Major Problems in American History Since 1945

Description

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. This reader serves as the primary anthology for the Post-1945 U.S. History course, Comprehensive topical coverage includes the Cold War; the cultural and political movements of the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s; Vietnam; the return of conservatism; globalization; life in the new information age; the post-Cold War era; and race and ethnicity. The Fourth Edition extends its consideration of the period since the 1960s by adding two entirely new chapters and substantially reconfiguring others. In this way, this edition devotes far more attention to the 1970s, a period that has received especially notable scholarly scrutiny in the last few years, and to the period since the end of the Cold War. Key pedagogical elements of the Major Problems format have been retained: chapter introductions, headnotes, and suggested readings. Chapter 1 - The Origins of the Cold War Era Chapter 2 - The Consumer's Republic: Mass Culture, Consumer Markets, and Identity in the 1950s Chapter 3 - To the Brink: Berlin, Cuba, and the Threat of Nuclear War Chapter 4 - Equality, Freedom, and Power: The Civil Rights Revolution Chapter 5 - The Great Society and the Politics of Liberal Reform Chapter 6 - The New Radicalism of the 1960s Chapter 7 - From the Feminine Mystique to Women's Liberation: Feminist Politics in the 1960s and 1970s Chapter 8 - Vietnam and the Crisis of American Power Chapter 9 - A New Age of Limits: America and the World in the 1970s Chapter 10 - Politics and Popular Cultures of the 1980s Chapter 11 - Late Capitalism and the Rise of Globalization: Work, Labor, and Inequality in the New Century Chapter 12 - The 1990s and the Search for Post-Cold War Priorities Chapter 13 - A Post-Racial America or a New Jim Crow? Contemporary Debates about Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Chapter 14 - The United States in the World since 9/11