The United States History Abstract: Major Crises in American History

About the Author Joseph A. Bagnall has served as an educator, teaching United States history and political science at the college level for many years. His past publications include Depression Dialogue: An Anthology of Representative Political Dialogue of the Depression Decade (ed.), 1965; United States History: The Relevant Issues (co-author), 1973; President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's Grand and Global Alliance: World Order for the New Century, 1992; and The Kennedy Option: Pursuit of World Law, 2002. He has written and produced a television documentary titled John F. Kennedy's Lost Pathway to Peace, which aired on KCET Los Angeles, and a number of other PBS affiliates. It also aired on TBS on the 69th and 70th anniversaries of JFK's birth. Dr. Bagnall was interviewed by Charles Osgood, on the CBS Radio Network, on the 75th anniversary of President Kennedy's birth.