Eds., Robert P. Ingalls and David K. Johnson The Cold War, the black freedom struggle, Vietnam, the sexual revolution, conservative backlash, and the new millennium are just a few of the events that have shaped the lives of Americans since 1945. This primary document reader enables students to learn about the past through the voices of those who experienced these important events in history firsthand. Each document is accompanied by a brief introduction, which provides students with historical context, while questions and suggestions for further reading encourage students to engage critically with the sources, weighing their meaning and significance as well as their relation to each other and to the present day. INDICE: List of Figures. Series Editors Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Origins of the Cold War. 1. The Atomic Bomb (1945). 2. The Policy of Containment (1947). 3. The Truman Doctrine (1947). 4. A Critique of Trumans Policies (1946). 5. A Soviet View of US Policy (1946). 6. The Prosecution of American Communists (1949). 7. The Red Scare (1950). 8. The Lavender Scare (1950). 9. A Defense of Civil Liberties (1952). Part II: Postwar Society and Culture. 1. The Growth of Suburbia (1949). 2. A Critique of Suburbia (1962). 3. Consumer Culture and the Home (1947). 4. Womens Roles (1950). 5. Mens Roles (1956). 6. The Beat Generation (1956). Part III: The Black Freedom Struggle. 1. A Protest against Bus Segregation (1954). 2 .The Southern Manifesto (1956). 3. Remembering the Sit-In Demonstrations (1998). 4. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nonviolent Direct Action (1963). 5. Women in the Civil Rights Movement (1964). 6. Black Nationalism (1964). 7. Economic Justice (1966). Part VI: Vietnam. 1. The Falling Domino Principle (1954). 2. Escalation of the War (1964). 3. A Defense of the War (1965). 4. Experiencing the War (1965-70). 5. The Tet Offensive (1968). 6. Kent State Shootings (1970). 7. Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1971). Part V: Politics and