A History of Our Time Readings on Postwar America

by Chafe, William H.; Sitkoff, Harvard; Bailey, Beth

• ISBN13: 9780195320367
• ISBN10: 0195320360
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This popular and comprehensive anthology presents cogent, provocative articles from differing political perspectives on major issues in postwar America. In addition to selections by leading historians, the editors have assembled first-person accounts of various issues by those who havecontributed to the shaping of America's rich history, including Bill Clinton, Joseph McCarthy, Anne Moody, Robin Morgan, and Phyllis Schlafly. Providing a balance of diverse political viewpoints, the documents include the voices of men and women of African American, European American, AsianAmerican, and Latino/as descent. The seventh edition of A History of Our Time has been extensively revised to incorporate new documents and the most up-to-date articles, which examine such contemporary issues as the Iraq war, political polarization, the new economy, marriage, and the red state/blue state divide. The editors havealso added and deleted articles on earlier events in response to changing historiographical trends. New documents cover a broader range of history, addressing not only political issues, but also social, economic, and technological concerns. With lively and enlightening introductions to each sectionand headnotes that provide a context for the articles, A History of Our Time helps students make sense of the past sixty years of America's sometimes tumultuous but always fascinating history.

Table of Contents

Preface

American Becomes a World Power

World War II and the Destruction of the Old Order

The Necessity for Containment (1946)

The Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy''s Address to the Nation (1962)

President Eisenhower''s Farewell Address (1961)

Editors of Good Housekeeping, A Frightening Message for a Thanksgiving Issue (1958)

HUAC Investigates Hollywood (1947)

The Internal Communist Menace (1950)

The Venona Project and Atomic Espionage

The Politics and Culture of The Affluent Society

The Luckiest Generation

Trends in Postwar American Culture and Society

The Myers Move to Levittown

Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962)

Young Americans for Freedom, The Sharon Statement (1960)

Inaugural Address (1961)

"The Great Society": Remarks at the University of Michigan (1964)

Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism

Civil Rights and Racial Justice

Supreme Court of the United States, Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Declaration of Constitutional Principles: The Southern Manifesto (1956)

A Lunch-Counter Sit-In in Jackson, Mississippi (1968)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Voice of Radical Courage and Love

From Protest to Politics (1965)

What We Want, What We Believe (1966)

Chicano!

Indians of All Tribes, Proclamation (1969)

Struggles Over Gender and Sexual Liberation

The Creation of a Feminist Consciousness

National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose (1966)

Robin Morgan and New York Radical Women, No More Miss America (1968)

!Soy Chicana Primero! (1971)

What''s Wrong with "Equal Rights" for Women? (1972)

Roe v. Wade (1973)

Gay Is Good (1970)

Sexual Revolution(s)

The Vietnam Warlt

We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young

Students for a Democratic Society, March on Washington: The War Must Be Stopped (1965)

"Dump Johnson"

Vietnam Veterans against the War (1971)

Letter to the Draftboard (1969)

In Retrospect

The Genuine Lessons of the Vietnam War

Confrontations and New Limits

The Diggers, Trip without a Ticket (1968)

You Don''t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows (1969)

The Forgotten American (1969)

Watergate

Taken Hostage

The "Crisis of Confidence" Speech: President Carter''s Address to the Nation (1979)

Misery Index

A New Era of Conservatism

The Politics of Anger, 1963-1968

Piety and Property: Conservatism and Right-Wing Movements in the Twentieth Century

The Religious Right and the New Republican Party

America''s Right Turn

"The Second American Revolution": President Reagan''s State of the Union Address (1985)

The Republican Contract with America (1994)

The United States and The World in The Post-Cold War Era

From Gulf War I to Gulf War II: Confronting the Post-Cold War World

Peter Coates and Vincent Vok, 9/11

"Axis of Evil" Speech: President Bush''s State of the Union Address (2002)

An Open Letter to George W. Bush (2004)

The 9/11 Commission, Final Report on 9/11 Commission Recommendations (2005)

Pew Global Attitudes Project, Image of the United States (2005)

"Why the World Is Flat": Interview with Thomas Friedman

Global Exchange, Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the World Trade Organization (2004)

The Changing Shape of American Society

Our Gigantic Experiment with Planet Earth

United States Census Bur

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