Examines hundreds of speeches from colonial times to the modern era. Examines the motivations behind each speech as well as the effect on the audiences that heard them.
Explores American life in the 1940s through personal profiles of individuals and families and their lives at home, at work and in the community. Includes lists of significant events and milestones for America.
Provides a look at one of the most tempestuous decades in recent American history, describing the everyday activities of Americans as they dealt first with war, and then a difficult transition to peace and prosperity.
Provides a brief overview of major factors that contributed to the Holocaust, the mass genocide to exterminate Jews and other groups deemed undesirable by the Nazis in Germany.
Cross-disciplinary source spanning the 20th century. Each volume includes primary and secondary sources by decade, documenting and analyzing periods of contemporary American social history.
Encompasses two decades of American history, beginning with the farm crisis of the mid-1920s, through the 1929 stock market crash, the gradual recovery during the 1930s with Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and World War II.
An overview of the Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States and the Soviet Union that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Includes biographies of principal figures and primary source documents.
Provides a brief overview of the history of the Titanic disaster on April 15, 1912 and its immediate impact. It also explains various factors and decisions that contributed to the ship’s sinking.
Documents peace and antiwar movements from the colonial era to the present, examining how war and those who oppose war have been portrayed in popular media over the centuries.
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