Major problems in American volume II since 1865 : document and essays / Edited by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, Edward J. Blum, Jon Gjerde ; Thomas G. Paterson, general editor

Preface -- Introduction: how to read primary and secondary sources -- Chapter 1: Reconstruction -- Chapter 2. Western settlement and the frontier -- Chapter 3. Industrialization, worker, and the new immigration -- Chapter 4. Imperialism and world power -- Chapter 5. The progressive movement -- Chapter 6. America in the world war I -- Chapter 7. Crossing a cultural divide: the twenties -- Chapter 8. The depression, the new deal, and Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Chapter 9. The ordeal of world war II -- Chapter 10. The cold war and the nuclear age -- Chapter 11. The postwar "Boom" affluence and anxiety -- Chapter 12. "We can do better": the civil right revolution -- Chapter 13. The sixties: left, right, and the culture wars -- Chapter 14. Vietnam and the downfall of presidents -- Chapter 15. The rise of the new right -- Chapter 16. End of the cold war, terrorism, and globalization -- Essays -- Further readings.

"Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces readers to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. This collection serves as a primary anthology for introductory U.S. history, covering the subject's entire chronological span. Comprehensive topical coverage includes politics, economics, labor, gender, culture, and social trends. The Third Edition features greater focus on visual and cultural sources throughout. Several chapters now include images, songs and poems to give readers a better "feel" for the time period and events under discussion."