The term "culture wars" refers to the political and sociological polarization that has characterized American society the past several decades. This new edition provides an enlightening and comprehensive A-to-Z ready reference, now with supporting primary documents, on major topics of contemporary importance for students, teachers, and the general reader.

Table of Contents

• Introduction to the Second Edition: Culture Wars Revisited
• Introduction to the First Edition: Culture Wars in America—Rhetoric and Reality
• A-Z Entries
• A
• Abortion
• Abu Ghraib and Gitmo
• Academic Bill of Rights
• Academic Freedom
• ACORN
• Adelson, Sheldon
• Adler, Mortimer J.
• Affirmative Action
• Afghanistan War
• Afrocentrism
• Age Discrimination
• Agnew, Spiro T.
• AIDS
• Alexander, Jane
• Ali, Muhammad
• American Century
• American Civil Liberties Union
• American Civil Religion
• American Exceptionalism
• American Indian Movement
• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Androgyny
• Angelou, Maya
• Animal Rights
• Anti-Intellectualism
• Anti-Semitism
• Arnold, Ron
• Arrow, Tre
• Aryan Nations
• Atheism
• Atwater, Lee
• Automobile Safety
• B
• Bachmann, Michele
• Baez, Joan
• Bailouts, Government
• Bankruptcy Reform
• Barbie Doll
• Barton, David
• Battle of Seattle
• Beauty Pageants
• Beck, Glenn
• Behe, Michael J.
• Bell Curve, The (1994)
• Bennett, William J.
• Biafra, Jello
• Biotech Revolution
• Birth Control
• Birther Movement
• Black Panther Party
• Black Radical Congress
• Blackface
• Blogs and Blogosphere
• Bloomberg, Michael
• Bob Jones University
• Boehner, John
• Bono
• Book Banning
• Border Security
• Bork, Robert
• Boy Scouts of America
• Bradley, Bill
• Breitbart, Andrew
• Brock, David
• Brokaw, Tom
• Brown, Helen Gurley
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Bryant, Anita
• Buchanan, Pat
• Buckley, William F., Jr.
• Budenz, Louis F.
• Budget Deficit, Federal
• Buffett, Warren
• Bullard, Robert D.
• Bunche, Ralph
• Bush Family
• Busing, School
• Byrd, Robert C.
• C
• Campaign Finance Reform
• Campolo, Anthony “Tony”
• Canada
• Capital Punishment
• Carson, Rachel
• Carter, Jimmy
• Catholic Church
• Censorship
• Central Intelligence Agency
• Chambers, Whittaker
• Charter Schools
• Chávez, César
• Cheney Family
• Chicago Seven
• Chick, Jack
• China
• Chisholm, Shirley
• Chomsky, Noam
• Christian Coalition
• Christian Radio
• Christian Reconstructionism
• Christmas
• Church and State
• Churchill, Ward
• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)
• Civil Rights Movement
• Climate Change
• Clinton, Bill
• Clinton, Hillary Rodham
• Clinton Impeachment
• Colbert, Stephen
• Cold War
• College Tuition and Student Debt
• Colson, Chuck
• Columbus Day
• Comic Books
• Comic Strips
• Commager, Henry Steele
• Common Cause
• Commoner, Barry
• Communists and Communism
• Comparable Worth
• Compassionate Conservatism
• Confederate Flag
• Conspiracy Theories
• Contemporary Christian Music
• Contract with America
• Corporate Scandals
• Corporate Welfare
• Coulter, Ann
• Counterculture
• Country Music
• Creationism and Intelligent Design
• Cronkite, Walter
• Cuba
• Culture Jamming
• D
• Dean, Howard
• Dean, James
• Dean, John
• Debt, Federal
• Deconstructionism
• DeLay, Tom
• Deloria, Vine, Jr.
• Demjanjuk, John
• Democratic Party
• Diversity Training
• Dobson, James
• Donahue, Phil
• Douglas, William O.
• Dr. Phil
• Drilling, Oil and Gas
• Drudge Report
• Drug Testing
• D'Souza, Dinesh
• Du Bois, W.E.B.
• Dukakis, Michael
• Duke, David
• Dworkin, Andrea
• Dylan, Bob
• E
• Earmarks
• Earth Day
• Ecoterrorism
• Education Reform
• Ehrenreich, Barbara
• Eisenhower, Dwight D.
• Election of 2000
• Election of 2008
• Election of 2012
• Endangered Species Act
• English as the Official Language
• Enola Gay Exhibit
• Environmental Movement
• Equal Rights Amendment
• Evangelicalism
• Executive Compensation
• F
• Factory Farms
• Faith-Based Programs
• Falwell, Jerry
• Family Values
• Farrakhan, Louis
• Federal Communications Commission
• Federal Reserve
• Felt, W. Mark
• Feminism, Second-Wave
• Feminism, Third-Wave
• Ferraro, Geraldine
• Flag Desecration
• Fleiss, Heidi
• Flynt, Larry
• Focus on the Family
• Fonda, Jane
• Food and Drug Administration
• Ford, Gerald
• Foreman, Dave
• Forests, Parklands, and Federal Wilderness
• Foucault, Michel
• Founding Fathers
• Fox News
• France
• Frank, Barney
• Franken, Al
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
• Freedom of Information Act
• Friedan, Betty
• Friedman, Milton
• Fundamentalism, Religious
• Fur
• G
• Galbraith, John Kenneth
• Gangs
• Gay Capital
• Gay Rights Movement
• Gays in Popular Culture
• Gays in the Military
• Gender-Inclusive Language
• Generations and Generational Conflict
• Genetically Modified Foods
• Gibson, Mel
• Giffords (Gabrielle) Shooting
• Gilmore, Gary
• Gingrich, Newt
• Ginsberg, Allen
• Globalization
• Goetz, Bernhard
• Goldwater, Barry
• González, Elián
• Gore, Al
• Graffiti
• Graham, Billy
• Great Books
• Great Society
• Ground Zero Mosque
• Guardian Angels
• Gulf Oil Spill
• Gun Control
• Guthrie, Woody, and Arlo Guthrie
• H
• Hackers and Hacktivists
• Haley, Alex
• Hall, Gus
• Hannity, Sean
• Hargis, Billy
• Harrington, Michael
• Hart, Gary
• Harvey, Paul
• Hate Crimes
• Hauerwas, Stanley
• Hay, Harry
• Hayden, Tom
• Health Care
• Heavy Metal
• Hefner, Hugh
• Heller, Joseph
• Helms, Jesse
• Heritage Foundation
• Hightower, Jim
• Hill, Anita
• Hill, Julia “Butterfly”
• Hillsdale College
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Hispanic Americans
• Hiss, Alger
• Hoffman, Abbie
• Hollywood Ten
• Holocaust
• Homeschooling
• hooks, bell
• Hoover, J. Edgar
• Horowitz, David
• Horton, Willie
• Huffington, Arianna
• Human Rights
• Humphrey, Hubert H.
• Hunter, James Davison
• Huntington, Samuel P.
• Hurricane Katrina
• Hutchins, Robert M.
• I
• Illegal Immigrants
• Immigration Policy
• Indian Casinos
• Indian Sport Mascots
• Individuals With Disabilities Education Act
• Internet
• Iran, Relations with
• Iran-Contra Affair
• Iraq War
• Irvine, Reed
• Israel
• J
• Jackson, Jesse
• Jackson, Michael
• Japan
• Jehovah's Witnesses
• Jesus People Movement
• John Birch Society
• Johnson, Lyndon B.
• Jorgensen, Christine
• Judicial Wars
• K
• Kennedy Family
• Kerouac, Jack
• Kerry, John
• Kevorkian, Jack
• Keyes, Alan
• King, Billie Jean
• King, Martin Luther, Jr.
• King, Rodney
• Kinsey, Alfred
• Klein, Naomi
• Koch, Charles G., and David H. Koch
• Koop, C. Everett
• Kristol, Irving, and Bill Kristol
• Krugman, Paul
• Kubrick, Stanley
• Kushner, Tony
• Kwanzaa
• Kyoto Protocol
• L
• La Follette, Robert, Jr.
• La Raza Unida
• Labor Unions
• Lady Gaga
• LaHaye, Tim, and Beverly LaHaye
• Lapin, Daniel
• LaRouche, Lyndon H., Jr.
• Lear, Norman
• Leary, Timothy
• Lee, Spike
• LeMay, Curtis
• Leopold, Aldo
• Lesbians
• Lewis, Bernard
• Liddy, G. Gordon
• Limbaugh, Rush
• Literature, Film, and Drama
• Lott, Trent
• Love Canal
• Loving, Richard, and Mildred Loving
• Lynching
• M
• MacKinnon, Catharine
• Maddow, Rachel
• Madoff (Bernard) Scandal
• Madonna
• Mailer, Norman
• Malcolm X
• Manson, Marilyn
• Mapplethorpe, Robert
• Marriage Names
• Marxism
• McCain, John
• McCarthy, Eugene
• McCarthy, Joseph
• McCarthyism
• McCloskey, Deirdre
• McGovern, George
• McIntire, Carl
• McLuhan, Marshall
• McVeigh, Timothy
• Mead, Margaret
• Media Bias
• Medical Malpractice
• Medical Marijuana
• Medved, Michael
• Men's Movement
• Mexico
• Microsoft
• Migrant Labor
• Militia Movement
• Milk, Harvey
• Millett, Kate
• Million Man March
• Miranda Rights
• Mondale, Walter
• Montana Freemen
• Moore, Michael
• Moore, Roy S.
• Moral Majority
• Morgan, Robin
• Morrison, Toni
• Mothers Against Drunk Driving
• Motion Picture Association of America
• Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
• Ms.
• MSNBC
• Multicultural Conservatism
• Multiculturalism and Ethnic Studies
• Mumford, Lewis
• Murdoch, Rupert
• Murrow, Edward R.
• Muslim Americans
• My Lai Massacre
• N
• Nader, Ralph
• Nation, The
• Nation of Islam
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• National Endowment for the Arts
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• National Organization for Women
• National Public Radio
• National Review
• National Rifle Association
• Nelson, Willie
• Neoconservatism
• Neoliberalism
• New Age Movement
• New Deal
• New Journalism
• New Left
• New York Times, The
• Niebuhr, Reinhold
• Nixon, Richard
• Norquist, Grover
• North, Oliver
• Not Dead Yet
• Nuclear Age
• Nugent, Ted
• O
• Obama, Barack
• Obesity Epidemic
• Occupational Safety
• Occupy Movement
• O'Connor, Sandra Day
• O'Hair, Madalyn Murray
• Operation Rescue
• Oppenheimer, J. Robert
• O'Reilly, Bill
• Outing
• P
• Packwood, Bob
• Paglia, Camille
• Palin, Sarah
• Parks, Rosa
• Paul, Ron, and Rand Paul
• Pelosi, Nancy
• Penn, Sean
• Pensions, Public
• Perot, H. Ross
• Phelps, Fred
• Philadelphia, Mississippi
• Pipes, Richard, and Daniel Pipes
• Planned Parenthood
• Podhoretz, Norman
• Police Abuse
• Political Correctness
• Pornography
• Postmodernism
• Premillennial Dispensationalism
• Presidential Pardons
• Prison Reform
• Privacy Rights
• Privatization
• Progressive Christians Uniting
• Promise Keepers
• Public Broadcasting Service
• Punk Rock
• Q
• Quayle, Dan
• R
• Race
• Racial Profiling
• Rand, Ayn
• Rap Music
• Rather, Dan
• Reagan, Ronald
• Recession of 2007–2009
• Record Warning Labels
• Red and Blue States
• Redford, Robert
• Redneck
• Reed, Ralph
• Rehnquist, William H.
• Relativism, Moral
• Religious Right
• Reparations, Japanese Internment
• Republican Party
• Revisionist History
• Right to Counsel
• Right to Die
• Robertson, Pat
• Rock and Roll
• Rockwell, George Lincoln
• Rockwell, Norman
• Rodman, Dennis
• Roe v. Wade (1973)
• Romney, Mitt
• Rosenberg, Julius, and Ethel Rosenberg
• Rove, Karl
• Ruby Ridge Incident
• Rudolph, Eric
• Rusher, William A.
• Ryan, George
• Ryan, Paul
• S
• Said, Edward
• Same-Sex Marriage
• Sanders, Bernie
• Santorum, Rick
• Saudi Arabia
• Schaeffer, Francis
• Schiavo, Terri
• Schlafly, Phyllis
• Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
• School of the Americas
• School Prayer
• School Shootings
• School Vouchers
• Schwarzenegger, Arnold
• Science Wars
• Secular Humanism
• Seeger, Pete
• September 11
• September 11 Memorial
• Serrano, Andres
• Sex Education
• Sex Offenders
• Sexual Assault
• Sexual Harassment
• Sexual Revolution
• Sharia
• Sharpton, Al
• Sheen, Fulton J.
• Shelley, Martha
• Shepard, Matthew
• Shock Jocks
• Sider, Ron
• Silent Majority
• Simpson (O.J.) Trial
• Simpsons, The
• Smoking in Public
• Socarides, Charles
• Social Media
• Social Security
• Sodomy Laws
• Sokal Affair
• Soros, George
• Southern Baptist Convention
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• Soviet Union and Russia
• Sowell, Thomas
• Speech Codes
• Spock, Benjamin
• Springsteen, Bruce
• Stand Your Ground Laws
• Starr, Kenneth
• Stay-at-Home Mothers
• Steinbeck, John
• Steinem, Gloria
• Stem-Cell Research
• Stern, Howard
• Stewart, Jon
• Stone, Oliver
• Stonewall Rebellion
• Strategic Defense Initiative
• Strauss, Leo
• Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
• Student Conservatives
• Students for a Democratic Society
• Summers, Lawrence
• Super PACs
• Supply-Side Economics
• Supreme Court, U.S.
• Sustainable Development
• Symbionese Liberation Army
• T
• Taft, Robert A.
• Talk Radio
• Tax Reform
• Tea Party
• Tebow, Tim
• Televangelism
• Teller, Edward
• Ten Commandments
• Terkel, Studs
• Thanksgiving Day
• Think Tanks
• Third Parties
• Thomas, Clarence, and Virginia Lamp Thomas
• Thompson, Hunter S.
• Three Mile Island Accident
• Thurmond, Strom
• Till, Emmett
• Tobacco Settlements
• Tort Reform
• Transgender Movement
• Truman, Harry S.
• Turner, Ted
• Twenty-Second Amendment
• U
• Unabomber
• United Nations
• USA PATRIOT Act
• V
• Vaccination
• Ventura, Jesse
• Victimhood
• Vidal, Gore
• Vietnam Veterans Against the War
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial
• Vietnam War
• Vigilantism
• Voegelin, Eric
• Voter Fraud and Voter ID Laws
• Voting Rights Act
• W
• Waco Siege
• Wall Street Journal, The
• Wallace, George
• Wallis, Jim
• Walmart
• Walt Disney Company
• War on Drugs
• War on Poverty
• War Powers Act
• War Protesters
• War Toys
• Warhol, Andy
• Warren, Earl
• Warren, Rick
• Washington Times, The
• Watergate
• Watt, James
• Watts and Los Angeles Riots, 1965 and 1992
• Wayne, John
• Wealth Gap
• Weekly Standard, The
• Welfare Reform
• Wellstone, Paul
• West, Allen
• West, Cornel
• Weyrich, Paul M.
• Whistleblowers
• White, Reggie
• White Supremacists
• WikiLeaks
• Wildmon, Donald
• Will, George
• Williams, William Appleman
• Wilson, Edmund
• Winfrey, Oprah
• Wolf, Naomi
• Wolfe, Tom
• Women in the Military
• Women's Studies
• Woodward, Bob
• World
• World Council of Churches
• World War II Memorial
• Wounded Knee Incident
• Y
• Young, Neil
• Z
• Zappa, Frank
• Zero Tolerance
• Zinn, Howard
• Primary Documents
• Abortion
• Academic Freedom
• Affirmative Action
• Afghanistan War
• Birther Movement
• Campaign Finance Reform
• Capital Punishment
• Church and State
• Climate Change
• College Tuition and Student Debt
• Corporate Scandals
• Corporate Welfare
• Creationism and Intelligent Design
• Debt, Federal
• Drilling, Oil and Gas
• Election of 2012
• Gays in the Military
• Gun Control
• Health Care
• Illegal Immigrants
• Iran, Relations with
• Iraq War
• Labor Unions
• Media Bias
• Medical Marijuana
• Muslim Americans
• Obesity Epidemic
• Occupy Movement
• Pensions, Public
• Pornography
• Public Broadcasting Service
• Racial Profiling
• Recession of 2007–2009
• Right to Die
• Same-Sex Marriage
• Social Security
• Stem-Cell Research
• Supreme Court, U.S.
• Vietnam War
• Voter Fraud and Voter ID Laws
• WikiLeaks
• Women in the Military