McGirr, Lisa - American History Now (Critical Perspectives On The P)

American History Now collects eighteen original historiographic essays that survey recent scholarship in American history and trace the shifting lines of interpretation and debate in the field.The new generation of historians showcased in American History Now posed new questions and developed new approaches to scholarship to revise the prevailing interpretations of the chronological periods from the colonial era to the Reagan years. Read more...

Lisa McGirr Professor of History   Lisa McGirr specializes in the history of the 20th century United States. Her research and teaching interests bridge the fields of social and political history and focus, in particular, on collective action, political culture, reform movements, and political ideology. She has conducted research on transnational social movements as well as on the intersection of religion and politics in the twentieth-century United States. She is currently at work on a book entitled Prohibition and the Making of Modern America.  Her award winning first book, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right investigates the social and regional basis of grass-roots conservative politics in the post-World War II United States. Courses taught include the history of “protest and politics” in United States history, social movements, the New Deal, the 1960s and undergraduate and graduate research seminars focusing on sources, methods, and themes in twentieth-century United States history.