
A History of Our Time Readings on Postwar America
by Chafe, William H.; Sitkoff, Harvard; Bailey, BethBuy New
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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Preface | p. xiii |
America Becomes a World Power | p. 1 |
World War II and the Destruction of the Old Order | p. 5 |
The Necessity for Containment (1946) | p. 13 |
HUAC Investigates Hollywood (1947) | p. 18 |
The Internal Communist Menace (1950) | p. 26 |
The Venona Project and Atomic Espionage | p. 29 |
A Frightening Message for a Thanksgiving Issue (1958): Editors of Good Housekeeping | p. 38 |
President Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961) | p. 41 |
The Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy's Address to the Nation (1962) | p. 46 |
The Politics and Culture of the Affluent Society | p. 53 |
The Luckiest Generation | p. 55 |
Trends in Postwar American Culture and Society | p. 61 |
The Myers Move to Levittown | p. 64 |
The Port Huron Statement (1962): Students for a Democratic Society | p. 66 |
The Sharon Statement (1960): Young Americans for Freedom | p. 71 |
Inaugural Address (1961) | p. 73 |
"The Great Society": Remarks at the University of Michigan (1964) | p. 77 |
Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism | p. 81 |
Civil Rights and Racial Justice | p. 93 |
Brown v. Board of Education (1954): Supreme Court of the United States | p. 96 |
Declaration of Constitutional Principles: The Southern Manifesto (1956): Signed by 101 Members of the U.S. Congress | p. 100 |
We Shall Overcome 1965 | p. 103 |
A Lunch-Counter Sit-in in Jackson, Mississippi (1968) | p. 113 |
What We Want, What We Believe (1966) | p. 117 |
Chicano! | p. 121 |
Proclamation (1969): Indians of All Tribes | p. 128 |
The Vietnam War | p. 133 |
Peace without Conquest (1965) | p. 136 |
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young | p. 141 |
March on Washington: The War Must Be Stopped (1965): Students for a Democratic Society | p. 149 |
Vietnam Veterans against the War (1971) | p. 151 |
Who Fought the War | p. 155 |
Letter to the Draftboard (1969) | p. 158 |
In Retrospect | p. 162 |
The Genuine Lessons of the Vietnam War | p. 166 |
Rebellion and Counterculture | p. 171 |
Trip without a Ticket (1968): The Diggers | p. 173 |
You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows (1969) | p. 178 |
Bringing the War Home | p. 182 |
New Buffalo: Journals from a Taos Commune (1971) | p. 188 |
The Intoxicated State/Illegal Nation | p. 195 |
Struggles Over Gender and Sexual Liberation | p. 209 |
The Creation of a Feminist Consciousness | p. 212 |
Statement of Purpose (1966): The National Organization for Women | p. 218 |
No More Miss America (1968): Robin Morgan and New York Radical Women | p. 223 |
!Soy Chicana Primero! (1971) | p. 226 |
What's Wrong with "Equal Rights" for Women? (1972) | p. 230 |
Roe v. Wade (1973) | p. 238 |
Gay Is Good (1970) | p. 242 |
Sexual Revolution(s) | p. 246 |
Age of Uncertainty | p. 261 |
The Forgotten American (1969) | p. 263 |
Watergate | p. 273 |
Taken Hostage | p. 283 |
The "Crisis of Confidence" Speech: President Carter's Address to the Nation (1979) | p. 293 |
Misery Index | p. 298 |
A New Era of Conservatism | p. 299 |
The Politics of Anger, 1963-1968 | p. 301 |
Piety and Property: Conservatism and Right-Wing Movements in the Twentieth Century | p. 316 |
The Religious Right and the New Republican Party | p. 329 |
America's Right Turn | p. 336 |
"The Second American Revolution": President Reagan's State of the Union Address (1985) | p. 341 |
The Republican Contract with America (1994) | p. 346 |
The United States and the World in the Post-Cold War Era | p. 349 |
From the Persian Gulf War to Iraq and Afghanistan: Confronting the Post-Cold War World | p. 353 |
9/11 | p. 369 |
The "Axis of Evil" Speech: President Bush's State of the Union Address (2002) | p. 378 |
Image of the United States (2005): Pew Global Attitudes Project | p. 381 |
"Why the World Is Flat": Interview with Thomas Friedman | p. 390 |
Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the World Trade Organization (2004): Global Exchange | p. 396 |
The Changing Shape of American Society | p. 401 |
A More Perfect Union (2008) | p. 403 |
9 Principles, 12 Values (2009): Glenn Beck, The 9.12 Project | p. 413 |
Our Gigantic Experiment with Planet Earth | p. 415 |
The New Immigration: United States Census Bureau | p. 419 |
Great Expectations (2004): Stephanie Coontz | p. 425 |
The American People in the Early Twenty-first Century | p. 428 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 431 |
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