Found in this Section:
1. Overview of Changes
2. Chapter-by-Chapter Changes
1. Overview of Changes
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This new edition of Moving On continues to be a comprehensive, readable narrative of recent U. S. history. In preparing the 5th edition, every chapter was reviewed, revised, and rewritten as necessary to build on the clarity of the narrative.
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The brief bibliography essays that conclude each chapter have been updated to include important new scholarship in many areas, including new work on the Missile Crisis, John Kennedy's assassination, the Vietnam War, the 1970s, the 1980s, American conservatism, social and cultural history in the new millennium, and the War on the Terror.
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The 5th edition includes expanded discussions about the important role of religion, religious institutions, and religious leaders in our recent history.
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2. Chapter-by-Chapter Changes
Chapter 1: Postwar America
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Chapter 1 now shows how the mobilization of the American people, resources, major industries, and infrastructure for the war effort transformed American society.
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Additions include more information about the GI Bill and about how the NAACP emerged as a mass organization in the forefront of the civil rights movement that was gathering momentum in the postwar years.
Chapter 2: Wars: Cold and Hot
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The discussion of American use of atomic bombs has been revised.
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There is a stronger discussion refuting the efforts of revisionist scholars to claim that Truman was more interested in trying to influence Soviet behavior than he was in saving lives when he made the decision to atomic bomb the Japanese.
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The origins of the Cold War has been revised to show that Dean Acheson was the principal architect of the U. S. Cold War policy based on the containment of Communism.
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The explanation for why the Cold War lasted so long, for over 40 years has been amplified.
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There is now a stronger account of the Marshall Plan and its accomplishments.
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The most significant revision to this chapter is the addition of a new section titled “Vietnam: Beginnings.” that shows that U. S. interests in Southeast Asia, began during W. W. II and the mid-1940s.
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There is an enhanced account of the Korean War, a war that has been orphaned by history and largely forgotten by most Americans.
Chapter 3: Postwar Politics
Chapter 4: The Affluent Society
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The chapter has been partially reorganized and a new section added titled “The Age of the Automobile” that highlights the 1950s Americans’ fascination with big powerful flashy cars.
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The discussion of the rise of the suburbs in the 1950s-1970s was strengthened by emphasizing how (1) Suburbia divided Americans racially, epitomizing the geography of inequality; (2) The rise of suburbia forged a new American way of life and shaped a new American identity.
Chapter 5: The Consumer Culture
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In the “Teen Culture” section, the treatment of the invention of the fast food restaurant has been expanded, using the meteoric spread of McDonald’s restaurants across the nation during the late-1950s as an exemplar.
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In the “Television Takes Over” section, the discussion of the advent of a powerful new mass medium that took over American popular culture during the 1950s was strengthened with more explanation of how TV developed so rapidly and how it became dominant so quickly.
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In the “Religion Revived,” section, there is new data to show how religion became an instrument used by the United States in the ongoing Cold War with the Soviet Union. The discussion of the Reverend Billy Graham who rose to national prominence during the early 1950s was also expanded to show his brave and principled efforts to desegregate his revivals in southern and border states.
Chapter 6: Age of Consensus
In addition to a new chapter title, there are several significant changes in this chapter.
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For the civil rights revolution, the discussion has been strengthened to give a more complete account of the confrontation between President Eisenhower and Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus over Faubus’s defiance of federal authority, and to show that President Eisenhower was a strong advocate of federal civil rights legislation.
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The chapter highlights the difficulties Eisenhower and national security managers had trying to devise an effective foreign policy to cope with a more complex international environment created by the accelerating decolonizing process occurring in the Third World.
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There is more information about CIA covert activities in Iran during 1953-1954.
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The chapter includes a fact-based, objective account of the founding of the modern Jewish state of Israel. There is also an account of the important role played by the United States in all of these important developments.
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An improved account of the Suez crisis of 1956 shows the link between the Suez crisis and the growing Arab hostility to the presence of a Jewish state in the Middle East and how the Suez crisis and the emergence of Israel significantly increased American involvement in Middle East.
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There is now a separate section on the Soviet crushing of the Hungarian revolt.
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An expanded account of Sputnik and how threatening it was for Americans to realize that the Soviets had not only caught up, they had apparently surpassed the U. S. in rocket and space technology.
Chapter 7: New Frontiers at Home and Abroad
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Concerning the 1960 election, there is new focus on the famed first presidential televised debates between Kennedy and Nixon that enhanced the importance of television, then a relatively new mass medium.
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There are stronger discussions of the civil rights revolution, which was accelerating during the early 1960 and of the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
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The discussion of the most dangerous crisis of the Cold War was significantly strengthened to show how Kennedy skillfully handled it to get the missiles out of Cuba without igniting a war.
Chapter 8: Great Society and Vietnam
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Revised and significantly expanded the account of the election of 1964 in light of a lot of recent scholarship about the most important trend in recent American political history, the rise of conservatism, particularly the emergence of conservative Republican political leaders.
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Expanded and strengthened account of the 2nd Arab-Israeli War, better known as the Six-Day-War (1967).
Chapter 9: Rebellion and Reaction
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Important changes in section on Black Power include new information about the murder of Malcolm X, the continuities and similarities between civil rights activists and Black Power militants, and how Martin Luther King was becoming more radical and penetrating in his critique of American society.
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The section on Gay Lesbian liberation was completely reworked and rewritten and includes a much expanded account of the Stonewall riot that ignited the modern Gay Lesbian rights movement in 1969.
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In the rebirth of feminism section. there is a fuller explanation of the powerful impact Friedan’s book had on middle class women and why.
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In the account of the 1968 election, there is an account of Robert Kennedy's doomed effort to forge a new liberal coalition by incorporating more moderate and conservative programs into his campaign.
Chapter 10: Pragmatic Centrism
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Significant changes in the account of Nixon’s approach to civil rights show that many people are not aware of how much Nixon did to advance the cause of civil rights and how he also broadened and strengthened affirmative action programs.
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In the discussion of the 1972 election. there is more explanation about how the changes in Democratic party rules reduced the power of political bosses.
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There is expanded discussion of McGovern’s feckless campaign.
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This chapter continues to provide the most thorough account of Watergate ever placed in a college U. S. History textbook.
Chapter 11: Calming the Cold War
Chapter 12: An Era of Limits
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In the section on economic decline, there is additional information about the deregulation of industries, starting with transportation industries.
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Important commentary has been included about the consequences of abandoning the convention system and allowing ordinary citizens to choose presidential candidates via caucuses/primaries.
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There are important changes in the account of the Rise of the New Right during the 1970s, including new explanations of what brought millions of white evangelical Protestants into the conservative Republican camp.
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There are two major changes in the discussion of the 1980 election: a more complex explanation of the gender gap and a discussion of its importance as a transitional election.
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In the discussion of Carter’s foreign policy, there is new material about the emergence of Neo-conservative critics of Carter’s efforts at continuing détente with the Soviets and the Iran debacle, which occurred on Carter’s watch.
Chapter 13: Social and Cultural Transformations
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The most important trends of the 1970s were the social and cultural transformations occurring during the decade. To illustrate and highlight some of these changes, a new section discusses the movies of the 1970s as a creative and transformative period in the history of Hollywood.
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A new section on television concerns major trends in the industry.
Chapter 14: The Age of Reagan
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The chapter has been re-titled since Ronald Reagan is the commanding personality who dominated public life of this nation for the entirety of the decade of the 1980s.
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The chapter places Reaganomics in a larger historical framework; explains more fully why Reaganomics did not work as advertized.
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Includes an expanded account of the 1986 immigration law and explains why it failed to achieve most of its goals.
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New important data on Reagan’s breaking the air controller’s strike and destroying PATCO.
Chapter 15: Igniting then Icing the Cold War
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The chapter has been re-titled and several sections have been re-titled.
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Important interpretive points included about Reagan’s conduct of Cold War foreign policy and why he so passionately embraced the SDI and why he wanted it developed.
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Includes an account of a relatively obscure event, which many historians believe is the closest the world has come to nuclear war since the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962.
Chapter 16: Social Tensions and Culture Wars
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The chapter has been re-titled and several sections have been re-titled.
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A demographic section derived from an analysis of many trends in the 2000 census has been added.
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A number of sections have been expanded and re-titled: the new economy of the 1990s, Cable TV, and the Information Superhighway.
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The discussions of black-white race relations, Hispanic Americans, and some of the culture wars of the 1990s, particularly the one over funding for the NEA have been expanded.
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There is a new section on Asian Americans.
Chapter 17: Going Global
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A major change to this chapter is the significant expansion and rewriting of the section "Ending and Winning the Cold War.” to more fully explain why the Cold War ended peacefully, and how the world was able to avoid a nuclear holocaust.
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Expanded overall assessment of George H. W. Bush’s presidency.
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New discussion shows how the collapse of the Soviet Union also caused severe damage to pro-Soviet regimes in Cuba, Vietnam, Nicaragua, and many African countries.
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Expanded account of the 1992 election to show that it marked a major surge in the number of female candidates seeking public office, the most important of whom were new women senators.
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Discussion of the 1994 midterm elections put in a larger perspective. These elections completed the historic transfer that had begun with the election of Reagan in 1980.
Chapter 18: America in a New Millennium
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This chapter has been split into two chapters in the fifth edition; the new Chapter 18 covers social and cultural history.
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The demographic section has been significantly revised and expanded with a large amount of data concerning marriage, education, older people, and regional and ethno-racial variations in population growth. The section stresses how the rapidly increasing minority populations are transforming the social landscape of America.
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The section on young people has been expanded with added data to show the reality is that America has a lower rate of social mobility than most developed countries and why.
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The section on multicultural society has been expanded to explain how immigration reform impacted the black population of the United States, and how Hispanic Americans were hardest hit by the bursting of the housing bubble, the financial meltdown, and the onset of the Great Recession, and explains why.
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The expanded immigration section explains why the so-called “immigration crisis,” which has roiled the political waters for years, has faded into history and why.
Chapter 19: The Wars on Terror
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This is a new chapter that was previously part of Chapter 18, covering political, economic, diplomatic, and military history from 2000 to the present.
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Sections on election 2000, Compassionate Conservatism, Terrorist Attack!, the Transformation of USA foreign policy, The Invasion of Iraq, and Operation Iraqi Freedom have been shortened.
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The section on Global financial Crisis and Recession explains what caused the housing bubble to burst, why that created a financial crisis that nearly brought the global financial system down, and why it ushered in one of the longest and deepest recessions in American history.
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Added text updates the history of the U.S. economy through Spring 2012.
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The chapter includes a major point about the dire implications of Apple’s phenomenal success.
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Updated account of the first three years of the Obama administration and its accomplishments.
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Added a discussion to set the stage for the confrontation between the executive and judicial branches of the government over the health care reform act.
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The chapter brings the two fronts in the War on Terror up to the spring of 2012.
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The chapter (and the book) concludes with a mildly optimistic look at the state of the nation in the spring of 2012.
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