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Lisa McGirr

Lisa McGirr is Professor of History at Harvard University, where she specializes in the history of the twentieth-century United States. Her research and teaching interests bridge the fields of social and political history and focus on collective action, state building, reform movements, and politics. Her most recent book, The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State, won acclaim for excavating the significant but neglected state-building legacies of national Prohibition. Her award-winning first book, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right, investigated the social and regional basis of grassroots conservative politics in the post–World War II United States. She teaches a wide variety of courses on the history of the United States in the twentieth century.

Lisa McGirr

Lisa McGirr is Professor of History at Harvard University, where she specializes in the history of the twentieth-century United States. Her research and teaching interests bridge the fields of social and political history and focus on collective action, state building, reform movements, and politics. Her most recent book, The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State, won acclaim for excavating the significant but neglected state-building legacies of national Prohibition. Her award-winning first book, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right, investigated the social and regional basis of grassroots conservative politics in the post–World War II United States. She teaches a wide variety of courses on the history of the United States in the twentieth century.

Books by Lisa McGirr

  • The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State

    Lisa McGirr

    Hardback, 2016

    A ground-breaking history of Prohibition and a new creation story for the powerful American state.
  • The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State

    Lisa McGirr

    Paperback, 2017

    A ground-breaking history of Prohibition and a new creation story for the powerful American state.
  • The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State

    Lisa McGirr

    E Book, 2015

    A ground-breaking history of Prohibition and a new creation story for the powerful American state.
  • Give Me Liberty!

    Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, Lisa McGirr

    Seventh Full Edition, Volume 1, Paperback, 2022

    The #1 U.S. history text with inclusive new coverage and improved support for student readers
  • Give Me Liberty!

    Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, Lisa McGirr

    Seventh Full Edition, Combined Volume, Paperback, 2023

    The #1 U.S. history text with inclusive new coverage and improved support for student readers
  • Give Me Liberty!

    Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, Lisa McGirr

    Seventh Full Edition, Combined Volume, E Book, 2022

    The #1 U.S. history text with inclusive new coverage and improved support for student readers
  • Give Me Liberty!

    Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, Lisa McGirr

    Seventh Full Edition, Volume 2, Paperback, 2022

    The #1 U.S. history text with inclusive new coverage and improved support for student readers
  • Give Me Liberty!

    Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, Lisa McGirr

    Seventh Full Edition, Volume 2, E Book, 2022

    The #1 U.S. history text with inclusive new coverage and improved support for student readers
  • Give Me Liberty!

    Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, Lisa McGirr

    Seagull Seventh Edition, Combined Volume, Paperback, 2023

    The #1 U.S. history text with inclusive new coverage and improved support for student readers
  • Give Me Liberty!

    Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, Lisa McGirr

    Seagull Seventh Edition, Volume 1, Paperback, 2023

    The #1 U.S. history text with inclusive new coverage and improved support for student readers