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| Preface | |
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| America Becomes a World Power | |
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| World War II and the Destruction of the Old Order | |
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| The Necessity for Containment (1946) | |
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| HUAC Investigates Hollywood (1947) | |
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| The Internal Communist Menace (1950) | |
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| The Venona Project and Atomic Espionage | |
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| A Frightening Message for a Thanksgiving Issue (1958): Editors of Good Housekeeping | |
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| President Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961) | |
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| The Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy's Address to the Nation (1962) | |
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| The Politics and Culture of the Affluent Society | |
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| The Luckiest Generation | |
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| Trends in Postwar American Culture and Society | |
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| The Myers Move to Levittown | |
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| The Port Huron Statement (1962): Students for a Democratic Society | |
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| The Sharon Statement (1960): Young Americans for Freedom | |
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| Inaugural Address (1961) | |
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| "The Great Society": Remarks at the University of Michigan (1964) | |
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| Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism | |
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| Civil Rights and Racial Justice | |
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| Brown v. Board of Education (1954): Supreme Court of the United States | |
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| Declaration of Constitutional Principles: The Southern Manifesto (1956): Signed by 101 Members of the U.S. Congress | |
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| We Shall Overcome 1965 | |
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| A Lunch-Counter Sit-in in Jackson, Mississippi (1968) | |
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| What We Want, What We Believe (1966) | |
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| Chicano! | |
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| Proclamation (1969): Indians of All Tribes | |
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| The Vietnam War | |
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| Peace without Conquest (1965) | |
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| We Were Soldiers Once... and Young | |
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| March on Washington: The War Must Be Stopped (1965): Students for a Democratic Society | |
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| Vietnam Veterans against the War (1971) | |
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| Who Fought the War | |
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| Letter to the Draftboard (1969) | |
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| In Retrospect | |
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| The Genuine Lessons of the Vietnam War | |
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| Rebellion and Counterculture | |
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| Trip without a Ticket (1968): The Diggers | |
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| You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows (1969) | |
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| Bringing the War Home | |
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| New Buffalo: Journals from a Taos Commune (1971) | |
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| The Intoxicated State/Illegal Nation | |
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| Struggles Over Gender and Sexual Liberation | |
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| The Creation of a Feminist Consciousness | |
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| Statement of Purpose (1966): The National Organization for Women | |
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| No More Miss America (1968): Robin Morgan and New York Radical Women | |
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| !Soy Chicana Primero! (1971) | |
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| What's Wrong with "Equal Rights" for Women? (1972) | |
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| Roe v. Wade (1973) | |
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| Gay Is Good (1970) | |
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| Sexual Revolution(s) | |
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| Age of Uncertainty | |
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| The Forgotten American (1969) | |
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| Watergate | |
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| Taken Hostage | |
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| The "Crisis of Confidence" Speech: President Carter's Address to the Nation (1979) | |
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| Misery Index | |
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| A New Era of Conservatism | |
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| The Politics of Anger, 1963-1968 | |
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| Piety and Property: Conservatism and Right-Wing Movements in the Twentieth Century | |
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| The Religious Right and the New Republican Party | |
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| America's Right Turn | |
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| "The Second American Revolution": President Reagan's State of the Union Address (1985) | |
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| The Republican Contract with America (1994) | |
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| The United States and the World in the Post-Cold War Era | |
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| From the Persian Gulf War to Iraq and Afghanistan: Confronting the Post-Cold War World | |
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| 9/11 | |
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| The "Axis of Evil" Speech: President Bush's State of the Union Address (2002) | |
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| Image of the United States (2005): Pew Global Attitudes Project | |
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| "Why the World Is Flat": Interview with Thomas Friedman | |
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| Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the World Trade Organization (2004): Global Exchange | |
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| The Changing Shape of American Society | |
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| A More Perfect Union (2008) | |
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| 9 Principles, 12 Values (2009): Glenn Beck, The 9.12 Project | |
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| Our Gigantic Experiment with Planet Earth | |
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| The New Immigration: United States Census Bureau | |
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| Great Expectations (2004): Stephanie Coontz | |
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| The American People in the Early Twenty-first Century | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |