The United States Since 1945 Historical Interpretations

by Rossinow, Doug; Lowen, Rebecca S.

Edition: 1st

ISBN13: 9780131840331

ISBN10: 0131840339

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2019-05-02

Publisher(s): Pearson

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Summary

For courses in U.S. history since 1945. The United States Since 1945: Historical Interpretations gives students the opportunity to compare and contrast leading interpretations of key historical events and issues in recent American history, presenting two or three carefully edited scholarly writings on each topic covered. This book is a collection of secondary readings on key topics in U.S. history since 1945, edited by two leading historians in the field. Due to the growing interest among teachers and students in the 1970s and on, the authors have collected material that concentrates heavily on recent history, including current globalization and the events of 9/11. The reader is divided into three parts, covering 1945-1960, 1960-1974, and 1974 to the present.

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

xiii

Note to Students

PART I The Cold War System Abroad and at Home

(102)

CHAPTER 1 The Atomic Bombings

(19)

Introduction

(2)

Gar Alperovitz, Why the United States Dropped the Bomb

(7)

Barton J. Bernstein, The Atomic Bombings Reconsidered

(7)

Further Reading

(2)

Primary Sources

(1)

CHAPTER 2 The Origins of the Cold War

(26)

Introduction

(4)

John Lewis Gaddis, Rethinking Cold War History

(7)

Carolyn Eisenberg, The American Decision to Divide Germany

(8)

Bruce Cumings, The Wicked Witch of the West Is Dead. Long Live the Wicked Witch of the East

(4)

Further Reading

(1)

Primary Sources

(2)

CHAPTER 3 The Red Scare

(27)

Introduction

(4)

Leslie A. Fiedler, McCarthy

(6)

Ellen Schrecker, McCarthyism and the Universities

(7)

K.A. Cuordileone, Cold War Political Culture and the Crisis in American Masculinity

(7)

Further Reading

(1)

Primary Sources

(2)

CHAPTER 4 Affluence, Domesticity, and the Fifties

(28)

Introduction

(3)

Elaine Tyler May, Politics and the Family in Postwar America

(8)

Alan Brinkley, The Illusion of Unity in Cold War Culture

(7)

Margaret Rose, Gender and Civic Activism in Mexican American Barrios in California

(8)

Further Reading

101

(1)

Primary Sources

102

(1)

PART II The System Under Stress

103

(122)

CHAPTER 5 The Black Freedom Struggle

105

(23)

Introduction

105

(3)

Vincent Gordon Harding, The Radicalism of Martin Luther King, Jr.

108

(6)

Timothy B. Tyson, Robert F. Williams and "Black Power"

114

(7)

Charles M Payne, Brown v. Board and the Mystification of Race

121

(5)

Further Reading

126

(1)

Primary Sources

127

(1)

CHAPTER 6 The New Radicals

128

(25)

Introduction

128

(3)

Doug Rossinow, Christianity and the Emergence of the New Left

131

(10)

Max Elbaum, What Legacy from the Radical Internationalism of 1968?

141

(10)

Further Reading

151

(1)

Primary Sources

152

(1)

CHAPTER 7 Second-Wave Feminism

153

(16)

Introduction

153

(3)

Sara M Evans, The Origins of the Women's Liberation Movement

156

(4)

Nancy MacLean, The Hidden History of Affirmative Action

160

(7)

Further Reading

167

(1)

Primary Sources

168

(1)

CHAPTER 8 The War on Poverty

169

(19)

Introduction

169

(4)

Allen Matusow, The Failure of the Welfare State

173

(8)

Michael B. Katz, From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare

181

(5)

Further Reading

186

(1)

Primary Sources

187

(1)

CHAPTER 9 The Vietnam War

188

(16)

Introduction

188

(3)

Robert Buzzanco, Why (Not) Vietnam?

191

(6)

George C. Herring, The "Vietnam Syndrome" and American Foreign Policy

197

(5)

Further Reading

202

(1)

Primary Sources

203

(1)

CHAPTER 10 The Crisis of the State

204

(21)

Introduction

204

(4)

Lewis L. Gould, Richard Nixon and the Rise of the Continuous Campaign

208

(7)

Michael Schudson, Watergate in American Memory

215

(6)

Further Reading

221

(1)

Primary Sources

222

(3)

PART III A New Domestic and World Order

225

CHAPTER 11 The Conservative Ascendancy

227

(23)

Introduction

227

(3)

Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall, Race, Rights, and American Politics

230

(7)

Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors

237

(6)

Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas?

243

(5)

Further Reading

248

(1)

Primary Sources

248

(2)

CHAPTER 12 Reaganomics and Beyond

250

(26)

Introduction

250

(3)

Barbara Ehrenreich, Yuppies and the Culture of the 1980's

253

(7)

Robert Collins, The Reagan Revolution

260

(10)

Michael Meeropol, How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution

270

(3)

Further Reading

273

(2)

Primary Sources

275

(1)

CHAPTER 13 The End of the Cold War

276

(20)

Introduction

276

(2)

Dinesh D'Souza, How Reagan Won the Cold War

278

(6)

Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry, Who Won the Cold War?

284

(6)

Edward Pessen, Losing Our Souls

290

(4)

Further Reading

294

(1)

Primary Sources

295

(1)

CHAPTER 14 Globalization

296

(20)

Introduction

296

(3)

Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Globalization and Its Discontents

299

(8)

Jagdish Bhagwati, The Human Face of Globalization

307

(3)

Douglas S. Massey, Closed-Door Policy

310

(4)

Further Reading

314

(1)

Primary Sources

315

(1)

CHAPTER 15 The 9/11 Attacks

316

Introduction

316

(5)

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, The 9/11 Report

321

(13)

Chalmers Johnson, Blowback

334

(6)

Further Reading

340

(1)

Primary Sources

341

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