Major Problems in American History. Vol. 2, Since 1865

by Jon Gjerde

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, this title introduces you to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in US history. It serves as the primary anthology for the introductory survey course, covering the subject's entire chronological span.

250 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Jon Gjerde (February 25, 1953 – October 26, 2008) was an American historian and the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History and American Citizenship at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also served as dean of the Division of Social Sciences in the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Gjerde's research concerned European immigration to the Midwestern United States and European immigrants in the midwest. Among other accolades, Gjerde won three Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book awards for his writings on immigration and agricultural history. He was most commonly associated with his two prizewinning books, From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West (1989) and The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830–1917 (1997).