History

• NEW - Scholarship—Integrates the new scholarship on post-1945 history into the general framework and updates that framework in light of changing historiographical fashions and trends.

  • Provides students and instructors with up-to-date assessments of controversial issues, such as the cold war, the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, and the Vietnam War.

• NEW - Reorganized—The first eight chapters now fit foreign and domestic policies together more smoothly.

  • Allows students to see the interrelationship among seemingly disparate events and trends.

• NEW - Updated bibliographies—Includes suggested websites and publications that have appeared in the past several years.

  • Provides additional resources for teaching and learning.

• NEW - Chapter introductions.

  • Bring major themes into focus while enhancing the text's narrative quality.

• NEW - Expanded coverage of the 1980s and 1990s.

• NEW - Updated illustrations, charts, and maps.

• Broad coverage of the entire post-World War II era—Not just one sub-era or several key themes.

  • Emphasizes the complexity of the 1960s and 1970s rather than presenting the era simply as a time of “radicalism” followed by one of “reaction.”

• A clear, straight-forward narrative.

  • Provides students with an interpretive framework that prepares them for classroom activities, and gives instructors interpretations (e.g., the focus on an “oversized society,”) that they can modify or challenge, as well as embrace, in their own presentations.

• Popular culture—Interweaves trends in popular culture throughout the broader story of the US since the end of World War II.

  • Provides students with easily accessible points of entry into historical themes, and helps instructors show how the story of the past involves popular issues that still resonate today.

• U.S. foreign policy—Integrates the history of U.S. foreign policy into domestic history, stressing how events such as the Cold War and the conflict in Vietnam came to shape—and be shaped by—what was happening on the domestic front.

  • Provides a way of integrating foreign affairs into a thematic discussion of domestic trends.

• Scholarship—Integrates the new scholarship on post-1945 history into the general framework and updates that framework in light of changing historiographical fashions and trends.

  • Provides students and instructors with up-to-date assessments of controversial issues, such as the cold war, the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, and the Vietnam War.

• Reorganized—The first eight chapters now fit foreign and domestic policies together more smoothly.

  • Allows students to see the interrelationship among seemingly disparate events and trends.

• Updated bibliographies—Includes suggested websites and publications that have appeared in the past several years.

  • Provides additional resources for teaching and learning.

• Chapter introductions.

  • Bring major themes into focus while enhancing the text's narrative quality.

• Expanded coverage of the 1980s and 1990s.

• Updated illustrations, charts, and maps.

 1. The World's Superpower.


 2. Postwar Readjustments, 1946-1953.


 3. Eisenhower Republicanism.


 4. Life During the 1950s.


 5. The Promise and Perils of the 1960s.


 6. Polarization and the Search for Empowerment.


 7. Times of Turmoil: The 1970s.


 8. An Oversized Society: Life during the 1960s and 1970s.


 9. A Conservative Turn, 1980-1992.


10. New Democrats, A New Economy, and New Americans.


Index.

20th Century U.S. History (1945 - present)  (U.S. History)

Norman and Emily Rosenberg are DeWitt Wallace Professors of History at Macalester College and have researched and published widely in twentieth century American history.

In Our Times: America Since World War II, Seventh Edition, is a revised and updated version of this widely used book, which has been popular in both survey courses in U.S. history and in more specialized courses. A clearly written, interpretive narrative, the book interrelates trends in foreign affairs, mass culture, social history, gender politics, civil rights, economics, and political culture.

This new edition features

• Reorganized chapters that enhance clarity and expertly interweave politics, culture, and foreign policy.
• Significant expansion of material on the 1980s and 1990s, including the "conservative turn," the emergence of "new Democrats," the economic boom of the 1990s, and the new place of immigration in American life.
• New and more numerous pictures, charts, and maps
• Updated bibliographies
• Enhanced attention to mass culture, already one of the most popular features of the book

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Building Bridges: The Allyn & Bacon Student Guide to Service-Learning
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Discovering American History Through Maps and Views (Download Only)
Danzer
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iClicker Classroom Response System
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VangoNotes Audio Study Guide for U.S. History, Individual Chapter
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©2007 | Prentice Hall | VangoNote | Instock
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Pearson Longman
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VangoNotes Audio Study Guide for U.S. History, to 1877
Pearson Longman
©2007 | Prentice Hall | VangoNote | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321459105 | ISBN-13: 9780321459107
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Visual Archives of American History, Updated Second Edition, 2/E
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