Turning points
Subtitle: making decisions in American history.
By: edited by David Burner and Anthony Marcus
Contributors: Burner, David, 1937-; Marcus, Anthony
Publisher: Brandywine Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: St. James, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. "Forty acres and a mule": land for the ex-slaves?; title: Ch. 2. George Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Sioux War; title: Ch. 3. Selective immigration: the Chinese case; title: Ch. 4. Dam Hetch Hetchy?; title: Ch. 5. How America fought its first drug war: the Harrison Act; title: Ch. 6. The United States goes to war against the Axis Powers, 1917; title: Ch. 7. Margaret Sanger battles for birth control; title: Ch. 8. Sit down and fight: labor wars of the 1930s; title: Ch. 9. Leaving home: American women in World War II; title: ch. 10. The atomic bomb and the era of total war; title: Ch. 11. Moving in: the flight to the suburbs; title: Ch. 12. "I question America": Fannie Lou Hamer of Ruleville, Mississippi; title: Ch. 13. Vietnam: resisting the war; title: Ch. 14. Social Security: you decide