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🍎 Use these as a starting point! Try mixing and matching terms, checking subject headings in articles, and looking at bibliographies to refine your search.

Separate Spheres Argument

Subjects: Women—United States—19th Century—Historiography
Keywords: gender roles, domestic ideology, public vs. private sphere, Historiography

Nativism in U.S. History

Subjects: Nativism—United States—Historiography
Keywords: anti-immigrant sentiment, Know-Nothing Party, xenophobia, exclusion acts, Historiography

Repression of Socialism in U.S. History

Subjects: Socialism—United States—History
Keywords: Red Scare, McCarthyism, labor movements, Communist Party USA, Historiography
Werner Sombart, authored book in 1906

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For an article

Klehr, Harvey. 1977. “Leninism, Lewis Corey, and the Failure of American Socialism.” Labor History 18 (2): 249. doi:10.1080/00236567708584435.

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Example Citation: Bellin, Joshua David. Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.