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1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Preface
Chapter 1 Postwar America
Chapter 2 Wars: Cold and Hot
Chapter 3 Postwar Politics
Chapter 4 The Affluent Society
Chapter 5 The Consumer Culture
Chapter 6 The Age of Consensus
Chapter 7 New Frontiers at Home and Abroad
Chapter 8 Great Society and Vietnam
Chapter 9 Rebellion and Reaction
Chapter 10 Pragmatic Centrism
Chapter 11 Calming the Cold War
Chapter 12 Era of Limits
Chapter 13 Social and Cultural Transformations
Chapter 14 The Age of Reagan
Chapter 15 Reigniting then Icing the Cold War
Chapter 16 Social Tensions and Culture Wars
Chapter 17 Going Global
Chapter 18 America in a New Millennium
Chapter 19 The Wars on Terror
Index
2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Preface
Chapter 1: Postwar America
Victory!
People on the Move
Economic Transformations
A Diverse Society
The Growth of Big Labor
A Religious People
Women
African Americans
Hispanic Americans
Asian Americans
Native Americans
The Politics of War
Legacies of World War
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Jim Crow in the Army Camps; Jim Crow Army from The Crisis
(1940, 1941)
Barbara Woodall and Charles Taylor, Letters to and from the Front
(1941-44)
Virginia Snow Wilkinson, From Housewife to Shipfitter (1943)
Executive Order 9066, Relocation of Japanese Americans (1942)
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Profile: A. Philip Randolph
Video
Rosie the Riveter
Brief Bibliographical Essay
Chapter 2: Wars: Cold and Hot
Origins Of Cold War
The Truman Doctrine
The Marshall Plan
Nato
The Chinese Revolution
Vietnam: The Beginning
NSC-68
The Korean War, 1950–1953
The Cold War Consensus
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Bernice Brode, Tales of Los Alamos (1943)
Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech (1946)
George Kennan, Containment (1947)
Harry S. Truman, The Truman Doctrine (1947)
General Douglas MacArthur, Farewell Address to Congress (1951)
Clark Clifford, Memorandum to President Truman (1946)
George Marshall, “The Marshall Plan” (1947)
National Security Council Memorandum Number 68 (1950)
Images
Closer Look: Cold War Bomb Shelter
Closer Look: The Korean War
Videos
Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima
The Korean War Armistice
Brief Bibliographic Essay
Chapter 3: Postwar Politics
Harry Who?
The Election of 1946
The Eightieth Congress
Civil Rights
The Election of 1948
A Fair Deal
Red Scare
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Henry Wallace, Letter to President Truman, (1946)
Ronald Reagan, Testimony before HUAC (1947)
Henry Wallace, Radio Address (1948)
Joseph R. McCarthy, Wheeling, West Virginia, speech (1950)
Profile: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Video: The Desegregation of the Military and Blacks in Combat
Brief Bibliographic Essay
Chapter 4: The Affluent Society
Demographic Patterns
An Economy of Abundance
The Age of the Automobile
Labor at Mid-Century
Poverty Amidst Plenty
Suburban Sprawl
Women: Family and Work
Class and Status
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Ladies Home Journal, "Young Mother" (1956)
Map
Postwar Migration to the Sunbelt and West Coast
Images
Cloverleaf Highways
Levittown, New York
Blueprint for Levittown House
Video
Creating Domestic Bliss During the Cold War
Brief Bibliographic Essay
Chapter 5: The Consumer Culture
The “Teen Culture”
Rock ’N’ Roll
Television Takes Over
Religion Revived
Culture Critics
Rebels
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The Teenage Consumer (1959)
Profile: Chuck Berry
Profile: Jack Kerouac
Image
Closer Look: A 1950s Family Watches Television
Brief Bibliographic Essay
Chapter 6: The Age of Consensus
The Election of 1952
Dynamic Conservatism
McCarthy Destroyed
The Politics of Consensus
Civil Rights
The New Look
Vietnam
China Crisis
At the Summit
The CIA in Covert Action
Trouble in Suez
Soviet Tanks Crush the Hungarian Revolution
A Sputnik Moment
Cuba and Castro
The Cold War Heats Up
End of an Era
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dien Bien Phu (1954)
Declaration of Independence for Vietnam (1945)
Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy (1954)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School
(1957)
Southern Manifesto on Integration (1956)
Profile: John Foster Dulles
Video
Nixon-Khrushchev Moscow Debate (Kitchen Debate)
Images
Crisis at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas (1957)
U.S. and British Votes in the UN on the Suez Canal crisis (1956)
Iranian Premier Mohammed Mossadegh Supporters
Brief Bibliographic Essay
Chapter 7: New Frontiers at Home and Abroad
The Election of 1960
Social Reform
The Economy
Let Freedom Ring
Cold Warrior
The Bay of Pigs
Alianza para Progreso
Berlin
Missile Crisis
Vietnam: Raising the Stakes
Death of a President
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Julian Bond, Sit-ins and the Origins of SNCC (1960)
John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (1961)
John F. Kennedy and Cuba (1961)
Executive Discussions on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
John F. Kennedy, Cuban Missile Crisis Address (1962)
Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, (1963)
John Lewis, Address at the March on Washington (1963)
President Kennedy's Address to the People of Berlin (1963)
Image
Closer Look: Signs
Videos
John F Kennedy Presidential Campaign
Kennedy Nixon Debate
Civil Rights March on Washington
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Brief Bibliographic Essay
Chapter 8: Great Society and Vietnam
Goldwater Challenges the Liberal Welfare State
Great Society
The Warren Court
The Six Day War
Policing the Caribbean
Going to War in Vietnam
The American Way of War
War at Home
The Tet-68 Offensive
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Lyndon B. Johnson, The War on Poverty (1964)
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Lyndon Johnson, Message to Congress and the Tonkin Gulf
Resolution (1964)
Voting Literacy Test (1965)
Lyndon Johnson on the Immigration Act (1965)
Martin Luther King, Jr., Conscience and the Vietnam War (1967)
Profile: Eugene McCarthy
Maps
Impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Vietnam War
Videos
Lyndon Johnson Presidential Campaign Ad: Little Girl vs.
Mushroom Cloud
Newsreel: Peace March, Thousands Oppose Vietnam War
The Vietnam War
Brief Bibliographic Essay
Chapter 9: Rebellion and Reaction
Student Radicals
The Greening of America
The Fire This Time
Black Power
Brown and Red Power
Gay Lesbian Liberation
The Rebirth of Feminism
Backlash
The Election of 1968
Summing Up the Sixties
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Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962)
Betty Friedan, "The Problem That Has No Name", from The
Feminine Mystique (1963)
National Organization from Women, Statement of Purpose (1966)
Donald Wheeldin, The Situation in Watts Today (1967)
Shirley Chisholm, Equal Rights for Women (1969)
The Gay Liberation Front, Come Out (1970)
Cesar Chavez, From He Showed Us the Way (1978)
Profile: Kwame Toure, (Stokely Carmichael)
Profile: Cesar Chavez
Profile: Janis Joplin
Profile: Bobby Seale
Video
Malcolm X
Protest, Counterculture, and the Antiwar Movement
During the Vietnam Era
Richard Nixon Presidential Campaign
Brief Bibliographic Essay
Chapter 10: Pragmatic Centrism
A Closet Liberal?
Nixonomics
The Southern Strategy
Activists and Reformers
Ecology and Consumerism
The 1972 Election
Watergate
Decline and Fall
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Rachel Carson, from Silent Spring (1962)
House Judiciary Committee's Conclusion on Impeachment (1972)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Statement by the American Indian Movement, Wounded Knee
(1973)
Watergate Special Prosecution Force Memorandum (1974)
Exploring America: American Indian Movement
Images
Closer Look: Watergate Shipwreck
Closer Look: Watergate Through Political Cartoons
Videos
Richard Nixon I am not a crook
Brief Bibliographic Essay
Chapter 11: Calming the Cold War
Détente
The China Opening
Vietnam: A War To End A War
Middle Eastern Dilemmas
Chaos In Chile
New Relations with European Powers
The Emergence of Japan
Realist Diplomacy in Perspective
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Testimony at the Winter Soldier Investigation (1971)
Richard Nixon, "Peace With Honor" (1973)
Images
Nixon in China
Closer Look: Life Magazine Cover May 15, 1970 Tragedy at
Kent State
Video
Atrocity and Cover Up: My Lai Massacre
Brief Bibliographic Essay
Chapter 12: Era of Limits
Economic Decline
Energy Crises
Cars and Computers
A Ford Not a Lincoln
Extending détente
Vietnam: The End
The Election of 1976
Mr. Carter Goes to Washington
A New Foreign Policy Approach
The Decline of détente
Debacle in Iran
The Rise of the New Right
The Election of 1980
A Time of Troubles
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Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter speaks about an "Invisible
Wall of Racial Segregation," (1976)
The Camp David Accords (1978)
Jimmy Carter, The "Malaise" Speech (1979)
Islam and the State in the Middle East: Ayatollah Khomeini's Vision
of Islamic Government (1979)
Ronald Reagan, Republican Party Nomination Acceptance (1980)
Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address (1981)
Profile: Jimmy Carter
Profile: Jerry Falwell
Videos
Gerald Ford Presidential Campaign
Jimmy Carter and the Crisis
Ronald Reagan on the Wisdom of Tax Cuts
Brief Bibliographic Essay
Chapter 13: Social and Cultural Transformations
A Demographic Profile
New Immigrants
African Americans: A Dual Society
Women: Changing Attitudes and Roles
The Most Religious Nation in the Western World
The “Me” Decade
Cultural Transformations
Conflict and Diversity: Hollywood’s Visions of the 1970s
Television and the Ascendancy of the Media Culture
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Ione Malloy, Southie Won't Go (1975)
Toi Derricotte, Black in a White Neighborhood (1977-1978)
Affirmative Action in Atlanta, "Can Atlanta Succeed Where America
Has Failed?"
Patricia Morrisroe, Yuppies - The New Class (1985)
Map
America's Move to the Sunbelt 1970-1981
Immigration to the United States, 1945-1990
Video
Evangelical Religion and Politics, Then and Now
Brief Bibliographic Essay
Chapter 14: The Age of Reagan
Reaganomics
Recession and Recovery
Morning Again in America
The Election of 1984
Second Efforts
The “Go-Go” Economy
Shifting the Supreme Court to the Right
The Sleaze Factor
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Richard Viguerie, Why the New Right is Winning (1981)
Ronald Reagan, The Air Traffic Controllers Strike (1981)
Ronald Reagan, Address to the National Association of Evangelicals (1983)
Paul Craig Roberts, The Supply-Side Revolution (1984)
T. Boone Pickens, My Case for Reagan (1984)
Thurgood Marshall, Remarks on the Bicentennial of the Constitution (1987)
Images
Attempted Reagan Assassination
Video
Ronald Reagan on the Wisdom of Tax Cuts
Ronald Reagan Presidential Campaign
Brief Bibliographic Essay
Chapter 15: Reigniting then Icing the Cold War
The Old Cold Warrior
The Pacific Rim
Disaster in Lebanon
Canada and America
Policing the Western Hemisphere
International Crises
The Iraqi–Iranian War
Iran-Contra Scandals
Icing the Cold War
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A Liberal White Journalist on Apartheid (1970s-1980s)
Ronald Reagan, Support for the Contras (1984)
Bill Chappell, Speech to the American Security Council
Foundation (1985)
Mikhail Gorbachev, Speech to the 27th Congress of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union (1986)
Mikhail Gorbachev on the Need for Economic Reform (1987)
Ronald Reagan, Speech at the Brandenburg Gate (1987)
Maps
The Cold War Military Stand-off
Conflict in Central America, 1970-1998
Videos
Ronald Reagan at the Berlin Wall
Oliver North Hearing
Brief Bibliographic Essay
Chapter 16: Social Tensions and Culture Wars
2000: A Demographic Profile
Bust, Boom, and Bust
Cable TV and the Information Superhighway
Multiculturalism
Culture Warriors
Black and White, But Not Together
Hispanic Americans
Asian Americans
Women and Work
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Howard Rheingold, Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (1993)
Cecelia Rosa Avila, Third Generation Mexican American
(1988)
Jesse Jackson, Common Ground (1988)
Elaine Bell Kaplan, "Talking to Teen Mothers" (1995)
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Sign at a Gay Pride March
Brief Bibliographic Essay
Chapter 17: Going Global
The Election of 1988
A Kinder Nation
The Rehnquist Court
The Election of 1992
Clintonomics
The Republican Earthquake
The Election of 1996
A President Impeached
Ending and Winning the Cold War
The Post–Cold War World
The Gulf War
Clinton and the Post–Cold War World
The Balkan Wars
Terrorism Abroad and at Home
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George H.W. Bush, Inaugural Address (1989)
President Clinton's First Inaugural Address (1993)
Clinton Health Care Reform Proposals (1993)
Republican Contract with America (1994)
The Balkan Proximity Peace Talks Agreement (1995)
Articles of Impeachment Against William Jefferson Clinton (1999)
Bill Clinton, Answers to the Articles of Impeachment (1999)
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Tiananmen Square
Map
Events in Eastern Europe, 1989-1990
Videos
The Berlin Wall
Bill Clinton Sells Himself to America
The Collapse of the Communist Bloc
George Bush Presidential Campaign Ad: The Revolving Door
President Bush on the Gulf War
Brief Bibliographic Essay
Chapter 18: America in a New Millennium
The Demographics of Diversity
Young People of the New Millennium
A Multicultural Society
A Nation of Immigrants
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William Julius Wilson, The Urban Underclass (1987)
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
Building a Black Christian Community from Scratch (1999)
Health Issues in the Black Community (2005)
Hillary Clinton, Speech on Health Care (2007)
Louis Farrakhan on Education (2007)
From Then to Now: Immigration: An Ambivalent Welcome
From Then to Now: The Diversity of American Religious Life
Profile: Colin Powell
Map
Immigration to the United States, 1945-1990
Brief Bibliographic Essay
Chapter 19: The Wars on Terror
Election 2000
Thirty-Six Days
Compassionate Conservatism
Terrorist Attack!
The Transformation of U.S. Foreign Policy
The Invasion of Iraq
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Election of 2004
The War President
Global Financial Crisis and Recession
2008 Election
The New Face of America
The 2010 Elections
Containing the Wars on Terror
Spring 2012
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George Bush, Address to the Nation, (2001)
George W. Bush, Address to Congress (2001)
N.R. Kleinfield, American Enters a New Century with Terror (2001)
George W. Bush, From National Security Strategy of the United States
of America (2002)
Al Gore, Global Warming (2006)
Dirty Politics in the 2008 Election, (2007)
Nancy Pelosi, Inaugural Address, (2007)
Barack H. Obama, Inaugural Address (2009)
Videos
The Rise and Fall of the Automobile Economy
Modernity's Pollution Problems
The Historical Significance of the 2008 Presidential Election
Brief Bibliographic Essay
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