HISTORIA DE ESTADOS UNIDOS

Dr. Rodrigo Chacón

Relaciones Internacionales, ITAM
otoño 2022

Horario de atención de alumnos:

rodrigo.chacon@itam.mx (bajo cita)

I. Descripción del curso

El curso provee una introducción a la historia de Estados Unidos desde la era colonial a
los comienzos del siglo XXI. Si bien se trata de dar una visión global de las principales
condiciones socioeconómicas, eventos y corrientes de pensamiento que definen al país,
buscaremos ahondar en momentos específicos dependiendo de los intereses de la clase.

II. Objetivos

El primer objetivo será comprender qué es Estados Unidos como el país más poderoso
del mundo y como la primera democracia constitucional de la era moderna. Por un lado,
EEUU es un país que ha sido pionero en numerosos campos, entre ellos, la expansión del
sufragio, la innovación tecnológica e industrial, el liberalismo social (bajo el New Deal) y
la creación de un orden global basado en instituciones multilaterales. Por otro lado,
EEUU es un experimento guiado por una mezcla de ideales, sueños, mitos y leyendas que
ocultan una larga historia de exclusión, dominación y violencia que también definen al
país.

El segundo objetivo será, entonces, contrastar la visión ‘excepcionalista’ de EEUU con

la historiografía más reciente en la cual ‘America’ es un imperio más, con la gloria y
devastación que ello implica.

Al final del curso los alumnos podrán identificar los eventos que definieron el desarrollo
de EEUU y las diferentes eras de su historia. Podrán también comprender las fuerzas
que dominan al país, incluyendo instituciones como la presidencia y la Suprema Corte,
los congresos locales, los movimientos sociales y las grandes corporaciones. Finalmente,

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podrán interpretar los procesos históricos (expansionismo, polarización, formación de
órdenes políticos, entre otros) a la luz de conceptos clave que definiremos a lo largo del
semestre.

III. Evaluación

Examen parcial y final

Habrá dos exámenes (parcial y final) en los que se evaluarán los conocimientos adquiridos a lo
largo del curso. Esto incluye, sobre todo, las lecturas y libros asignados, así como los temas
presentados en clase. Para ambos exámenes distribuiré una guía de estudio con las preguntas que
pueden esperar.

Lectura de un libro entero: presentación y ensayo

Deberán leer un libro entero sobre historia de EEUU (ver la lista al final del temario), además de
las lecturas asignadas cada semana en canvas.

Harán una presentación de no más de 15 minutos sobre el libro que leyeron. Las fechas se
asignarán en clase.

Escribirán un ensayo de entre 1500 y 1700 palabras sobre el libro, respondiendo a una pregunta
asignada previamente. El ensayo se entregará el último día de clases.

Foro de discusión

Cada semana, los estudiantes contribuirán con un comentario de entre 250 y 300 palabras en la
sección “Foros de discusión” en Canvas. Los comentarios deberán (A) responder a la pregunta
asignada para la semana en cuestión (mandaré la pregunta por Canvas) y (B) hacer una pregunta
sobre la lectura para discutir en clase.

Cuando no haya una pregunta asignada, deberán: (A) Seleccionar una cita del texto marcado
con asterisco (una oración o dos que consideren importante); (B) Hacer un comentario
sobre dicha cita (¿por qué les pareció importante?); (C) Agregar una pregunta para
discutir en clase (una pregunta sobre el texto o los textos que leyeron).

Deben guardar sus comentarios en un documento de word que podrán entregar al final del
semestre cuando se hará el cálculo de su calificación.

Calificación del foro de discusión

Los comentarios deben agregarse al blog antes de cada domingo a las 12 pm (media noche). Se
calificarán de la siguiente manera:

 comentario bien redactado (sin errores de ortografía), que responda a la pregunta asignada y
plantee una pregunta pertinente sobre el texto que leyeron = 10 (Por cada falta de ortografía bajará
la calificación un punto.)
 comentario que no cumpla con el número de palabras indicado (250-300) o no plantee una
pregunta pertinente = 5
 comentario entregado tarde (a partir de las 12:01 am) =7

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 comentario entregado más de 24 horas tarde = 0

Asistencia y puntualidad

Su desempeño en el curso dependerá en gran medida de su asistencia: “Eighty percent of success

is showing up” (Woody Allen). Aún más importante será hacer todas las lecturas; aprovechen la
libertad de este momento único en sus vidas para leer todo lo que puedan.

Nota importante: se espera que atiendan puntualmente a clase; quien llegue más de diez minutos tarde
no obtendrá calificación de asistencia por ese día.

Foros de discusión: 10%

Asistencia y participación: 15%
Presentación sobre el libro que leyeron: 10%
Examen parcial: 20% (Semana 8)
Ensayo sobre el libro que escogieron (1500-1700 palabras): 20% (último día de clases)
Examen final: 25%

Aparatos electrónicos

Quien usa una computadora, iphone o cualquier otra pantalla en clase distrae a sus compañeros. Por
esa (y otras razones que podríamos discutir en persona) no se permitirá su uso en clase.

Entregas retrasadas

Solo se permitirán con una excusa médica. De lo contrario bajará la calificación un punto por día.

Integridad

El plagio es una ofensa grave al autor plagiado, a la universidad, y a la persona que lo comete,
pues deja que otros piensen por él o ella. Será sancionado conforme al reglamento estudiantil.

Plagiar
1. tr. Copiar en lo sustancial obras ajenas, dándolas como propias.
Real Academia Española http://dle.rae.es/?id=TIZy4Xb

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Semana 1 | Orígenes (ca. 1607-1763)

* John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630) [10pp]. Pregunta para blog: ¿Quién fue Nehemías
y qué fue lo más importante que hizo históricamente? ¿Quién es el Nehemías americano?
* ----, “Little Speech on Liberty” (1639) [2pp.] Pregunta para blog: ¿Qué es la libertad según Winthrop?
* The Mayflower Compact (1620) [1p]
Lectura recomendada (no obligatoria): Eric Foner, Give me Liberty!, 52-80: “Beginnings of English
America, 1607-1660” [28 pp.]

Semana 2 | Revolución y Constitución (1763-1789)

* Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 67-101 [34pp.]

* Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress, 1765 [1p.]
Lectura recomendada (no obligatoria): Eric Foner, Give me Liberty!, 177-209: “The American Revolution:
1763-1783” [32 pp.]

Semana 3 | Cont.

* The Declaration of Independence (1776) [4pp]

* Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Declaration of Independence, 1776 [3pp.], “Notes on the State of
Virginia” ([1st ed. 1871] pub. 1785), Queries 14 y 18 [14pp.]
* Carta de Abigail Adams a John Adams, 31 marzo 1776
Lectura recomendada (no obligatoria): Eric Foner, Give me Liberty!, 244-275: “Founding a Nation, 1783-
1789” [31 pp.]

Semana 4 | El Imperio de la Libertad (1785-1850)

*George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796

*James Monroe, Message to Congress, 1823 [5pp].
*Andrew Jackson, Message to Congress: On Indian Removal, 1830 [2pp]
*John L. O’Sullivan on Manifest Destiny, 1839 [2pp]
*James K. Polk, Special Message to Congress on Mexican Relations, 1846 [3pp]
*Henry Clay, Letter to the National Intelligencer, “War with Mexico,” 1844 [1p]
*John C. Calhoun, Conquest of Mexico, 1848 [6pp]
Lectura recomendada (no obligatoria): Foner, Give me Liberty!, 352-383: “Democracy in America, 1815-
1840” [31pp]

Semana 5 | ‘Crisis seccional’ y Guerra Civil (1850-1865)

*Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) [4pp]

*Abraham Lincoln, “A House Divided” (1858) [7pp], First Inaugural Address (1861) [3pp], Gettysburg
Address (1863) [1p], Second Inaugural Address (1865) [1p], The Emancipation Proclamation [1p]
*South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession, 1860 [3pp]
Lectura recomendada (no obligatoria): Foner, Give me Liberty!, 460-499: “A House Divided, 1840-1861”
[39 pp.]

Semana 6 | Auge Industrial y Consecuencias (1865-1900)

*John Marshall Harlan, Dissenting Opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 [2pp]

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*Andrew Carnegie, “Wealth,” 1889 [2pp]
*William Graham Sumner, “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other,” 1883 [5pp]
Lectura recomendada (no obligatoria): Foner, Give me Liberty!, 632-672: “America’s Gilded Age” [40 pp.]

Semana 7 | Reforma y Progresismo (1900-1920)

*Theodore Roosevelt, “The Streneous Life,” 1899 [11pp.]

*Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom,” 1913 [2pp.]
Lectura recomendada (no obligatoria): Foner, Give me Liberty!, 724-762: “The Progressive Era, 1900-
1916” [38 pp.]

Semana 8 | Roaring Twenties, Depresión y New Deal (1920-1940) [EXAMEN PARCIAL]

*Herbert Hoover, “Rugged Individualism” (1928) [10pp.]

*Franklin D. Roosevelt, Commonwealth Club Speech, 1932 [8pp], First Inaugural Address, 1933 [2pp]
Lectura recomendada (no obligatoria): Foner, Give me Liberty!, 849-854: “From Business Culture to Great
Depression: 1920-1932” [6pp.], 860-898: “The New Deal, 1932-1940” [38pp.]

Semana 9 | Segunda Guerra Mundial (1941-45)

* FDR, Four Freedoms, 1941 [5pp]

* Luce, The American century, 1941 [13 pp.]
Lectura recomendada (no obligatoria): Foner, Give me Liberty!, 904-944 [40 pp]

Semana 10 | Comienzos de la Guerra Fría y la ‘sociedad afluente’ de los años 50 (1945-60)

* Truman, Two Ways of Life o Truman Doctrine (1947) [4pp.]

*Kate Doyle and Peter Kornbluh, CIA Assassinations Guatemala
Lectura recomendada (no obligatoria): Foner, Give me Liberty, 990-1011 [21pp.]

Semana 11 | Los años sesenta y los movimientos de derechos civiles (ca. 1960-1968)

*Martin Luther King, Jr., “The Power of Nonviolence,” 1957 [3pp], “I Have a Dream,” 1963 [youtube],
Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963) [6pp], “Beyond Vietnam: A time to break silence” (1967) (14 pp)
*Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet,”1964 [12pp]
*Betty Friedan, from “The Feminine Mystique” [4pp]
Lectura recomendada (no obligatoria): Foner, Give me Liberty!, 1036-1076: “The Sixties” [40pp]

Semana 12 | El movimiento conservador y la nueva izquierda (ca. 1960-1988)

*Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), The Port Huron Statement (1962) [12pp.]
* Irving Kristol, “Capitalism, socialism, and nihilism” (1972) [14pp.]
* Milton Friedman, Free to Choose (1980), 9-37 [28pp.]
 Recomendada: Milton and Rose Friedman “Free to Choose”

Semana 13 | El shock de lo global: la crisis de los años 70 y el auge del neoliberalismo

Foner, Give Me Liberty!, 1082-1107 [25pp.]

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‘Semana 14 | La revolución de Reagan (1980-1988)

* Charles Peters, A Neoliberal’s Manifesto (1983), [10pp.]

* Ronald Reagan, Speech on Central America [youtube]
Foner, Give Me Liberty!, 1107-1118 [11pp.]

Semana 15 | El fin de la guerra fría y el neoliberalismo social de Clinton (1989-2000)

* Bill Clinton, Remarks on siging NAFTA [youtube. 5 mins]

Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty!, 1124-1164 [40pp.]

Semana 16 | 9/11: La guerra contra el ‘terror’ y el ‘momento unipolar’ (2001-2008)

* GW Bush, Speech to Congress, 2001 [youtube. 35 mins]

Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty!, 1170-1200 [30pp.]

‘Semana 17 | 2008 – 2016: De la Gran Recesión al Ascenso de Trump [ENTREGA DE ENSAYO]

Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty!, 1200-1209

Recomendada: Barack Obama, “Nobel Prize Lecture” [37 mins]
Recomendada: Donald Trump, “Inaugural Speech” [1.07 mins]

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 SELECCIÓN DE LIBROS PARA SUS ENSAYOS

Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity.
Nueva York: Vintage, 1999 (226 pp., completo, excepto el epílogo)

Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography (cualquier edición impresa; que no sea pdf o kindle, etc.)

John J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. Nueva York: Vintage,
2000 (248 pp., completo)

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (cualquier edición impresa y completa; que no sea pdf
kindle, etc. abreviada) (mandaré las selecciones con suficiente anticipación)
Vol. 1:
Introducción
Parte 1: capítulos 3-5
Parte 2: capítulos 1-2; 4-9
Vol. 2:
Prefacio
Parte 1: caps. 1-3; 5
Parte II, caps. 1-9; 13; 17; 20
Parte III, caps. 1; 8-12; 19; 21
Parte IV, caps. 6-8

Abraham Lincoln, textos selectos en Andrew Delbanco (comp.), The Portable Abraham
Lincoln (Penguin, cualquier edición impresa) pp 17-26; 41-82; 87-109; 130-172;
181-192; 223-357

Eric Foner, The Story of American Freedom (Norton), 1998

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (cualquier edición impresa; que no sea pdf o kindle, etc.)

Malcolm X, Autobiography (cualquier edición impresa). todo excepto los capítulos 3, 4, 6, 7, 12, 16 y

el epílogo

Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (cualquier edición impresa). deben leer todo, excepto los
capítulos 5, 6, 9-11, 13 y el epílogo

Daniel T. Rodgers, Age of Fracture. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2011 (336pp; leer 1-220)

Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the
Free Market Era (Oxford, 2022)

Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind
of America, 2019 (Metropolitan Books, 2020)

Greg Grandin, Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of
the New Imperialism. New York: Metropolitan Books : Holt Paperback, 2010.

Walter McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World
Since 1776. Boston: Mariner Books, 1998.

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 BIBLIOGRAFIA ADICIONAL (Y OTRAS FUENTES)

WWW

https://ehistory.org/
Invasion of America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJxrTzfG2bo
https://www.slavevoyages.org/
https://democraticknowledge.fas.harvard.edu/
https://declaration.fas.harvard.edu/files/declaration/files/fresh_takes.pdf

LIBROS

Visiones generales
Brinkley, Alan.The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People. 9th ed.,
McGraw-Hill, 2018.
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Beacon Press,
2015.
Foner, Eric. The Story of American Freedom, Norton, 1998.
Grant, S.-M., A Concise History of the United States of America. New York: Cambridge
University Press,
2013. 
Kloppenberg, James, and Richard Wightman Fox. A Companion to American Thought. Wiley-
Blackwell,
1998.
Kramnick, Isaac and Theodore J. Lowi, eds., American Political Thought: A Norton Anthology,
2nd ed.
(W.W. Norton, 2018).
Lepore, Jill. These Truths: A History of the United States. Norton, 2018
Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer. The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History. Oxford University
Press,
2019.
Shi, David E. America: A Narrative History. Eleventh ed. Norton, 2019.

Política exterior
Anderson, Perry. American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers. Verso, 2015.
Bacevich, Andrew. Ideas and American Foreign Policy. A Reader. Kettering: Oxford University
Press,
2018.
Bacevich, Andrew J. America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History. New York,
N.Y.:
Random House, 2017.
———. Twilight of the American Century, 2018.
———. Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War. New York: Metropolitan Books,
2011.
Cohen, Warren I. The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations. Vol. 4.
The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge
University
Costigliola, Frank, and Michael J Hogan. Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations,
third ed.
Cambridge, 2016.

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Drolet, Jean-Francois, and James Dunkerley. American Foreign Policy: Studies in Intellectual
History.
Oxford University Press, 2017
Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National
Security Policy
during the Cold War. Revised, Expanded ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Halper, Stefan, and Jonathan Clarke. America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global
Order.
Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Kagan, Robert. Dangerous Nation: America’s Foreign Policy from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn
of the Twentieth
Century. Reprint edition. New York, NY: Vintage, 2007.
Karp, Matthew. This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign
Policy, Harvard,
2018
Kramer, Paul A. “Power and Connection: Imperial Histories of the United States in the World.”
The
American Historical Review 116, no. 5 (December 1, 2011): 1348–91.
McDougall, Walter. Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World
Since 1776.
Boston: Mariner Books, 1998.
Preston, Andrew. Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy.
New York,
N.Y.: Anchor, 2012.
Weeks, William Earl, Walter LaFeber, Akira Iriye, and Warren I Cohen. The New
Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations. The Globalizing of America, 1913-
1945. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Religión
Noll, Mark A. Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the 1980s, Oxford,
1990. 
---. The Civil War As a Theological Crisis, 2015.

Migración
Minian, Ana R. Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration. Harvard, 2019
Zolberg, Aristide R. A Nation by Design. Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of
America. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2008.

Economía
Greenspan, Alan, and Adrian Wooldridge. Capitalism in America: A History. London: Penguin,
2019.
Philippon, Thomas. The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets. Harvard,
2019.

Orígenes precoloniales
Armitage, David, and Michael J. Braddick, eds. The British Atlantic World, 1500–1800. New
York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New
England. New York: Hill

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 and Wang, 1983
Elliott, John H. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830. New
Haven, CT:
Yale University Press, 2006.
Games, Alison. The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560-1660.
New York:
Oxford University Press, 2010
Jennings, Francis. The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest.
New edition
edition. Chapel Hill, NC: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press,
2010.
O'Brien, Jean M. Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England.
Minneapolis,
Minn: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010
Rivett, Sarah. Science of the Soul in Colonial New England (2011)
Rodgers, Daniel T. As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon.
Princeton
University Press, 2018.
Smallwood, Stephanie E. Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American
Diaspora.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 2008

Indian American History

Hoxie, Frederick E. The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History (Oxford, 2016)
Richter, Daniel K. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America.
Cambridge, Mass:
Harvard University Press, 2003
Saunt, Claudio. West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776. Norton, 2015

Sociedad Colonial (Siglo XVII)

Braddick, Michael. God’s Fury, England’s Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars. New
York:
Penguin, 2008.
Brown, Kathleen M. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power
in Colonial
Virginia. Williamsburg, VA: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity. New
York: Knopf
Doubleday, 2009.
Miller, Perry. The New England Mind. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1983
Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial
Virginia. New York:
Norton, 1975.
Bercovitch, Sacvan. The Puritan Origins of the American Self. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2011

Revolución y fundación
Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Belknap
Press, 1967.
Breen, Timothy H. The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American
Independence.

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 New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.
----The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press,
2019.
Feldman, Noah. The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President. New York:
Random House,
2017.
Gould, Eliga. Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a
New World
Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Greene, Jack P. The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution. New York: Cambridge
University
Press, 2010.
Hardt, Michael. “Jefferson and Democracy.” American Quarterly 59, no. 1 (2007): 41–78
Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. New York:
Knopf, 1997.
Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. New York,
NY: Oxford
Univ. Press, 2007
----. The Creation of the American Republic: 1776-1787. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina
Press, 2007.
Nelson, Eric. Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding. Harvard, 2017
Rivage, Justin du. Revolution Against Empire: Taxes, Politics, and the Origins of American
Independence. Yale
University Press, 2017
Rodgers, Daniel T. “Republicanism: The Career of a Concept.” Journal of American History 79,
no.
1 (June 1, 1992): 11–38.
Stewart, David O. The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution. New York:
Simon &
Schuster Paperbacks, 2008
Waldstreicher, David. Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification. New York: Hill
and Wang,
2010.
Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.
Young, Alfred F., and Gregory Nobles. Whose American Revolution Was It? Historians Interpret
the
Founding. New York: New York University Press, 2011.

La Nueva Nación
Blackhawk, Ned. Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American
West. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 2008.
Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard
University Press, 2005.
Elkins, Stanley, and Eric McKitrick. The Age of Federalism: [the Early American Republic,
1788-1800].
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Maier, Pauline. Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788. New York: Simon
& Schuster,

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 2010.
Rakove, Jack N. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. New
York: Vintage
Books, 1996.
Wood, Gordon. Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2011.

Siglo XIX: Auge de Democracia y Movimientos de Reforma

DuBois, Ellen. Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement
in America, 1848-
1869. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999
Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the
Civil War. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
Howe, Daniel Walker. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–
1848. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2007.
Larson, John Lauritz. The Market Revolution in America: Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of
the Common
Good. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Levy, Jonathan. Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in
America. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 2012.
Parsons, Lynn Hudson. The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and
the Election of
1828. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Sinha, Manisha. The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition. New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 2016.
Wilentz, Sean. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. New York: Norton, 2005.

Revolución del Algodón y Esclavitud

Baptist, Edward E. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American
Capitalism. New
York: Basic Books, 2014.
Beckert, Sven and Seth Rockman (eds.), Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American
Economic
Development. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018
Beckert, Sven. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Knopf, 2014.
Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America.
Cambridge, Mass:
Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 2003.
Blackburn, Robin. The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492–
1800. London: Verso, 1997.
Brewer, Holly. “Slavery, Sovereignty, and ‘Inheritable Blood’: Reconsidering John Locke and
the
Origins of American Slavery.” The American Historical Review 122, no. 4 (October 1,
2017): 1038–78
Fehrenbacher, Don E. The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government’s
Relations to
Slavery. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002

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Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Vintage Books,
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Johnson, Walter. River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom. Cambridge,
MA:
Belknap Press, 2013
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Patterson, Orlando. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. 2018 [1982].
Rana, Aziz. The Two Faces of American Freedom. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.
Reséndez, Andrés. The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America.
Reprint
edition. Boston New York: Mariner Books, 2017.
Winthrop D., Jordan, Christopher L. Brown, and Peter H. Wood. White Over Black: American
Attitudes
Toward the Negro, 1550-1812. , 2012
Wright, Gavin. “Slavery and Anglo-American Capitalism Revisited,” Tawney Lecture 2019

Destino Manifiesto
DeLay, Brian. War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War. New Haven,
CT: Yale
University Press, 2009.
Foos, Paul. A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair: Soldiers and Social Conflict During the Mexican-
American War.
Chapel Hill, N.C: University of North Carolina, 2002
Gómez, Laura E. Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race. New York:
New York
University Press, 2008.
Greenberg, Amy S. A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico.
New York:
Vintage, 2013.
----. Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.
Press, 2010
Guardino, Peter F. The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War. Harvard, 2017
Horsman, Reginald. Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-
Saxonism. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Merry, Robert W. A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest
of the
American Continent. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009
St. John, Rachel. Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border, 2017.

Sectional Crisis y Guerra Civil

Faust, Drew Gilpin. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. New York:
Knopf, 2008
Johnston, Steven. “Lincoln’s Decisionism and the Politics of Elimination.” Political Theory 45,
no. 4
(August 1, 2017): 524–51.

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McPherson, James. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1988.
Potter, David M. The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861. New York: HarperCollins, 1976.
Woods, Michael E. “What Twenty-First-Century Historians Have Said about the Causes of
Disunion: A Civil War Sesquicentennial Review of the Recent Literature.” Journal of
American History 99, no. 2 (September 1, 2012): 415–39

Reconstrucción y Auge Industrial

Axelrod, Alan. The Gilded Age: 1876-1912, Overture to the American Century, 2017. 
Chandler, Alfred D., Jr. Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard
University Press, 1990.
Edwards, Rebecca. New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865–1905. New York: Oxford
University
Press, 2005.
Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. New York: Harper
Collins, 1988.
Hofstadter, Richard. Social Darwinism in American Thought. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania
Press, 1944
Postel, Charles. The Populist Vision. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Imperialismo
De Grazia, Victoria. Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through Twentieth-Century Europe.
Cambridge,
Mass: Belknap, 2006.
Harris, Susan K. God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898–1902. New York: Oxford
University
Press, 2011.
Hoganson, Kristin L. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the
Spanish-American
and Philippine-American Wars. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.
Hopkins, A. G. American Empire: A Global History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
2018.
Immerwahr, Daniel. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, 2019.
Karp, Matthew. This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign
Policy, Harvard,
2018.
Kramer, Paul A. Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, & the Philippines. 2011
Lafeber, Walter. The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860–1898. Ithaca,
NY:
Cornell University Press, 1963.
Maier, Charles S. Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors. Cambridge:
Harvard
University Press, 2009
Parisot, James. “Introduction: The Intersections of Capitalism and American Empire.”
Journal of Historical Sociology 33, no. 1 (2020): 2–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12267.
Williams, William Appleman, Empire as a Way of Life an Essay on the Causes and Character of
America’s

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 Present Predicament along with a Few Thoughts about an Alternative. Brooklyn, N.Y,
2007.

Progresismo y Pragmatismo
Flanagan, Maureen. America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 1890s–1920s. 
Oxford, 2007.
Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. New York: Knopf, 1955
Jewett, Andrew. Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the
Cold War.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014
Kloppenberg, James T. Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European
and American
Thought, 1870–1920. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
----. “Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking?” The Journal of American
History
83, no. 1 (1996): 100–138.Rodgers, Daniel T. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a
Progressive
Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000

Primera Guerra Mundial

Cooper, John Milton. Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the
League of
Nations. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Knock, Thomas J. To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World
Order. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1992.
Manela, Erez. The Wilsonian Movement: Self-Determination and the International Origins of
Anticolonial
Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007
Smith, Tony. Why Wilson Matters: The Origin of American Liberal Internationalism and Its
Crisis
Today. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017.

Gran Depresión y New Deal

Brinkley, Alan. The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War. New York:
Knopf, 1995.
———. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression. New York:
Knopf, 1982.
Kennedy, David. Freedom from Fear: America in Depression and War, 1929–1945. New York:
Oxford
University Press, 1999
Leuchtenburg, William. Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940. New York: Harper
and Row,
1963.
Moser, John E. The Global Great Depression and the Coming of World War II, 2016.
Phillips–Fein, Kim. Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal. New
York: Norton,
2010
Plotke, David. Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the
1930s and 1940s.

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 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Segunda Guerra Mundial

Borgwardt, Elizabeth. A New Deal for the World: America’s Vision for Human
Rights. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 2005.
Daniels, Roger. Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. New York: Hill
and Wang,
1993

Guerra Fría
Gaddis, John L. The Cold War: A New History. New York: Penguin, 2005.
———. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security
Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
———. The United States and the Origins of the Cold War. New York: Columbia University
Press, 2000.
Leffler, Melvyn. For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold
War. New York:
Hill and Wang, 2008.
Westad, Odd Arne. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our
Times. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

The Affluent Society (Años Cincuenta)

Allen, Danielle S. Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of
Education. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Horowitz, Daniel. Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique: The American Left,
the Cold War,
and Modern Feminism.Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.
McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton
University Press, 2001.
Ngai, Mae. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton,
NJ: Princeton
University Press, 2003
Patterson, James T. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974. New York: Oxford
University
Press, 1996

Los Años Sesenta

Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–1963. New York: Simon
and
Schuster, 1988.
———. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963–65. New York: Simon and Schuster,
1998.
Brick, Howard. The Age of Contradictions: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s. Ithaca,
NY: Cornell
University Press, 2000.
Gitlin, Todd. The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage. New York: Bantam Books, 1987.
Holt, Thomas C. The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights. Oxford, 2021.

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Isserman, Maurice. If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New
Left. Champaign:
University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Kazin, Michael, and Maurice Isserman. America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s. New York:
Oxford
University Press, 2007.
Patterson, James T. America’s Struggle Against Poverty in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard
University Press, 1981.
Patterson, James T. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974. New York: Oxford
University
Press, 1996.
Perlstein, Rick. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American
Consensus. New York:
Hill and Wang, 2001.
Shelby, Tommie, and Brandon M. Terry. To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political
Philosophy of
Martin Luther King, Jr. Harvard, 2018
Zelizer, Julian E. The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the
Great Society.
Penguin, 2015

Años Setenta y Ochenta

Bell-Scott, Patricia. The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray,
Eleanor
Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice. NY, 2016
Doherty, Brian. Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American
Libertarian Movement.
New York: PublicAffairs, 2009
Critchlow, Donald. The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political
History. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural
Change. Cambridge,
UK: Blackwell, 1989.
Hinton, Elizabeth. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University
Press, 2016.
Hodgson, Godfrey. More Equal Than Others: America from Nixon to the New Century. Princeton
University Press, 2009
Perlstein, Rick. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. New York:
Norton, 2003.
Stein, Judith. Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the
1970s. New Haven,
CT: Yale University Press, 2010.

Movimiento conservador
Doherty, Brian. Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American
Libertarian Movement.
New York: PublicAffairs, 2009

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Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American
Consensus. New York:
Nation Books, 2009

Pasado Reciente
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New
York: New
Press, 2012.
Ceaser, James W., Andrew E. Busch, and John J. Pitney Jr. Defying the Odds: The 2016
Elections and
American Politics. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017.
Courtwright, David T. No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America. Cambridge,
Mass:
Harvard University Press, 2010.
Desmond, Matthew. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. New York: Broadway
Books, 2017.
Frank, Thomas. What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America.
Reprint
edition. Metropolitan Books, 2007.
Gardner, Lloyd C. The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s
to the
Present. New York: Free Press, 2008.
Micklethwait, John, and Adrian Wooldridge. The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America.
Reprint
edition. London: Penguin Books, 2005.
Packer, George. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America. Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 2013.
Stiglitz, Joseph. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy. New
York: Norton,
2010.

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