Fogel, R., The Fourth Great Awakening, Univ. of Chicago Press, 2000
Handlin, Oscar, Immigration, Prentice Hall, 1959.
Larkin, J., The Reshaping of Everyday Life: 1790-1840, Harper Perennial, 1988
McCullough, David, The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge, Simon and Schuster, 1983.
Phillips, K., Wealth and Democracy, Broadway Books, 20002
Picard,L., Elizabeth’s England, St. Martin’s Press, 2004
Remington, Gwen, The Way People Live: Live in Victorian England, Lucent Books, 2005
Schlereth, T., Victorian America: Transformation of Everyday Life, Harper, Perennial, 1991.
Smith, Page, The Shaping of America, Penguine, 1989.
Southerland, D., The Expansion of Everyday Life: 1860-1876, Univ. of Arkansas. Press, 1989.
Walton,m G and Rockoff,H., A History of the American Economy, Thompson, 2002
Zinn, H., A People’s History, Harper Perrenial, 2003
Zinn, H., The Twentieth Century, Harper Perennial, 2003

WELFARE & POVERTY

Beito, David, From Mutual Aid To The Welare State, University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Himmelfarb, Gertrude, Poverty and Compassion, Vintage Books, 1994.
Hunter, Rovert, Poverty, Harper and Row, 1904.
Jansson, Bruce, The Reluctant Welfare State, Brooks/Cole, 1997
Jutte, Robert, Poverty and Deviance In Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, 1994
Katz, M. and Stern, M., One National Divisible, Russel Sage, 2006
Katz,M., In The Shadows of the Poorhouse, Basic Books, 1986.
Piven, F. and ‘Cloward, R., Poor People’s Movements, Vintage Books, 1979.
Riis, Jacob, How The Other Half Lives, Dover, 1971.

LABOR

Jones, J., A Social History of the Laboring Classes, Blackwell Publishing, 1999.
Thompson, E.P., The Making of The English Working Class, Vintage Books, 1996.
Boyer, R. and Morais, H., Labor’s Untold Story, United Electriacl Workers of America, 1997.
Murolo, P. and Chitty, A., From the Folks Who Brought You The Weekend, The New Press, 2001.
Foner,P., A History of the Labor Movement In The U.S. (5 volumes), Publication International, 1979.

MINORITIES

Franklin, John, From Slavery To Freedom, Knopf, 2000
Bennett, Lerone, Before The Mayflower, Penguine Books, 1985.
Debo, Angie, A History of The Indians of The U.S., University of Okalahoma press, 1983.
Josephy, Alvin, 1492, Vintage Books, 1993.
Gutierrez,D., Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants and the Politics of Ethnicity, University of California Press, 1995.
Gonzales, M., Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the U.S., Indiana University press, 2000

WOMEN

Cott,N., No Small Courage, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Marx, T. and Andreason, D., Jeanette Rankin: First Lady of Congress, Margaret McElderry, 2000.
Drehle, D., Triangle: The Fire That Changed America, Grove Press, 2004.
Abramovitz, M., Regulating Women, South End Press, 1996.