This popular and comprehensive anthology presents cogent, provocative articles from differing political perspectives on major issues in postwar America. In addition to articles by leading historians, the editors have assembled first-person accounts of various issues by those who have contributed to the shaping of America's rich history, including Joseph McCarthy and Bill Clinton, as well as Robin Morgan, Anne Moody, and Phyllis Schlafly. For this edition, Chafe and Sitkoff have collaborated with a new coeditor, Beth Bailey, to give this classic text a fresh outlook. The sixth edition has been extensively revised to incorporate new documents and the most up-to-date articles, covering such recent events as the September 11 attacks. With lively and enlightening introductions to each section and headnotes providing a context for the articles, A History of Our Time helps students make sense of the past fifty years of America's sometimes tumultuous but always fascinating history.
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"An excellent anthology, perhaps the very best of its kind."--Susan Walens, Western Connecticut State University
"A balanced and judicious source book including some important and largely overlooked readings." --Michael F. Doyle, Ocean County College, NJ
"This book is excellent and the documents are well chosen. My students like it."--S. Ducksworth, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire
"A splendid reader--it illuminates all the main issues!"--Mark Gildershus, Colorado State University
"An excellent anthology, perhaps the very best of its kind."--Susan Walens, Western Connecticut State University
"A balanced and judicious source book including some important and largely overlooked readings." --Michael F. Doyle, Ocean County College, NJ
"This book is excellent and the documents are well chosen. My students like it."--S. Ducksworth, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire
"A splendid reader--it illuminates all the main issues!"--Mark Gildershus, Colorado State University
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William H. Chafe is at Duke University. Harvard Sitkoff is at University of New Hampshire.
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The Cold War literally defined the half-century after World War II, marking a new era in both American and world history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Soviet Union, Great Society, White House, Los Angeles, African Americans, Miss America, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, New Deal, Mexican American, Richard Nixon, South Vietnam, Religious Right, Los Alamos, New Left, Fourteenth Amendment, Martin Luther King, President Truman, United Nations, American Indian, House Judiciary Committee, Jim Crow, Martin King New!
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The Cold War literally defined the half-century after World War II, marking a new era in both American and world history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Soviet Union, Great Society, White House, Los Angeles, African Americans, Miss America, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, New Deal, Mexican American, Richard Nixon, South Vietnam, Religious Right, Los Alamos, New Left, Fourteenth Amendment, Martin Luther King, President Truman, United Nations, American Indian, House Judiciary Committee, Jim Crow, Martin King New!
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- New Right by Norman P. Barry on page 370, page 371, and Back Matter
- The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan on page 178, page 184, and Back Matter
- The Movement and The Sixties by Terry H. Anderson on page 307, and Back Matter
- Why Americans Hate Politics by E.J. Dionne on page 366, and Back Matter
- Martin Luther King Jr. (Trailblazers of the Modern World) by Adele Q. Brown on page 119, and page 130
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- Embattled Paradise: The American Family In An Age Of Uncertainty by Arlene S. Skolnick in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Gender and Planning: A Reader by Susan S. Fainstein on page 165
- Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy by Nikhil Pal Singh in Back Matter
- Under the Wire: How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy (Harvard Historical Studies) by David Paull Nickles in Back Matter
- Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era by Elaine Tyler May in Back Matter
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