Modern America: A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945M.E. Sharpe, 2007 - 360 páginas 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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Origins of the Cold | 3 |
J Robert Oppenheimer | 21 |
Rosa Parks | 62 |
The Fifties Lifestyle | 77 |
James Dean | 95 |
Robert McNamara | 111 |
Lynda Van Devanter | 126 |
Sixties Society and Culture | 128 |
2220 | 217 |
The Tragedy of Watergate | 226 |
30 | 228 |
Feminism and American Society | 238 |
The Emergence of Ronald Reagan and the New Right | 257 |
The Reagan Foreign Policy and a New Soviet Confrontation | 272 |
More Culture Wars | 289 |
32 | 300 |
Political Trends on the Left and the Right | 141 |
Civil Rights Victories and Divisions | 164 |
Polarization and Protest | 181 |
Nixon and the End of U S Involvement in Indochina | 194 |
The Environmental and Consumer Movements | 209 |
Bill Clintons America and the Impeachment of a President | 306 |
The Election of George W Bush Terrorism and | 325 |
Condoleezza Rice | 343 |
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