Synopses & Reviews
A collection of secondary sources that examine the history of the United States by connecting the private lives of its people to the public issues that have had a major impact on the nation’s destiny. The text examines much of what we call “history” as the product of conflict or concord (or some combination of the two) between private aspirations, frustrations, and values on the one side, and public issues, events and policies on the other.
About the Author
Dominick Cavallo is Professor of History at Adelphi University. He is the author of A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History, Muscles and Morals: Organized Playgrounds and Urban Reform, 1880-1920, and co-editor of Family Life in America, 1492-2000.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: AMERICA IN TRANSITION, 1865-1920: RACE, IMMIGRATION AND THE RISE OF URBAN-INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
1. FREEDOM? AFTER THE CIVIL WAR: BLACK WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES DURING RECONSTRUCTION
NORALEE FRANKEL
2. RESISTING “CIVILIZATION”: NATIVE AMERICAN OPPOSITION TO THE FEDERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM
DAVID WALLACE ADAMS
3. AMERICAN MANHOOD AND DECLARING WAR ON SPAIN IN 1898
KRISTIN L. HOGANSON
4. THE CRUSADE TO “PURIFY” AMERICA BY DRIVING OUT THE CHINESE
JEAN PFAELZER
5. LIFE AND WORK FOR TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY CHICAGO IMMIGRANTS
JAMES R. BARRETT
6. LIFE AND LEISURE FOR TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY NEW YORK CITY IMMIGRANTS
KATHY PEISS
PART TWO: PROSPERITY, DEPRESSION, WAR: 1920 TO 1945
7. FLAPPERS, THE “NEW WOMAN,” AND CHANGING MORALITY IN THE 1920S
GERALD LEINWAND
8. THE KU KLUX KLAN COMBATS THE “NEW MORALITY’ OF THE 1920S
NANCY MACLEAN
9. THE GREAT DEPRESSION IN THE CITY: THE HOUSEWIVES MEAT STRIKE OF 1935
ANNELISE ORLECK
10. THE GREAT DEPRESSION ON THE FARM: THE DUST BOWL
TIMOTHY EGAN
11. ROSIE THE RIVETER GETS MARRIED: WOMEN DURING WORLD WAR II
ELAINE TYLER MAY
12. CHILDREN AND CONFLICT ON THE HOME FRONT DURING WORLD WAR II
WILLIAMM.TUTTLE, JR.
PART THREE: MODERN AMERICA 1945 TO THE PRESENT
13. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S CAMPAIGN AGAINST HOMOSEXUALS AND OTHER “SEX OFFENDERS”
DURING THE MCCARTHY ERA
DAVID K. JOHNSON
14. RACE, GENDER, AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: THE STRUGGLE IN MISSISSIPPI
STEVE ESTES
15. YOUNG AMERICANS FIGHTING–AND PROTESTING–THE WAR IN VIETNAM
DAVID MARANISS
16. THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT
RUTH ROSEN
17. WOMEN AGAINST THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT: THE DEFEAT OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT AND THE
RISE OF THE NEW RIGHT
DAVID T. CRITCHLOW
18. THE COLUMBINE SHOOTING: TEENAGE MALE VIOLENCE AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICA
STEVEN MINTZ
19. GENDER AND THE LATINO EXPERIENCE IN LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICA
PIERRETTE HONDAGNEU-SOTELO