 1991);
Arthur R. Ashe, Jr., A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete Since 1946 (New York: Warner, 1988);
William J. Baker and John M. Carrol, eds., Sports in Modern America (Saint Louis: River City, 1981);
Jim Benagh, Incredible Olympic Feats (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976);
Edwin H. Cady, The Big Game: College Sports and American Life (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1978);
Roger Caillois, Man, Play, and Games (London: Thames & Hudson, 1962);
Erich Camper, Encyclopedia of the Olympic Games (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972);
John Durant, Highlights of the Olympics (New York: Hastings House, 1965);
Ellen W. Gerber, Jan Feshlin, Pearl Berlin, and Waneen Wyrick, The American Woman in Sport (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1974);
Elliott J. Gorn, The Manly Art (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1986);
Peter J. Graham and Horst Ueberhorst, eds., The Modern Olympic Games (Cornwall, N.Y.: Leisure Press, 1976);
Will Grimsley, Golf: Its History, People and Events (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1966);
Grimsley, Tennis: Its History, People and Events (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971);
Allen Guttman, A Whole New Ball Game: An Interpretation of American Sports (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988);
Dorothy V. Harris, ed., Women and Sports (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1972);
Robert J. Higgs, Sports: A Reference Guide (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982);
Neil D. Isaacs, All the Moves: A History of College Basketball (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975);
Bill James, The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (New York: Villard, 1986);
William O. Johnson, All That Glitters Is Not Gold (New York: Putnam, 1972);
Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer (New York: Harper & Row, 1972);
Kahn, The Era: 1947-1956, When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1993);
Ivan N. Kaye, Good Clean Violence: A History of College Football (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1973);
Richard D. Mandel, Sport: A Cultural History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984);
Robert Mechicoff and Steven Estes, A History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education (Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown, 1993);
James A. Michener, Sports in America (New York: Random House, 1976);
Jack Olsen, The Black Athlete: A Shameful Story (New York: Time-Life Books, 1968);
Robert W. Peterson, Only the Ball Was White (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970);
Benjamin G. Rader, American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Spectators (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1983);
Martin Ralbovsky, Destiny's Darlings (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1974);
Steven A. Riess, ed., The American Sporting Experience (West Point, N.Y.: Leisure Press, 1984);
William F. Russell, Go Up for Glory (New York: Coward-McCann, 1966);
Leverett T. Smith, Jr., The American Dream and the National Game (Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1975);
Betty Spears and Richard A. Swanson, History of Sport and Physical Education, third edition (Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown, 1983);
Jules Tygel, Baseball's Great Experiment (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983);
David Q. Voigt, America Through Baseball (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1976);
Herbert Warren Wind, The Gilded Age of Sport (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961);
Wind, The Realm of Sport (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966);
Earle F. Zeigler, ed., A History of Physical Education and Sport in the United States and Canada (Champaign, 111.: Stipes, 1975).