American History: A Survey : Since 1865

by Brinkley, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780073033921
• ISBN10: 0073033928
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College

Summary

Highly-respected for its impeccable scholarship and elegant writing style, American History: A Survey provides students and instructors with a comprehensive account of the American past in which no single approach or theme predominates. From its first edition, this text has included a scrupulous account of American political and diplomatic history. Today, however, the book explores areas of history such as social, cultural, urban, racial and ethnic history, more history of the West and South, environmental history, and the history of women and gender. In addition, American history has not evolved in a vacuum, but as part of a larger global world. The eleventh edition of this text places American history into that global context, making connections for students who live in an ever-expanding world themselves.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
Reconstruction and the New South	507	(48)
The Problems of Peacemaking	507	(6)
The Aftermath of War and Emancipation	508	(1)
Competing Notions of Freedom	509	(1)
Issues of Reconstruction	510	(1)
Plans for Reconstruction	511	(1)
The Death of Lincoln	511	(1)
Johnson and ``Restoration''	512	(1)
Radical Reconstruction	513	(4)
The Black Codes	513	(1)
The Fourteenth Amendment	513	(1)
The Congressional Plan	514	(1)
The Fifteenth Amendment	515	(2)
Impeaching the President, Assaulting the Courts	517	(1)
The South in Reconstruction	517	(6)
The Reconstruction Governments	517	(2)
Education	519	(1)
Landownership and Tenancy	520	(1)
Incomes and Credit	520	(2)
The African-American Family in Freedom	522	(1)
The Grant Administration	523	(3)
The Solider President	523	(1)
The Liberal Republicans	524	(1)
The Grant Scandals	525	(1)
The Greenback Question	525	(1)
Republican Diplomacy	526	(1)
The Abandonment of Reconstruction	526	(7)
The Southern States ``Redeemed''	527	(1)
The Ku Klux Klan Acts	527	(1)
Waning Northern Commitment	528	(1)
The Compromise of 1877	528	(5)
The Legacy of Reconstruction	533	(1)
The New South	533	(22)
The ``Redeemers''	533	(1)
Industrialization and the ``New South''	534	(5)
Tenants and Sharecroppers	539	(1)
African Americans and the New South	540	(2)
The Birth of Jim Crow	542
Where Historians Disagree: Reconstruction	530	(6)
Patterns of Popular Culture: The Minstrel Show	536	(7)
Where Historians Disagree: The Origins of Segregation	543	(5)
Significant Events	548	(1)
Conclusion	549	(1)
For Further Reference	549	(1)
Bibliography	550	(5)
The Conquest of the Far West	555	(40)
The Societies of the Far West	556	(9)
The Western Tribes	556	(2)
Hispanic New Mexico	558	(1)
Hispanic California and Texas	559	(1)
The Chinese Migration	560	(2)
Anti-Chinese Sentiments	562	(1)
Migration from the East	563	(2)
The Changing Western Economy	565	(6)
Labor in the West	565	(1)
The Arrival of the Miners	566	(2)
The Cattle Kingdom	568	(3)
The Romance of the West	571	(5)
The Western Landscape	571	(1)
The Cowboy Culture	572	(1)
The Idea of the Frontier	572	(1)
Frederick Jackson Turner	573	(3)
The Loss of Utopia	576	(1)
The Dispersal of the Tribes	576	(10)
White Tribal Policies	576	(5)
The Indian Wars	581	(3)
The Dawes Act	584	(2)
The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer	586	(9)
Farming on the Plains	586	(1)
Commercial Agriculture	587	(1)
The Farmers' Grievances	587	(1)
The Agrarian Malaise	588
Patterns of Popular Culture: The Wild West Show	574	(3)
Where Historians Disagree: The ``Frontier'' and the West	577	(12)
Significant Events	589	(1)
Conclusion	590	(1)
For Further Reference	590	(1)
Bibliography	591	(4)
Industrial Supremacy	595	(30)
Sources of Industrial Growth	595	(9)
New Technologies	596	(1)
New Industries	596	(1)
The Science of Production	597	(1)
Railroad Expansion	598	(1)
The Corporation	599	(4)
Consolidating Corporate America	603	(1)
The Trust and the Holding Company	604	(1)
Capitalism and Its Critics	604	(7)
The ``Self-Made Man''	605	(1)
Survival of the Fittest	606	(1)
The Gospel of Wealth	607	(1)
Alternative Visions	607	(3)
The Problems of Monopoly	610	(1)
Industrial Workers in the New Economy	611	(14)
The Immigrant Work Force	611	(1)
Wages and Working Conditions	612	(1)
Women and Children at Work	613	(1)
The Struggle to Unionize	614	(1)
The Great Railroad Strike	615	(1)
The Knights of Labor	616	(1)
The AFL	616	(1)
The Homestead Strike	617	(1)
The Pullman Strike	618	(1)
Sources of Labor Weakness	619
The American Environment: The Locomotive's Magic Wand	600	(8)
Patterns of Popular Culture: The Novels of Horatio Alger	608	(12)
Significant Events	620	(1)
Conclusion	621	(1)
For Further Reference	621	(1)
Bibliography	622	(3)
The Age of the City	625	(38)
The Urbanization of America	625	(7)
The Lure of the City	625	(1)
Migrations	626	(2)
The Ethnic City	628	(2)
Assimilation	630	(1)
Exclusion	631	(1)
The Urban Landscape	632	(5)
The Creation of Public Space	632	(1)
Housing the Well-to-Do	633	(1)
Housing Workers and the Poor	634	(2)
Urban Transportation	636	(1)
The ``Skyscraper''	636	(1)
Strains of Urban Life	637	(3)
Fire and Disease	637	(1)
Urban Poverty	638	(1)
Crime and Violence	638	(1)
Fear of the City	639	(1)
The Machine and the Boss	639	(1)
The Rise of Mass Consumption	640	(3)
Patterns of Income and Consumption	640	(1)
Chain Stores and Mail-Order Houses	641	(1)
Department Stores	642	(1)
Women as Consumers	642	(1)
Leisure in the Consumer Society	643	(9)
Redefining Leisure	643	(4)
Spectator Sports	647	(1)
Music and Theater	648	(1)
The Movies	649	(1)
Working-Class Leisure	650	(1)
The Fourth of July	651	(1)
Private Pursuits	651	(1)
Mass Communications	651	(1)
High Culture in the Age of the City	652	(11)
The Literature of Urban America	652	(1)
Art in the Age of the City	653	(1)
The Impact of Darwinism	653	(3)
Toward Universal Schooling	656	(1)
Education for Women	656
Patterns of Popular Culture: Coney Island	644	(13)
Significant Events	657	(1)
Conclusion	658	(1)
For Further Reference	658	(1)
Bibliography	659	(4)
From Stalemate to Crisis	663	(28)
The Politics of Equilibrium	663	(7)
The Party System	663	(1)
The National Government	664	(1)
Presidents and Patronage	665	(1)
The Return of the Democrats	666	(1)
Tariffs, Trusts, and Railroads	667	(3)
The Agrarian Revolt	670	(8)
The Grangers	670	(2)
The Farmers' Alliances	672	(1)
The Populist Constituency	673	(4)
Populist Ideas	677	(1)
The Crisis of the 1890s	678	(5)
The Panic of 1893	678	(1)
The Silver Question	679	(4)
A ``Cross of Gold''	683	(8)
The Emergence of Bryan	683	(1)
The Conservative Victory	684	(1)
McKinley and Recovery	685
Patterns of Popular Culture: The Chautaquas	674	(6)
Where Historians Disagree: Populism	680	(6)
Significant Events	686	(1)
Conclusion	686	(1)
For Further Reference	687	(1)
Bibliography	687	(4)
The Imperial Republic	691	(26)
Stirrings of Imperialism	691	(5)
The New Manifest Destiny	691	(3)
Hemispheric Hegemony	694	(1)
Hawaii and Samoa	694	(2)
War with Spain	696	(11)
Controversy over Cuba	696	(5)
``A Splendid Little War''	701	(1)
Seizing the Philippines	702	(1)
The Battle for Cuba	703	(1)
Puerto Rico and the United States	704	(1)
The Debate over the Philippines	705	(2)
The Republic as Empire	707	(10)
Governing the Colonies	707	(1)
The Philippine War	707	(3)
The Open Door	710	(1)
A Modern Military System	711
Patterns of Popular Culture: Yellow Journalism	698	(13)
Conclusion	711	(1)
Significant Events	712	(1)
For Further Reference	712	(1)
Bibliography	713	(4)
The Rise of Progressivism	717	(32)
The Progressive Impulse	717	(9)
Varieties of Progressivism	717	(1)
The Muckrakers	718	(1)
The Social Gospel	718	(4)
The Settlement House Movement	722	(1)
The Allure of Expertise	723	(1)
The Professions	724	(1)
Women and the Professions	725	(1)
Women and Reform	726	(5)
The ``New Woman''	727	(1)
The Clubwomen	727	(1)
Woman Suffrage	728	(3)
The Assault on the Parties	731	(4)
Early Attacks	732	(1)
Municipal Reform	732	(1)
New Forms of Governance	732	(1)
Statehouse Progressivism	733	(1)
Parties and Interest Groups	734	(1)
Sources of Progressive Reform	735	(3)
Labor, the Machine, and Reform	736	(1)
Western Progressives	737	(1)
African Americans and Reform	737	(1)
Crusades for Order and Reform	738	(11)
The Temperance Crusade	739	(1)
Immigration Restriction	740	(1)
The Dream of Socialism	740	(2)
Decentralization and Regulation	742
Where Historians Disagree: Progressive Reform	720	(24)
Significant Events	744	(1)
Conclusion	744	(1)
For Further Reference	745	(1)
Bibliography	745	(4)
The Battle for National Reform	749	(26)
Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency	749	(8)
The Accidental President	749	(1)
Government, Capital, and Labor	750	(1)
The Square Deal	751	(1)
Conservation	751	(6)
The Panic of 1907	757	(1)
The Troubled Succession	757	(4)
Taft and the Progressives	758	(1)
The Return of Roosevelt	759	(1)
Spreading Insurgency	760	(1)
The Republican Schism	760	(1)
Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom	761	(3)
The Rise of Wilson	761	(1)
The Scholar as President	762	(1)
The Problem of the Trusts	763	(1)
Retreat and Advance	763	(1)
``The Big Stick'': America and the World, 1901-1917	764	(11)
Roosevelt and ``Civilization''	764	(1)
Protecting the Open Door in Asia	765	(1)
The Iron-Fisted Neighbor	766	(1)
The Panama Canal	766	(2)
Taft and ``Dollar Diplomacy''	768	(1)
Diplomacy and Morality	769
The American Environment: Saving the Forests	754	(17)
Significant Events	771	(1)
Conclusion	772	(1)
For Further Reference	772	(1)
Bibliography	773	(2)
America and the Great War	775	(34)
The Road to War	776	(3)
The Collapse of the European Peace	776	(1)
Wilson's Neutrality	777	(1)
Preparedness Versus Pacifism	777	(1)
A War for Democracy	778	(1)
``War Without Stint''	779	(4)
Entering the War	779	(1)
The American Expeditionary Force	779	(2)
The Military Struggle	781	(2)
The War and American Society	783	(3)
Organizing the Economy for War	783	(1)
Labor and the War	784	(1)
Economic and Social Results of the War	785	(1)
The Search for Social Unity	786	(6)
The Peace Movement	786	(1)
Selling the War and Suppressing Dissent	787	(5)
The Search for a New World Order	792	(4)
The Fourteen Points	792	(1)
Early Obstacles	792	(1)
The Paris Peace Conference	793	(2)
The Ratification Battle	795	(1)
Wilson's Ordeal	795	(1)
A Society in Turmoil	796	(13)
Industry and Labor	796	(1)
The Demands of African Americans	797	(3)
The Red Scare	800	(2)
The Retreat from Idealism	802
Patterns of Popular Culture: Billy Sunday and Modern Revivalism	788	(15)
Significant Events	803	(1)
Conclusion	804	(1)
For Further Reference	804	(1)
Bibliography	805	(4)
The New Era	809	(32)
The New Economy	809	(5)
Economic Growth	809	(1)
Economic Organization	810	(1)
Labor in the New Era	811	(1)
Women and Minorities in the Work Force	812	(1)
The ``American Plan''	813	(1)
The Plight of the Farmer	813	(1)
The New Culture	814	(13)
Consumerism	815	(1)
Advertising	816	(1)
The Movies and Broadcasting	816	(1)
Modernist Religion	817	(1)
Professional Women	818	(1)
Changing Ideas of Motherhood	818	(1)
The ``Flapper'': Image and Reality	819	(1)
Pressing for Women's Rights	819	(4)
Education and Youth	823	(1)
The Decline of the ``Self-Made Man''	824	(1)
The Disenchanted	824	(1)
The Harlem Renaissance	825	(1)
The Southern Agrarians	826	(1)
A Conflict of Cultures	827	(5)
Prohibition	827	(1)
Nativism and the Klan	827	(3)
Religious Fundamentalism	830	(1)
The Democrats' Ordeal	831	(1)
Republican Government	832	(9)
Harding and Coolidge	832	(2)
Government and Business	834
Patterns of Popular Culture: Dance Halls	820	(16)
Significant Events	836	(1)
Conclusion	836	(1)
For Further Reference	837	(1)
Bibliography	837	(4)
The Great Depression	841	(34)
The Coming of the Great Depression	841	(5)
The Great Crash	841	(1)
Causes of the Depression	842	(4)
Progress of the Depression	846	(1)
The American People in Hard Times	846	(9)
Unemployment and Relief	846	(5)
African Americans and the Depression	851	(1)
Mexican Americans in Depression America	852	(1)
Asian Americans in Hard Times	853	(1)
Women and the Workplace in the Great Depression	854	(1)
Depression Families	855	(1)
The Depression and American Culture	855	(9)
Depression Values	855	(1)
Artists and Intellectuals in the Great Depression	856	(1)
Radio	856	(2)
The Movies	858	(4)
Popular Literature and Journalism	862	(1)
The Popular Front and the Left	863	(1)
The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover	864	(11)
The Hoover Program	865	(1)
A Deepening Crisis	866	(1)
Popular Protest	867	(2)
The Election of 1932	869	(1)
The Interregnum	869
Where Historians Disagree: Causes of the Great Depression	844	(4)
The American Environment: Dust Bowl	848	(11)
Patterns of Popular Culture: The Films of Frank Capra	859	(12)
Significant Events	871	(1)
Conclusion	871	(1)
For Further Reference	872	(1)
Bibliography	872	(3)
The New Deal	875	(32)
Launching the New Deal	875	(7)
Restoring Confidence	875	(1)
Agricultural Adjustment	876	(1)
Industrial Recovery	877	(1)
The Troubled NRA	878	(1)
The Schechter Decision	879	(1)
The TVA	879	(1)
Currency, Banks, and the Stock Market	880	(1)
The Growth of Federal Relief	881	(1)
The New Deal in Transition	882	(10)
Attacks from the Right and the Left	882	(1)
Popular Protest	883	(2)
The ``Second New Deal''	885	(1)
The Wagner Act	885	(1)
Labor Militancy	886	(1)
The Labor Schism	886	(1)
Organizing Battles	887	(1)
Social Security	888	(1)
New Directions in Relief	889	(2)
The 936 ``Referendum''	891	(1)
The New Deal in Disarray	892	(2)
The Court Fight	892	(1)
Other Setbacks	892	(1)
Retrenchment and Recession	893	(1)
Limits and Legacies of the New Deal	894	(13)
The Idea of the ``Broker State''	894	(1)
African Americans and the New Deal	895	(3)
The New Deal and the ``Indian Problem''	898	(1)
Women and the New Deal	899	(1)
The New Deal in the West and the South	900	(1)
The New Deal and the National Economy	900	(1)
The New Deal and American Politics	901
Where Historians Disagree: The New Deal	896	(5)
Conclusion	901	(1)
Significant Events	902	(1)
For Further Reference	902	(1)
Bibliography	903	(4)
The Global Crisis, 1921--1941	907	(24)
The Diplomacy of the New Era	908	(4)
Replacing the League	908	(1)
Debts and Diplomacy	908	(2)
Hoover and the World Crisis	910	(2)
Isolationism and Internationalism	912	(6)
Depression Diplomacy	912	(1)
America and the Soviet Union	913	(1)
The Good Neighbor Policy	913	(1)
The Rise of Isolationism	913	(2)
The Failure of Munich	915	(3)
From Neutrality to Intervention	918	(13)
Neutrality Tested	918	(2)
The Third-Term Campaign	920	(1)
Neutrality Abandoned	921	(3)
The Road to Pearl Harbor	924
Patterns of Popular Culture: Orson Welles and the War of the Worlds	916	(16)
Where Historians Disagree: The Question of Pearl Harbor	932
Conclusion	925	(1)
Significant Events	926	(1)
For Further Reference	927	(1)
Bibliography	927	(4)
America in a World at War	931	(32)
War on Two Fronts	931	(5)
Containing the Japanese	932	(1)
Holding Off the Germans	932	(3)
America and the Holocaust	935	(1)
The American People in Wartime	936	(12)
Prosperity	936	(1)
The War and the West	937	(1)
Labor and the War	937	(1)
Stabilizing the Boom	938	(1)
Mobilizing Production	938	(1)
African Americans and the War	938	(1)
Native Americans and the War	939	(1)
Mexican-American War Workers	940	(1)
Women and Children at War	941	(1)
Wartime Life and Culture	942	(4)
The Internment of Japanese Americans	946	(1)
Chinese Americans and the War	947	(1)
The Retreat from Reform	948	(1)
The Defeat of the Axis	948	(15)
The Liberation of France	948	(3)
The Pacific Offensive	951	(2)
The Manhattan Project	953	(1)
Atomic Warfare	953
Patterns of Popular Culture: The Age of Swing	944	(10)
Where Historians Disagree: The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb	954	(3)
Significant Events	957	(1)
Conclusion	958	(1)
For Further Reference	958	(1)
Bibliography	959	(4)
The Cold War	963	(30)
Origins of the Cold War	963	(6)
Soviet-American Tensions	963	(2)
Wartime Diplomacy	965	(1)
Yalta	965	(4)
The Souring of the Peace	969	(6)
The Failure of Potsdam	969	(1)
The China Problem	970	(1)
The Containment Doctrine	970	(1)
The Marshall Plan	971	(1)
Mobilization at Home	972	(1)
The Road to NATO	973	(1)
The Open-Ended Crisis	973	(2)
American Politics and Society After the War	975	(4)
The Problems of Reconversion	975	(1)
The Fair Deal Rejected	976	(1)
The Election of 1948	977	(1)
The Fair Deal Revived	978	(1)
The Korean War	979	(3)
The Divided Peninsula	979	(1)
From Invasion to Stalemate	980	(1)
Limited Mobilization	981	(1)
The Crusade Against Subversion	982	(11)
HUAC and Alger Hiss	982	(1)
The Federal Loyalty Program and the Rosenberg Case	982	(1)
McCarthyism	983	(3)
The Republican Revival	986
Where Historians Disagree: Origins of the Cold War	966	(18)
Where Historians Disagree: Mccarthyism	984	(3)
Significant Events	987	(1)
Conclusion	988	(1)
For Further Reference	988	(1)
Bibliography	989	(4)
The Affluent Society	993	(38)
The Economic ``Miracle''	993	(5)
Sources of Economic Growth	994	(1)
The Rise of the Modern West	995	(1)
The New Economics	995	(1)
Capital and Labor	996	(2)
People of Plenty	998	(14)
The Consumer Culture	998	(1)
The Suburban Nation	999	(5)
The Suburban Family	1004	(1)
The Birth of Television	1004	(1)
Science and Space	1005	(4)
Organized Society and Its Detractors	1009	(1)
The Beats and the Restless Culture of Youth	1010	(1)
Rock 'n' Roll	1011	(1)
The ``Other America''	1012	(3)
On the Margins of the Affluent Society	1012	(1)
Rural Poverty	1013	(1)
The Inner Cities	1013	(2)
The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement	1015	(3)
The Brown Decision and ``Massive Resistance''	1015	(1)
The Expanding Movement	1016	(1)
Causes of the Civil Rights Movement	1017	(1)
Eisenhower Republicanism	1018	(2)
``What's Good for...General Motors''	1018	(1)
The Survival of the Welfare State	1019	(1)
The Decline of McCarthyism	1019	(1)
Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War	1020	(11)
Dulles and ``Massive Retaliation''	1020	(1)
Korea and Vietnam	1021	(1)
Israel and the Crisis of the Middle East	1022	(1)
Latin America and ``Yankee Imperialism''	1023	(1)
Europe and the Soviet Union	1024	(1)
The U-2 Crisis	1025
The American Environment: The Landscape and the Automobile	1000	(6)
Patterns of Popular Culture: Lucy and Desi	1006	(19)
Conclusion	1025	(1)
Significant Events	1026	(1)
For Further Reference	1027	(1)
Bibliography	1027	(4)
The Ordeal of Liberalism	1031	(36)
Expanding the Liberal State	1031	(7)
The Rise of John Kennedy	1031	(1)
Kennedy in the White House	1032	(2)
The Johnson Succession	1034	(1)
The Assault on Poverty	1035	(2)
Cities, Schools, and Immigration	1037	(1)
Legacies of the Great Society	1037	(1)
The Battle for Racial Equality	1038	(6)
Expanding Protests	1038	(2)
A National Commitment	1040	(1)
The Battle for Voting Rights	1040	(1)
The Changing Movement	1040	(2)
Urban Violence	1042	(1)
Black Power	1043	(1)
``Flexible Response'' and the Cold War	1044	(3)
Diversifying Foreign Policy	1044	(1)
The Bay of Pigs Fiasco	1045	(1)
Confrontations with the Soviet Union	1046	(1)
Johnson and the World	1047	(1)
Vietnam	1047	(11)
The First Indochina War	1048	(1)
Geneva and the Two Vietnams	1048	(1)
America and Diem	1049	(1)
From Aid to Intervention	1050	(4)
The Quagmire	1054	(1)
The War at Home	1055	(3)
The Traumas of 1968	1058	(9)
The Tet Offensive	1059	(1)
The Political Challenge	1059	(1)
The King and Kennedy Assassinations	1059	(1)
The Conservative Response	1060
Where Historians Disagree: The Vietnam Commitment	1052	(4)
Patterns of Popular Culture: The Folk-Music Revival	1056	(6)
Significant Events	1062	(1)
Conclusion	1062	(1)
For Further Reference	1063	(1)
Bibliography	1064	(3)
The Crisis of Authority	1067	(38)
The Youth Culture	1067	(8)
The New Left	1068	(2)
The Counterculture	1070	(5)
The Mobilization of Minorities	1075	(7)
Seeds of Indian Militancy	1075	(2)
The Indian Civil Rights Movement	1077	(2)
Latino Activism	1079	(1)
Challenging the ``Melting Pot'' Ideal	1080	(1)
Gay Liberation	1081	(1)
The New Feminism	1082	(3)
The Rebirth	1082	(1)
Women's Liberation	1083	(1)
Expanding Achievements	1084	(1)
The Abortion Controversy	1085	(1)
Nixon, Kissinger, and the War	1085	(4)
Vietnamization	1086	(1)
Escalation	1086	(2)
``Peace with Honor''	1088	(1)
Defeat in Indochina	1088	(1)
Nixon, Kissinger, and the World	1089	(3)
China and the Soviet Union	1089	(1)
The Problems of Multipolarity	1090	(2)
Politics and Economics Under Nixon	1092	(5)
Domestic Initiatives	1092	(1)
From the Warren Court to the Nixon Court	1092	(1)
The Election of 1972	1093	(1)
The Troubled Economy	1094	(1)
The Nixon Response	1095	(2)
The Watergate Crisis	1097	(8)
The Scandals	1098	(1)
The Fall of Richard Nixon	1098
Patterns of Popular Culture: Rock Music in the Sixties	1072	(24)
Where Historians Disagree: Watergate	1096	(4)
Significant Events	1100	(1)
Conclusion	1100	(2)
For Further Reference	1102	(1)
Bibliography	1102	(3)
The ``Age of Limits''	1105	(22)
Politics and Diplomacy After Watergate	1105	(5)
The Ford Custodianship	1105	(1)
The Trials of Jimmy Carter	1106	(1)
Human Rights and National Interests	1107	(2)
The Year of the Hostages	1109	(1)
The Rise of the New American Right	1110	(6)
The Sunbelt and Its Politics	1110	(1)
Religious Revivalism	1111	(3)
The Emergence of the New Right	1114	(1)
The Tax Revolt	1115	(1)
The Campaign of 1980	1116	(1)
The ``Reagan Revolution''	1116	(11)
The Reagan Coalition	1117	(1)
Reagan in the White House	1117	(1)
``Supply-Side'' Economics	1118	(1)
The Fiscal Crisis	1119	(1)
Reagan and the World	1120	(2)
The Election of 1984	1122
Patterns of Popular Culture: The Mall	1112	(11)
Conclusion	1123	(1)
For Further Reference	1123	(1)
Significant Events	1124	(1)
Bibliography	1125	(2)
Modern Times	1127	(1)
America and the Waning of the Cold War	1127	(1)
The Fall of the Soviet Union	1128	(1)
The Fading of the Reagan Revolution	1129	(1)
The Election of 1988	1129	(1)
The Bush Presidency	1130	(1)
The Gulf War	1131	(1)
The Election of 1992	1132	(1)
Partisan Struggles	1133	(1)
Launching the Clinton Presidency	1133	(1)
The Republican Resurgence	1134	(1)
The Election of 1996	1135	(1)
Clinton Triumphant and Embattled	1136	(1)
The Global Economy	1137	(1)
Revolutions in Technology	1137	(1)
The Two-Tiered Economy	1138	(1)
Globalization	1139	(2)
A Changing Society	1141	(1)
The Graying of America	1141	(1)
New Patterns of Immigration and Ethnicity	1141	(2)
The Black Middle Class	1143	(1)
Poor and Working-Class African Americans	1144	(1)
Modern Plagues: Drugs, AIDS, and Homelessness	1145	(4)
A Contested Culture	1149	(1)
Battles Against Feminism and Abortion	1149	(3)
The Changing Left and the New Environmentalism	1152	(4)
The Fragmentation of Mass Culture	1156	(1)
The ``Culture Wars''	1157
Patterns of Popular Culture: RAP	1146
Where Historians Disagree: Women's History	1150	(4)
The American Environment: Silent Spring	1154	(4)
Significant Events	1158	(1)
Conclusion	1158	(1)
For Further Reference	1159	(1)
Bibliography	1159
Appendices	A-1
List of Illustrations, Maps, and Charts	L-1
Index	I-1