Further Reading

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General U.S. History

• Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W. E. B. Du Bois (Free Press, 1999)

• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer (Riverhead Books, 2019)

• The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books, 2019)

• These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore (W. W. Norton & Co., 2018)

• Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion by Paul Frymer (Princeton University Press, 2017)

• The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 by Richard White (Oxford University Press, 2017)

• An Indigenous People's History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Beacon Press, 2015)

• Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber (Melville House, 2012)

• How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier by Stuart Banner (Harvard University Press, 2007)

• The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class by David Roediger (Verso, 2007)

• The Colonization Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America by David Kazanjian (University of Minnesota Press, 2003)

• Race: The History of an Idea in America by Thomas F. Gossett (Oxford University Press, 1997)

• America in the Gilded Age: From the Death of Lincoln to the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Sean Dennis Cashman (NYU Press, 1993)

• It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A New History of the American West by Richard White (University of Oklahoma Press, 1991)

• The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-Century America by Alexander Saxton (Verso, 1990)

• The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West by Patricia Nelson Limerick (W. W. Norton & Co., 1987)

• The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter (Vintage, 1955)

Swamps & the Swamp Land Act

• A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp by Daniel O. Sayers (University Press of Florida, 2014)

• Wetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes by Hugh Prince (University of Chicago Press, 1997)

• Draining for Profit, Draining for Health by George E. Warring (Orange Judd, 1967)

Native Dispossession & Genocide in the West

• Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad by Manu Karuka (University of California Press, 2019)

• Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes (Verso, 2019)

• The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens (Vintage, 2017)

• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (Doubleday, 2017)

• Great Plains Indians by David J. Wishart (Bison Books, 2016)

• The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America by Sarah Deer (University of Minnesota Press, 2015)

• Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 by Brenda J. Child (University of Nebraska Press, 1998)

• An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians by David J. Wishart (University of Nebraska Press, 1997)

• The Otoes and Missourias: A Study of Indian Removal and the Legal Aftermath by Berlin Basil Chapman (Times Journal Pub, 1965)

Homesteading & the Great Plains

• Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser (Metropolitan Books, 2017)

• Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History by Richard Edwards, Jacob K. Friefeld, and Rebecca S. Wingo (University of Nebraska Press, 2017)

• History of Nebraska by James C. Olson and Ronald C. Naugle (University of Nebraska Press, 1997)

• The Great Plains by Walter Prescott Webb (University of Nebraska Press, 1931)

Populism

• Arkansas's Gilded Age: The Rise, Decline, and Legacy of Populism and Working-Class Protest by Matthew Hild (University of Missouri Press, 2018)

• For a Left Populism by Chantal Mouffe (Verso, 2018)

• The Tolerant Populists: Kansas Populism and Nativism by Walter Nugent (University of Chicago Press, 2013)

• In the Lion's Mouth: Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900 by Omar H. Ali (University Press of Mississippi, 2010)

• The Populist Vision by Charles Postel (Oxford University Press, 2007)

• Class and the Color Line: International Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement by Joseph Gerteis (Duke University Press, 2007)

• The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon by Robert D. Johnston (Princeton University Press, 2006)

• Populism by Margaret Canovan (Harcourt, 1981)

• The Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860-1897 by Fred A. Shannon (Routledge, 1977)

• When Farmers Voted Red: The Gospel of Socialism in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1910-1924 by Garin Burbank (Greenwood Press, 1976)

• A Populist Reader: Selection from the Works of American Populist Leaders edited by George B. Tindall (Harper Torch, 1966)

• Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel by C. Vann Woodward (Rinehart & Company, 1938)

• Populist Revolt: A History of the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party by John Hicks (University of Minnesota Press, 1931)

Standing Bear & Allotment

• ‘I am a Man’: Chief Standing Bear’s Journey for Justice by Joe Starita (St. Martin’s 2008)

• Crooked Paths to Allotment: The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War by C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa (University of North Carolina Press, 2012)

• The Standing Bear Controversy: Prelude to Indian Reform by Valerie Sherer Mathes and Richard Lowitt (University of Illinois Press, 2003)

• Standing Bear and the Ponca Chiefs by Thomas Henry Tibbles (Bison Books, 1972)

Anti-Black Violence & Resistance

• The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas by Monica Muñoz Martinez (Harvard University Press, 2018)

• The Law is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons by Colin Dayan (Princeton University Press, 2011)

• Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (W. W. Norton & Co., 2009)

• The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction by LeeAnna Keith (Oxford University Press, 2008)

• Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America by Cynthia Carr (Broadway Books, 2007)

• When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Paula J. Giddings (William Morrow Paperbacks, 2007)

• A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature by Jacqueline Goldsby (University of Chicago Press, 2006)

• At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America by Phillip Dray (Modern Library, 2003)

• Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya Hartman (Oxford University Press, 1997)

• The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1895)

• Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1892)

Spiritualism & Ghosts

• The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna by Mira Ptacin (Liveright, 2019)

• The Specter of the Indian: Race, Gender, and Ghosts in American Seances, 1848-1890 by Kathryn Troy (State University of New York Press, 2017)

• Free Spirits: Spiritualism, Republicanism, and Radicalism in the Civil War Era by Mark A. Lause (University of Illinois Press, 2016)

• Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America by Molly McGarry (University of California Press, 2012)

• Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination by Avery F. Gordon (University of Minnesota Press, 2008)

• Selling the Indian: Commercializing and Appropriating American Indian Cultures edited by Carter Jones Meyer and Diana Royer (University of Arizona Press, 2001)

• Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America by Ann Braude (Indiana University Press, 2001)

• Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination by Shari M. Huhndorf (Cornell University Press, 2001)

• The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects by Renée L. Bergland (University Press of New England, 2000)

• Playing Indian by Philip J. Deloria (Yale University Press, 1999)

• Bright Eyes: The Story of Susette La Flesche, an Omaha Indian by Dorothy Clarke Wilson (McGraw Hill, 1974)

• Mary S. Vanderbilt: A Twentieth Century Seer by Mary Caldwallader (The Progressive Thinker Publishing House, 1921)

• Spiritualism Among the Savage and Civilized Races: A Study in Anthropology by Edward Lawrence (A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1921)

• The Proofs of the Truths of Spiritualism by George Henslow (Dodd, Mead and Co., 1919)

• Spiritism in its Most Simple Expression: Summary of the Spirits' Teachings and their Manifestations by Allan Kardec (Franz Wagner, 1865)

Ute Removal in Colorado

• Being and Becoming Ute: The Story of an American Indian People by Sondra G. Jones (University of Utah Press, 2019)

• Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009 by Brandi Denison (University of Nebraska Press, 2017)

• Troubled Trails: The Meeker Affair and the Expulsion of Utes from Colorado by Robert Silbernagel (University of Utah Press, 2011)

• Flood Song by Sherwin Bitsui (Copper Canyon Press, 2009)

• Dammed Indians Revisited: The Continuing History of the Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux by Michael L. Lawson (South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2009)

• The Utes Must Go!: American Expansion and the Removal of a People by Peter R. Decker (Fulcrum Press, 2004)

• The Last War Trail: The Utes and the Settlement of Colorado by Robert Emmitt (University Press of Colorado, 2000)

• Massacre: The Tragedy at White River by Marshall Sprague (University of Nebraska Press, 1957)

• A History: Greeley and the Union Colony of Colorado by David Boyd (The Greeley Tribune Press, 1890)

• The Ute Massacre: Brave Miss Meeker's Captivity, Her Own Account of It by Josephine Meeker (Old Franklin Publishing House, 1879)

Water in the West

• Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire (Princeton University Press, 2022)

• River of Promise, River of Peril: The Politics of Managing the Missouri River by John E. Thorson (University Press of Kansas, 1994)

• Command of the Waters: Iron Triangles, Federal Water Development, and Indian Water by Daniel McCool (University of Arizona Press, 1994)

• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner (Penguin, 1993)

• To Reclaim a Divided West: Water, Law, and Public Policy, 1848-1902 by Donald J. Pisani (University of New Mexico Press, 1992)

• Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and The Growth of the American West by Donald Worster (Pantheon Books, 1985)

History of Birth Control

• Pregnancy and Power: A History of Reproductive Politics in America by Rickie Solinger (New York University Press, 2019)

• Making Kin Not Population edited by Adele Clarke and Donna Harway (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2018)

• More than Medicine: A History of the Women’s Health Movement by Jennifer Nelson (New York University Press, 2015)

• A History of the Birth Control Movement in America by Peter C. Engelman (Praeger, 2011)

• Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890-1938 by Laura L. Lovett (University of North Carolina Press, 2007)

• The Selected Papers Vols. I and II by Margaret Sanger (University of Illinois Press, 2007)

• Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare by Joanna Schoen (University of North Carolina Press, 2005)

• Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice edited by Loretta Ross et. al (South End, 2004)

• Society Must be Defended by Michel Foucault (Picador, 2003)

• Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945 by Carole McCann (Cornell University Press, 1999)

• Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts (Vintage, 1997)

• Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right by Linda Gordon (Viking, 1976)

• The Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger (Brentano’s, 1922)

Immigration

• The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America by Daniel Okrent (Scribner, 2019)

• Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America by Kenyon Zimmer (University of Illinois Press, 2015)

• Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae Ngai (Princeton University Press, 2004)

• Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act by Andrew Gyory (University of North Carolina Press, 2000)

IWW & Labor History

• Beyond the Rebel Girl: Women and the Industrial Workers of the World in the Pacific Northwest 1905-1924 by Heather Mayer (Oregon State University Press, 2018)

• Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly by Peter Cole (AK Press, 2006)

• We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World by Melvin Dubofsky (University of Chicago Press, 2000)

• History of the Labor Movement in the United States Vol. 4: The Industrial Workers of the World 1905-1917 by Philip S. Foner (International Publishers, 1965)

• The Seattle General Strike by Robert L. Friedheim (University of Washington Press, 1964)

World War I & the Peace Movement

• The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind by Judith Butler (Verso, 2020)

• War Against War: The American Fight for Peace 1914-1918 by Michael Kazin (Simon & Schuster, 2017)

• Woodrow Wilson and American Internationalism by Lloyd E. Ambrosius (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

• The Great War and American Foreign Policy, 1914-1924 by Robert Hannigan (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)

• The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America by Michael S. Neiberg (Oxford University Press, 2016)

• Deluge: The Great War, America, and the Remaking of the Global Order 1916-1931 by Adam Tooze (Penguin, 2015)

• Abandoning American Neutrality: Woodrow Wilson and the Beginning of the Great War, August 1914-December 1915 by Ryan M. Floyd (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013)

• Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America by Cameron McWhirter (Henry Holt, 2011)

• The Will to Believe: Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America's Strategy for Peace and Security by Ross A. Kennedy (Kent State University Press, 2009)

• The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism by Erez Manela (Oxford University Press, 2009)

• Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I by Adriane Lentz-Smith (Harvard University Press, 2009)

• Desertion and the American Soldier: 1779-2006 by Robert Fantina (Algora Publishing, 2006)

• A World Without War: How U.S. Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I by Frances H. Early (Syracuse University Press, 1997)

• Over Here: The First World War and American Society by David M. Kennedy (Oxford University Press, 1980)

• Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals 1903-1933 by William Preston Jr. (Harvard University Press, 1963)

• “The African Roots of War” by W. E. B. Du Bois (The Atlantic, May 1915)