American Vistas: Volume 2: 1877 to the Present

"An excellent survey of the post-Reconstruction history of America. A valuable supplement for U.S. history classes."--William Tannenbaum, Missouri Southern State College"Balanced readable selections that offer a variety of points of view."--Howard Meredith, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma"Well produced, nicely edited, excellent--even brilliant--choices of topics."--Robert Sellen, Georgia State University"These are fun anthologies. I have enjoyed browsing through them....The editors are living up to their abilities of putting together a collection of articles both interesting and readable."--Daniel Murphy, Hanover College

• 1. "Trouble in Mind", Leon F. Litwack 2. "Schooling the Hopi: Federal Indian Policy Writ Small", David Wallace Adams 3. "The Outlaws: The Legend of Jesse James and His Gang", Albert Castel 4. "Florida's Black Codes", Jerrell Shifner 5. "Civil Disorder and the American West", Clayton D. Lurie 6. "'An Italian is a Dago'", Humbert Nelli 7. "Hull House in the 1890's", Kathryn Sklar 8. "Theodore Roosevelt", Edward Savath 9. "Commerce in Souls", Pamela Susan Haag 10. "Lyndon's War", John Milton Cooper 11. "Henry Ford and the Jews", Leonard Dinnerstein 12. "Creating G.I. Jane", Leisa D. Meyer 13. "The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War", Martin J. Sherwin 14. "The Conversion of Harry Truman", William E. Leuchtenburg 15. "The Issue of Illegal Mexican Immigration Since 1941", Juan Ramon Garcia 16. "The FBI and the Politics of the Riots", Kenneth O'Reilly 17. "Vietnam and the Constitution", Michal R. Belknap 18. "Up from Segregration", John Shelton Reed 19. "Sam Walton and Wal-Mart Stores", Sandra S. Vance and Rov V. Scott