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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

  • Give Me Liberty!

    Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, Lisa McGirr

    Brief Seventh High School Edition, E Book, 2023

    The most cohesive, concise, and timely high school U.S. History text
  • Give Me Liberty!: An American History

    Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, Lisa McGirr

    Seventh Ap® Edition, Paperback, 2024

    The gold standard for AP U.S. History
  • Give Me Liberty!: An American History

    Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, Lisa McGirr

    Seventh Ap® Edition, E Book

    The gold standard for AP U.S. History
  • Give Me Liberty!

    Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, Lisa McGirr

    Brief Seventh High School Edition, Paperback, 2024

    The most cohesive, concise, and timely high school U.S. History text
  • Give Me Liberty!: An American History

    Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, Lisa McGirr

    Eighth Edition, Combined Volume, Paperback, 2025

    The #1 bestselling American history survey text
  • Give Me Liberty!: An American History

    Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, Lisa McGirr

    Eighth Edition, Volume 1, Paperback, 2025

    The #1 bestselling American history survey text
  • Give Me Liberty!: An American History

    Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, Lisa McGirr

    Eighth Edition, Volume 2, Paperback, 2025

    The #1 bestselling American history survey text
  • Give Me Liberty!: An American History

    Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, Lisa McGirr

    Seagull Eighth Edition, Combined Volume, Paperback, 2025

    The #1 bestselling American history survey text
  • Give Me Liberty!: An American History

    Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, Lisa McGirr

    Seagull Eighth Edition, Volume 1, Paperback, 2025

    The #1 bestselling American history survey text
  • Give Me Liberty!: An American History

    Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, Lisa McGirr

    Seagull Eighth Edition, Volume 2, Paperback, 2025

    The #1 bestselling American history survey text