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Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American History, Vol. II

by: MADARAS L

Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American History, Vol. II

by: MADARAS L

ISBN 13:
9780072430806
ISBN 10:
007243080X
Edition: 9th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 12/22/2000
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin

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This reader, designed to introduce students to controversies in American history, covers topics such as Industrial Revolution, Pearl Harbor, and the influence of the civil rights movement on race relations. This title is supported by Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/), a student Web site that provides study support tools and links to related Web sites.

Preface

Introduction: The Study of History

xii

PART 1 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: HOW IT CHANGED FARMS, FAMILIES, CITIES, AND THE WORKPLACE

(118)

Was John D. Rockefeller a ``Robber Baron''?

(22)

from The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861-1901 (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962)

(10)

Matthew Josephson

from History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), vol. 1: Pioneering in Big Business, 1882-1911 (Harper & Brothers, 1955)

(10)

Ralph W. Hidy

Muriel E. Hidy

Did Nineteenth-Century Women of the West Fail to Overcome the Hardships of Living on the Great Plains?

(28)

from ``Women on the Great Plains 1865-1890,'' Women's Studies (vol. 4, 1976)

(8)

Christine Stansell

from A Place to Grow: Women in the American West (Harlan Davidson, 1992)

(18)

Glenda Riley

Did the Industrial Revolution Disrupt the American Family?

(22)

from ``The Pressure to Provide: Class, Consumerism, and Divorce in Urban America, 1880-1920,'' Journal of Social History (Winter 1978)

(9)

Elaine Tyler May

Robert Korstad, and James Leloudis, from ``Cotton Mill People: Work, Community, and Protest in the Textile South, 1880-1940,'' The American Historical Review (April 1986)

(11)

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Were American Workers in the Gilded Age Conservative Capitalists?

(22)

from Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped Modern America, 3rd ed. (Harper & Row, 1984)

(8)

Carl N. Degler

from Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America: Essays in American Working-Class and Social History (Alfred A. Knopf, 1976)

(12)

Herbert G. Gutman

Was City Government in Late-Nineteenth-Century America a ``Conspicuous Failure''?

(23)

from A History of American City Government: The Conspicuous Failure, 1870-1900 (National Civic League Press, 1974)

(9)

Ernest S. Griffith

from The Unheralded Triumph: City Government in America, 1860-1900 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984)

107

(12)

Jon C. Teaford

PART 2 THE RESPONSE TO INDUSTRIALISM: WAR, DEPRESSIONS, AND REFORMS, 1898-1945

119

(146)

Did Yellow Journalism Cause the Spanish-American War?

120

(26)

from Citizen Hearst: A Biography of William Randolph Hearst (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1961)

122

(14)

W. A. Swanberg

from The Chief The Chief of William Randolph Hearst (Houghton Mifflin, 2000)

136

(10)

David Nasaw

Did Racial Segregation Improve the Status of African Americans?

146

(24)

from ``From Exclusion to Segregation: Southern Race Relations, 1865-1890,'' The Journal of American History (September 1976)

148

(11)

Howard N. Rabinowitz

from Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (Alfred A. Knopf, 1998)

159

(11)

Leon F. Litwack

Did the Progressives Fail?

170

(24)

from ``The Failure of Progressivism,'' in Richard Abrams and Lawrence Levine, eds. The Shaping of the Twentieth Century, 2d ed. (Little, Brown, 1971)

172

(10)

Richard M. Abrams

from Progressivism (Harlan Davidson, 1983)

182

(12)

Arthur S. Link

Richard L. McCormick

Did the Women's Movement Die in the 1920s?

194

(22)

from Everyone Was Brave: A History of Feminism in America (Quadrangle Books, 1971)

196

(8)

William L. O'Neill

from The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930 (University of Chicago Press, 1970)

204

(12)

Anne Firor Scott

Was the New Deal an Effective Answer to the Great Depression?

216

(22)

from A New Deal for the American People (Northern Illinois University Press, 1991)

218

(7)

Roger Biles

from Pride, Prejudice, and Politics: Roosevelt Versus Recovery, 1933-1938 (Praeger, 1990)

225

(13)

Gary Dean Best

Did President Roosevelt Deliberately Withhold Information About the Attack on Pearl Harbor From the American Commanders?

238

(27)

from The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor: The Washington Contribution to the Japanese Attack (Devin-Adair, 1954)

240

(11)

Robert A. Theobald

from Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision (Stanford University Press, 1967)

251

(14)

Roberta Wohlstetter

PART 3 THE COLD WAR AND BEYOND

265

(137)

Was the United States Responsible for the Cold War?

266

(22)

from Meeting the Communist Threat: Truman to Reagan (Oxford University Press, 1988)

268

(8)

Thomas G. Paterson

from Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: An Interpretive History, 2d ed. (McGraw-Hill, 1990)

276

(12)

John Lewis Gaddis

Did the Civil Rights Movement Improve Race Relations in the United States?

288

(24)

from Freedom Bound: A History of America's Civil Rights Movement (Plume Books, 1990)

290

(9)

Robert Weisbrot

from Tragic Failure: Racial Integration in America (William Morrow, 1996)

299

(13)

Tom Wicker

Was America's Escalation of the War in Vietnam Inevitable?

312

(22)

from Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War (Oxford University Press, 1991)

314

(9)

Brian VanDeMark

from Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam (HarperCollins, 1997)

323

(11)

H. R. McMaster

Should America Remain a Nation of Immigrants?

334

(16)

from ``The Permanently Unfinished Country,'' The World & I (October 1992)

336

(6)

Reed Ueda

from ``Truth, Like Roses, Often Comes With Thorns,'' Vital Speeches of the Day (December 1, 1994)

342

(8)

Richard D. Lamm

Did President Reagan Win the Cold War?

350

(24)

from The United States and the End of the Cold War Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations (Oxford University Press, 1992)

352

(10)

John Lewis Gaddis

from ``Who Won the Cold War?'' Foreign Policy (Summer 1992)

362

(12)

Daniel Deudney

G. John Ikenberry

Will History Consider William Jefferson Clinton a Reasonably Good Chief Executive?

374

(28)

from ``Clinton and His Enemies,'' The New York Review of Books (January 20, 2000)

376

(11)

Lars-Erik Nelson

from Dead Center: Clinton-Gore Leadership and the Perils of Moderation (Scribner, 1999)

387

(15)

James MacGregor Burns

Georgia J. Sorenson

Contributors

402

(6)

Index

408

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Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American History, Vol. II

Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American History, Vol. II

9780072430806

007243080X

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