Modern America: A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945
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Modern America: A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945

A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945

  1. 360 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. 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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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780765615374
eBook ISBN
9781317464686
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. 1. Origins of the Cold War
  8. 2. Postwar Political Trends
  9. 3. Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement
  10. 4. The Eisenhower Administration’s “New Look” Foreign Policy
  11. 5. The Fifties Lifestyle
  12. 6. The Cold War Heats Up During the Kennedy Administration
  13. 7. Lyndon Johnson’s War
  14. 8. Sixties Society and Culture
  15. 9. Political Trends on the Left and the Right
  16. 10. Civil Rights Victories and Divisions
  17. 11. Polarization and Protest
  18. 12. Nixon and the End of U.S. Involvement in Indochina
  19. 13. The Environmental and Consumer Movements
  20. 14. The Tragedy of Watergate
  21. 15. Feminism and American Society
  22. 16. The Emergence of Ronald Reagan and the New Right
  23. 17. The Reagan Foreign Policy and a New Soviet Confrontation
  24. 18. More Culture Wars
  25. 19. Bill Clinton’s America and the Impeachment of a President
  26. 20. The Election of George W. Bush, Terrorism, and the Crisis in the Gulf
  27. About the Editor