United States History, Volume 2: Taking Sides - Clashing Views in United States History, Volume 2: Reconstruction to the Present
by MADARASEdition: 13th
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Pub. Date: 2008-10-15
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
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Summary
This THIRTEENTH EDITION of TAKING SIDES: CLASHING VIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY, VOLUME 2 presents current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. An instructor's manual with testing material is available online for each volume. USING TAKING SIDES IN THE CLASSROOM is also an excellent instructor resource with practical suggestions on incorporating this effective approach in the classroom. Each TAKING SIDES reader features an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites and is supported by our student website, www.mhcls.com/online.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. v |
| Correlation Guide | p. xvi |
| Introduction | p. xix |
| The Last West, Cities, Immigrants, and the Industrial Revolution | p. 1 |
| Is History True? | p. 2 |
| YES: from Truth in History (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979) | p. 4 |
| NO: from "Mythistory, or Truth, Myth, History, and Historians," American Historical Review (February 1986) | p. 13 |
| Was the Wild West More Violent than the Rest of the United States? | p. 25 |
| YES: from "Frontiers," in Ronald Gottesman and Richard Maxwell Brown, eds., Violence in America: An Encyclopedia, vol. 1 (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999) | p. 27 |
| NO: from "To Live and Die in Dodge City: Body Counts, Law and Order and the Case of Kansas V. Gill," in Michael A. Bellesiles, ed., Lethal Imagination, Violence and Brutality in American History (New York University Press, 1999) | p. 37 |
| Were American Workers in the Gilded Age Conservative Capitalists? | p. 54 |
| YES: from Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped Modern America, 3rd ed. (Harper & Row, 1984) | p. 56 |
| NO: from Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing American: Essays in American Working-Class and Social History (Alfred A. Knopf, 1976) | p. 65 |
| Were Late-Nineteenth-Century Immigrants "Uprooted"? | p. 78 |
| YES: from The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People, 2nd ed. (Little Brown and Company, 1973) | p. 80 |
| NO: from Round-Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880-1930 (Cornell University Press, 1993) | p. 89 |
| Was City Government in Late-Nineteenth-Century America a "Conspicuous Failure"? | p. 100 |
| YES: from A History of American City Government: The Conspicuous Failure, 1870-1900 (National Civic League Press, 1974) | p. 102 |
| NO: from The Unheralded Triumph: City Government in America, 1870-1900 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984) | p. 112 |
| The Response to Industrialism and Reform, War, and Depression | p. 125 |
| Did Booker T. Washington's Philosophy and Actions Betray the Interests of African Americans? | p. 126 |
| YES: from Schooling for the New Slavery: Black Industrial Education, 1868-1915 (Greenwood Press, 1978) | p. 128 |
| NO: from "Understanding the Wizard: Another Look at the Age of Booker T. Washington," in W. Fitzhugh Brundage, ed., Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up From Slavery 100 Years Later (University of Florida Press, 2003) | p. 138 |
| Did the Progressives Fail? | p. 150 |
| YES: from "The Failure of Progressivism," in Richard Abrams and Lawrence Levine, eds., The Shaping of the Twentieth Century, 2d ed. (Little, Brown, 1971) | p. 152 |
| NO: from Progressivism (Harlan Davidson, 1983) | p. 162 |
| Was Woodrow Wilson Responsible for the Failure of the United States to Join the League of Nations? | p. 174 |
| YES: from "Woodrow Wilson Wouldn't Yield," in Alexander De Conde and Armin Rappaport, eds., Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969) | p. 176 |
| NO: from "A New Look at Woodrow Wilson," The Virginia Quarterly Review (Autumn 1962) | p. 185 |
| Was Prohibition a Failure? | p. 196 |
| YES: from Repealing National Prohibition, 2d ed. (The University of Chicago Press, 1979, 2000) | p. 198 |
| NO: from "New Perspectives on the Prohibition 'Experiment' of the 1920s," Journal of Social History, Volume 2 (Fall 1968) | p. 208 |
| Was the New Deal an Effective Answer to the Great Depression? | p. 220 |
| YES: from A New Deal for the American People (Northern Illinois University Press, 1991) | p. 222 |
| NO: from Pride, Prejudice, and Politics: Roosevelt Versus Recovery, 1933-1938 (Praeger, 1990) | p. 230 |
| Was Franklin Roosevelt a Reluctant Internationalist? | p. 244 |
| YES: from Roosevelt and World War II (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1969) | p. 246 |
| NO: from "The Man of the Century," American Heritage (May/June 1994) | p. 259 |
| The Cold War and Beyond | p. 273 |
| Was President Truman Responsible for the Cold War? | p. 274 |
| YES: from "Another Such Victory": President Truman, American Foreign Policy, and the Cold War, Diplomatic History (Spring 1999) | p. 276 |
| NO: from We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (Oxford University Press, 1997) | p. 289 |
| Was Rock and Roll Responsible for Dismantling America's Traditional Family, Sexual, and Racial Customs in the 1950s and 1960s? | p. 299 |
| YES: from All Shook Up: How Rock and Roll Changed America (Oxford University Press, 2003) | p. 301 |
| NO: from God's Country: America in the Fifties (Dembner Books, 1986, 1990) | p. 319 |
| Did the Brown Decision Fail to Desegregate and Improve the Status of African Americans? | p. 337 |
| YES: from Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision (Viking Press, 2002) | p. 339 |
| NO: from Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004) | p. 346 |
| Was the Americanization of the War in Vietnam Inevitable? | p. 357 |
| YES: from Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War (Oxford University Press, 1991) | p. 359 |
| NO: from Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam (HarperCollins, 1997) | p. 368 |
| Has the Women's Movement of the 1970s Failed to Liberate American Women? | p. 379 |
| YES: from Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism (Spence, 1998) | p. 381 |
| NO: from "American Women in the Twentieth Century," in Harvard Sitkoff, ed., Perspectives on Modern America: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2001) | p. 391 |
| Were the 1980s a Decade of Affluence for the Middle Class? | p. 409 |
| YES: from The America That Reagan Built (Praeger, 2006) | p. 411 |
| NO: from "The Changing Shape of Power: A Realignment in Public Policy," in Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980 (Princeton University Press, 1980) | p. 425 |
| Contributors | p. 443 |
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