List of Maps, Tables, and Figures | p. xiv |
About the Author | p. xvi |
Preface | p. xvii |
"What Is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865-1877 | p. 548 |
The Meaning of Freedom | p. 551 |
Voices of Freedom: From Petition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson (1865) | p. 558 |
The Making of Radical Reconstruction | p. 562 |
Radical Reconstruction in the South | p. 572 |
The Overthrow of Reconstruction | p. 577 |
Toward a Global Presence, 1870-1920 | |
America's Gilded Age, 1870-1890 | p. 590 |
The Second Industrial Revolution | p. 593 |
The Transformation of the West | p. 604 |
Voices of Freedom: From Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians, Speech in Washington, D.C. (1879) | p. 610 |
Politics in a Gilded Age | p. 614 |
Freedom in the Gilded Age | p. 619 |
Labor and the Republic | p. 624 |
Freedom's Boundaries, at Home and Abroad, 1890-1900 | p. 634 |
The Populist Challenge | p. 637 |
The Segregated South | p. 647 |
Redrawing the Boundaries | p. 655 |
Voices of Freedom: From Saum Song Bo, Letter in American Missionary (October 1885) | p. 658 |
Becoming a World Power | p. 662 |
The Progressive Era, 1900-1916 | p. 674 |
An Urban Age and a Consumer Society | p. 678 |
Voices of Freedom: From Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898) | p. 687 |
Changing Ideas of Freedom | p. 690 |
The Politics of Progressivism | p. 701 |
The Progressive Presidents | p. 709 |
Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I, 1916-1920 | p. 718 |
An Era of Intervention | p. 721 |
America and the Great War | p. 727 |
The War at Home | p. 733 |
Voices of Freedom: From Eugene V. Debs's Speech to the Jury before Sentencing under the Espionage Act (1918) | p. 740 |
Who Is an American? | p. 742 |
1919 | p. 753 |
Depression and Wars, 1920-1953 | |
From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920-1932 | p. 768 |
The Business of America | p. 772 |
Voices of Freedom: From Andre Siegfried, "The Gulf Between," Atlantic Monthly (March 1928) | p. 774 |
Business and Government | p. 780 |
The Birth of Civil Liberties | p. 784 |
The Culture Wars | p. 788 |
The Great Depression | p. 799 |
The New Deal, 1932-1940 | p. 808 |
The First New Deal | p. 811 |
The Grassroots Revolt | p. 821 |
Voices of Freedom: From John L. Lewis, Radio Address, "Industrial Democracy in Steel" (July 1936) | p. 823 |
The Second New Deal | p. 827 |
A Reckoning with Liberty | p. 830 |
The Limits of Change | p. 834 |
A New Conception of America | p. 839 |
Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941-1945 | p. 848 |
Fighting World War II | p. 852 |
The Home Front | p. 862 |
Visions of Postwar Freedom | p. 870 |
The American Dilemma | p. 874 |
Voices of Freedom: From Justice Robert H. Jackson, Dissent in Korematsu v. United States (1944) | p. 879 |
The End of the War | p. 885 |
The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1953 | p. 892 |
Origins of the Cold War | p. 895 |
The Cold War and the Idea of Freedom | p. 907 |
The Truman Presidency | p. 911 |
The Anticommunist Crusade | p. 916 |
Voices of Freedom: From Henry Steele Commager, "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's (September 1947) | p. 923 |
What Kind of Nation? 1953-2004 | |
An Affluent Society, 1953-1960 | p. 934 |
The Golden Age | p. 937 |
The Eisenhower Era | p. 950 |
The Freedom Movement | p. 963 |
Voices of Freedom: From Martin Luther King, Jr., Speech at Montgomery, Alabama (December 5, 1955) | p. 968 |
The Election of 1960 | p. 972 |
The Sixties, 1960-1968 | p. 978 |
The Freedom Movement | p. 981 |
The Kennedy Years | p. 985 |
Lyndon Johnson's Presidency | p. 988 |
The Changing Black Movement | p. 994 |
Vietnam and the New Left | p. 998 |
Voices of Freedom: From Tom Hayden and Others, The Port Huron Statement (June 1962) | p. 1000 |
The New Movements and the Rights Revolution | p. 1009 |
1968 | p. 1017 |
The Triumph of Conservatism, 1969-1988 | p. 1022 |
The Rebirth of Conservatism | p. 1024 |
Voices of Freedom: From Young Americans for Freedom, The Sharon Statement (September 1960) | p. 1028 |
President Nixon | p. 1029 |
Vietnam and Watergate | p. 1036 |
The End of the Golden Age | p. 1041 |
The Rising Tide of Conservatism | p. 1049 |
The Reagan Revolution | p. 1055 |
Globalization and Its Discontents, 1989-2000 | p. 1068 |
Voices of Freedom: From Global Exchange, Seattle, Declaration for Global Democracy (December 1999) | p. 1072 |
The Post-Cold War World | p. 1073 |
A New Economy? | p. 1083 |
Culture Wars | p. 1090 |
Impeachment and the Election of 2000 | p. 1104 |
Freedom and the New Century | p. 1108 |
Epilogue: September 11 and the Next American Century | p. 1112 |
The War on Terrorism | p. 1116 |
Voices of Freedom: From The National Security Strategy of the United States (September 2002) | p. 1120 |
The Aftermath of September 11 at Home | p. 1125 |
Learning from History | p. 1129 |
Appendix | |
Documents | |
The Declaration of Independence (1776) | p. 2 |
The Constitution of the United States (1787) | p. 4 |
From George Washington's Farewell Address (1796) | p. 14 |
The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848) | p. 18 |
From Frederick Douglass's "What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?" Speech (1852) | p. 20 |
The Gettysburg Address (1863) | p. 23 |
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865) | p. 24 |
The Populist Platform of 1892 | p. 25 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (1933) | p. 28 |
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963) | p. 30 |
Tables | |
Presidential Elections | p. 32 |
Admission of States | p. 40 |
Population of the United States | p. 41 |
Historical Statistics of the United States | |
Workforce | p. 42 |
Immigration, by Origin | p. 42 |
Glossary | p. 43 |
Credits | p. 63 |
Index | p. 66 |
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