Incoming Resources
- The myth of America's decline, politics, economics, and a half century of false prophecies, Josef Joffe
- The baby boom years, 1949, the definitive collection of 1940s American music, news, fashion, fads and kitsch that continues to influence the world
- Who stole the American dream? Can we get it back?, by Hedrick Smith
- Fad mania!, a history of American crazes, Cynthia Overbeck Bix
- Dupes, how America's adversaries have manipulated progressives for a century, Paul Kengor
- The fan who knew too much, Aretha Franklin, the rise of the soap opera, children of the gospel church, and other meditations, Anthony Heilbut
- A patriot's history of the modern world, vol. II, from the Cold War to the age of entitlement, 1945-2012, Larry Schweikart and Dave Dougherty
- The Marshall Plan, dawn of the Cold War, Benn Steil
- A great idea at the time, the rise, fall, and curious afterlife of the Great Books, Alex Beam
- The writer's guide to everyday life from prohibition through World War II, Marc McCutcheon
- The short American century, a postmortem, edited by Andrew J. Bacevich
- One summer, [America, 1927], Bill Bryson
- The fan who knew too much, Aretha Franklin, the rise of the soap opera, children of the gospel church and other meditations, Anthony Heilbut
- World War II on the home front, an interactive history adventure, by Martin Gitlin ; consultant, Timothy Solie
- A torch kept lit, great lives of the twentieth century, William F. Buckley, Jr. ; edited by James Rosen
- Flapper, a madcap story of sex, style, celebrity, and the women who made America modern, Joshua Zeitz
- Daily life in the United States, 1920-1940, how Americans lived through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression, David E. Kyvig
- The Noir Forties, the American People from Victory to Cold War
- The untold history of the United States, young readers edition, volume 1, 1898-1945, written by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick ; adapted by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- Dancing in the dark, a cultural history of the Great Depression, Morris Dickstein
- Hard times, an oral history of the great depression, Studs Terkel. --
- The age of acquiescence, the life and death of American resistance to organized wealth and power, Steve Fraser
- The untold history of the United States, Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick
- Freedom from fear, the American people in depression and war, 1929-1945, David M. Kennedy
- After America, life after the American century, Paul Starobin
- Outgrowing democracy, a history of the United States in the twentieth century, by John Lukacs. --
- The irony of American history, Reinhold Niebuhr ; with a new introduction by Andrew J. Bacevich
- On Dupont Circle, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the progressives who shaped our world, James Srodes
- Anything goes, a biography of the roaring twenties, Lucy Moore
- Is the American century over?, Joseph S. Nye Jr