This spirited narrative challenges students to think about the meaning of American history. Thoughtful inclusion of the lives of everyday people, cultural diversity, work, and popular culture preserves the text's basic approach to American history as a story of all the American people.The Seventh Edition maintains the emphasis on the unique social history of the United States and engages students through cutting-edge research and scholarship. New content includes expanded coverage of modern history (post-1945) with discussion of foreign relations, gender analysis, and race and racial relations.

This collection of primary source documents and essays provides in-depth coverage of the cultural, social, political, economic, and intellectual events of the 1920-1945 era. In keeping with the proven strengths of the Major Problems series, the compelling documents are grouped with important secondary sources, accompanied by chapter introductions, selection headnotes, and suggested readings.

This text presents the best synthesis of current scholarship available to emphasize the theme of expansionism and its manifestations in American foreign relations since 1895.

Copied by the monks in the year 367 of the first Christian monastery, the Gospels of Thomas, Philip and Truth, were carefully sealed in ballot boxes and hidden among the rocks, along with other manuscripts in a place near the modern town of Nag Hammadi in Upper Nile Valley, where they remained for nearly 1600 years until in December 1945 were discovered by two Egyptian peasants. At the time of the establishment of the New Testament canon, these three gospels were not known by any of the Christian traditions, for never were mentioned during their lengthy deliberations.

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, this reader uses a carefully selected group of primary sources and analytical essays to allow students to test the interpretations of distinguished historians and draw their own conclusions about the history of American foreign policy. This text serves as an effective educational tool for courses on U.S. foreign policy, recent U.S. history, or 20th Century U.S. history. Some of the new literature spotlights cultural relations, and the ways in which culturally constructed attitudes about class, gender, race, and national identity have shaped American's perceptions of the world and subsequently its overseas relationships.

This spirited narrative challenges students to think about the meaning of American history. Thoughtful inclusion of the lives of everyday people, cultural diversity, work, and popular culture preserves the text's basic approach to American history as a story of all the American people. The Seventh Edition maintains the emphasis on the unique social history of the United States and engages students through cutting-edge research and scholarship. New content includes expanded coverage of modern history (post-1945) with discussion of foreign relations, gender analysis, and race and racial relations.

This text presents a synthesis of current scholarship available to emphasize the theme of expansionism and its manifestations in American foreign relations up until 1920.