Description
This fourth edition is divided into two parts Industrial Democracy 1877-1920 and Mature Nation 1920 to the Present. The editors have selected articles written by scholars and journalists, presenting balanced coverage of each historical period, while omitting more complex historiographical questions of interest primarily for specialists. There are eighteen readings and eleven are new essays selected for this edition that include such topics as the schooling of the Hopi Indians at the turn of the century; the Issue of Illegal Mexican Immigration since 1941; Henry George and single tax; the politics of reform in city government during the Progressive era; Al Capone and the Chicago Mob; an analysis of women in film; and an evaluation of Vietnam and the New Revisionists.
