TY - BOOK AU - Minkoff, Harvey AU - Melamed, Evelyn TI - Exploring America: Perspectives on critical issues SN - 0-15-500981-8 U1 - BCir. 973 PY - 1995/// CY - --Fort Worth PB - Harcourt Brace College Publishers N1 - Include index; Chapter 1. Introducing critical issues --2. Exploring issues in context --3. Colonial foundations: 1492-1800 --4. Eighteenth century lives: 1700-1800 --5. Defining the new republic: 1800-1850 --6. Slavery: 1800-1860 --7. Redefining America: 1860-1900 --8. Nineteenth-century lives: 1860-1900 --9. Seeds of modernity: 1900-1940 --10. Early twentieth-century lives: 1900-1950 --11. Pursuing equality: 1950-1980 --12. Facing the present: since 1980 ER -