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| World War II and the Origins of Postwar America ESSAYS Thomas G. Paterson,The Origins of the Postwar International System Alan Wolfe,The Roots of Postwar Politics Alan Brinkley,The Legacies of World War II | |
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| From World War II to the Cold War: The Atomic Bombing of Japan DOCUMENTS | |
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| President Harry S Truman's Advisors Discuss the Atomic Bomb, May 1945 | |
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| Atomic Scientists Urge an Alternative Course, June 1945 | |
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| U.S. Science Advisers Endorse Dropping the Bomb, June 1945 | |
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| Undersecretary of the Navy Ralph Bard Urges Alternatives, June 1945 | |
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| General Leslie Groves Reports on a Successful Test, July 1945 | |
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| President Truman Discusses the Bomb at Potsdam, July 1945 | |
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| The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey Concludes That the Bomb Was Unnecessary, 1946 ESSAYS Robert James Maddox,The Biggest Decision: Why We Had to Drop the Atomic Bomb Gar Alperovitz,Hiroshima: Historians Reassess | |
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| The Cold War Begins DOCUMENTS | |
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| President Harry S Truman and His Advisers Debate U.S. Policy Toward the U.S.S.R., April 1945 | |
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| Russian Premier Joseph Stalin Defends Soviet Policy in Eastern Europe, April 1945 | |
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| Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace Urges a Conciliatory Approach, July 1946 | |
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| White House Aide Clark M. Clifford Summarizes the Case for the Hard Line, September 1946 | |
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| Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Novikov Reports on the U.S. Drive for World Supremacy, September 1946 | |
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| The Truman Doctrine, March 1947 | |
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| Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson Calls for Economic Aid to Europe, May 1947 | |
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| The President's Advisers Urge Military Expansion, April 1950 | |
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| President Truman and His Advisers Determine the United States' Response to the Invasion of South Korea, June 26, 1950 ESSAYS John Lewis Gaddis,Soviet Unilateralism and the Origins of the Cold War Thomas G. Paterson,An Exaggerated Threat and the Rise of American Globalism | |
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| Affluence and Discontent in the 1950s DOCUMENTS | |
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| Life Magazine Identifies the New Teen-age Market, 1959 | |
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| Newsweek Decries the Problem of Dangerous Teens, 1955 | |
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| U.S. News and World Report Assesses the Peril of Mass Culture and the Evils of Television, 1955 | |
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| Congress Investigates Homosexuals as Subversives, 1950 | |
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| Graphic Illustrations of How to Respond to a Nuclear Attack, 1950 ESSAYS Beth Bailey,Rebels Without a Cause: Teenagers in the 1950s Roland Marchand,Visions of Classlessness | |
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| John F. Kennedy, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cold War DOCUMENTS | |
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| Fidel Castro Denounces U.S. Policy Toward Cuba, 1960 | |
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| President John F. Kennedy Calls for an Alliance for Progress, 1961 | |
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| A Board of Inquiry Reports on the Bay of Pigs, 1961 | |
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| President Kennedy and His Advisers Debate Options in the Missile Crisis, October 16, 1962 | |
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| Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev Appeals to President Kennedy, October 26, 1962 | |
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| Anastas I. Mikhoyan and Fidel Castro Review the Crisis, November 34, 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 | |
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| Lyndon B. Johnson, the Great Society, and American Liberalism DOCUMENTS | |
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| Michael Harrington Describes the "Other America," 1962 | |
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| President Lyndon B. Johnson Declares War on Poverty, 1964 | |
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| President Ronald Reagan Warns of the Dangers of the Welfare State, 1964 | |
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| A Liberal Cartoonist Worries That Johnson Has Abandoned the Great Society, 1965 | |
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| Two White House Aides Report the Achievements of the Great Society, 1966 | |
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| Poverty in America, 19591997: A Graphic ESSAYS Ira Katznelson,Was the Great Society a Lost Oppor | |