AMERICAN STUDIES

Noble, David W. Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism. Minneapolis (MN): University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Pease, Donald E. and Robyn Wiegman. The Futures of American Studies. Durham (NC): Duke University Press, 2002.
Rowe, John Carlos. The New American Studies. Minneapolis (MN): University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Tims, Melinda. Perspectives on the Making of America: An Introduction to U.S. Civilization. Paris: Ellipses, 2002. (Text book for students)

REFERENCE

Arquié, M.J., et al. A Glossary of British and American Institutions. Paris: Masson, 1997.
Shafritz, Jay M. The HarperCollins Dictionary of American Government and Politics. New York: HarperPerennial, 1993.
Statistical Abstract of the United States. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office. (Annual).
Wright, John. The New York Times Almanac 1999. 

HISTORY

Jacquin, Philippe andDaniel Royot, dir. Le mythe de l’Ouest: L’Ouest américain et les "valeurs" de la frontière. Paris: Autrement, 1993 (Série Monde, HS N°71)
Lagayette, Pierre. Les grandes dates de l’histoire des États-Unis. Paris: Hachette, 1993. 
Le Bars, Sylvie. The American Twenties (1918-1928) : Progress and Regression. Rennes: Presses Univ. de Rennes, 1993. 
Levine, Bruce, et al. Who Built America? Working People & the Nation’s Economy, Politics, Culture and Society. (Under the direction of Herbert G. Gutman). New York: Pantheon Books, 1990. 2 vol. 
Martin, Jean-Pierre. La vertu par la loi : la prohibition aux Etats-Unis, 1920-1933. Dijon: Editions Univ. de Dijon, 1993.
Martin, Jean-Pierre and Daniel Royot. Histoire et Civilisation des États-Unis. Textes et documents commentés du XII° siècle à nos jours. Paris: Nathan, 1995 (5^ème édition). 
Mélandri, Pierre and Jacques Portes. Histoire intérieure des États-Unis au XX° siècle. Paris: Masson, 1991 (Coll. Un Siècle d’Histoire).
Mélandri, Pierre. Histoire des États-Unis, 1865-1996. Paris: Nathan, 1996 (6è édition mise à jour et augmentée). 
Norton, Marie Beth, et al. A People and a Nation: a History of the United States. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1996 (4^th edition).
Portes, Jacques. L’Histoire des États-Unis depuis 1945. Paris: La Découverte, 1992. 
Rézé, Michel and Ralph Bowen. The American West, History, Myth and the National Identity. Paris: Armand Colin, 1998.
Rougé, Jean-Robert, ed. Les années vingt aux États-Unis : continuités et ruptures. Paris: Presses de l’Univ. de Paris-Sorbonne, 1994.
Saint-Jean Paulin, Christiane. La contre-culture (USA, années 60). Paris: Autrement, 1997.
Ture, Kwame (Stokely Carmichael) and Charles V. Hamilton. Black Power: the Politics of Liberation. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.
Vincent, Bernard. Amistad, les mutins de la liberté. Paris: Archipel, 1998. 
Vincent, Bernard. Histoire des États-Unis. Paris: Flammarion, 1997 (1^st edition, 1994). Coll. Champs.
Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present. New York: HarperPerennial, 1995.

ETHNICITY

IMMIGRATION
Body-Gendrot, Sophie. Les États-Unis et leurs immigrants. Paris: La Documentation française, 1991.
Buenker, John and Norman Ratner, ed. Multiculturalism in the United States. New York: Greenwood Press, 1994. 
Collomp, Catherine and Mario Menendez, dir. Amérique sans frontière: les États-Unis dans l’espace nord-américain. Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 1995. 
D’Innocenzo, M., and Sirefman, J.P. Immigration and Ethnicity: American Society — ‘Melting Pot’ or ‘Salad Bowl’? Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Daniel, Dominique. L'immigration aux Etats-Unis (1965-1995) : le poids de la réunification familiale. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1996 (coll. Le Monde Nord-Américain). 
Daniels, Roger. Coming to America: a History of Immigration and ethnicity in American Life. New York: HarperPenrennial, 1990.
Fabre, Geneviève and Catherine Lejeune. "Cultures de la rue: les barrios d'Amérique du Nord." Paris: Cahiers Charles V, numéro 20, 1996.
Fuchs, L.H. The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity and the Civic Culture. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1990.
Lamphere, Louise. From Working Daughters to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. President, 1987.
Levy, Claude. Les minorités ethniques aux États-Unis. Paris: Ellipses, 1997. Coll. Les essentiels.
Michaud, Marie-Christine. Les Italiens aux États-Unis, 1918-1929, Progrès et limites d'une assimilation. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1998.
Noblet, Pascal. L’Amérique des minorités. Paris: L’Harmattan, 1993.
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society. New York: Norton, 1992.

ETHNIC GROUPS

African-Americans
Baccharan, Nicole. Histoire des Noirs américains au XX° siècle. Bruxelles: Complexe, 1994.
Williams, Juan. Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary. New York: Times Books, 1998.

American-Indians
Delanoë, Nelcya and Joëlle Rostkowski. Les Indiens dans l’histoire américaine. Paris: Armand Colin, 1996.
Delanoë, Nelcya. L’entaille rouge. Des terres indiennes à la démocratie américaine, 1977-1996. Paris: 1996.
Deloria, Vine Jr., ed. American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1985.
Hausman, Gerald. Les Navajos. Aix-en-Provence: Le Mail, 19987 (Coll. Spiritualité des Indiens d’Amérique). 
Jacquin, Philippe. Terre indienne: un peuple écrasé, une culture retrouvée. Paris: Autrement, 1991 (série Monde HS N°54)
Iverson, Peter. The Navajos: Indians of North America. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1990.
Josephy, Alvin M. Now that the Buffalo’s Gone. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1989.
Locke, Raymond Friday. The Book of the Navajo. Los Angeles: Mankind, 1992 (5^th edition).
Niethammer, Carolyn. Filles de la Terre : Vies et Légendes
Olson, James S., & Raymond Wilson. Native Americans in the Twentieth Century. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1986.
Parman, Donald L. Indians and the American West in the Twentieth Century. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1994.
 

POLITICS

Ben Barka, Mokhtar. La nouvelle droite américaine (des origines à nos jours). Valenciennes: Presses Univ. de Valenciennes, 1996.
Bodenhamer, David J. and James W. Ely, Jr., ed. The Bill of Rights in Modern America. After 200 years. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1993.
Brown, Bernard E. L’État et la politique aux États-Unis. Paris: PUF, 1994 (Thémis, Science politique)
Drew, Elizabeth. On the Edge: the Clinton Presidency. New York: 1995.
Hagstrom, Jerry. Beyond Reagan : the New Landscape of American Politics. New York: Penguin Books, 1988 (A regional survey). 
Lennkh, Annie, & Marie-France Toinet. L’état des États-Unis. Paris : La Découverte, 1990. 
Lassale, Jean-Pierre. La démocratie américaine: anatomie d’un marché politique. Paris: Armand Colin, 1991. 
Mélandri, Pierre. Reagan: une biographie totale. Paris: Lafont, 1988.
Phillips, Kevin. Boiling Point: Democrats, Republicans and the Decline of Middle Class Prosperity. New York: Harper Perennial, 1993.
Savage, David G. Turning Right: the Making of the Rehnquist Supreme Court. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1993. 
Toinet, Marie-France. Le système politique des États-Unis. Paris: Presses Univ. de France, 1987.
Solomon, Norman. False Hope: the Politics of Illusion in the Clinton Era. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994. 
Vile, M.J.C. Politics in the USA. London: Routledge, 1999 (5th edition). 
Vincent, Bernard. Thomas Paine ou la religion de la liberté. Paris: Aubier, 1987.
 

ECONOMICS

Azuelos, Martine. L’économie du Royaume-Uni et des États-Unis depuis la fin des années 70: Structures, mutations, aspects terminologiques. Paris: PUF, 1994 (Perspectives anglo-saxonnes). 
Moindrot, Claude. États-Unis: Géographie économique. Paris: Hachette, 1995 (H supérieur, Anglais civilisation)

JUSTICE

Toinet, Marie-France. Les grands arrêts de la Cour suprême. Nancy: Presses Univ. de Nancy, 1989.
Tribe, Laurence H. God Save this Honorable Court: How the Choice of Supreme Court Justices Shapes our History. New York: Mentor, 1986.

SOCIAL ISSUES

ABORTION
Petchesky, Rosalynd Pollack. Abortion and Woman’s Choice: the State, Sexuality and Reproductive Freedom. Boston : Northeastern Univ. Press, 1990 (1^st edition 1984) (A very useful book about abortion)
Tribe, Laurence H. Abortion : the Clash of Absolutes. New York: Norton, 1992 (1^st ed. 1991)
Weddington, Sarah. A Question of Choice. New York: Grosset & Putman, 1992 (about abortion)

RACE AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Barndt, Joseph. Dismantling Racism: the Continuing Challenge to White America. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1991.
Carter, Stephen L. Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby. New York: Basic Books, 1991.
D’Souza, Dinesh. Illiberal Education: the Politics of Race and Sex on Campus. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.
Edwards, John. When Race Counts: the Morality of Racial Preference in Britain and America. London: Routledge, 1995.
Ezorsky, Gertrude. Racism and Justice: the Case for Affirmative Action. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1991.
Glazer, Nathan. Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Univ. Press, 1987.
Steele, Shelby. The Content of Our Character: a New Vision of Race in America. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1990.
Weatherspoon, Floyd D. Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action, a Sourcebook. New York: Garland Publishing, 1985.
West, Cornell. Race Matters. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.

HEALTH CARE
Castro, Janice. The American Way of Health. Boston: Little Brown, 1994. 
Chamorand, Elisabeth. Le système de santé américain. Paris: Les Études de la Documentation Française, 1996.

DOMESTIC TERRORISM AND THE FAR RIGHT
Dees, Morris and James Corcoran. Gathering Storm: America’s Militia Threat. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.
Stern, Kenneth S. A Force upon the Plain: the American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

RELIGION
Martin, Jean-Pierre. La religion aux États-Unis. Nancy : Presses Univ. de Nancy, 1989 (Coll. Histoire thématique des États-Unis). 

CITIES

Body-Gendrot, Sophie. Les villes américaines. Les politiques urbaines. Paris: Hachette, 1997 (Coll. Les fondamentaux).
Ghorra-Gobin, Cynthia. La ville américaine. Paris: Nathan Université, 1998.
Judd, Dennis, and Todd Swanstrum. City Politics. New York: Harper Collins, 1997 (2^nd edition). 

LABOR

Appelbaum, Eileen and Rosemary Batt. The New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems in the United States. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1994.
Blewett, Mary H. The Last generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1990.
Brecher, Jeremy. Strike! Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press, 1997. 
Bronfenbrenner, Katie, ed. Organizing to Win. Cornell UP, 1998.
Collomp, Catherine. Entre classe et nation: mouvement ouvrier et immigration aux États-Unis. Paris: Belin, 1998. (Coll. Cultures américaines).
Craver, Charles B. Can Unions Survive? The Rejuvenation of the American Labor Movement. New York: New York University Press, 1995.
Eisler, Benita, ed. The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women, 1840-45. New York: Norton, 1998.
Kenny, Kevin. Making Sense of the Molly Maguires. New York: Oxford Univ. press, 1998. 
Malkiel, Theresa S. The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1990 (introductory essay by Françoise Basch). 
Mauk, David and John Oakland. American Civilization : an Introduction. London: Routledge, 1995. 
Sweeney, John and David Kusnet. America Needs a Raise: Fighting for Economic and Social Justice. Boston: Houghton Mifffin Co., 1996.
McCartin, Joseph A. Labor’s Great War: the Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1997.

MEDIA

Baughman, James L. The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America since 1941. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 (1^st edition: 1992). 
Bertrand, Claude-Jean (ed.). Les médias et l’information aux États-Unis depuis 1945. Paris: Ellipses, 1997. 
Cohen, Jeff, and Norman Solomon. Through the Media Looking Glass: Decoding Bias and Blather in the News. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995. 
Diamond, Edwin. Behind the Times: Inside the New York Times, 1995.
Durruty, Suzanne, et Jean-Paul Gabillet. Les médias et l’information aux États-Unis depuis 1945. Paris: Editions du Temps, 1997.
Frau-Meigs, Divina and Sophie JEHEL. Les écrans de la violence : enjeux économiques et responsabilités sociales. Paris: Economica, 1997
Iyengar, Shanto and Richard Reeves (eds.). Do the Media Govern? Politicians, Voters, and Reporters in America. Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications, 1997.
Martinière, Nathalie. Décrypter le médias américains. Paris: PUF, 1998.
Pember, Don R. Massachusetts Media Law. Madison, WI: Brown & Benchmark, 1997. 
Ricard, Serge. The Mass Media in America since 1945: An Overview. Paris: Armand Colin, 1998. 
Schudson, Michael. The Power of News. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Solomon, Norman. Adventures in Medialand: Behind the News, Beyond the Pundits. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1993.