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This two-volume reader consists of original essays, with decade of American history represented by at least one essay. The stories cover a range of topics such as: popular culture; women's history; urban history; and the history of science and technology. The essays also shed light on political, social, economic and cultural trends. This volume includes additional stories on the 19th-century West, the South, World War II, and the late 20th-century religious right. The reconstruction era is represented by a story on the "Christmas Riots" of 1865.

Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 1: An Insurrection that Never Happened: The Christmas Riots of 1865, by Stephen NissenbaumCHAPTER 2: Building the Brooklyn Bridge, by Alan TrachtenbernCHAPTER 3: The Hatfield-McCoy Feud, by Altina L. WallerCHAPTER 4: Coxey's Army: Dramatizing the Malaise of the 1890's, by Carlos A. SchwanteCHAPTER 5: Empire in the Philippines: America's Forgotten War of Colonial Conquest, by Stuart Creighton MilleCHAPTER 6: Artificial Insemination: The First Debate, by Elaine Tyler MaCHAPTER 7: The Leo Frank Murder Case, by Leonard DinnersteiCHAPTER 8: The Black Sox Scandal, by Ronald StorCHAPTER 9: Deadly Fuel: Autos, Leaded Gas, and the Politics of Science, by David Rosner and Gerald MarkowitCHAPTER 10: The Townsend Movement and Social Security, by William GraebneCHAPTER 11: Harlem Hellfighters: The 369th in World War II Hawaii, by Beth Bailey and David FarbeCHAPTER 12: The Making of Disneyland, by George LipsitzCHAPTER 13: Woodstock and Altamont, by Michael FriscCHAPTER 14: The Iranian Hostage Crisis, by Walter LaFeberCHAPTER 15: Apocalypse in Waco: David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, by Paul Boyer

About the Author :
William Graebner is professor of history at the State University of New York, College at Fredonia. He has written on a variety of aspects of twentieth-century American history. His books include A History of Retirement (1980), The Engineering of Consent: Democracy and Authority in Twentieth-Century America (1987), Coming of Age in Buffalo (1990), and The Age of Doubt: American Thought and Culture in the 1940s (1991). He is Associate Editor of American Studies.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780070230156
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
  • Publisher Imprint: McGraw Hill Higher Education
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: v. 2
  • Width: 160 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0070230153
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 1996
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 233 mm
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Weight: 362 gr


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