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Note: Each chapter includes a Conclusion and Further Reading | |
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New Deal and World War: Into the Modern Era Economic Crisis | |
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The Roosevelt Revolution America and the World Crisis | |
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War on the Home Front Wartime | |
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Politics American Trends and Issues: The Rise (and Fall) of Broadcast Journalism | |
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From Atomic War to Cold War: Victory and Containment at Home and Abroad, 19451952 | |
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Truman Takes Charge and Prepares for the First Atomic War | |
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Demobilization and Building Peace: The GI Bill and the New Deal Legacy | |
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Popular Culture and the Age of Television | |
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The Origins of the Cold War and the Birth of Containment | |
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National Politics in the Early Cold War and the Origins of the Red Scaree | |
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The Expanding Dimensions of the Cold War | |
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Biographic Profile: The Rise of the Gunbelt | |
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America at Home, 19531960 | |
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The Affluent Society | |
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The Politics of Moderation Cracks in the Picture Window | |
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Sexual Anxieties, Popular Culture, and Social Change Education and Mass Society | |
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Continuing Struggles: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Eisenhower's Second-Term Blues | |
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American Trends and Issues: High Tech Medicine | |
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Generals and Presidents: U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1950s McCarthyism and the Korean War | |
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Political and Economic Consequences of the Korean War | |
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Eisenhower Takes Command | |
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The Ebbing of McCarthyism America and the Challenges of the Third World | |
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The Hungarian Uprising and Refugee Politics | |
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The Space Race Stirrings of Deacute;tente American Trends and Issues: Oil | |
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The New Frontier at Home and Abroad, 19601963 | |
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American Society and Politics in 1960 | |
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The Kennedy Presidency Kennedy's Foreign Policy | |
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New Frontiers at Home | |
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The Push for Civil Rights Scientific, Technological, and Cultural Changes in the Early 1960s Assassination | |
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Biographic Profile: Nuclear Fallout Shelters--A Blast from the Past | |
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The Dream of a Great Society Lyndon Johnson: The Man and the President | |
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The Great Society: Success and Disappointment Changes in the National Economy | |
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The Supreme Court and Civil Liberties | |
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Decline of the Great Society | |
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Foreign Affairs in the Shadow of Vietnam | |
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American Trends and Issues: Big Dreams, Big Buildings | |
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The Vietnam Nightmare | |
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The Growth of America's Commitment to Vietnam, 19451964 | |
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The Americanization of the War, 1965 Fighting the War, 19661967 | |
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Working Class War and the Draft Rising | |
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Dissent and the Collapse of the Cold War Consensus | |
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The Election of 1968 American | |
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Trends and Issues: Wagging the Dog: "The Media-Spindustrial Complex" and American Foreign Relations | |
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The Politics and Culture of Protest | |
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From Civil Rights to Black Power | |
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The SDS and the Rise of the New Left | |
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The Counterculture and Mainstream Culture | |
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Mass Culture and Social Critique 1968: A Year of Cataclysm | |
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The Rise of the New Feminism | |
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The Legacy of the Sixties | |
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American Trends and Issues: "A Veritable Obsession": Women, Work, and Motherhood | |
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Illusion of Peace: America and the World During the Nixon Years | |
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The Retreat from Vietnam and the Search for Peace with Honor | |
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The Road to the Paris Peace Accords Deacute;tente with the Soviet Union | |
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The Opening to China Policies on the Margins | |
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American Trends and Issues: Energy Too Cheap to Meter: The Temptation of Nuclear Power | |
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The Use and Abuse of Power: Domestic Affairs and the Watergate Scandal, 19691974 | |
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Recasting the Welfare State | |
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The Burger Court Economic Stagnation | |
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The Election of 1972 Watergate and the Abuse of Power | |
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American Trends and Issues: Strange Bedfellows: The Politics of Scandal in Postwar America | |
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The Challenges of Change, 19741980 | |
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Changing Roles for Women and Men | |
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Economic Problems and Social Divisions | |
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Religion and the Rise of the New Right Presidential Politics | |
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Energy and Environment | |
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Foreign Affairs in the Carters Years | |
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American Trends and Issues: Evangelical Christianity in American Life | |
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Right Turn: Conservatism Ascendant, 19801993 | |
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Ronald Reagan and the New Conservatism | |
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Re-election and the Second Administration | |
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Economic Realities of the Reagan-Bush Era | |
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Civil Rights and Conservative Justice Society, Culture, and New Americans in the 1980s | |
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George H.W. Bush, Michael Dukakis, and the 1988 Election | |
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The Bush Presidency at Home George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and the 1992 Election | |
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American Trends and Issues: "Dumber Than We Thought We Were": The Politics of Education | |
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From the New Cold War to the New World Order | |
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Reagan's Foreign Policy Style More Bang for More Bucks: The New Arms Race | |
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America and the Middle East Adventures | |
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South of the Border | |
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The Iran-Contra Debacle | |
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Ratcheting Down the Cold War | |
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The New World Order | |
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Post-Cold War Interventions | |
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American Trends and Issues: The Prison/Industrial Complex | |
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On the Edge, 1993 to the Present | |
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The Technology Decade | |
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The Changing Face of America | |
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Trivial Pursuits | |
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The Clinton Presidency Foreign Affairs in the Post-Cold War Era | |
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The Election of 2000 Into the Twenty-First Century | |
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American Trends and Issues: The Stock Market | |
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American Trends and Issues: Labor Conflict, Capital Movement, and the Rise of Global Capitalism: The Case of RCA | |