Lives and Times

Individuals and Issues in American History: Since 1865

By (author) Blaine T. Browne, Robert C. Cottrell

Publication date:

16 November 2009

Length of book:

334 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

241x162mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780742561939

Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed to acquaint students with major issues in American history through the lives of individuals, prominent and otherwise, whose activities and ideas were crucial in shaping the course of the nation's history. Employing a narrative style, each volume consists of thirteen chapters in which the lives of two individuals are examined in the broader context of major historical themes. Readers will find not only a diversity of individuals profiled, but also themes spanning political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and military history. This combined biographical/thematic approach provides the reader with more extensive biographical information and a fuller examination of key issues than is commonly offered in core texts. Each chapter also offers study questions and a bibliography.

Also Available: Lives and Times: Individuals and Issues in American History: To 1877 by Blaine T. Browne and Robert C. Cottrell

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: A New Birth of Freedom Deferred: Benjamin R. Tillman, Ida B. Wells
Chapter 2: Final Frontiers, Vanishing Americans: Geronimo, Helen Hunt Jackson
Chapter 3: Wealth and Social Justice in the Industrial Age: Andrew Carnegie, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
Chapter 4: Progressive America in the World: Woodrow Wilson, Randolph Bourne
Chapter 5: Popular Culture in the New Era: Babe Ruth, Louis Armstrong
Chapter 6: Defending Democracy in Hard Times: Floyd Olson, Eleanor Roosevelt
Chapter 7: Questions of Loyalty in Peace and War: Charles Lindbergh, J. Robert Oppenheimer
Chapter 8: Defining Dissent in Cold War America: Paul Robeson, Pat McCarran
Chapter 9: New Frontiers in Activism: Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan
Chapter 10: Racial Justice: Thought and Action: James Baldwin, Stokely Carmichael
Chapter 11: The Agony of Vietnam: Robert McNamara, David Halberstam
Chapter 12: The New Right: Root and Branch: William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan
Chapter 13: Uncertain Times: America Enters the 21st Century: George W. Bush, Barack Obama

This is a solid collection of biographies, and Browne and Cottrell have done an excellent job selecting their subjects. Lives and Times examines the issues and challenges of the past through the individuals who experienced it. A great addition for teaching and understanding history.