Great Issues in American History, Vol. III: From Reconstruction to the Present Day, 1864-1981
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ISBN: 0394708423 / Publisher: Vintage, September 1982
A collection of documentary selections offering insight into the major political and social issues of American history since the Civil War
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The third volume in Great Issues In American History, From Reconstruction to the Present Day is now updated and revised to include another decade of American history. Beatrice K. Hofstadter, wife of the late Richard Hofstadter and herself an historian who worked with him closely on the original edition, has added a new section covering 1970 to 1981 and rearranged other sections in the light of what has since proved to be of lasting importance. This collection of significant documents in American history now goes from Lincoln's Proclamation on the Wade-Davis Bill on July 8, 1864, to Reagan's Address on Arms Control Negotiations on November 18, 1981.Volume IFrom Settlement to Revolution. 1584-1776 Edited by Clarence L. Ver Steeg and Richard HofstadterVolume IlFrom the Revolution to the Civil War. 1765-1865Edited by Richard Hofstadter
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