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| List of Figures | |
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| Series Editors' Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Origins of the Cold War | |
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| The Atomic Bomb (1945) | |
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| The Policy of Containment (1947) | |
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| The Truman Doctrine (1947) | |
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| A Critique of Truman's Policies (1946) | |
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| A Soviet View of US Policy (1946) | |
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| The Prosecution of American Communists (1949) | |
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| The Red Scare (1950) | |
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| The Lavender Scare (1950) | |
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| A Defense of Civil Liberties (1952) | |
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| Postwar Society and Culture | |
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| The Growth of Suburbia (1949) | |
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| A Critique of Suburbia (1962) | |
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| Consumer Culture and the Home (1947) | |
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| Women's Roles (1950) | |
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| Men's Roles (1956) | |
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| The Beat Generation (1956) | |
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| The Black Freedom Struggle | |
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| A Protest against Bus Segregation (1954) | |
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| The Southern Manifesto (1956) | |
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| Remembering the Sit-In Demonstrations (1998) | |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nonviolent Direct Action (1963) | |
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| Women in the Civil Rights Movement (1964) | |
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| Black Nationalism (1964) | |
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| Economic Justice (1966) | |
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| Vietnam | |
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| The "Falling Domino" Principle (1954) | |
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| Escalation of the War (1964) | |
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| A Defense of the War (1965) | |
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| Experiencing the War (1965-70) | |
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| The Tet Offensive (1968) | |
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| Kent State Shootings (1970) | |
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| Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1971) | |
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| Politics and Protest in the 1960s | |
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| The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) | |
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| Young Americans for Freedom (1960) | |
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| Students for a Democratic Society (1962) | |
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| The Hippie Counterculture (1967) | |
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| The Great Society (1965) | |
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| Cesar Chavez and la Causa (1966) | |
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| The American Indian Movement (2004) | |
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| Environmental Awareness (1962) | |
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| The Environmental Movement (1971) | |
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| Gender and Sexuality in the 1960s and 1970s | |
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| Second Wave Feminism (1963) | |
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| The National Organization for Women (1966) | |
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| Radical Feminism (1973) | |
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| The Gay Liberation Movement (1969) | |
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| Abortion Rights (1973) | |
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| Opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment (1977) | |
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| The Pro-Family Movement (1977) | |
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| Conservative Ascendance | |
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| The 1968 Election (1968) | |
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| The Crisis of Confidence (1979) | |
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| The Religious Right (1980) | |
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| A Critique of the Religious Right (1982) | |
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| The Second American Revolution (1985) | |
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| Life in the Rust Belt (1987) | |
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| The Iran-Contra Investigation (1987) | |
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| The End of Big Government (1996) | |
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| Society in the New Millennium | |
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| Recent Immigration (2006) | |
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| Organized Labor and "Undocumented" Immigrants (2000) | |
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| Affirmative Action (2003) | |
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| The Culture Wars (2003) | |
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| Family Income (1947-2003) | |
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| Hurricane Katrina: A View from New Orleans (2005) | |
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| Hurricane Katrina: A View from the White House (2006) | |
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| The War on Terrorism (2007) | |
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| The Internet and Political Activism (2004) | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |