Historical Viewpoints: Notable Articles from American Heritage, Volume II Book

Introduction.

1. Impact of Industrialism.

*The First Transcontinental Railroad, Stephen E. Ambrose.

*Butte, America, Dan Baum.

*Learning to Go to the Movies, David Nasaw.

The Age of the Bosses, William V. Shannon.

2. Minorities and Race Relations.

*A Road They Did Not Know, Larry McMurtry.

The Diaspora in America: A Study of Jewish Immigration, David Boroff.

*Reluctant Conquerors: American Army Officers and the Plains Indians, Thomas C. Leonard.

3. Age of Reform.

Jane Addams: Urban Crusader, Anne Firor Scott.

Reforming College Football, John S. Watterson.

Gifford Pinchot: Father of the Forests, T. H. Watkins.

4. Early 20th Century: Peace and War.

*Our War with Spain Marked the First Year of the American Century, John Lukacs.

Pearl Harbor: The “Day Of Infamy”, Richard Ketchum.

*The Internment of the Japanese, William H. Rehnquist.

*The Holocaust, William J. Vanden Heuvel.

Why We Had to Drop the Atomic Bomb, Robert James Maddox.

5. The Great Depression.

The Big Picture of the Great Depression, John A. Garraty.

The Case of the Chambermaid and the “Nine Old Men”, William E. Leuchtenburg.

FDR: The Man of the Century, Arthur Schlesinger.

*The Automobile, John Steel Gordon.

6. Postwar Presidents.

Eisenhower as President, Steve Neal.

The Education of John F. Kennedy, Richard Reeves.

Lyndon B. Johnson and Vietnam, Larry L. King.

Watergate, Walter Karp.

7. Social Change.

Levittown: The Buy of the Century, Alexander O. Boulton.

Desegregating the Schools, Liva Baker.

The Housework Revolution, Ruth Schwartz Cowan.

Cigarettes and Cancer, John A. Meyer.

*The Rise and Decline of the Teenager, Thomas Hine.

*Educational Change, Gerald W. Bracey.