Taking sides. Reconstruction to the present / Volume 2, Reconstruction to the present / selected, edited, and with introductions by Larry Madaras and James M. SoRelle.
Includes bibliographical references. The last west, cities, immigrants, and the Industrial Revolution: Is history true?; Was the wild west more violent than the rest of the United States?; Were American workers in the gilded age conservative capitalists?; Were late-nineteenth-century immigrants "uprooted"?; Was city government in late-nineteenth-century America a "conspicuous failure"? -- The response to industrialism and reform, war and depression: Did Booker T. Washington's philosophy and actions betray the interests of African Americans?; Did the progressives fail?; Was Woodrow Wilson responsible for the failure of the United States to join the League of Nations?; Was Prohibition a failure?; Was the New Deal an effective answer to the Great Depression?; Was Franklin Roosevelt a reluctant internationalist? -- The Cold War and beyond: Was President Truman responsible for the Cold War?; Was rock and roll responsible for dismantling America's traditional family, sexual, and racial customs in the 1950s and 1960s?; Did the Brown decision fail to desegregate and improve the status of African Americans?; Was the Americanization of the war in Vietnam inevitable?; Has the women's movement of the 1970s failed to liberate American women?; Were the 1980s a decade of affluence for the middle class?.
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