
eBook - ePub
Modern America: A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945
A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945
- 360 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Modern America: A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945
A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945
About this book
This primary source reader assembles key documents and firsthand accounts that are emblematic of American life from the end of World War II to the present. Designed to complement a core text for a typical post-1945 U.S. history course, the book offers conciseness and selectivity with balanced coverage of domestic and foreign, societal and cultural issues grouped together chronologically. The readings afford students compelling and sometimes startling insights into the nation's postwar adaptation to its new position of global power and responsibility, wealth, and rapid social change; on through years of energy and ambition, conflict and tragedy, to the post-Vietnam malaise and the rise of Ronald Reagan, the frenzied nineties, and the arrival of the new millennium. Each chapter includes an introduction that sets the documents in historical context, a biographical sketch of a significant person of the time, study questions, and suggestions for further reading.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Origins of the Cold War
- 2. Postwar Political Trends
- 3. Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement
- 4. The Eisenhower Administrationâs âNew Lookâ Foreign Policy
- 5. The Fifties Lifestyle
- 6. The Cold War Heats Up During the Kennedy Administration
- 7. Lyndon Johnsonâs War
- 8. Sixties Society and Culture
- 9. Political Trends on the Left and the Right
- 10. Civil Rights Victories and Divisions
- 11. Polarization and Protest
- 12. Nixon and the End of U.S. Involvement in Indochina
- 13. The Environmental and Consumer Movements
- 14. The Tragedy of Watergate
- 15. Feminism and American Society
- 16. The Emergence of Ronald Reagan and the New Right
- 17. The Reagan Foreign Policy and a New Soviet Confrontation
- 18. More Culture Wars
- 19. Bill Clintonâs America and the Impeachment of a President
- 20. The Election of George W. Bush, Terrorism, and the Crisis in the Gulf
- About the Editor