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American Realities, a best-selling collection of secondary sources, integrates the lives of Americans with their respective time periods, and depicts a diverse American experience that challenges the students' preconceived notions of history. This edition includes new scholarship and revised, more streamlined writing in existing chapters. The clarity of the author's unique, anecdotal writing style successfully engages students in an exploration of memorable historical characters and significant events.
Contents
From Reconstruction to the Present Preface 1. The "Taming" of the West Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War 2. Beyond Emancipation Booker T. Washington and the Atlanta Compromise 3. The New Industrial Era The Rise of Andrew Carnegie 4. The Birth of Environmentalism John Muir and the American Wilderness 5. New Immigrants Russian Jews in the United States 6. Expanding American Democracy The Woman Suffrage Victory 7. American Volunteers in World War I The Lafayette Escadrille 8. Modernity Versus Tradition The Scopes Trial and the American Character 9. The New Deal Eleanor Roosevelt and the Politics of Compassion 10. Total War The Bombing of Hiroshima 11. The Cold War at Home Joseph McCarthy and Anticommunism 12. The Civil Rights Movement Martin Luther King Jr. and the Road to Birmingham 13. Turmoil on the Campuses Berkeley in the Sixties 14. The New Age of Technology Steve Jobs and Apple 15. America and the Cold War Colin Powell's Career from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf
