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Author: Robert H Donaldson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317464699
Size: 13.30 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Book Description: This primary source reader assembles key documents and firsthand accounts that are emblematic of American life from the end of World War II to the present. Designed to complement a core text for a typical post-1945 U.S. history course, the book offers conciseness and selectivity with balanced coverage of domestic and foreign, societal and cultural issues grouped together chronologically. The readings afford students compelling and sometimes startling insights into the nation's postwar adaptation to its new position of global power and responsibility, wealth, and rapid social change; on through years of energy and ambition, conflict and tragedy, to the post-Vietnam malaise and the rise of Ronald Reagan, the frenzied nineties, and the arrival of the new millennium. Each chapter includes an introduction that sets the documents in historical context, a biographical sketch of a significant person of the time, study questions, and suggestions for further reading.

Author: American Historical Association. Meeting
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 72.35 MB
Format: PDF
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Organization of American Historians. Meeting
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 17.56 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: American Historical Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 29.30 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages :
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Book Description:

Author: Organization of American Historians. Meeting
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 34.84 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Melvil Dewey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 18.59 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages :
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Book Description: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

Author:
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Size: 58.72 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages :
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Book Description:

Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher:
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Size: 13.34 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
Languages : en
Pages :
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Book Description:

Author: American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 43.93 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976
Languages : en
Pages :
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Book Description:

Author: Peter N. Stearns
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 69.83 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Book Description:

Author: United States. Dept. of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 23.89 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
Languages : en
Pages :
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Book Description:

Author: Paul Harvey
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231510365
Size: 49.53 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Book Description: Of late, religion seems to be everywhere, suffusing U.S. politics and popular culture and acting as both a unifying and a divisive force. This collection of manifestos, Supreme Court decisions, congressional testimonies, speeches, articles, book excerpts, pastoral letters, interviews, song lyrics, memoirs, and poems reflects the vitality, diversity, and changing nature of religious belief and practice in American public and private life over the last half century. Encompassing a range of perspectives, this book illustrates the ways in which individuals from all along the religious and political spectrum have engaged religion and viewed it as a crucial aspect of society. The anthology begins with documents that reflect the close relationship of religion, especially mainline Protestantism, to essential ideas undergirding Cold War America. Covering both the center and the margins of American religious life, this volume devotes extended attention to how issues of politics, race, gender, and sexuality have influenced the religious mainstream. A series of documents reflects the role of religion and theology in the civil rights, feminist, and gay rights movements as well as in conservative responses. Issues regarding religion and contemporary American culture are explored in documents about the rise of the evangelical movement and the religious right; the impact of "new" (post-1965) immigrant communities on the religious landscape; the popularity of alternative, New Age, and non-Western beliefs; and the relationship between religion and popular culture. The editors conclude with selections exploring major themes of American religious life at the millennium, including both conservative and New Age millennialism, as well as excerpts that speculate on the future of religion in the United States. The documents are grouped by theme into nine chapters and arranged chronologically therein. Each chapter features an extensive introduction providing context for and analysis of the critical issues raised by the primary sources.