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Promises to Keep: The United States Since World War II
Book Title Author(s) : Paul S. Boyer
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Designed for the "U.S. Since 1945" course, this comprehensive survey presents the World War II experience as a backdrop for understanding recent developments and events in American history. The text features four principal, interwoven themes: the pervasive impact of the Cold War; the effects of soci...Read More

The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
Book Title Author(s) : Paul Shankman
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In 1928 Margaret Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa, a fascinating study of the lives of adolescent girls that transformed Mead herself into an academic celebrity. In 1983 anthropologist Derek Freeman published a scathing critique of Mead’s Samoan research, badly damaging her reputation....Read More

Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920
Book Title Author(s) : Paul Boyer
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For over a century, dark visions of moral collapse and social disintegration in American cities spurred an anxious middle class to search for ways to restore order. In this important book, Paul Boyer explores the links between the urban reforms of the Progressive era and the long efforts of prior g...Read More

Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age (Print Culture History in Modern America)
Book Title Author(s) : Paul S. Boyer
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The first edition of Purity in Print documented book censorship in America from the 1870s to the 1930s, embedding it within the larger social and cultural history of the time. In this second edition, Boyer adds two new chapters carrying his history forward to the beginning of the twenty-first...Read More

The Enduring Vision : A History of the American People, 1890s-Present
Book Title Author(s) : Paul S. Boyer, Clifford E. Clark Jr., Joseph F. Kett, Neal Salisbury, Harvard Sitkoff, Nancy Woloch
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By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age
Book Title Author(s) : Paul Boyer
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Originally published in 1985, By the Bomb's Early Light is the first book to explore the cultural 'fallout' in America during the early years of the atomic age. Paul Boyer argues that the major aspects of the long-running debates about nuclear armament and disarmament developed and took shape...Read More

Reagan as President: Contemporary Views of the Man, His Politics, and His Policies
Book Title Author(s) : Paul Boyer
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Ronald Reagan brought a new ideology and a new spirit to the American presidency, qualities which made him the most controversial President since FDR and which surely will stamp his administration as “the Reagan era.” This collection of almost a hundred articles and essays, edited with commentar...Read More

First Along the River: A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement
Book Title Author(s) : Benjamin Kline
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First Along the River provides students with a balanced, historical perspective on the history of the environmental movement in relation to major social and political events in U.S. history, from the pre-colonial era to the present. The book highlights important people and events, places crit...Read More

The American Nation in the 20th Century: Annotated Teacher's Edition
Book Title Author(s) : Paul S Boyer
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FIRST WORLD FLIGHT - The Odyssey of Billy Mitchell
Book Title Author(s) : Spencer Lane
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After the millions of casualties of World War 1, another war seemed unthinkable. America's priorities became a return to peace and prosperity. By the early 1920s, budget cuts had decimated the military. President Coolidge felt aviation had little practical value and suggested that the 232 Army airme...Read More

 

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