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America's History since 1865

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ISBN-10: 0312452861

ISBN-13: 9780312452865

Edition: 6th 2008

Authors: James A. Henretta, Lynn Dumenil, David Brody, Susan Ware

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"How did that happen?" students wonder about their past.America's Historyprovides a clear explanation. Instructors rely onAmerica's Historyto help them teach that history matters this means helping their students understand not only what happened, but alsowhy. For the new, sixth edition, the authors took a hard look at all aspects of their text, considered what worked and what didn't, and crafted a broad revision plan that demonstrates, once again, their unmatched commitment toAmerica's History.The hallmark of the revision is a thorough reconsideration of the post-1945 period that incorporates new scholarship and makes sense of the recent past, butAmerica's History,Sixth Edition offers much…    
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Book details

List price: $98.95
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 2/26/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 688
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.948
Language: English

Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Presidential Reconstruction
Radical Reconstruction
The Undoing of Reconstruction
Comparing American Voices: Freedom
Reading American Pictures: Why Sharecropping?
Voices from Abroad: David Macrae: The Devastated South
A Maturing Industrial Society, 1877-1914
The American West
The Great Plains
The Far West
Comparing American Voices: Becoming White
Reading American Pictures: Uncovering the Culture of the Plains Indians
Voices from Abroad: Baron Joseph Alexander von Hubner: A Western Boom Town
Capital and Labor in the Age of Enterprise, 1877-1900
Industrial Capitalism Triumphant
The World of Work
The Labor Movement
Comparing American Voices: Working Women
Reading American Pictures: The Killing Floor: Site of America's Mass Production Revolution?
Voices from Abroad: Count Vay de Vaya und Luskod: Pittsburgh Inferno
The Industrial City: Building It, Living In It
Urbanization
Upper Class/Middle Class
City Life
Comparing American Voices: Coming to America: The Downside
Reading American Pictures: Challenging Female Delicacy: The New Woman
Voices from Abroad: Jose Mart': Coney Island, 1881
Politics in the Age of Enterprise, 1877-1896
The Politics of the Status Quo, 1877-1893
Politics and the People
Race and Politics in the New South
The Crisis of American Politics: The 1890s
Comparing American Voices: "Negro Domination!"
Reading American Pictures: Parties and People: How Democratic Was American Politics?
Voices from Abroad: Ernst Below: Beer and German American Politics
The Progressive Era, 1900-1914
The Course of Reform
Progressivism and National Politics
Comparing American Voices: The Triangle Fire
Reading American Pictures: Reining in Big Business? Cartoonists Join the Battle
Voices from Abroad: James Bryce: America in 1905: "Business Is King"
An Emerging World Power, 1877-1914
The Roots of Expansion
An American Empire
Onto the World Stage
Comparing American Voices: Debating the Philippines
Reading American Pictures: Imperial Dilemmas
Voices from Abroad: Jean Hess, Emile Zola, and Ruben Dario: American Goliath
The Modern State and Society, 1914-1945
War and the American State, 1914-1920
Great War, 1914-1918
War on the Home Front
An Unsettled Peace, 1919-1920
Comparing American Voices: The Great Migration
Reading American Pictures: "Over Here": Women's Wartime Opportunities
Voices from Abroad: A German Propaganda Appeal to Black Soldiers
Modern Times, 1920-1932
Business-Government Partnership of the 1920s
A New National Culture
Redefining American Identity
The Onset of the Great Depression
Comparing American Voices: The Scopes Trial
Reading American Pictures: Patrolling the Texas Border
Voices from Abroad: Mary Agnes Hamilton: Breadlines and Beggars
Redefining Liberalism: The New Deal, 1933-1939
The New Deal Takes Over, 1933-1935
The Second New Deal, 1935-1938
The New Deal's Impact on Society
Comparing American Voices: Ordinary People Respond to the New Deal
Reading American Pictures: Interpreting the Public Art of the New Deal
Voices from Abroad: Odette Keun: A Foreigner Looks at the Tennessee Valley Authority
The World at War, 1939-1945
The Road to War
Organizing for Victory
Life on the Home Front
Fighting and Winning the War
Comparing American Voices: Women in the Wartime Workplace
Reading American Pictures: "U.S. Political Propaganda on the Homefront during World War II"
Voices from Abroad: Monica Itoi Sone: Japanese Relocation
The Age of Cold War Liberalism, 1945-1980
Cold War America, 1945-1960
The Cold War
Cold War Liberalism
"Modern Republicanism"
Comparing American Voices: Hunting Communists and Liberals
Reading American Pictures: Why a Cold War Space Race?
Voices from Abroad: Jean Monnet: Truman's Generous Proposal
The Age of Affluence, 1945-1960
Economic Powerhouse
The Affluent Society
The Other America
Comparing American Voices: Challenging White Supremacy
Reading American Pictures: The Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement
Voices from Abroad: Hanoch Bartov: Everyone Has a Car
The Liberal Consensus: Flaming Out, 1960-1968
John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society
Into the Quagmire, 1960-1968
Coming Apart
1968: A Year of Shocks
Comparing American Voices: The Toll of War
Reading American Pictures: War and its Aftermath: Images of the Vietnam Conflict, 1968 and 1982
Voices from Abroad: Che Guevara: Vietnam and the World Freedom Struggle
Towards a Conservative America: The 1970s
The Nixon Years
Battling for Civil Rights: The Second State
Lean Years
Politics in the Wake of Watergate
Comparing American Voices: Debating the Equal Rights Amendment
Reading American Pictures: A Near-Meltdown at Three Mile Island, 1979
Voices from Abroad: Fei Xiaotong: America's Crisis of Faith
Entering a New Era: Conservatism, Globalization, Terrorism, 1980-2006
The Reagan Revolution and the End of the Cold War, 1980-2001
The Rise of Conservatism
The Reagan Presidency, 1981-1989
The Defeat of Communism and the Rise of a New World Order
The Clinton Presidency, 1993-2001
Comparing American Voices: Christianity and Public Life
Reading American Pictures: Image Warfare: Fighting to Define the Reagan Presidency
Voices from Abroad: Zhu Shida: China and the United States: A Unique Relationship
A Dynamic Economy, A Divided People, 1980-2000
America in a Global Economy and Society
New Technology
Culture Wars
Comparing American Voices: Cheap Labor: Immigration and Globalization
Reading American Pictures: The Abortion Debate Hits the Streets
Voices from Abroad: A U.S. Epidemic
Into the Twenty-First Century
The Advent of George W. Bush
American Hegemony Challenged
Unfinished Business
Comparing American Voices: The Stem Cell Research Controversy
Reading American Pictures: Conservatism at a Crossroads
Voices from Abroad: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: A Strategy for the Iraq Insurgency