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America Since World War II
This popular and classic text chronicles America's roller-coaster journey through the decades since World War II. Considering both the paradoxes and t...
Her Changing Social, Economic, and Political Roles, 1920-1970
Based on the author's dissertation, Columbia....
American Women in the 20th Century
When William Chafe's The American Woman was published in 1972, it was hailed as a breakthrough in the study of women in this century. Bella Abzug prai...
The Black Freedom Struggle Since Reconstruction
Lifting the Chains is a history of the Black experience in America since the Civil War, told by one of our mostdistinguished historians of modern Amer...
Chronicles the history of the United States over the past forty five years, including the first years of the Bush administration....
The Politics of the Personal
In Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal, the distinguished historian William H. Chafe boldly argues that the trajectory of the Clintons' pol...
Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom
The 'sit-ins' at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro launched the passive resistance phase of the civil rights revolution. This book tells the s...
A political leader's decisions can determine the fate of a nation, but what determines how and why that leader makes certain choices? William H. Chafe...
Changing Patterns in American Culture
Chafe's analysis of changing social patterns is both solid and imaginative in the best sense ... His book will certainly increase our understanding of...
THIS MODEST AND thoughtful little book, so entirely free from polemics, is excellent evidence of what an unprejudiced study of the past can contribute...
African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South
This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams A...
Allard Lowenstein And American Liberal Activism
The biography of a pivotal figure who embodied and exemplified the tradition of liberal activism in the post-World War II era. Lowenstein helped shape...
The Clintons and the Politics of the Personal
Revised and Expanded with two new chapters on Hillary Clinton's career as a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, and presidential candidate....
United States from 1890-2009
Chronicles the varying mood of the country through its changing presidencies, from the rise of the metropolis and Teddy Roosevelt in the 1890s to the ...
This is a package of two of Oxford's most popular American history texts: An Unfinished Journey, a text on post-World War II America written by Willia...
American Women Since 1962
Discusses women's efforts to achieve social, economic and political equality....
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African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South