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From Desert One to Desert Storm Operation Eagle Claw as a Critical Movement

From Desert One to Desert Storm: Operation Eagle Claw as a Critical Movement

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Tal Tovy
August 30, 2024

This book recounts the history of the United States Special Operations Forces (SOF) after the failure of Operation Eagle Claw in 1980, examining the events that led to and followed a series of organizational and operational reforms in the American military system. Operation Eagle Claw’s damage to ...

The Advent of the All-Volunteer Force Protecting Free Society

The Advent of the All-Volunteer Force: Protecting Free Society

1st Edition

By William A. Taylor
March 10, 2023

This book examines the extensive influence of the All-Volunteer Force (AVF) on the past, present, and future of America, demonstrating how the AVF encompasses the most significant issues of military history and defense policy. Throughout the vast majority of its wars during the twentieth century, ...

The Gulf of Tonkin The United States and the Escalation in the Vietnam War

The Gulf of Tonkin: The United States and the Escalation in the Vietnam War

1st Edition

By Tal Tovy
April 23, 2021

The Gulf of Tonkin: The United States and the Escalation in the Vietnam War analyzes the events that led to the escalation of the conflict in Vietnam and increased American involvement. On August 4, 1964, the captains of two American destroyers, the USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy, reported ...

When Women Won The Vote The Final Decade, 1910-1920

When Women Won The Vote: The Final Decade, 1910-1920

1st Edition

By Sandra Opdycke
August 27, 2019

When Women Won the Vote focuses on the final decade (1910–1920) of American women’s fight for the vote—a fight that had already been underway for more than sixty years, and which culminated in the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920. Sandra Opdycke reveals how woman suffragists campaigned in ...

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The "Silent Majority" Speech: Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War, and the Origins of the New Right

1st Edition

By Scott Laderman
August 19, 2019

The "Silent Majority" Speech treats Richard Nixon’s address of November 3, 1969, as a lens through which to examine the latter years of the Vietnam War and their significance to U.S. global power and American domestic life. The book uses Nixon’s speech – which introduced the policy of "...

Title IX The Transformation of Sex Discrimination in Education

Title IX: The Transformation of Sex Discrimination in Education

1st Edition

By Elizabeth Kaufer Busch, William E. Thro
May 21, 2018

This book examines the history and evolution of Title IX, a landmark 1972 law prohibiting sex discrimination at educational institutions receiving federal funding. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and William Thro illuminate the ways in which the interpretation and implementation of Title IX have been ...

America Enters the Cold War The Road to Global Commitment, 1945–1950

America Enters the Cold War: The Road to Global Commitment, 1945–1950

1st Edition

By Kevin E. Grimm
November 21, 2017

America Enters the Cold War provides a succinct and insightful analysis of the foreign policy decisions which shaped America’s early involvement in the Cold War. In focusing on key documents and detailing the ideological foundations of U.S. foreign policy, Kevin Grimm situates the events of the ...

The Espionage and Sedition Acts World War I and the Image of Civil Liberties

The Espionage and Sedition Acts: World War I and the Image of Civil Liberties

1st Edition

By Mitchell Newton-Matza
March 23, 2017

The Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-1918 mark one of the most controversial moments in American history. Even as President Woodrow Wilson justified US entry into World War I on the grounds that it would "make the world safe for democracy," the act curtailed civil liberties at home by making it ...

The 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing Anarchy and Terrorism in Progressive Era America

The 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing: Anarchy and Terrorism in Progressive Era America

1st Edition

By Jeffrey A. Johnson
August 22, 2017

This book places the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing within the broader context of American radicalism and isolationism during the Progressive Era. A concise narrative and key primary documents offer readers an introduction to this episode of domestic violence and the subsequent, ...

Three Mile Island The Meltdown Crisis and Nuclear Power in American Popular Culture

Three Mile Island: The Meltdown Crisis and Nuclear Power in American Popular Culture

1st Edition

By Grace Halden
June 20, 2017

Three Mile Island explains the far-reaching consequences of the partial meltdown of Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island power plant on March 28, 1979. Though the disaster was ultimately contained, the fears it triggered had an immediate and lasting impact on public attitudes towards nuclear energy in ...

McCarthyism The Realities, Delusions and Politics Behind the 1950s Red Scare

McCarthyism: The Realities, Delusions and Politics Behind the 1950s Red Scare

1st Edition

By Jonathan Michaels
April 20, 2017

In this succinct text, Jonathan Michaels examines the rise of anti-communist sentiment in the postwar United States, exploring the factors that facilitated McCarthyism and assessing the long-term effects on US politics and culture. McCarthyism:The Realities, Delusions and Politics Behind the ...

The Marshall Plan A New Deal For Europe

The Marshall Plan: A New Deal For Europe

1st Edition

By Michael Holm
November 07, 2016

Between 1948 and 1951, the Marshall Plan delivered an unprecedented $12.3 billion in U.S. aid to help Western European countries recover from the destruction of the Second World War, and forestall Communist influence in that region. The Marshall Plan: A New Deal for Europe examines the aid program,...

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