US Since 1945

Global America: The United States in the Twentieth Century

Robert C. McGreevey, Christopher T. Fisher, and Alan Dawley

9780190279905
Paperback
October 2017

Tells the story of how Americans were swept up in the swift-moving currents of twentieth-century world history

The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II

Eighth Edition

William H. Chafe

9780199347995
Paperback
July 2014

This popular and classic text chronicles America's roller-coaster journey through the decades since World War II

The Vietnam War: An International History in Documents

Mark Atwood Lawrence

9780199924400
Paperback
February 2014

The first and only sourcebook on the Vietnam War that takes a broadly international perspective

Marching Across the Color Line: A. Philip Randolph and Civil Rights in the World War II Era

David Welky

9780199998302
Paperback
August 2013

Critical Historical Encounters

This lively narrative examines an early battle in the Civil Rights Movement while highlighting the hypocrisy of racial politics of the day

The World Comes to America: Immigration to the United States Since 1945

Leonard Dinnerstein and David M. Reimers

9780195384789
Paperback
December 2012

The only concise synthesis of the major immigration policies and population flows that have transformed recent America

A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America

Eighth Edition

William H. Chafe, Harvard Sitkoff, and Beth Bailey

9780199763641
Paperback
November 2011

This popular and comprehensive anthology presents cogent, provocative sources from differing perspectives on major issues in postwar America

The South and America since World War II

James C. Cobb

9780195166514
Paperback
October 2011

The definitive history of the American South since World War II, offering a brisk, but comprehensive and authoritative narrative of politics, race, economics, and culture

The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History

Second Edition

Don Munton and David A. Welch

9780199795703
Paperback
March 2011

The most accessible history of the Cuban Missile Crisis available

The South and America since World War II

James C. Cobb

9780195166507
Hardcover
December 2010

The definitive history of the American South since World War II, offering a brisk, but comprehensive and authoritative narrative of politics, race, economics, and culture

"To Everything There is a Season": Pete Seeger and the Power of Song

Allan M. Winkler

9780195324822
Paperback
August 2010

New Narratives in American History

Allan Winkler describes how folk singer Pete Seeger applied his musical talents to improve conditions for less fortunate people everywhere

"To Everything There is a Season": Pete Seeger and the Power of Song

Allan M. Winkler

9780195324815
Hardcover
May 2009

Allan Winkler describes how folk singer Pete Seeger applied his musical talents to improve conditions for less fortunate people everywhere

Polio: An American Story

David M. Oshinsky

9780195307146
Paperback
September 2006

Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for History The gripping story of the 1950s polio scare and of the intense--and intensely bitter--competition to find the first vaccine

Right Turn: American Life in the Reagan-Bush Era, 1980-1992

Michael Schaller

9780195172577
Paperback
March 2006

Right Turn addresses the various policy, cultural, social, economic, and technological issues that made the 1980s and early 1990s such an interesting period in U.S. history.

The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action

Terry H. Anderson

9780195182453
Paperback
June 2005

The first concise, balanced, and engaging history of affirmative action.

Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President

Robert Dallek

9780195159219
Paperback
March 2005

A superb one-volume, abridged edition of a critically acclaimed two-volume biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson

A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975

Robert D. Schulzinger

9780195125016
Paperback
January 1999

The first major full-length history of the Vietnam War based on primary sources

Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974

James T. Patterson

9780195117974
Paperback
November 1997

McCarthyism, The Great American Red Scare: A Documentary History

Albert Fried

9780195097016
Paperback
December 1996

The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations

John Lewis Gaddis

9780195085518
Paperback
April 1994

Liberalism and Its Challengers: From F.D.R. to Bush

Second Edition

Alonzo Hamby

9780195070309
Paperback
March 1992