The American ways series

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Red scare or red menance?

American communism and anticommunism in the cold war era
1996
A historical look at anticommunism in the United States especially during the cold war years and its effect on foreign policy, domestic politics and the arms race.

The flowering of the third America

the making of an organizational society, 1850-1920
1993
Examines the forces that turned the United States from a rural agricultural society to an urban, industrial one.

Women's struggle for equality

the first phase, 1828-1876
1997
A study of the early years of the women's rights movement, from 1828 to 1876, arguing that the demand for voting rights was secondary to the desire for a complete rethinking of womanhood and the relations between the sexes, and comparing the period to the revived feminism of the 1970s.

The rise of the new woman

the women's movement in America, 1875-1930
2003
Looks at how opportunities for women outside the home expanded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and examines the people and activities of the American women's movement in the years between 1875 and 1930 and the quest to win the right to vote.
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