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Give Me Liberty!
AN AMERICAN HISTORY
FOURTH EDITION
by
Eric Foner
The Problem We All Live With
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Demonstrator offers a flower to military police
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Delegate at the Republican National Convention
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Demonstrators protesting the World Trade Organization
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Demonstrators in New York City
protesting the impending Iraq War
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The Golden Age
The Eisenhower Era
The Freedom Movement
The Election of 1960
A portrait of affluence
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The Golden Age
 Focus Question:
What were the main characteristics of the
affluent society of the 1950s?
The Golden Age:
Economy
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A Changing Economy
A Suburban Nation
Figure 24.1 Real Gross Domestic Product
Per Capita, 1790–2000
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Vice President Richard Nixon
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Levittown, New York
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The Golden Age:
Growth
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The Growth of the West
A Consumer Culture
This aerial view of Westchester, a community in
Los Angeles, demonstrates suburban “sprawl”
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Ernst Haas’s 1969 photograph
of Albuquerque, New Mexico
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In this 1950 photograph, television
sets move through an assembly line.
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The Golden Age:
Technology
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The TV World
A New Ford
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Map 24.1 The Interstate Highway System
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Figure 24.2 Average Television Viewing
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Introduced in 1954, the frozen TV dinner was
marketed in a package designed to look like a
TV set.
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A 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz
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The Golden Age:
Inequality
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Women at Work and at Home
A Segregated Landscape
Table 24.3 The Baby Boom and its Decline
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Jack Gould’s 1946 photograph of a maternity ward
during the first year of the postwar baby boom
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Advertisers during the 1950s sought to convey women
enjoying their role as suburban homemakers.
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Elliott Erwitt’s photograph of a young mother
depicts life as less idyllic.
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The Golden Age:
Housing
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Public Housing and Urban Renewal
The Divided Society
Suburban builders sometimes openly advertised
the fact that their communities excluded minorities.
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An aerial photograph of Boulevard Houses
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Students at an East Harlem elementary school in 1947
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The Golden Age:
Religion and
Enterprise
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Religion and Anticommunism
Selling Free Enterprise
Anticommunism and Religious Faith
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This postage stamp depicts four
chaplains who perished during the
sinking of an American ship during
World War II.
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TV became the most effective advertising
medium in history.
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The Golden Age:
Politics
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People’s Capitalism
The Libertarian Conservatives
The New Conservatism
The Eisenhower Era
 Focus Question:
How were the 1950s a period of
consensus in both domestic politics and
foreign affairs?
The Eisenhower Era:
Election
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Ike and Nixon
The 1952 Campaign
Map 24.2 The Presidential Election of 1952
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The Eisenhower Era:
Economy
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Modern Republicanism
The Social Contract
“Do you call C-minus catching up with
Russia?”
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The Eisenhower Era:
Foreign Relations
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Massive Retaliation
Ike and the Russians
An advertisement for a government film explaining
to children how to survive a nuclear attack
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Backyard Bomb Shelter
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The Eisenhower Era:
Developing Countries
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The Emergence of the Third World
The Eisenhower Era:
The Cold War
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The Cold War in the Third World
Mohammad Mossadegh, prime minister of Iran
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The military junta installed in Guatemala
by the CIA in 1954
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The Eisenhower Era:
Vietnam
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Origins of the Vietnam War
Save the Holy Places
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The Eisenhower Era:
Society
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Mass Society and Its Critics
Commuters returning from work in downtown
Chicago
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The Eisenhower Era:
Counterculture
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Rebels without a Cause
The Beats
Elvis Presley
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Rebels without a cause, Coney Island, Brooklyn
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A Beat coffeehouse in San Francisco
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The Freedom Movement
 Focus Question:
What were the major thrusts of the civil
rights movements in this period?
The Freedom
Movement: Origins
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Origins of the Movement
A segregated school in West Memphis
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The Freedom
Movement: The Law
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The Legal Assault on Segregation
The Brown Case
Two black girls crossing dangerous railroad track to
attend a black school in Topeka, Kansas
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The Freedom
Movement: Protests
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Daybreak of Freedom
The Leadership of King
Mug shot of Rosa Parks
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Black residents walking to work in
Montgomery, Alabama
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The Freedom
Movement: Civil Rights
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Massive Resistance
Eisenhower and Civil Rights
The World Views the United States
Opponents of Racial Integration
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The Problem We All Live With
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Little Rock Central High School, 1957
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The Election of 1960
 Focus Question:
What was the significance of the
presidential election of 1960?
The Election of 1960: A
New Era
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Kennedy and Nixon
The End of the 1950s
Map 24.3 The Presidential Election of 1960
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The 1960 presidential campaign produced a flood
of anti-Catholic propaganda.
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A photograph of John F. Kennedy and his wife
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Residents of Los Angeles don gas masks to protest
the government’s lack of action on air pollution
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The Golden Age
Focus Question: What were the main characteristics of the affluent
society of the 1950s?
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The Eisenhower Era
Focus Question: How were the 1950s a period of consensus in both
domestic politics and foreign affairs?
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The Freedom Movement
Focus Question: What were the major thrusts of the civil rights
movements in this period?
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The Election of 1960
Focus Question: What was the significance of the presidential election
of 1960?
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Eric Foner on the landmarks for
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Eric Foner on McCarthyism, pt 1
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Eric Foner on McCarthyism, pt 2
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Eric Foner on growth in California http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/foner4/m
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The Sixties, 1960–1968
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The Civil Rights Revolution
The Kennedy Years
Lyndon Johnson’s Presidency
The Changing Black Movement
Vietnam and the New Left
The New Movements and the Rights Revolution
1968
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