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U.S. History from the end of the Civil War to the Present: readings

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Eyal Naveh, Tel Aviv University
 Required Reading
 
- James Roark et al., The American Promise: A History of the United States Vol. II: From 1865
  (Boston and New York: Bedford /St.Martin's, third Edition, 2005), 597-634, 669-692,
  731-739, 749-785, 789-816, 830-862, 867-902, 909-946, 951-1159.

- William H. Chafe et al (ed.), A History of Our Time (New York: Oxford University Press, sixth
  edition, 2003), 13-18, 37-39, 93-101, 130-145, 173-176, 198-201, 207-216, 217-221,
  260-262, 275-279, 290-294, 374-379, 412-419, 438-442, 459-470.

 Suggested Reading

- Alan Brinkley, American History: A Survey, Vol. II: Since 1865

- Colin Gordon, Major Problems in American History, 1920-1945, Documents and Essays
  (2002, D.C. Heath)

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Robert Griffith, Major Problems in American History, Since 1945, Documents and Essays
  (2000, D.C. Heath)

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Rose Cohen, Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side
  (Cornell University Press) 1995    

- Richard Wright, Black Boy, Harper Perennial, 1993
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

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