Designed to encourage critical thinking about history the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources & analytical essays on important topics in US history This reader serves as the primary anthology for the Post-1945 US History course Comprehensive topical coverage
Includes:: the Cold War; the cultural & political movements of the 50s 60s 70s & 80s; Vietnam; the return of conservatism; globalization; life in the new information age; the post-Cold War era; & race & ethnicity The Fourth Edition extends its consideration of the period since the 1960s by adding two entirely new chapters & substantially reconfiguring others In this way this edition devotes far more attention to the 1970s a period that has received especially notable scholarly scrutiny in the last few years & to the period since the end of the Cold War Key pedagogical elements of the Major Problems format have been retained chapter introductions headnotes & suggested readings