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| PART I EXPANSION AND CHANGE |
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1 Political Violence during Reconstruction |
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How attempts to transform the social and economic structure of the South in the years after the Civil War fell victim to racism and violence. |
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From Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., Pistols and Politics |
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2 The Reservation and the Destruction of Indian Culture |
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How life on reservations destroyed the Sioux way of life. |
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From Robert M. Utley, The Indian Frontier of the American West 1846-1890. |
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How settlers on the Great Plains adapted to the harsh environmental and psychological conditions of life there. |
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From Robert V. Hine, Community on the America Frontier: Separate But Not Alone |
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4 Labor in the Gilded Age |
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The working conditions faced by those who worked in the southern textile mills. |
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From Jacquelyn Dowd Hall et al., Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill Town |
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5 Labor Violence in Industrial America |
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A confrontation between immigrant coal miners and the coal operators in a Pennsylvania mining town, and the tragic consequences that ensued. |
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From Michael Novak, 7'he Guns of Lattimer |
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Law enforcement and methods of punishment in the late 1800's. |
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From Lawrence M. Friedman, Crime and Punishment in American History |
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| PART II THE CHALLENGES OF DIVERSITY |
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7 The City at the Turn of the Century |
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The delights and drawbacks of urban life in America in the early twentieth century. |
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From David Nasaw, Children of the City |
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8 Immigration and Cultural Conflict |
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The lives of second-generation Chinese American women and the problems they encountered. |
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From Judy Yung, Unbound Feet |
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9 African American Migration |
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Why and how millions of African Americans abandoned the rural South for the urban centers of the North in the first two decades of the twentieth century. |
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From Florette Henri, Black Migration |
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| PART III THE TENSIONS OF PROSPERITY |
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10 The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana |
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The social and economic aims and actions of the Klan in the 1920's. |
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From Kathleen M. Blee, Women of the Klan |
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11 Mexican Americans in the Southwest |
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The lives of Hispanics in an Anglo culture in the 1920's. |
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From Sarah Deutsch, No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on a Frontier in the American Southwest 1800 to |
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12 Women Take to the Road |
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How the growing presence of the automobile affected American life and particularly the lives of American women. |
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From Virginia Scharff, Taking the Wheel |
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| PART IV DEPRESSION AND WAR |
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13 The Nation Confronts the Great Depression |
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Poverty, fear, and bewilderment change the outlook and way of life of Americans in the Depression of the 1930's. |
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From Caroline Bird, The Invisible Scar |
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14 Work Relief in the Great Depression |
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The variety of programs fashioned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal to find work for the millions of Americans unemployed in the 1930's. |
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From Edward Robb Ellis, A Nation in Torment |
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15 The Home Front During World War II |
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Employment, business, housing, mental health, marriage, and morals at home during the war. |
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From Richard R. Lingeman, Don't You Know There's a War On! |
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How higher education in America was changed by the flood of veterans in American colleges in the postwar period. |
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From Michael J. Bennett, When Dreams Came True: The GI Bill and the Making of Modern America |
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| PART V AFFLUENCE AND ITS DISCONTENTS |
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17 Urban Neighborhoods in Postwar America |
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Living conditions in America's cities in the years just after World War II. |
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From Michael Johns, Moment of Grace |
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18 That Old Time Rock 'n' Roll |
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How the coming of rock 'n' roll aroused fears about the sexual effects it might have. |
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From Glenn C. Altschuler, All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America |
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19 The Struggle for Civil Rights |
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What happened during the voter registration drive known as Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964. |
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From Doug McAdam, Freedom Summer |
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How and why the hippies rebelled against the American cultural mainstream. |
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From Jay Stevens, Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream |
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What American soldiers experienced in Vietnam and what they encountered when they returned home. |
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From Loren Baritz, Backfire: A History of How American Culture for Us Into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did |
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How the emergence of the religious right affected one American community. |
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From William Martin, With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America |
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