03149nam a2200337Ia 4500 257304 OCoLC 20160527191334.0 990629s2000 ctu 000 0 eng d 0073031887 (v.1) 0073031623 (v.2) PMD PMD PSM n-us--- PUXA ev 21 909.82 T1367 2000 E178.6 .T35 2000 Taking sides. Clashing views on controversial issues in American history edited, selected, and with introductions by Larry Madaras and James M. SoRelle. Clashing views on controversial issues in American history American history 8th ed. Guilford, Conn. Dushkin Pub. Group c2000. 2 v. ill. 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. v. 1. The colonial period to Reconstruction. Is America exceptional? Was Columbus an imperialist? Was the Colonial Period a "golden age" for women in America? Did racism cause the enslavement of Africans in America? Was there a Great Awakening in mid-eighteenth-century America? Were the Founding Fathers democratic reformers? Did Thomas Jefferson abandon his political ideals in purchasing the Louisiana Territory? Was Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy motivated by humanitarian impulses? Were the abolitionists "unrestrained fanatics"? Did slaves exercise religious autonomy? Was the Mexican War an exercise in American imperialism? Did the Westward Movement transform the traditional roles of women in the mid-nineteenth century? Have historians overemphasized the slavery issue as a cause of the Civil War? Was the North's victory over the South inevitable? Did Abraham Lincoln free the slaves? Was it wrong to impeach Andrew Johnson? -- v. 2. Reconstruction to the present. Was it wrong to impeach Andrew Johnson? Was John D. Rockefeller a "robber baron"? Did nineteenth-century women of the West fail to overcome the hardships of living on the Great Plains? Were American workers in the Gilded Age conservative capitalists? Did William M. Tweed corrupt post-Civil War New York? Did yellow journalism cause the Spanish-American War? Did Booker T. Washington's philosophy and actions betray the interests of African Americans? Did the Progressives fail? Were the 1920s an era of social and cultural rebellion? Was the New Deal an effective answer to the Great Depression? Was Franklin Roosevelt a reluctant internationalist? Was the United States responsible for the Cold War? Were the 1950s America's "happy days"? Was America's escalation of the war in Vietnam inevitable? Did the Civil Rights Movement improve race relations in the United States? Will history forgive Richard Nixon? Were the 1980s a decade of greed? United States History. Local 182913 United States Historiography. Local 182913 Madaras, Larry. Local 129354 SoRelle, James M. Local 172570 Colonial period to Reconstruction. Reconstruction to the present. 184926 184926 0 0 ddc 0 909_820000000000000_T1367_2000 0 evl 142066 10 10 1 2016-05-27 McGraw-Hill 19.38 v.1 366490 0 909.82 T1367 2000 80000002119843 2016-05-27 00:00:00 r:257304 6