A History of the United States from 1865 to the Present

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edited by Frank W. Klingberg This volume completes the two-volume documeniary history begun with A History of the United States: From the Age of Expioration to 1865 (edited by Kugli T. Lefler, Meridián Books, M101). Together the two books provide a generál survey of the United States from the days of discovery to the present. To portray the nation as it emerged from the Civil War and moved through Reconstruction, industrialization, urbanization, recurrent depressions, and became a major power in the mainstream of world diplornacy and war, Frank W. Klingberg, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, has gathered materials relating to the political,. social, economic, and cultural development of the country. To this he has skillfully added illuminating narrative commentary, establishing links between the various documents and making this book an important contribution to an understanding of the history of this country. All of the epochal materials are here: the... Tovább

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edited by Frank W. Klingberg This volume completes the two-volume documeniary history begun with A History of the United States: From the Age of Expioration to 1865 (edited by Kugli T. Lefler, Meridián Books, M101). Together the two books provide a generál survey of the United States from the days of discovery to the present. To portray the nation as it emerged from the Civil War and moved through Reconstruction, industrialization, urbanization, recurrent depressions, and became a major power in the mainstream of world diplornacy and war, Frank W. Klingberg, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, has gathered materials relating to the political,. social, economic, and cultural development of the country. To this he has skillfully added illuminating narrative commentary, establishing links between the various documents and making this book an important contribution to an understanding of the history of this country. All of the epochal materials are here: the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech, Theodore Roosevelt on trust-busting, Wilson's Fourteen Points, the Prohibition Amendment, FDR's First Inaugural Address, the Yalta Agreements, the Marshall Plan, the School Integration decision, President Kennedy on the New Frontier, Colonel Glenn's report on the fiight of the Friendship 7, and a host of otherwise inaccessible speeches, fragments of literarv works, chronicles, and the like, which provide a valuable view of a maturing nation that can be read by student and layman alike. meridián documents of american history: The Confederacy, edited by Albert D. Kirwan (M76); American Foreign Policy, edited by Róbert A. Divine (M91); America in the World: Twentierh-Century History in Documents, edited by Oscar Theodore Barck, Jr. (Ml27); A History of the United States: From the Age of Expioration to 1865, edited by Hugh T. Lefler (M101); A History of the United States: From 1865 to the Present, edited by Frank W. Klingberg (Ml 15). AN ORIGINÁL MERIDIÁN BOOK Vissza