Since 1865 Vol. 2 : People and a Nation: A History of the United States

by Norton, Mary Beth; Katzman, David M.; Blight, David W.; Chudacoff, Howard; Logevall, Fredrik

• ISBN13: 9780618391776
• ISBN10: 0618391770
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-20
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This spirited narrative challenges students to think about the meaning of American history. Thoughtful inclusion of the lives of everyday people, cultural diversity, work, and popular culture preserves the text's basic approach to American history as a story of all the American people. The Seventh Edition maintains the emphasis on the unique social history of the United States and engages students through cutting-edge research and scholarship. New content includes expanded coverage of modern history (post-1945) with discussion of foreign relations, gender analysis, and race and racial relations.

Table of Contents

Special Features	xiii
Maps	xiii
Figures	xiv
Tables	xv
Links to the World	xv
Legacy for a People and a Nation	xvi
Preface	xvii
The Authors	xxiii
Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865--1877	419	(32)
Wartime Reconstruction	421	(2)
The Meanings of Freedom	423	(4)
Johnson's Reconstruction Plan	427	(2)
The Congressional Reconstruction Plan	429	(7)
Reconstruction Politics in the South	436	(5)
Reconstruction Reversed	441	(6)
Links to the World: The Grants' Tour of the World	442	(5)
Summary	447	(4)
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Fourteenth Amendment	447	(4)
The Development of the West, 1877--1900	451	(28)
The Economic Activities of Native Peoples	453	(2)
The Transformation of Native Cultures	455	(5)
The Extraction of Natural Resources	460	(5)
Irrigation and Transportation	465	(4)
Links to the World: The Australian Frontier	466	(3)
Farming the Plains	469	(4)
The Ranching Frontier	473	(3)
Summary	476	(3)
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The West and Rugged Individualism	476	(3)
The Machine Age, 1877--1920	479	(30)
Technology and the Triumph of Industrialism	481	(6)
Links to the World: The Atlantic Cable	483	(4)
Mechanization and the Changing Status of Labor	487	(4)
Labor Violence and the Union Movement	491	(5)
Standards of Living	496	(6)
The Corporate Consolidation Movement	502	(2)
The Gospel of Wealth and Its Critics	504	(2)
Summary	506	(3)
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Industrialization, Smoke, and Pollution Control	506	(3)
The Vitality and Turmoil of Urban Life, 1877--1920	509	(32)
Growth of the Modern City	511	(8)
Urban Neighborhoods	519	(3)
Living Conditions in the Inner City	522	(3)
Managing the City	525	(5)
Family Life	530	(3)
The New Leisure and Mass Culture	533	(5)
Links to the World: Japanese Baseball	535	(3)
Summary	538	(3)
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Ethnic Food	539	(2)
Gilded Age Politics, 1877--1900	541	(26)
The Nature of Party Politics	543	(2)
Links to the World: Missionaries	544	(1)
Issues of Legislation	545	(3)
The Presidency Restrengthened	548	(2)
Discrimination, Disfranchisement, and Response	550	(4)
Agrarian Unrest and Populism	554	(4)
The Depression and Protests of the 1890s	558	(3)
The Silver Crusade and the Election of 1896	561	(3)
Summary	564	(3)
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Interpreting a Fairy Tale	565	(2)
The Progressive Era, 1895--1920	567	(28)
The Varied Progressive Impulse	570	(3)
Governmental and Legislative Reform	573	(3)
Links to the World: Russian Temperance	575	(1)
New Ideas in Social Institutions	576	(4)
Challenges to Racial and Sexual Discrimination	580	(4)
Theodore Roosevelt and the Revival of the Presidency	584	(6)
Woodrow Wilson and the Extension of Reform	590	(1)
Summary	591	(4)
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood, and the Birth-Control Controversy	592	(3)
The Quest for Empire, 1865--1914	595	(26)
Imperial Dreams	597	(5)
Ambitions and Strategies	602	(2)
Crises in the 1890s: Hawai'i, Venezuela, and Cuba	604	(3)
The Spanish-American War and the Debate over Empire	607	(3)
Asian Encounters: War in the Philippines, Diplomacy in China	610	(3)
Links to the World: The U.S. System of Education in the Philippines	612	(1)
TR's World	613	(5)
Summary	618	(3)
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Status of Puerto Rico	618	(3)
Americans in the Great War, 1914--1920	621	(30)
Precarious Neutrality	623	(3)
The Decision for War	626	(3)
Winning the War	629	(6)
Links to the World: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918	634	(1)
Mobilizing the Home Front	635	(4)
Civil Liberties Under Challenge	639	(2)
Red Scare, Red Summer	641	(2)
The Defeat of Peace	643	(5)
Summary	648	(3)
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Freedom of Speech and the ACLU	648	(3)
The New Era, 1920--1929	651	(28)
Big Business Triumphant	652	(2)
Politics and Government	654	(3)
Materialism Unbound	657	(2)
Cities, Migrants, and Suburbs	659	(4)
Links to the World: Pan American Airways	660	(3)
New Rhythms of Everyday Life	663	(3)
Lines of Defense	666	(4)
The Age of Play	670	(2)
Cultural Currents	672	(2)
The Election of 1928 and the End of the New Era	674	(3)
Summary	677	(2)
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Intercollegiate Athletics	677	(2)
The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929--1941	679	(32)
Hoover and Hard Times: 1929--1933	681	(5)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Launching of the New Deal	686	(6)
Political Pressure and the Second New Deal	692	(5)
Labor	697	(2)
Federal Power and the Nationalization of Culture	699	(5)
Links to the World: The 1936 Olympic Games	703	(1)
The Limits of the New Deal	704	(4)
Summary	708	(3)
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Social Security	709	(2)
Peaceseekers and Warmakers: Americans in the World, 1920--1941	711	(28)
Searching for Peace and Order in the 1920s	713	(2)
The World Economy, Cultural Expansion, and Great Depression	715	(4)
U.S. Dominance in Latin America	719	(4)
The Course to War in Europe	723	(4)
Japan, China, and a New Order in Asia	727	(2)
U.S. Entry into World War II	729	(7)
Links to the World: Radio News	730	(6)
Summary	736	(3)
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Presidential Deception of the Public	736	(3)
The Second World War at Home and Abroad, 1941--1945	739	(28)
The United States at War	741	(3)
The Production Front and American Workers	744	(3)
Life on the Home Front	747	(4)
The Limits of American Ideals	751	(5)
Links to the World: War Brides	752	(4)
Life in the Military	756	(1)
Winning the War	757	(7)
Summary	764	(3)
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Atomic Waste	764	(3)
The Cold War and American Globalism, 1945--1961	767	(30)
From Allies to Adversaries	770	(4)
Containment in Action	774	(4)
The Cold War in Asia	778	(2)
The Korean War	780	(3)
Unrelenting Cold War	783	(4)
Links to the World: The People-to-People Campaign	785	(2)
The Struggle for the Third World	787	(7)
Summary	794	(3)
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The National Security State	795	(2)
America at Midcentury, 1945--1960	797	(30)
Shaping Postwar America	799	(4)
Domestic Politics in the Cold War Era	803	(3)
Cold War Fears and Anticommunism	806	(2)
The Struggle for Civil Rights	808	(4)
Creating a Middle-Class Nation	812	(4)
Men, Women, and Youth at Midcentury	816	(5)
Links to the World: Barbie	820	(1)
The Limits of the Middle-Class Nation	821	(3)
Summary	824	(3)
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Pledge of Allegiance	825	(2)
The Tumultuous Sixties, 1960--1968	827	(32)
Kennedy and the Cold War	829	(4)
Marching for Freedom	833	(3)
Liberalism and the Great Society	836	(5)
Johnson and Vietnam	841	(5)
A Nation Divided	846	(7)
Links to the World: The British Invasion	852	(1)
1968	853	(3)
Summary	856	(3)
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Immigration Act of 1965	856	(3)
Continuing Divisions and New Limits, 1969--1980	859	(30)
The New Politics of Identity	861	(3)
The Women's Movement and Gay Liberation	864	(3)
The End in Vietnam	867	(3)
Nixon, Kissinger, and the World	870	(4)
Links to the World: OPEC and the 1973 Oil Embargo	873	(1)
Presidential Politics and the Crisis of Leadership	874	(3)
Economic Crisis	877	(3)
An Era of Cultural Transformation	880	(3)
Renewed Cold War and Middle East Crisis	883	(3)
Summary	886	(3)
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Human Rights	886	(3)
Conservatism Revived, 1980--1992	889	(28)
Reagan and the Conservative Resurgence	891	(3)
``Reaganomics''	894	(6)
Links to the World: CNN	899	(1)
Reagan and the World	900	(5)
A Polarized People: American Society in the 1980s	905	(5)
The End of the Cold War and Global Disorder	910	(4)
Summary	914	(3)
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Americans with Disabilities Act	915	(2)
Global Bridges in the New Millennium: America Since 1992	917
Social Strains and New Political Directions	919	(4)
``The New Economy'' and Globalization	923	(6)
Paradoxes of Prosperity	929	(5)
September 11 and the War on Terrorism	934	(6)
Americans in the New Millennium	940	(7)
Links to the World: The Global AIDS Epidemic	944	(3)
Summary	947
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Internet	947
Appendix	1	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	1	(24)
Documents	25	(13)
Declaration of Independence in Congress, July 4, 1776	25	(1)
Articles of Confederation	26	(3)
Constitution of the United States of America and Amendments	29	(9)
The American People and Nation: A Statistical Profile	38	(5)
Presidential Elections	43	(5)
Presidents and Vice Presidents	48	(2)
Party Strength in Congress	50	(3)
Justices of the Supreme Court	53
Index	1