Modern America: A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945

Assembles key documents and firsthand accounts that are emblematic of American life from the end of World War II. Designed to complement a core text for a typical post-1945 US history course, this book offers coverage of domestic and foreign, societal and cultural issues grouped together chronologically.

Chapter 1 Origins of the Cold War; Chapter 2 Postwar Political Trends; Chapter 3 Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement; Chapter 4 The Eisenhower Administration's "New Look" Foreign Policy; Chapter 5 The Fifties Lifestyle; Chapter 6 The Cold War Heats Up During the Kennedy Administration; Chapter 7 Lyndon Johnson's War; Chapter 8 Sixties Society and Culture; Chapter 9 Political Trends on the Left and the Right; Chapter 10 Civil Rights Victories and Divisions; Chapter 11 Polarization and Protest; Chapter 12 Nixon and the End of U.S. Involvement in Indochina; Chapter 13 The Environmental and Consumer Movements; Chapter 14 The Tragedy of Watergate; Chapter 15 Feminism and American Society; Chapter 16 The Emergence of Ronald Reagan and the New Right; Chapter 17 The Reagan Foreign Policy and a New Soviet Confrontation; Chapter 18 More Culture Wars; Chapter 19 Bill Clinton's America and the Impeachment of a President; Chapter 20 The Election of George W. Bush, Terrorism, and the Crisis in the Gulf;