TY - BOOK AU - Madaras,Larry AU - SoRelle,James M. TI - Taking sides SN - 0073031887 (v.1) U1 - 909.82 21 PY - 2000/// CY - Guilford, Conn. PB - Dushkin Pub. Group KW - United States KW - History KW - Local KW - Historiography N1 - 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? ER -