The Value of Exploring and Asking Questions as You Read
The importance of exploring topics by reading and asking questions as you read cannot be overstated
Viewpoints Articles from History in Dispute
- Did American soldiers in World War II have a strong sense of fighting for a cause?
- Did busing hasten white flight and weaken the Civil Rights movement?
- Did Christianity provide an effective defense of slavery?
- Did Cold-War politics bolster the civil rights movement?
- Did nascent nationalism help stimulate the American independence movement?
- Did proslavery theorists in the United States offer a cogent critique of free society?
- Did slavery cause racism?
- Did slavery compromise the image of the New World as an Edenic land?
- Did soldiers who had fought at the front feel permanently alienated from civilian culture?
- Did the American Civil Rights movement encourage sympathy with communism?
- Did the American Revolution improve conditions for African Americans?
- Did the American Revolution weaken slavery in the United States?
- How did U.S. isolationism contribute to the cause of World War II?
- Is there validity to the argument of historians who compare the American Revolution to the Vietnam War?
- Was Dwight D. Eisenhower an effective military leader?
- Was Huey Long a progressive reformer or a dangerous demagogue?
- Was it wise for Adolf Hitler to declare war on the United States after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
- Was Jimmy Carter's emphasis on human rights a sound basis for foreign policy?
- Was the "island hopping" of the U.S. Marines in the Pacific theater an effective strategy?
- Was the "Red Scare" after World War I a reaction to a genuine communist or anarchist threat, or was it a government attempt to silence domestic critics?
- Was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki justified?
- Was the Indian New Deal a major change in federal policy toward Native Americans?
- Was the internment of Japanese Americans justified during World War II?
- Was the Reagan administration policy on Nicaragua successful?
- Was the United States a "Good Neighbor" toward Latin America in the 1930s?
- Was the United States founded as a Christian nation?
- Was the Vietnam Era antiwar movement successful?
- Was U.S. insistence on maintaining military independence a decisive element in the Allied victory?
- Were Richard M. Nixon's and Henry Kissinger's approaches to foreign policy unified?
- Were the movements of the 1960s responsible for progressive change or were they lessons in destruction?
- What caused the Great Migrations?
- What ended the Depression—the New Deal or World War II?
- What role did the fundamentalists play in American society of the 1920s?
- Which was more important to the Civil Rights movement: Legal procedures or mass mobilization?
- Why did Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty fail?
- Why did the United States oppose the Mexican Revolution, and was it successful in achieving its goals?