Portrait of America, Volume II

by Oates, Stephen; Errico, Charles J.

• ISBN13: 9780495914990
• ISBN10: 0495914991
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-05
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

PORTRAIT OF AMERICA is an anthology of essays written by some of America?s most eminent historians. The collection maintains a loose biographical focus. The essays in this secondary-source reader humanize American history by portraying it as a story of real people with whom students can easily identify. More than 25 percent of the essays in the Tenth Edition are new, many from books that have been nationally and internationally recognized for their insight, accuracy, and timeliness, ensuring that the readings continue to be provocative and trustworthy. Each selection is preceded by an introduction for context, and a helpful glossary identifies important individuals, events, and concepts. Study questions follow each selection, prompting students to make comparisons between the readings.

Table of Contents

A Troubled Peace

Call Me Mister

The Checkered History of the Great Fourteenth Amendment

Conquest of the West

Sitting Bull and the Sioux Resistance

Death on the Prairies: The Murderous Blizzard of 1888

The New Industrial Order

The Master of Steel: Andrew Carnegie

The Brooklyn Bridge: A Monument to American Ingenuity and Daring

Reform and Expansion

The Lady Versus Goliath: Ida Tarbell Takes on Standard Oil Co

America's First Southeast Asian War: The Philippine Insurrection

Currentsof the Progressive Era

Theodore Roosevelt, President

African Americans and the Quest for Civil Rights

The Struggle for Justice at Home and Abroad (1914-1920)

Suffragists' Storm Over Washington

A Tragedy of Disappointment: Woodrow Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles

The Twenties

The Roaring and Repressive Twenties

Justice Denied: The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

Long Dark Night of the Depression

Under Hoover, the Shame and Misery Deepened

Government in Action: FDR and the Early New Deal

A World at War (1937-1945)

Franklin and Eleanor: The Early Wartime White House

America and the Holocaust

Twofigures in the Whirlwind of War

Ike at D-Day

Oppenheimer: The Father of the Atomic Bomb

Perils of the Cold War

Harry Truman: One Tough Son-of-a-Bitch of a Man

Lost in Space: A Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis

A New Birth of Freedom

Trumpet of Conscience

Betty Friedan Destroys the Myth of the Happy Housewife

The Collapse of the Imperial Presidency

Trapped: Lyndon Johnson and the Nightmare of Vietnam

I Have Never Been a Quitter: A Portrait of Richard Nixon

The End of the Cold War

Reagan: His Place in History

Some Lessons from the Cold War

New Age Icons

Bill Gates: Enigmatic Genius of Microsoft

Oprah Winfrey: The Celebrity as Entrepreneur

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