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Speaking History Oral Histories of the American Past, 1865-Present

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ISBN-10: 1403977836

ISBN-13: 9781403977830

Edition: 2009

Authors: Laurie Mercier, Sue Armitage

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 12/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

List of Illustrations
Series Editors' Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1865-1900
Race Relations
The End of Slavery
Sharecropping and Violence
A California Remembers the War
A Wounded Knee Survivor Remembers
Work on the Western Agricultural Frontier
A Homesteader's Account
A Cowboy's Story
Immigration
A Greek Peddler: Anonymous
A Chinese Businessman
Industrial War
The Homestead Strike
1900-1920
Reform Movements
Women's Reform
Race and Work in the South
Child Labor
Growing Up with Segregation
Migrations
From Russia to Chicago and Montana
Beginning the Great Migration
World War I
At the Front
On the Homefront
The Influenza Epidemic
1920-1945
Migrations
North to the United States for �a Steady Job�
From Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California
Involuntary Migration to Mexico
Leisure and Culture in the 1920s and 1930s
Drinking and Leisure during Prohibition
American Renaissance
Turn Your Radio On
Work and Labor during the Great Depression
The New CIO and the 1937 Steel Strike
Working for the Civilian Conservation Corps
Discrimination and the Depression
World War II: Opportunities and Tragedies
Women at Work
Women at War
Negotiating Internment
1945-1965
The Cold War at Home
The Left during the Cold War
The Cold War and Labor
Migrations
Opportunities in the Industrial North
Urban Indians
Race and Civil Rights
Desegregating the Nation's Capital
Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi
Postwar Work, Family, and Community
Negotiating Career and Family in Arizona
Life in the D.C. Suburbs
1965-2000
Protest and Social Change
Rock �n� Roll and Cultural Protest
Radical Protest-SDS and the Weatherman
The Gender Revolution and its Backlash
The Dawning of the Gay Rights Movement
The Conservative Women's Movement
Cold War Warriors
Vietnam War Soldiers
The Nuclear Cold War and Its Environmental Consequences
Cold War Migrations
�Born a Hmong Daughter�
Sanctuary for Central American Refugees
Economic Change and New Domestic Challenges
Shrinking Jobs in the Industrial Economy
Domestic Terrorism and the Oklahoma City Bombing
Appendix
How to Conduct an Oral History Interview: A Quick Guide
Select Bibliography