American Past Vol. II : A Survey of American History 1865 to Present

by Conlin, Joseph R.

Edition:

6th

ISBN13:

9780155075320

ISBN10:

0155075322

Format:

Paperback

Pub. Date:

1/1/2000

Publisher(s):

Thomson Learning

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Now in its Sixth Edition, this text continues to offer a colorful and engaging look at the individuals, events, and ideas that make up our nation's past. Accessible and lively, Conlin includes a comprehensive treatment of political, economic, social, intellectual, constitutional, diplomatic, and military history. Consistent scholarship and a unique organization make this book comprehensive and manageable, while new chronologies offer students quick reference and easy review of the major events and movements covered in each chapter.

Preface to the Sixth Edition

Reconstruction

Rebuilding the Shattered Union: 1863--1877

477

(20)

Parties, Patronage, and Pork

Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century

497

(22)

Big Industry, Big Business

Economic Development in the Late Nineteenth Century

519

(22)

Living With Leviathan

Americans React to Big Business and Great Wealth

541

(20)

We Who Made America

Factories and Immigrant Ships

561

(22)

Bright Lights and Squalid Slums

The Growth of Big Cities

583

(18)

The Last Frontier

Winning the Rest of the West 1865--1900

601

(20)

Stressful Times Down Home

The Crisis of American Agriculture 1865--1896

621

(20)

In the Days of McKinley

The United States Becomes a World Power 1896--1903

641

(22)

Theodore Roosevelt and the Good Old Days

American Society in Transition 1890--1917

663

(20)

Age of Reform

The Progressives after 1900

683

(20)

Victors at Armageddon

The Progressives in Power 1901--1916

703

(18)

Over There

The United States and the First World War 1914--1918

721

(22)

Over Here

World War I at Home 1917--1920

743

(20)

In the Days of Harding

Time of Uncertainty 1919--1923

763

(20)

Calvin Coolidge and the New Era

When America was a Business 1923--1929

783

(18)

National Trauma

The Great Depression 1930--1933

801

(16)

Rearranging America

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal 1933--1938

817

(20)

Headed for War Again

Foreign Relations 1933--1942

837

(22)

America's Great War

The United States at the Pinnacle of Power 1942--1945

859

(22)

Anxiety Time

The United States in the Early Nuclear Age 1946--1952

881

(22)

Eisenhower Country

American Life in the 1950s

903

(20)

Consensus and Camelot

The Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations 1953--1963

923

(22)

Years of Turbulence

Conflict at Home and Abroad 1961--1968

945

(24)

Presidency in Crisis

Policies of the Nixon, Ford, and Carter Administrations 1968--1980

969

(24)

Morning in America

The Reagan Era 1980--1993

993

(20)

Millennium

Frustration, Anger, Division, Values

1013

Appendixes

A-1

Photo Credits

C-1

Index

I-1

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