<h2>Brief Content and Detailed Contents</h2> <p></p> <h2>1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS</h2> <strong>Found in this Section:</strong> <ol> <li>Brief Table of Contents</li> <li>Full Table of Contents</li> </ol> <ul> <li><strong>Preface</strong></li> <li>Chapter 1 Postwar America</li> <li>Chapter 2 Wars: Cold and Hot</li> <li>Chapter 3 Postwar Politics</li> <li>Chapter 4 The Affluent Society</li> <li>Chapter 5 The Consumer Culture</li> <li>Chapter 6 The Age of Consensus</li> <li>Chapter 7 New Frontiers at Home and Abroad</li> <li>Chapter 8 Great Society and Vietnam</li> <li>Chapter 9 Rebellion and Reaction</li> <li>Chapter 10 Pragmatic Centrism</li> <li>Chapter 11 Calming the Cold War</li> <li>Chapter 12 Era of Limits</li> <li>Chapter 13 Social and Cultural Transformations</li> <li>Chapter 14 The Age of Reagan</li> <li>Chapter 15 Reigniting then Icing the Cold War</li> <li>Chapter 16 Social Tensions and Culture Wars</li> <li>Chapter 17 Going Global</li> <li>Chapter 18 America in a New Millennium</li> <li>Chapter 19 The Wars on Terror</li> </ul> <h4>Index</h4> <p></p> <p></p> <h2>2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Preface</strong></li> <li><strong>Chapter 1: Postwar America</strong> <ul> <li>Victory!</li> <li>People on the Move</li> <li>Economic Transformations</li> <li>A Diverse Society</li> <li>The Growth of Big Labor</li> <li>A Religious People</li> <li>Women</li> <li>African Americans</li> <li>Hispanic Americans</li> <li>Asian Americans</li> <li>Native Americans</li> <li>The Politics of War</li> <li>Legacies of World War</li> <li>Brief Bibliographical Essay</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Chapter 2: Wars: Cold and Hot</strong> <ul> <li>Origins Of Cold War</li> <li>The Truman Doctrine</li> <li>The Marshall Plan</li> <li>Nato</li> <li>The Chinese Revolution</li> <li>Vietnam: The Beginning</li> <li>NSC-68</li> <li>The Korean War, 1950–1953</li> <li>The Cold War Consensus</li> <li>Documents</li> <li>Bernice Brode, Tales of Los Alamos (1943)</li> <li>Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech (1946)</li> <li>George Kennan, Containment (1947)</li> <li>Harry S. Truman, The Truman Doctrine (1947)</li> <li>General Douglas MacArthur, Farewell Address to Congress (1951)</li> <li>Clark Clifford, Memorandum to President Truman (1946)</li> <li>George Marshall, “The Marshall Plan” (1947)</li> <li>National Security Council Memorandum Number 68 (1950)</li> <li>Images</li> <li>Closer Look: Cold War Bomb Shelter</li> <li>Closer Look: The Korean War</li> <li>Videos</li> <li>Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima</li> <li>The Korean War Armistice</li> <li>Brief Bibliographic Essay</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Chapter 3: Postwar Politics</strong> <ul> <li>Harry Who?</li> <li>The Election of 1946</li> <li>The Eightieth Congress</li> <li>Civil Rights</li> <li>The Election of 1948</li> <li>A Fair Deal</li> <li>Red Scare</li> <li>Brief Bibliographic Essay</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Chapter 4: The Affluent Society</strong> <ul> <li>Demographic Patterns</li> <li>An Economy of Abundance</li> <li>The Age of the Automobile</li> <li>Labor at Mid-Century</li> <li>Poverty Amidst Plenty</li> <li>Suburban Sprawl</li> <li>Women: Family and Work</li> <li>Class and Status</li> <li>Brief Bibliographic Essay</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Chapter 5: The Consumer Culture</strong> <ul> <li>The “Teen Culture”</li> <li>Rock ’N’ Roll</li> <li>Television Takes Over</li> <li>Religion Revived</li> <li>Culture Critics</li> <li>Rebels</li> <li>Brief Bibliographic Essay</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Chapter 6: The Age of Consensus</strong> <ul> <li>The Election of 1952</li> <li>Dynamic Conservatism</li> <li>McCarthy Destroyed</li> <li>The Politics of Consensus</li> <li>Civil Rights</li> <li>The New Look</li> <li>Vietnam</li> <li>China Crisis</li> <li>At the Summit</li> <li>The CIA in Covert Action</li> <li>Trouble in Suez</li> <li>Soviet Tanks Crush the Hungarian Revolution</li> <li>A Sputnik Moment</li> <li>Cuba and Castro</li> <li>The Cold War Heats Up</li> <li>End of an Era</li> <li>Brief Bibliographic Essay</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Chapter 7: New Frontiers at Home and Abroad</strong> <ul> <li>The Election of 1960</li> <li>Social Reform</li> <li>The Economy</li> <li>Let Freedom Ring</li> <li>Cold Warrior</li> <li>The Bay of Pigs</li> <li>Alianza para Progreso</li> <li>Berlin</li> <li>Missile Crisis</li> <li>Vietnam: Raising the Stakes</li> <li>Death of a President</li> <li>Closer Look: Signs</li> <li>Videos</li> <li>John F Kennedy Presidential Campaign</li> <li>Kennedy Nixon Debate</li> <li>Civil Rights March on Washington</li> <li>The Cuban Missile Crisis</li> <li>Brief Bibliographic Essay</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Chapter 8: Great Society and Vietnam</strong> <ul> <li>Goldwater Challenges the Liberal Welfare State</li> <li>Great Society</li> <li>The Warren Court</li> <li>The Six Day War</li> <li>Policing the Caribbean</li> <li>Going to War in Vietnam</li> <li>The American Way of War</li> <li>War at Home</li> <li>The Tet-68 Offensive</li> <li>Lyndon B. Johnson, The War on Poverty (1964)</li> <li>The Civil Rights Act of 1964</li> <li>Lyndon Johnson, Message to Congress and the Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)</li> <li>Voting Literacy Test (1965)</li> <li>Lyndon Johnson on the Immigration Act (1965)</li> <li>Martin Luther King, Jr., Conscience and the Vietnam War (1967)</li> <li>Profile: Eugene McCarthy</li> <li>Maps</li> <li>Impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965</li> <li>Vietnam War</li> <li>Videos</li> <li>Lyndon Johnson Presidential Campaign Ad: Little Girl vs. Mushroom Cloud</li> <li>Newsreel: Peace March, Thousands Oppose Vietnam War</li> <li>The Vietnam War</li> <li>Brief Bibliographic Essay</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Chapter 9: Rebellion and Reaction</strong> <ul> <li>Student Radicals</li> <li>The Greening of America</li> <li>The Fire This Time</li> <li>Black Power</li> <li>Brown and Red Power</li> <li>Gay Lesbian Liberation</li> <li>The Rebirth of Feminism</li> <li>Backlash</li> <li>The Election of 1968</li> <li>Summing Up the Sixties</li> <li>Documents</li> <li>Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962)</li> <li>Betty Friedan, "The Problem That Has No Name", from The Feminine Mystique (1963)</li> <li>National Organization from Women, Statement of Purpose (1966)</li> <li>Donald Wheeldin, The Situation in Watts Today (1967)</li> <li>Shirley Chisholm, Equal Rights for Women (1969)</li> <li>The Gay Liberation Front, Come Out (1970)</li> <li>Cesar Chavez, From He Showed Us the Way (1978)</li> <li>Profile: Kwame Toure, (Stokely Carmichael)</li> <li>Profile: Cesar Chavez</li> <li>Profile: Janis Joplin</li> <li>Profile: Bobby Seale</li> <li>Video</li> <li>Malcolm X</li> <li>Protest, Counterculture, and the Antiwar Movement During the Vietnam Era</li> <li>Richard Nixon Presidential Campaign</li> <li>Brief Bibliographic Essay</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Chapter 10: Pragmatic Centrism</strong> <ul> <li>A Closet Liberal?</li> <li>Nixonomics</li> <li>The Southern Strategy</li> <li>Activists and Reformers</li> <li>Ecology and Consumerism</li> <li>The 1972 Election</li> <li>Watergate</li> <li>Decline and Fall</li> <li>Rachel Carson, from Silent Spring (1962)</li> <li>House Judiciary Committee's Conclusion on Impeachment (1972)</li> <li>Roe v. Wade (1973)</li> <li>Statement by the American Indian Movement, Wounded Knee (1973)</li> <li>Watergate Special Prosecution Force Memorandum (1974)</li> <li>Exploring America: American Indian Movement</li> <li>Images</li> <li>Closer Look: Watergate Shipwreck</li> <li>Closer Look: Watergate Through Political Cartoons</li> <li>Videos</li> <li>Richard Nixon I am not a crook</li> <li>Brief Bibliographic Essay</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Chapter 11: Calming the Cold War</strong> <ul> <li>Détente</li> <li>The China Opening</li> <li>Vietnam: A War To End A War</li> <li>Middle Eastern Dilemmas</li> <li>Chaos In Chile</li> <li>New Relations with European Powers</li> <li>The Emergence of Japan</li> <li>Realist Diplomacy in Perspective</li> <li>Testimony at the Winter Soldier Investigation (1971)</li> <li>Richard Nixon, "Peace With Honor" (1973)</li> <li>Images</li> <li>Nixon in China</li> <li>Closer Look: Life Magazine Cover May 15, 1970 Tragedy at Kent State</li> <li>Video</li> <li>Atrocity and Cover Up: My Lai Massacre</li> <li>Brief Bibliographic Essay</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Chapter 12: Era of Limits</strong> <ul> <li>Economic Decline</li> <li>Energy Crises</li> <li>Cars and Computers</li> <li>A Ford Not a Lincoln</li> <li>Extending détente</li> <li>Vietnam: The End</li> <li>The Election of 1976</li> <li>Mr. Carter Goes to Washington</li> <li>A New Foreign Policy Approach</li> <li>The Decline of détente</li> <li>Debacle in Iran</li> <li>The Rise of the New Right</li> <li>The Election of 1980</li> <li>A Time of Troubles</li> <li>Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter speaks about an "Invisible Wall of Racial Segregation," (1976)</li> <li>The Camp David Accords (1978)</li> <li>Jimmy Carter, The "Malaise" Speech (1979)</li> <li>Islam and the State in the Middle East: Ayatollah Khomeini's Vision of Islamic Government (1979)</li> <li>Ronald Reagan, Republican Party Nomination Acceptance (1980)</li> <li>Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address (1981)</li> <li>Profile: Jimmy Carter</li> <li>Profile: Jerry Falwell</li> <li>Videos</li> <li>Gerald Ford Presidential Campaign</li> <li>Jimmy Carter and the Crisis</li> <li>Ronald Reagan on the Wisdom of Tax Cuts</li> <li>Brief Bibliographic Essay</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Chapter 13: Social and Cultural Transformations</strong> <ul> <li>A Demographic Profile</li> <li>New Immigrants</li> <li>African Americans: A Dual Society</li> <li>Women: Changing Attitudes and Roles</li> <li>The Most Religious Nation in the Western World</li> <li>The “Me” Decade</li> <li>Cultural Transformations</li> <li>Conflict and Diversity: Hollywood's Visions of the 1970s</li> <li>Television and the Ascendancy of the Media Culture</li> <li>Ione Malloy, Southie Won't Go (1975)</li> <li>Toi Derricotte, Black in a White Neighborhood (1977-1978)</li> <li>Affirmative Action in Atlanta, "Can Atlanta Succeed Where America Has Failed?"</li> <li>Patricia Morrisroe, Yuppies - The New Class (1985)</li> <li>Map</li> <li>America's Move to the Sunbelt 1970-1981</li> <li>Immigration to the United States, 1945-1990</li> <li>Video</li> <li>Evangelical Religion and Politics, Then and Now</li> <li>Brief Bibliographic Essay</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Chapter 14: The Age of Reagan</strong> <ul> <li>Reaganomics</li> <li>Recession and Recovery</li> <li>Morning Again in America</li> <li>The Election of 1984</li> <li>Second Efforts</li> <li>The “Go-Go” Economy</li> <li>Shifting the Supreme Court to the Right</li> <li>The Sleaze Factor</li> <li>Richard Viguerie, Why the New Right is Winning (1981)</li> <li>Ronald Reagan, The Air Traffic Controllers Strike (1981)</li> <li>Ronald Reagan, Address to the National Association of Evangelicals (1983)</li> <li>Paul Craig Roberts, The Supply-Side Revolution (1984)</li> <li>T. Boone Pickens, My Case for Reagan (1984)</li> <li>Thurgood Marshall, Remarks on the Bicentennial of the Constitution (1987)</li> <li>Images</li> <li>Attempted Reagan Assassination</li> <li>Video</li> <li>Ronald Reagan on the Wisdom of Tax Cuts</li> <li>Ronald Reagan Presidential Campaign</li> <li>Brief Bibliographic Essay</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Chapter 15: Reigniting then Icing the Cold War</strong> <ul> <li>The Old Cold Warrior</li> <li>The Pacific Rim</li> <li>Disaster in Lebanon</li> <li>Canada and America</li> <li>Policing the Western Hemisphere</li> <li>International Crises</li> <li>The Iraqi–Iranian War</li> <li>Iran-Contra Scandals</li> <li>Icing the Cold War</li> <li>Documents</li> <li>A Liberal White Journalist on Apartheid (1970s-1980s)</li> <li>Ronald Reagan, Support for the Contras (1984)</li> <li>Bill Chappell, Speech to the American Security Council Foundation (1985)</li> <li>Mikhail Gorbachev, Speech to the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1986)</li> <li>Mikhail Gorbachev on the Need for Economic Reform (1987)</li> <li>Ronald Reagan, Speech at the Brandenburg Gate (1987)</li> <li>Maps</li> <li>The Cold War Military Stand-off</li> <li>Conflict in Central America, 1970-1998</li> <li>Videos</li> <li>Ronald Reagan at the Berlin Wall</li> <li>Oliver North Hearing</li> <li>Brief Bibliographic Essay</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Chapter 16: Social Tensions and Culture Wars</strong> <ul> <li>2000: A Demographic Profile</li> <li>Bust, Boom, and Bust</li> <li>Cable TV and the Information Superhighway</li> <li>Multiculturalism</li> <li>Culture Warriors</li> <li>Black and White, But Not Together</li> <li>Hispanic Americans</li> <li>Asian Americans</li> <li>Women and Work</li> <li>Documents</li> <li>Howard Rheingold, Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (1993)</li> <li>Cecelia Rosa Avila, Third Generation Mexican American (1988)</li> <li>Jesse Jackson, Common Ground (1988)</li> <li>Elaine Bell Kaplan, "Talking to Teen Mothers" (1995)</li> <li>Image</li> <li>Sign at a Gay Pride March</li> <li>Brief Bibliographic Essay</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Chapter 17: Going Global</strong> <ul> <li>The Election of 1988</li> <li>A Kinder Nation</li> <li>The Rehnquist Court</li> <li>The Election of 1992</li> <li>Clintonomics</li> <li>The Republican Earthquake</li> <li>The Election of 1996</li> <li>A President Impeached</li> <li>Ending and Winning the Cold War</li> <li>The Post–Cold War World</li> <li>The Gulf War</li> <li>Clinton and the Post–Cold War World</li> <li>The Balkan Wars</li> <li>Terrorism Abroad and at Home</li> <li>Documents</li> <li>George H.W. Bush, Inaugural Address (1989)</li> <li>President Clinton's First Inaugural Address (1993)</li> <li>Clinton Health Care Reform Proposals (1993)</li> <li>Republican Contract with America (1994)</li> <li>The Balkan Proximity Peace Talks Agreement (1995)</li> <li>Articles of Impeachment Against William Jefferson Clinton (1999)</li> <li>Bill Clinton, Answers to the Articles of Impeachment (1999)</li> <li>Image</li> <li>Tiananmen Square</li> <li>Map</li> <li>Events in Eastern Europe, 1989-1990</li> <li>Videos</li> <li>The Berlin Wall</li> <li>Bill Clinton Sells Himself to America</li> <li>The Collapse of the Communist Bloc</li> <li>George Bush Presidential Campaign Ad: The Revolving Door</li> <li>President Bush on the Gulf War</li> <li>Brief Bibliographic Essay</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Chapter 18: America in a New Millennium</strong> <ul> <li>The Demographics of Diversity</li> <li>Young People of the New Millennium</li> <li>A Multicultural Society</li> <li>A Nation of Immigrants</li> <li>Documents</li> <li>William Julius Wilson, The Urban Underclass (1987)</li> <li>Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996</li> <li>Building a Black Christian Community from Scratch (1999)</li> <li>Health Issues in the Black Community (2005)</li> <li>Hillary Clinton, Speech on Health Care (2007)</li> <li>Louis Farrakhan on Education (2007)</li> <li>From Then to Now: Immigration: An Ambivalent Welcome</li> <li>From Then to Now: The Diversity of American Religious Life</li> <li>Profile: Colin Powell</li> <li>Map</li> <li>Immigration to the United States, 1945-1990</li> <li>Brief Bibliographic Essay</li> </ul></li> <li><strong>Chapter 19: The Wars on Terror</strong> <ul> <li>Election 2000</li> <li>Thirty-Six Days</li> <li>Compassionate Conservatism</li> <li>Terrorist Attack!</li> <li>The Transformation of U.S. Foreign Policy</li> <li>The Invasion of Iraq</li> <li>Operation Iraqi Freedom</li> <li>Election of 2004</li> <li>The War President</li> <li>Global Financial Crisis and Recession</li> <li>2008 Election</li> <li>The New Face of America</li> <li>The 2010 Elections</li> <li>Containing the Wars on Terror</li> <li>Spring 2012</li> <li>Documents</li> <li>George Bush, Address to the Nation, (2001)</li> <li>George W. Bush, Address to Congress (2001)</li> <li>N.R. Kleinfield, American Enters a New Century with Terror (2001)</li> <li>George W. Bush, From National Security Strategy of the United States of America (2002)</li> <li>Al Gore, Global Warming (2006)</li> <li>Dirty Politics in the 2008 Election, (2007)</li> <li>Nancy Pelosi, Inaugural Address, (2007)</li> <li>Barack H. Obama, Inaugural Address (2009)</li> <li>Videos</li> <li>The Rise and Fall of the Automobile Economy</li> <li>Modernity's Pollution Problems</li> <li>The Historical Significance of the 2008 Presidential Election</li> <li>Brief Bibliographic Essay</li> </ul></li> <h4>Index</h4> </ul> <p></p>