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Summary
Table of Contents
List of Maps | p. xvii |
Preface | p. xix |
Acknowledgments | p. xxiii |
Reconstruction: North and South | p. 704 |
The War's Aftermath | p. 705 |
The Battle over Political Reconstruction | p. 711 |
The Assassination of Lincoln | p. 713 |
Reconstructing the South | p. 720 |
The Reconstructed South | p. 724 |
The Grand Years | p. 732 |
Growing Pains | |
Big Business and Organized Labor | p. 751 |
The Rise of Big Business | p. 751 |
Entrepreneurs | p. 761 |
The Working Class | p. 768 |
The South and the West Transformed | p. 790 |
The Myth of the New South | p. 791 |
The New West | p. 797 |
The Emergence of Urban America | p. 820 |
America's Move to Town | p. 821 |
The New Immigration | p. 826 |
Popular Culture | p. 832 |
Education and Social Thought | p. 839 |
Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt | p. 848 |
Paradoxical Politics | p. 849 |
Corruption and Reform: Hayes to Harrison | p. 853 |
The Farm Problem and Agrarian Protest Movements | p. 864 |
The Economy and the Silver Solution | p. 872 |
Race Relations During the 1890s | p. 878 |
Modern America | |
Seizing An American Empire | p. 897 |
Toward the New Imperialism | p. 898 |
Expansion in the Pacific | p. 900 |
The War of 1898 | p. 903 |
Imperial Rivalries in East Asia | p. 920 |
Big-Stick Diplomacy | p. 922 |
"Making the World Over": The Progressive Era | p. 932 |
Elements of Reform | p. 934 |
The Social Gospel | p. 935 |
Early Efforts at Urban Reform | p. 937 |
Features of Progressivism | p. 944 |
Roosevelt's Progressivism | p. 950 |
Roosevelt's Second Term | p. 953 |
From Roosevelt to Taft | p. 958 |
Woodrow Wilson's Progressivism | p. 962 |
Limits of Progressivism | p. 977 |
America and the Great War | p. 980 |
Wilson and Foreign Affairs | p. 980 |
An Uneasy Neutrality | p. 983 |
America's Entry into the War | p. 995 |
America at War | p. 1001 |
The Fight for the Peace | p. 1007 |
Lurching from War to Peace | p. 1015 |
The Modern Temper | p. 1022 |
The Reactionary Twenties | p. 1024 |
The "Jazz Age" During the "Roaring Twenties" | p. 1034 |
Mass Culture | p. 1044 |
The Modernist Revolt | p. 1050 |
Republican Resurgence and Decline | p. 1060 |
"Normalcy" | p. 1061 |
Isolationism in Foreign Affairs | p. 1065 |
The Harding Scandals | p. 1069 |
The New Era | p. 1074 |
President Hoover, the Engineer | p. 1078 |
Global Concerns | p. 1086 |
From Hooverism to the New Deal | p. 1092 |
New Deal America | p. 1100 |
Regulatory Efforts | p. 1105 |
The Social Cost of the Depression | p. 1110 |
Culture in the Thirties | p. 1117 |
The New Deal Matures | p. 1120 |
Roosevelt's Second Term | p. 1129 |
The Legacy of the New Deal | p. 1136 |
The Second World War | p. 1142 |
From Isolationism to Intervention | p. 1142 |
Foreign Crises | p. 1143 |
War Clouds | p. 1150 |
The Storm in Europe | p. 1152 |
The Storm in the Pacific | p. 1159 |
A World War | p. 1163 |
Mobilization at Home | p. 1165 |
Social Effects of the War | p. 1167 |
The Allied Drive Toward Berlin | p. 1175 |
Leapfrogging to Tokyo | p. 1185 |
A New Age is Born | p. 1188 |
The Final Ledger | p. 1200 |
The American Age | |
The Fair Deal and Containment | p. 1209 |
Demobilization Under Truman | p. 1210 |
The Cold War | p. 1215 |
Civil Rights During the 1940s | p. 1225 |
The Cold War Heats up | p. 1232 |
The 1950s: Affluence and Anxiety in an Atomic Age | p. 1246 |
A People of Plenty | p. 1248 |
A Conformist Culture | p. 1258 |
Cracks in the Picture Window | p. 1261 |
Alienation and Liberation | p. 1263 |
Moderate Republicanism-The Eisenhower Years | p. 1268 |
The Early Years of the Civil Rights Movement | p. 1273 |
Foreign Policy in the 1950s | p. 1282 |
Foreign Interventions | p. 1285 |
Reflection and Foreign Crises | p. 1290 |
Festering Problems Abroad | p. 1294 |
Assessing the Eisenhower Presidency | p. 1296 |
New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s | p. 1300 |
The New Frontier | p. 1300 |
Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement | p. 1306 |
Foreign Frontiers | p. 1314 |
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society | p. 1322 |
From Civil Rights to Black Power | p. 1331 |
The Tragedy of Vietnam | p. 1338 |
Sixties Crescendo | p. 1344 |
Rebellion and Reaction: The 1960s and 1970s | p. 1350 |
The Roots of Rebellion | p. 1351 |
Nixon and Middle America | p. 1367 |
Nixon and Vietnam | p. 1376 |
Nixon Triumphant | p. 1381 |
Watergate | p. 1387 |
An Unelected President | p. 1392 |
A Conservative Realignment: 1977-1990 | p. 1400 |
The Carter Presidency | p. 1401 |
The Reagan Revolution | p. 1412 |
Reagan's First Term | p. 1417 |
Reagan's Second Term | p. 1425 |
The Changing Social Landscape | p. 1429 |
The Bush Administration | p. 1438 |
Cultural Conservatism | p. 1446 |
America in a New Millennium | p. 1450 |
America's Changing Mosaic | p. 1451 |
Bush to Clinton | p. 1452 |
Domestic Policy in Clinton's First Term | p. 1456 |
Republican Insurgency | p. 1458 |
The Clinton Years at Home | p. 1462 |
Foreign-Policy Challenges | p. 1466 |
The Election of 2000 | p. 1469 |
Compassionate Conservatism | p. 1472 |
Global Terrorism | p. 1473 |
Second-Term Blues | p. 1482 |
A Historic Election | p. 1487 |
Obama's First Term | p. 1491 |
Glossary | p. A1 |
Appendix | p. A59 |
The Declaration of Independence | p. A61 |
Articles of Confederation | p. A66 |
The Constitution of the United States | p. A74 |
Amendments to the Constitution | p. A86 |
Presidential Elections | p. A96 |
Admission of States | p. A104 |
Population of the United States | p. A105 |
Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820-2011 | p. A106 |
Immigration by Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-2011 | p. A108 |
Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Secretaries of State | p. A117 |
Further Readings | p. A123 |
Credits | p. A137 |
Index | p. A141 |
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