The United States Since 1945: A Documentary Reader

Series Editors’ Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.
Part I: Origins of the Cold War.
1. The Atomic Bomb (1945).
2. The Policy of Containment (1947).
3. The Truman Doctrine (1947).
4. A Critique of Truman’s Policies (1946).
5. A Soviet View of US Policy (1946).
6. The Prosecution of American Communists (1949).
7. The Red Scare (1950).
8. The Lavender Scare (1950).
9. A Defense of Civil Liberties (1952).
Part II: Postwar Society and Culture.
1. The Growth of Suburbia (1949).
2. A Critique of Suburbia (1962).
3. Consumer Culture and the Home (1947).
4. Women’s Roles (1950).
5. Men’s Roles (1956).
6. The Beat Generation (1956).
Part III: The Black Freedom Struggle.
1. A Protest against Bus Segregation (1954).
2 .The Southern Manifesto (1956).
3. Remembering the Sit-In Demonstrations (1998).
4. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nonviolent Direct Action (1963).
5. Women in the Civil Rights Movement (1964).
6. Black Nationalism (1964).
7. Economic Justice (1966).
Part VI: Vietnam.
1. The “Falling Domino” Principle (1954).
2. Escalation of the War (1964).
3. A Defense of the War (1965).
4. Experiencing the War (1965-70).
5. The Tet Offensive (1968).
6. Kent State Shootings (1970).
7. Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1971).
Part V: Politics and Protest in the 1960s.
1. The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962).
2. Young Americans for Freedom (1960).
3. Students for a Democratic Society (1962).
4. The Hippie Counterculture (1967).
5. The Great Society (1965).
6. Cesar Chavez and la Causa (1966).
7. The American Indian Movement (2004).
8. Environmental Awareness (1962).
9. The Environmental Movement (1971).
Part VI: Gender and Sexuality in the 1960s and 1970s.
1. Second Wave Feminism (1963).
2. The National Organization for Women (1966).
3. Radical Feminism (1973).
4. The Gay Liberation Movement (1969).
5. Abortion Rights (1973).
6. Opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment (1977).
7. The Pro-Family Movement (1977).
Part VII: Conservative Ascendance.
1. The 1968 Election (1968).
2. The Crisis of Confidence (1979).
3. The Religious Right (1980).
4. A Critique of the Religious Right (1982).
5. The Second American Revolution (1985).
6. Life in the Rust Belt (1987).
7. The Iran–Contra Investigation (1987).
8. The End of Big Government (1996).
Part VIII: Society in the New Millennium.
1. Recent Immigration (2006).
2. Organized Labor and “Undocumented” Immigrants (2000).
3. Affirmative Action (2003).
4. The Culture Wars (2003).
5. Family Income (1947-2003).
6. Hurricane Katrina: A View from New Orleans (2005).
7. Hurricane Katrina: A View from the White House (2006).
8. The War on Terrorism (2007).
9. The Internet and Political Activism (2004).
Bibliography.
Index.