Contents: 1. Notes on contributors; 2. Chronology; 3. Introduction; 4. The American century; 5. The regions and regionalism; 6. Immigration to the United States in the twentieth century; 7. Religion in the United States in the twentieth century; 8. Shifting boundaries religion and the United States – 1960 to the present; 9. The hispanic background of the United States; 10. African Americans since 1900; 11. Asian Americans; 12. Women in the twentieth century; 13. Queer America; 14. The United States, war and the twentieth century; 15. The culture of the cold war; 16. Secret America – the CIA and American culture; 17. Vietnam and the 1960s; 18. New York city and the struggle of the modern; 19. Music – Sound – Technology; 20. African American music of the twentieth century; 21. Hollywood cinema; 22. Popular culture; 23. Theatre; 24. Society and the novel in twentieth century American; 25. “Preferring the wrong way” – mapping the ethical diversity of US twentieth century poetry; 26. Index.
