Spanning the entire twentieth century and encompassing immigration policies, the nationalistic fallout from both world wars, the civil rights movement, and nation-building efforts in the postcolonial era, The Liberty of Strangers advances a major new interpretation of American nationalism and the future prospects for diverse democracies. Tracing how Americans have confronted and relinquished, but mostly clung to group identities over the past century, Desmond King here debunks one of the guiding...
Ronald Glasser, the author of the acclaimed 365 Days, said of the first book in Dean Velvel's quartet (Misfits in America) that it sets the stage for what went wrong at the end of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st. Trail of Tears continues setting this stage by describing the kinds of behavior that a few years later culminated in massive fraud and dishonesty in the business, professional, and political worlds in the last years of the Clinton administration and the first years of the...
American Cinema of the 1940s (Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema)
The 1940s was a watershed decade for American cinema and the nation. Shaking off the grim legacy of the Depression, Hollywood launched an unprecedented wave of production, generating some of its most memorable classics, including Citizen Kane, Rebecca, The Lady Eve, Sergeant York, and How Green Was My Valley. In 1942, Hollywood joined the national war effort with a vengeance, creating a series of patriotic and escapist films, such as Casablanca, Mrs. Miniver, The Road to Morocco, and Yankee Dood...
America in the Sixties (America in the Twentieth Century)
by John Robert Greene
Sandwiched between the placid fifties and the flamboyant seventies, the Sixties, a decade of tumultuous change and stunning paradoxes, is often reduced to a series of slogans, symbols, and media images. In America in the Sixties Greene goes beyond the cliches, and synthesizes thirty years of research, writing, and teaching on one of the most turbulent decades of the twentieth century. Greene sketches the well-known players of the period-John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King,...
Singing Out (Oxford Oral History)
by David King Dunaway and Molly Beer
Intimate, anecdotal, and spell-binding, Singing Out offers a fascinating oral history of the North American folk music revivals and folk music. Culled from more than 150 interviews recorded from 1976 to 2006, this captivating story spans seven decades and cuts across a wide swath of generations and perspectives, shedding light on the musical, political, and social aspects of this movement. The narrators highlight many of the major folk revival figures, including Pete Seeger, Bernice Reagon, Phi...
The culmination of West Indian decolonization came at a dangerous moment in the Cold War Caribbean, amid aftershocks of the Cuban Revolution, a wave of Third World nationalism abroad, and civil rights conflicts in the United States. Dozens of countries entered in the atlas in one generation, many of them through bloody clashes. Yet the West Indian passage to independence was peaceful and managed to avoid the heavy-handed American intervention seen elsewhere in the hemisphere, not to mention Viet...
An account of the intertwined lives of the first two women to be appointed to the Supreme Court examines their respective religious and political beliefs while sharing insights into how they have influenced interpretations of the Constitution to promote equal rights for women.
Actuarial thinking is everywhere in contemporary America, an often unnoticed byproduct of the postwar insurance industry’s political and economic influence. Calculations of risk permeate our institutions, influencing how we understand and manage crime, education, medicine, finance, and other social issues. Caley Horan’s remarkable book charts the social and economic power of private insurers since 1945, arguing that these institutions’ actuarial practices played a crucial and unexplored role in...
This Unit 2C: The USA 1919-41 Student Book has been written by a team of experienced examiners and subject experts, and is designed to build students' historical skills, understanding and knowledge.Tailor-made to support the options Includes ResultsPlus features - combining exam performance data with examiner insight to give you more information on how to succeed examzone sections include real examiner reports, graded mock-exam answers and a revision section for use in class.
The Race to the Top of New York City's Skyline
by Charles River Editors
The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance
by Gregory Pedlow and Donald Welzenbach
The CIA's 2013 release of its book The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance 1954 1974 is a fascinating and important historical document. It contains a significant amount of newly declassified material with respect to the U-2 and Oxcart programs, including names of pilots; codenames and cryptonyms; locations, funding, and cover arrangements; electronic countermeasures equipment; cooperation with foreign governments; and overflights of the Soviet Union, Cuba, China, and other c...
Joseph McCarthy
The End of Southern Exceptionalism
by Byron E Shafer and Richard Johnston
Until now, the critical shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars and journalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution. In this myth-shattering book, Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston refute that view, one stretching all the way back to V. O. Key in his classic book Southern Politics. The true story is instead one of dramatic class reversal, beginning in the 1950s and pulling everything else in its wake.
The Dies Committee; a Study of the Special House Committee for the Investigation of Un-American Activities, 1938-1943
by August Raymond Ogden
"Ye cannot serve God and mammon," the Bible says. But conservative American Protestants have, for at least a century, been trying to prove that adage wrong. While preachers, activists, and politicians have all helped spread the gospel, Darren Grem argues that evangelicalism owes its strength to the blessings of business. Grem offers a new history of American evangelicalism, showing how its adherents strategically used corporate America-its leaders, businesses, money, ideas, and values-to adva...
The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. Thirty city blocks were burned to the ground, perhaps 150 died, and the prosperous black community of Greenwood, Oklahoma, was turned to rubble. Brophy draws on his own extensive research into contemporary accounts and court documents to chronicle this devastating riot, showing how and why the rule of law quickly eroded. Brophy shines his lights on mob violence and racism run amok, both on the night of the ri...