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Political Philosophy: History of American Politics

Civil War Era Politics

Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction by William L. Richter
The Great Melding: War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Model for America's New Conservatism by Glenn Feldman
Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South After the Civil War by Justin Behrend

Politics of America During the World Wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War Era

Trust, but Verify: The Politics of Uncertainty and the Transformation of the Cold War Order, 1969-1991 by Martin Klimke (Editor)
Historical Dictionary from the Great War to the Great Depression by Neil A. Wynn
Regulation and the Reagan Era by Robert W. Crandall; Roger E. Meiners; Bruce Yandle
The Depression Comes to the South Side: Protest and Politics in the Black Metropolis, 1930-1933 by Christopher Robert Reed
A Nuclear Winter's Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s by Lawrence Badash

Modern-Day American Politics