A History of Our Time

Part 1: The Cold War Abroad and At Home; Introduction; Thomas G. Paterson: Truman's Cold War Policies; George F. Keenan: The Need to Contain Soviet Expansion; Henry A. Wallace: Are We Only Paying Lip Service to Peace?; Clark Clifford: American Firmness vs. Soviet Aggression; Harry S. Truman: The Truman Doctrine; NSC-68: A Report to the National Security Council; HUAC Investigates Hollywood; Joseph R. McCarthy: The Internal Communist Menace; Ellen Schrecker: The Age of "McCarthyism"; Part 2: The Politics of the Affluent Society; Introduction; Godfrey Hodgson: The Ideology of the Liberal Consensus; Stephen E. Ambrose: A Revisionist View of the Ike Age; Lance Morrow: Re-evaluating JFK's Presidency; Charles Murray: Losing Ground: Discredited Liberalism; Part 3: Civil Rights; Introduction; Vincent Harding: So Much History, So Much Future: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Second Coming of America; Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from a Birmingham Jail; Malcolm X: Message to the Grass Roots; Bayard Rustin: From Protest to Politics; Part 4: Feminism; Introduction; Sara Evans: Women's Consciousness and the Southern Black Movement; Bell Hooks: Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory; Rebecca Klatch: Women Against Feminism; Justice Harry A. Blackmun: Roe v. Wade, 1973; Estelle Freedman and John D'Emilio: The Emergence of Gay Liberation; Part 5: Vietnam and the Years of Polarization; Introduction; John Garry Clifford: Vietnam in Historical Perspective; Leslie Gelb: Causes of the War; Richard Hammer: One Morning in the War; Students for a Democratic Society: The Port Huron Statement; William Chafe: "Dump Johnson"; William Jefferson Clinton: Bill Clinton Draft Letter; Karin Ashley et. al.: You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows; Jerry Avorn et. al.: Up Against the Ivy Wall; Allen J. Matusow: Rise and Fall of a Counterculture; Peter Schrag: The Forgotten American; Part 6: Politics of the 1970s and 1980s; Introduction; Jonathan Schell: Watergate; Jimmy Carter: America's Crisis of Confidence; Ronald W. Reagan: "The Second American Revolution"; Kevin P. Phillips: Reagan's America: A Capital Offense; Part 7: Where do we go from here?; Introduction; Robert B. Reich: As the World Turns; Williams Julius Wilson: The Urban Underclass in Advanced Industrial Society; Barry Bearak: Article on Ward Connerly; Great X-pectations.