Major Problems in American History Since 1945

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, this book introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in US history. It contains primary documents, secondary sources, chapter introductions, separate introductions to documents and essays in every chapter, bibliographies, and documentation of sources.

Sommario

Each chapter ends with Further Reading."
1. The Origins of Postwar America
ESSAYS
Thomas G. Paterson, The Origins of the Postwar International System
Alan Brinkley, The Legacies of World War II
Byron E. Shafer, The Puzzle of Postwar Politics
2. The Origins of the Cold War
DOCUMENTS
1. President Harry S. Truman Discusses the Atom Bomb at Potsdam, July 1945
2. George F. Kennan's "Long Telegram," 1946
3. Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace Urges a Conciliatory Approach, July 1946
4. Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Novikov Reports on the U.S. Drive for World Supremacy, September 1946
5. The Truman Doctrine, March 1947
6. Senator Joseph McCarthy Charges the Democrats Are "Soft on Communism"
7. The President's Advisors Urge Military Expansion (NSC-68), April 1950
ESSAYS
Arnold A. Offner, President Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis, Two Cold War Empires
3. A Consumer's Republic: The 1950s and the Emergence of a New Economy of Mass Consumption
DOCUMENTS
1. U.S. Business Celebrates the "Miracle of America," 1948
2. A Report on the "Baby Boom," 1954
3. Newsweek Decries the Problem of Dangerous Teens, 1955
4. Life Magazine Identifies the New Teen-age Market, 1959
5. U.S. News and World Report Assesses the Perils of Mass Culture and the Evils of Television, 1955
6. Vance Packard warns against the "Hidden Persuaders," 1957
ESSAYS
Roland Marchand, Visions of Classlessness
Kelly Schrum, Making the American Girl
4. John F. Kennedy, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cold War
DOCUMENTS
1. Fidel Castro Denounces U.S. Policy Toward Cuba, 1960
2. President John F. Kennedy Calls for an Alliance for Progress, 1961
3. A Board of Inquiry Reports on the Bay of Pigs, 1961
4. A Senate Committee Investigates U.S. Plots to Assassinate Castro 1960-1965, (1975)
5. President Kennedy and His Advisers Debate Options in the Missile Crisis, October 16, 1962
6. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev Appeals to President Kennedy, October 26, 1962
7. Soviet Ambassador Anatoly I. Dobrynin Reports on His Meeting with Robert Kennedy, October 28, 1962
ESSAYS
Thomas G. Paterson, Spinning Out of Control: Kennedy's War Against Cuba and the Missile Crisis
Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow, Aftermath
5. The African-American Struggle for Equality
DOCUMENTS
1. The New York Times Reports a Murder in Georgia, 1946
2. African-American Parents Petition the Clarendon, S.C., School Board, 1949
3. A South African Novelist Examines the Plight of "The Negro in the North," 1954
4. Franklin McCain Remembers the First Sit-in, 1960
5. Martin Luther King Jr., "I Have a Dream," 1963
6. Stokely Carmichael Explains "Black Power," 1967
7. A Senate Committee Reports on the FBI's Campaign Against Martin Luther King, 1963-1968 (1976)
8. Police and Fire Department Logs Record an Urban Riot, 1967
ESSAYS
Charles Payne, The View from the Trenches
Thomas J. Sugrue, The Continuing Racial Crisis
6. The Great Society and the Politics of Liberal Reform
DOCUMENTS
1. President Lyndon B. Johnson Declares War on Poverty, 1964
2. Congress Strikes Down Segregation in Public Accommodations: The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title II (1964)
3. Ronald Reagan Warns of the Dangers of the Welfare State, 1964
4. Two White House Aides Report the Achievements of the Great Society, 1966
5. A Conservative Strategist Hails an "Emerging Republican Majority," 1969
6. Earth Day, 1970
ESSAYS
James T. Patterson, The Rise of "Rights Consciousness"
Michael D. Lassiter, Suburban Politics and the Limits of the Great Society
7. The New Radicalism: Politics and Culture in the 1960s
DOCUMENTS
1. Students for a Democratic Society Issue the Port Huron Statement, 1962
2. Jerry Rubin Declares Himself a "Child of Amerika," 1970
3. Radicals Proclaim: "You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows," 1969
4. The FBI's Secret Campaign Against the New Left, 1968-1971 (1976)
5. Raymond Mungo Searches for a New Age at Total Loss Farm, 1970
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Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paula Baker, Robert Griffith
• Con la collaborazione di: Paula Baker (Editore), Robert Griffith (Editore)
• Editore: Houghton Mifflin
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 19.11.2006
• EAN: 9780618550067
• ISBN: 978-0-618-55006-7
• Pagine: 592
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Libri scolastici per istituti a indirizzo generale; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia