Series Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Historical Overview Chronology of Events Chapter 1. Vietnam—There Chapter 2. The Rise of the New Left and the End of Consensus Chapter 3. Vietnam—Here Chapter 4. "Oh, Wow!"—The Counterculture Chapter 5. 1968! Chapter 6. Past to Present Biographical Essays Glossary Annotated Bibliography Index

Making sense of the American experience demands attention to critical moments-events-that reflected and affected American ideas and identities. By drawing on the latest and best literature, and bringing together narrative overviews and critical chapters of important historic events, the books in this series function as both reference guides and informed analyses to critical events that have shaped American life, culture, society, economy, and politics and fixed America's place in the world. Each book follows a common format, with a chronology, historical overview, topical chapters on aspects of the historical event under examination, a set of biographies of key figures, and an annotated bibliography. As such, each book holds many uses for students, teachers, and the general public wanting and needing to know the principal issues and the pertinent arguments and evidence on significant events in American history. The combination of historical description and analysis and biographies also moves readers to approach each historic event from multiple perspectives and with a critical eye. Each book in its structure and content invites students and teachers, in and out of the classroom, to consider and debate the character and consequences of the historic event in question. Such debate invariably will bring readers back to that most critical and never-ending question of what does, and must, 'America' mean. -Randall M. Miller, from his Series Foreword