Unger
©2005
ISBN: 0-13-191402-2
Soft cover

This popular two-volume series presents an anthology of primary documents, letters, and articles in which participants and contemporary observers express their opinions, make their observations, and reach their conclusions about events and issues of their own day that affected the nation and the American society as a whole.

• Contemporary spin on politics and the economy
  • Includes new chapters on the 1990's that stress recent and present issues.
  • Enriches students with state-of-the-art scholarship on United States history.
• Re-emergent issues
  • Expands coverage of the role of relevant contemporary concerns prevalent in past times, such as environmental protection and conservation, the impact of technology on society, legal and ideological definitions and conceptions of freedom, civil rights and liberties, and the toleration and acceptance of cultural diversity.
  • Demonstrates the timeless nature of certain historical issues.
• Shifting political trends
  • Offers a more in-depth and broader survey on political trends—the triumph of conservatism in the last 30 years, the enduring tensions of church-state and federal-state government relations, and the importance of demographic transition.
  • Gives students a thorough analysis of political changes in America and the effects on the American people.
• Women's issues
  • Considers the National Organization for Women's Bill of Rights (1967), radical feminism of the late 60's, and its 1977 counterattack.
  • Helps students understand the great strides and setbacks for American women over history.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Reconstruction
2. An Urban and Industrial Nation
3. The Last West and Populism
4. Outward Thrust
5. The Progressive Impulse
6. Race and Ethnicity
7. World War I
8. The Twenties' Cultural War
9. The New Deal
10. World War II
11. The Fifties
12. The Cold War
13. The Civil Rights Revolution
14. The Great Society
15. The New Feminism
16. The Vietnam War
17. Watergate
18. The Reagan Revolution and Conservative Ascendancy
19. The New Environmentalism