Pulished in 1985, The Great Divide is a collection of interviews about the dividing lines that seperate one American experience from another. These divides exist between communities, between soldier and civilian, teacher and student, and between the individual and collective. Although Terkel's book examines many more issues than those four presented as a part of the Studs Project, the statements of Dr. Ron Sable, Robert Franke, Larry Heineman, and Barabara Branden represent a cross-section of the emotional and historical nuance that fills The Great Divide.

     The pairs of interviews in this section examine how divides in American culture have shifted and morphed from 1985 until now. Interviews from The Great Divide and today provide a self-conscious history of the United States of America, told not by historians looking back, but by personal accounts of history as reality.