Further Reading
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)
Fugitive Slavery Law & Marronage
The Geography of Resistance: Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad by Cheryl Janifer LaRoche (University of Illinois Press, 2014)
The Jerry Rescue: The Fugitive Slave Law, Northern Rights, and the American Sectional Crisis by Angela F. Murphy (Oxford University Press, 2014)
Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons by Sylviane A. Diouf (NYU Press, 2014)
Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank (Ballantine Books, 2006)
The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery by Don E. Fehrenbacher (Oxford University Press, 2002)
The Slave Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850-1860 by Stanley W. Campbell (University of North Carolina Press, 1970)
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)
Eugenics
Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing by Kevin Davies (Pegasus Books, 2020)
The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race Sex and Science in the Nineteenth Century by Kyla Schuller (Duke University Press, 2017)
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Q. Whitman (Princeton University Press, 2017)
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era by Thomas C. Leonard (Princeton University Press, 2016)
The Women of Reform: Kansas Eugenics by Anna Derrell (master’s thesis, University of Missouri-Kansas, 2014)
War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race by Edwin Black (Dialog Press, 2012)
Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the Unites States by Mark A. Largent (Rutgers University Press, 2011)
Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom by Wendy Kline (University of California Press, 2005)
Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America by Alexandra Minna Stern (University of California Press, 2005)
Society Must be Defended by Michel Foucault (Picador, 2003)
The Invisible Empire in the West: Toward a New Historical Appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s edited by Shawn Lay (University of Illinois Press, 2003)
American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism by Nancy Ordover (University of Minnesota Press, 2003)
The Nazi Connection: Genetics, American Racism, and German National Socialism by Stefan Kuhl (Oxford University Press, 2002)
Better Baby Contests: The Scientific Quest for Perfect Childhood Health in the Early Twentieth Century by Annette Vance Dorey (McFarland Press, 1999)
The Politics of Heredity: Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine, and the Nature-Nurture Debate by Diane B. Paul (State University of New York Press, 1998)
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity by Daniel Kevles (Harvard University Press, 1985)
Human Sterilization: It’s Social and Legislative Aspects by Bethenia Owens-Adair (Metropolitan Printing Co., 1922)
Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe (MacMillan Company, 1918)
The Passing of the Great Race, Or the Racial Basis of European History by Madison Grant (Scribner, 1916)
The Problem of Race Regeneration by Havelock Ellis (Cassell and Co., 1911)
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)
General Theory & History of the Left
Feminist International: How to Change Everything by Veronica Gago (Verso, 2021)
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State by Samuel Stein (Verso, 2019)
You, Me, and the Violence by Catherine Taylor (Ohio State University Press, 2017)
Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital by Jason Moore (Verso, 2015)
Haunted by Hitler: Liberals, the Left, and the Fight Against Fascism in the United States by Christopher Vials (University of Massachusetts Press, 2014)
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney (Minor Compositions, 2013)
The Making of the Indebted Man: An Essay on the Neoliberal Condtion by Maurizio Lazzarato (Semiotext(e), 2012)
American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation by Michael Kazin (Vintage, 2011)
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon (Grove Press, 2008)
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence by Judith Butler (Verso, 2006)
Selected Writings Vol. 4: 1938-1940 by Walter Benjamin (The Belknap Press, 2003)
Woman, Race, and Class by Angela Davis (Knopf, 1983)
Where do we Go from Here? Chaos or Community by Martin Luther King, Jr. (Beacon Press, 1968)
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (Michael Joseph, 1963)
Living My Life by Emma Goldman (Knopf, 1931)
Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman (Mother Earth, 1910)