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Delves into the dream world of ordinary Americans and finds that as their self-perception increased, transforming them on a personal level, so did a revolutionary spirit that wrought momentous political changes. This book is intended for specialists in the fields of American and African-American history.

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This resource guide to 100 key events in Latino history provides students, librarians, and scholars with hundreds of original and compelling term paper ideas and the key print and electronic sources needed for research.

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Major help for those inevitable American History term paper projects has arrived to enrich and stimulate students in challenging and enjoyable ways. Term Paper Resource Guide to Nineteenth-Century U.S. History is a superb source to motivate and educate students who have a wide range of interests and talents.

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The years 1900-1910 have been thought of as the "quiet decade", but as this examination of the culture of the decade shows, they were anything but quiet. Spurred on by President Roosevelt and the explosive population growth, the decade wrought cultural and technological changes in American life.

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This lead title in Greenwood's forthcoming American Popular Culture Through History series shows the many facets of American society merging to form the beginnings of the United States' eclectic 20th century culture.

This debut volume launches a series designed to be advanced yet accessible, informative yet fun.

(Hardback)

This lead title in Greenwood's forthcoming American Popular Culture Through History series shows the many facets of American society merging to form the beginnings of the United States' eclectic 20th century culture.

This debut volume launches a series designed to be advanced yet accessible, informative yet fun.

(Paperback)

Additional resources include a cost comparison of common goods and services, a timeline of important events, notes arranged by chapter, an extensive bibliography for further reading, and a subject index.

The dark cloud of the Depression shadowed most Americans' lives during the 1930s.

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This volume presents a nuanced look at a surprisingly complex time in American popular culture.

American Popular Culture Through History is the only reference series that presents a detailed, narrative discussion of United States popular culture.

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This volume presents a nuanced look at a surprisingly complex time in American popular culture.

American Popular Culture Through History is the only reference series that presents a detailed, narrative discussion of United States popular culture.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

This guide to the forces that shaped the 1960s cultural revolution in the USA examines the New Left, the antiwar movement and the counterculture. A narrative historical overview puts these topics in perspective and the legacy of the era is discussed. Biographies of key players add insight.

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The 1960s were a particularly turbulent period, and the events of those years continue to interest and influence American society.

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Explores various aspects of popular culture, including advertising, literature, leisure activities, music visual arts, and travel. This title covers such topics as: MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, and countless blogs reached an all-time high; the fixation on self and celebrity; and, Google as the first search assumption.

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The 1960s counterculture challenged the mainstream practices that dominated the 1950s, producing such groups as the hippies, Diggers, the National Organization for Women, and the American Indian Movement, all of which demanded societal change.

(Paperback, Revised edition)

Tracing the activities of nearly 300 abolitionists and their descendants, this title reveals that some played a crucial role in the establishment of schools and colleges for southern blacks, while others formed the vanguard of liberals who founded the NAACP in 1910.

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Derived from the moral accountability called for by the Great Awakening and the Quaker religion, the abolitionist movement demanded not just the gradual dismantling of the system or a mandated political end to slavery, but an end to prejudice in the hearts of the American people.

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This book is a counterpoint to the prevailing view that the United States is an imperialist nation that has violently pursued power in the world to advance its own narrow interests.

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Compared to the early decades of the 20th century, when scholarly writing on African Americans was limited to a few titles on slavery, Reconstruction, and African American migration, the last thirty years have witnessed an explosion of works on the African American experience.

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