American History, Volume 2: Reconstruction Through the Present

by Robert James Maddox

This nineteenth edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: AMERICAN HISTORY, VOLUME 2 provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0073516015
• ISBN13: 9780073516011
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

missed opportunities for civil rights

This long running text is now in its 19th edition. Impressive pedigree. The book consists of several page excerpts of noteworthy events spanning over a century. There is a conscious echo of today in the chapter of the 1871 War on Terror. An effort by the federal government to crush the Ku Klux Klan. The Al Qaeda of its time. This chapter may be the most interesting of the book. There is a sense of cognitive dissonance when reading it. The author draws explicit parallels to the terrorist organisations of our time. Including describing apologists who saw the KKK as freedom fighters. But another tragic quirk is how history took a wrong turn. We see Negro legislators as full equals of the whites, and advocating that the federal government protect the basic human rights of terrorised Negroes. What if the government had successfully done so? Civil rights could have been advanced some 90 years earlier. Reading the chapter gives a terrible sense of missed opportunities.