This popular and comprehensive anthology presents cogent, provocative articles from differing political perspectives on major issues in postwar America. In addition to articles by leading historians, the editors have assembled first-person accounts of various issues by those who have contributed to the shaping of America's rich history, including Joseph McCarthy and Bill Clinton, as well as Robin Morgan, Anne Moody, and Phyllis Schlafly. For this edition, Chafe and Sitkoff have collaborated with a new coeditor, Beth Bailey, to give this classic text a fresh outlook. The sixth edition has been extensively revised to incorporate new documents and the most up-to-date articles, covering such recent events as the September 11 attacks. With lively and enlightening introductions to each section and headnotes providing a context for the articles, A History of Our Time helps students make sense of the past fifty years of America's sometimes tumultuous but always fascinating history.

Preface Part 1: THE COLD WAR ABROAD AT HOME Thomas G. Patterson, The Cold War Begins George F. Kennan, The Necessity for Containment (1946) Harry S. Truman, The Truman Doctrine (1947) NSC-68: A Report to the National Security Council (1950) HUAC Investigates Hollywood (1947) Joseph R. McCarthy, The Internal Communist Menace (1950) John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, The Venona Project and Atomic Espionage Part 2: THE POLITICS OF THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY Roland Marchland, Visions of Classlessness, Quests for Dominion Stephen E. Ambrose, A Revisionist View of Eisenhowser John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (1961) Lyndon B. Johnson, "The Great Society": Remarks at the University of Michigan (1964) Bruce J. Schulman, Lyndon Baines Johnson and American Liberalism Part 3: CIVIL RIGHTS AND RACIAL JUSTICE Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) Declaration of Constitutional Principles: The Southern Manifesto (1956) Vincent Harding, So Much History, So Much Future: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Second Coming of America Anne Moody, A Lunch-Counter Sit-In in Jackson, Mississippi (1968) Bayard Rustin, From Protest to Politics (1965) Black Panther Party, What We Want, What We Believe (1966) F. Arturo Rosales, Chicano! Indians of All Tribes, Proclamation (1969) Part 4: STRUGGLES OVER GENDER AND SEXUAL LIBERATION Jane Sherron DeHart, Creating a Feminist Consciousness Robin Morgan and New York Radical Women, No More Miss America (1968) Enriqueta Longeaux Vasquez, !Soy Chicana Primero! (1971) Phyllis Schlafly, What's Wrong With "Equal Rights" for Women? (1972) Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Roe v. Wade (1973) Martha Shelley, Gay is Good (1970) Beth Bailey, Sexual Revolution(s) Part 5: THE VIETNAM WAR Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway, We Were Soldiers Once. . . and Young Students for a Democratic Society, March on Washington: The War Must Be Stopped (1965) William H. Chafe, "Dump Johnson" John Kerry, Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1971) William Jefferson Clinton, Letter to the Draftboard (1969) Robert McNamara, In Retrospect Michael Lind, The Genuine Lessons of the Vietnam War Part 6: YEARS OF POLARIZATION Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962) Young Americans for Freedom, The Sharon Statement (1960) Terry H. Anderson, Counterculture Karin Ashley et al., You Don't Need a Weatherman To Know Which Way the Wind Blows (1969) Peter Schrag, The Forgotten American (1969) Kim McQuaid, Watergate Part 7: AN ERA OF TRANSFORMATION Nicholas Lemann, How the Seventies Changed America E.J. Dionne, Jr.R, The Religious Right and the New Republican Party Ronald W. Reagan, "The Second American Revolution" (1985) James Tobin, Reganomics in Retrospect United States Census Bureau, We, the American Foreign Born (1993) The Clinton Impeachment Inquiry and Trial (1998-1999) Alan M. Dershowitz, Supreme Injustice Part 8: FACING THE NEW MILLENNIUM Robert D. Atkinson et al., The New Economy Index and American's Metropolitan Areas Stephan Thernstrom, A Racialist's Census J.R. McNeill, Our Gigantic Experiment with Planet Earth George C. Herring, From the Persian Gulf War to 9/11/2001: Confronting a New World Order Don DeLillo, In the Ruins of the Future: Reflecting on Terror and Loss in the Shadow of September (2001) Suggestions for Further Reading

Edited by William H. Chafe, Duke University, Harvard Sitkoff, University of New Hampshire, and Beth Bailey, University of New Mexico

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