Conversation with Lizabeth Cohen

Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (Cambridge, 1990; paperback, 1991).

A Consumers’Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (New York: Knopf, 2003; paperback, 2004).

“How to Teach Family History by Using an Historic House,” Journal of the National Council for the Social Studies 39 (November-December 1975).

“Embellishing a Life of Labor: An Interpretation of the Material Culture of American Working-Class Homes, 1885-1915,” Journal of American Culture 3 (Winter 1980). Reprinted in Thomas Schlereth, ed., Material Culture Studies in America (Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History, 1982); Dell Upton and John Vlach, eds., Readings in Vernacular Architecture (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986); and Dirk Hoerder, ed., Labor Migration and the Atlantic Economies in the Period of Industrialization (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986).

“Encountering Mass Culture at the Grassroots: The Experienceof Chicago Workers in the 1920s,” American Quarterly 41 (March 1989). Reprinted in Ronald Edsforth and Larry Bennett, eds., Popular Culture and Political Change in Modern America (New York: SUNY Press, 1991); and William Graebner and Leonard Richards, eds., The American Record (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995).

“What Kind of World Have We Lost? Workers’ Lives and Deindustrialization in the Museum,” American Quarterly 41 (December 1989).

“My Tale of Two Cities: Remarks upon Receiving the Bancroft Prize” (Columbia University Libraries, Occasional Papers Series, 1991).

“Tradition and the Working Class, 1850-1950,” International Labor and Working Class History (October 1992).

“Balancing Work and Family in the Historical Profession,” Journal of Women’s History (Winter 1993).

“The Class Experience of Mass Consumption: Workers as Consumers in Interwar America,” in Richard Wightman Fox and T. Jackson Lears , eds., The Power of Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993).

“A Middle-Class Utopia? The American Suburban Home in the 1950s,” in Janice T. Wass, Making Choices: A New Perspective on the History of Domestic Life in Illinois (Spring field: Illinois State Museum, 1995).

“The New Deal State and Citizen Consumers,” in Susan Strasser , Charles McGovern , and Matthias Judt , eds., Getting and Spending: American European Consumption in the Twentieth Century, sponsored by the German Historical Institute and the National Museum of American History (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

“From Town Center to Shopping Center: The Reconfiguration of Community Marketplaces in Postwar America,” American Historical Review 101, no. 4 (October 1996); reprinted in Roger Horowitz and Arwen Mohun, Gender, Consumption and Technology (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998).

“Citizens and Consumersin the Century of Mass Consumption,” in Harvard Sitkoff , ed., Making Sense of the Twentieth Century: Historical Perspectives on Modern America, 1900-2000 (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001); reprinted in Martin Daunton and Matthew Hilton, eds., Material Politics, States, and Consumer Political Cultures (New York: Berg, 2001).

“Suburbs and Shopping Malls: The Development of the Landscape of Mass Consumption in New Jersey,” New Jersey Reporter: A Journal of Public Issues (January 2001).

“Is There an Urban History of Consumption?” Journal of Urban History (January 2003).