America: A Narrative History V.2
by Tindall, George Brown; Shi, David E.Edition: 8th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-10-19
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary
America , now in its twenty-fifth year, has sold more 1.2 million copies over the past seven editions and remains the most affordable history text on the market. The narrative wins students over with compelling storytelling, colorful anecdotes and biographical sketches that make the material more memorable. The text includes helpful in-text study aids, and a host of electronic media resources to help teachers teach and students learn.
Table of Contents
| Reconstruction: North and South | |
| The War's Aftermath | |
| The Battle Over Reconstruction | |
| Reconstructing The South | |
| The Reconstructed South | |
| The Grant Years | |
| Growing Pains | |
| The South and The West Transformed | |
| The New South | |
| The New West | |
| Big Business and Organized Labor | |
| The Rise Of Big Business | |
| Entrepreneurs | |
| Labor Conditions And Organization | |
| The Emergence of Urban America | |
| America's Move To Town | |
| The New Immigration | |
| Popular Culture | |
| Education And The Professions | |
| The Rise Of Realism | |
| The Social Gospel | |
| Early Efforts At Urban Reform | |
| Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt | |
| Paradoxical Politics | |
| Corruption And Reform: Hayes To Harrison | |
| The Farm Problem And Agrarian Protest Movements | |
| The Economy And The Silver Solution | |
| Modern America | |
| An American Empire | |
| Toward The New Imperialism | |
| Expansion In The Pacific | |
| The War Of 1898 | |
| Imperial Rivalries In East Asia | |
| Big-Stick Diplomacy | |
| The Progressive ERA | |
| Elements Of Reform | |
| Features Of Progressivism | |
| Roosevelt's Progressivism | |
| Roosevelt's Second Term | |
| From Roosevelt To Taft | |
| Wilson's Progressivism | |
| Limits Of Progressivism | |
| America and The Great War | |
| Wilson And Foreign Affairs | |
| An Uneasy Neutrality | |
| America's Entry Into The War | |
| America At War | |
| The Fight For The Peace | |
| Lurching From War To Peace | |
| The Modern Temper | |
| Reaction In The Twenties | |
| The Roaring Twenties | |
| The Culture Of Modernism | |
| Republican Resurgence and Decline | |
| "Normalcy" | |
| The New Era | |
| President Hoover, The Engineer | |
| New Deal America | |
| From Hooverism To The New Deal | |
| Recovery Through Regulation | |
| The Social Cost Of The Depression | |
| Culture In The Thirties | |
| The Second New Deal | |
| Roosevelt's Second Term | |
| The Legacy Of The New Deal | |
| From Isolation to Global War | |
| Postwar Isolationism | |
| War Clouds | |
| The Storm In Europe | |
| The Storm In The Pacific | |
| The Second World War | |
| America's Early Battles | |
| Mobilization At Home | |
| Social Effects Of The War | |
| The Allied Drive Toward Berlin | |
| Leapfrogging To Tokyo | |
| A New Age Is Born | |
| The Final Ledger | |
| The American Age | |
| The Fair Deal and Containment | |
| Demobilization Under Truman | |
| The Cold War | |
| Civil Rights During The 1940s | |
| The Cold War Heats Up | |
| Through The Picture Window: Society and Culture, 1945-1960 | |
| People Of Plenty | |
| A Conforming Culture | |
| Cracks In The Picture Window | |
| Alienation And Liberation | |
| A Paradoxical Era | |
| Conflict and Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years | |
| "Time For A Change" | |
| Eisenhower's "Hidden-Hand" Presidency | |
| Foreign Intervention | |
| Reelection And Foreign Crises | |
| Festering Problems Abroad | |
| The Early Years Of The Civil Rights Movement | |
| Assessing The Eisenhower Presidency | |
| New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change In The 1960s | |
| The New Frontier | |
| Expansion Of The Civil Rights Movement | |
| Foreign Frontiers | |
| Lyndon Johnson And The Great Society | |
| From Civil Rights To Black Power | |
| The Tragedy Of Vietnam | |
| Sixties Crescendo | |
| Rebellion And Reaction In The 1960S and 1970s | |
| The Roots Of Rebellion | |
| Nixon And Vietnam | |
| Nixon And Middle America | |
| Nixon Triumphant | |
| Watergate | |
| An Unelected President | |
| The Carter Interregnum | |
| A Conservative Insurgency | |
| The Reagan Revolution | |
| Reagan's First Term | |
| Reagan's Second Term | |
| The Bush Administration | |
| Triumph and Tragedy: America At The Turn of The Century | |
| America's Changing Mosaic | |
| Cultural Conservatism | |
| Bush To Clinton | |
| Domestic Policy In Clinton's First Term | |
| Republican Insurgency | |
| The Clinton Years At Home | |
| Foreign-Policy Challenges | |
| The Election Of 2000 | |
| Compassionate Conservatism | |
| Global Terrorism | |
| Second-Term Blues | |
| A Historical Election | |
| The First One Hundred Days | |
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