A History of Our Time, Eighth Edition, offers selections by leading historians as well as first-person accounts of various issues by people who have contributed to the shaping of America's rich history, including Bill Clinton, Joseph McCarthy, Anne Moody, Robin Morgan, and Phyllis Schlafly. Providing a balance of diverse political viewpoints, the documents include the voices of men and women of African American, European American, Asian American, and Latino/a descent. Taking into consideration events of the last four years--including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden--the eighth edition of A History of Our Time offers a clearer, more encompassing view of the United States' collective history.

Table of Contents:
Part : America Becomes A World Power Robert McMahon, World War II and the Destruction of the Old OrderGeorge F. Kennan, The Necessity for Containment (1946)HUAC Investigates Hollywood (1947)Joseph R. McCarthy, The Internal Communist Menace (1950) John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, The Verona Project and Atomic EspionageEditors of Good Housekeeping, A Frightening Message for a Thanksgiving Issue (1958)Dwight D. Eisenhower, President Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961)John F. Kennedy, The Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy's Address to the Nation (1962) Part 2: The Politics and Culture of the Affluent Society Thomas Hine, The Luckiest GenerationRoland Marchand, Trends in Postwar American Culture and SocietyThe Myers Move to LevittownStudents for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962)Young Americans for Freedom, The Sharon Statement (1960)John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (1961)Lyndon B. Johnson, "The Great Society": Remarks at the University of Michigan (1964)Bruce J. Schulman, Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism Part 3: Civil Rights and Racial Justice Supreme Court of the United States, Brown v. Board of Education (1954)Declaration of Constitutional Principals: The Southern ManifestoAnne Moody, A Lunch-Counter Sit In in Jackson, Mississippi (1968)Harvard Sitkoff, We Shall Overcome (1965)Black Panther Party, What We Want, What We Believe (1966)F. Arturo Rosales, Chicano!Indians of all Tribes, Proclamation (1969) Part 4: The Vietnam War Lyndon B. Johnson, Peace without Conquest (1965)Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway, We Were Soldiers once...and YoungStudents for a Democratic Society, March on Washington: The War Must Be StoppedJohn Kerry, Vietnam Veterans against the War (1971)Who Fought the WarWilliam Clinton, Letter to the Draftboard (1969)Robert McNamara- In RetrospectMichael Lind, The Genuine Lessons of the Vietnam War Part 5: Rebellion and Counterculture The Diggers, Trip without a Ticket (1968)Karin Ashley et al., You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows (1969)Jeremy Varon, Revolutionary Violence in the United States and West GermanyArthur Kopecky, Journals from a Taos Commune (1971)David Farber, The Intoxicated State/Illegal Nation Part 6: Struggles over Gender and Sexual Liberation Jane Sherron De Hart, The Creation of a Feminist ConsciousnessNational Organization for Women, Statement of Pupose (1966)Robin Morgan and New York Radical Women, No More Miss AmericaEnriqueta Longeaux Vasquez, ¡Soy Chicana Primero! (1971)Phyllis Schlafly, What's Wrong with "Equal Rights" for Women? (1972)Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Roe v Wade (1973)Martha Shelley, Gay Is Good (1970)Beth Bailey, Sexual Revolutions(s) Part 7: Age of Uncertainty Peter Schrag, The Forgotten American (1969)Kim McQuaid, WatergateDavid Farber, Taken HostageJimmy Carter, The "Crisis of Confidence" Speech: President Carter's Address to the Nation (1979)Misery Index Part 8: A New Era of Conservatism Dan Carter, The Politics of Anger 1963-1968Lisa McGirr, Piety and Property: Conservatism and Right-Wing Movements in the Twentieth CenturyE.J. Dionne, Jr., The Religious Right and the New Republican PartyWilliam C. Berman, America's Right TurnRonald W. Reagan, "The Second American Revolution": President Reagan's State of the Union Address (1985)Newt Gingrich, The Republican Contract with America (1994) Part 9: The United States and the World in the Post-Cold War Era George C. Herring, From the Persian Gulf War to Iraq and Afghanistan: Confronting the Post-Cold War WorldPeter Coates and Vincent Vok, 9/11George W. Bush, "Axis of Evil" Speech: President Bush's State of the Union Address (2002)Pew Global Attitudes Project, Image of the United States (2005)Daniel H. Pink, "Why the World is Flat": Interview with Thomas FriedmanGlobal Exchange, Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the World Trade Organization Part 10: The Changing Shape of American Society Barack Obama, A More Perfect Union (2008)Glenn Beck, 9 Principles, 12 ValuesJ.R. McNeill, Our Gigantic Experiment with Planet EarthUnited States Census Bureau- The New ImmigrationStephanie Coontz, Great Expectations (2004)The American People in the Early Twenty-first Century