U.S. in the 20th Century - HIST 160 - Douglas

Milestone Documents is a new series combining full-text primary source documents with engaging, readable analysis. Special features include a general subject index, an index by category, and hundreds of photographs and other images.

These volumes of primary source documents focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. International in scope, each title is devoted to one topic.

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These volumes of primary source documents focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Each title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. Entries are organized into chapters that feature a general overview of the chapter's subtopic.

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