America Past and Present: Brief Edition, Single Volume Edition

by Divine, Robert A.; Breen, T.H.; Fredrickson, George M.; Williams, R. Hal; Roberts, Randy

• ISBN13: 9780321079916
• ISBN10: 0321079914
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

America Past and Present, Brief presents a balanced and manageable overview of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, blending the best in past historical interpretation with new scholarship. This edition features all the strengths of the successful parent text: a compelling narrative, clear organization, and exceptional pedagogy. An attractive four-color design highlighted with numerous maps and photos will engage students and instructors alike.

Table of Contents

Maps	xxi
Charts, Figures, and Tables	xxii
Features	xxii
Preface	xxv
About the Authors	xxxi
New World Encounters	1	(22)
Native American Cultures	2	(4)
Diversity and Achievement	3	(1)
The Indians' New World	4	(1)
Disease and Dependence	5	(1)
West Africa: People and History	6	(1)
Europe on the Eve of Conquest	7	(1)
European Nation-States	7	(1)
Europeans' New World	8	(4)
Admiral of the Ocean Sea	8	(1)
The Conquistadores	9	(1)
Managing an Empire	10	(2)
French Exploration and Settlement	12	(1)
The English New World	12	(4)
Religious Turmoil and Reformation in Europe	13	(1)
The Protestant Queen	14	(2)
Religion, War, and Nationalism	16	(1)
Rehearsal in Ireland for American Colonization	16	(1)
England Turns to America	17	(6)
Roanoke Tragedy	17	(3)
Propaganda for Empire	20	(3)
England's Colonial Experiments: The Seventeenth Century	23	(25)
Leaving Home	24	(1)
The Chesapeake: Dreams of Wealth	25	(5)
Entrepreneurs in Virginia	25	(2)
``Stinking Weed''	27	(1)
Time of Reckoning	28	(1)
Maryland: A Troubled Refuge for Catholics	29	(1)
Reinventing England in America	30	(6)
``The Great Migration''	31	(1)
``A City on a Hill''	32	(3)
Defining the Limits of Dissent	35	(1)
Breaking Away	35	(1)
Diversity in the Middle Colonies	36	(2)
Anglo-Dutch Rivalry on the Hudson	36	(2)
Confusion in New Jersey	38	(1)
Quakers in America	38	(3)
Planting the Carolinas	41	(3)
The Founding of Georgia	44	(1)
Rugged and Laborious Beginnings	45	(3)
Putting Down Roots: Families in an Atlantic Empire	48	(20)
Sources of Stability: New England Colonies of the Seventeenth Century	49	(4)
Immigrant Families and New Social Order	49	(1)
Commonwealth of Families	50	(1)
Women's Lives in Puritan New England	51	(1)
Rank and Status in New England Society	52	(1)
The Planters' World	53	(2)
Family Life in a Perilous Environment	53	(1)
Rank and Status in Plantation Society	54	(1)
Race and Freedom in British America	55	(3)
Roots of Slavery	55	(2)
Constructing African American Identities	57	(1)
Commercial Blueprint for Empire	58	(3)
Response to Economic Competition	59	(1)
An Empire of Trade	59	(2)
Colonial Gentry in Revolt, 1676--1691	61	(4)
Civil War in Virginia: Bacon's Rebellion	61	(1)
The Glorious Revolution in the Bay Colony	62	(1)
Contagion of Witchcraft	63	(1)
The Glorious Revolution in New York and Maryland	63	(2)
Common Experiences, Separate Cultures	65	(3)
Frontiers of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America	68	(30)
Experiencing Diversity	70	(1)
Forced Migration	70	(1)
Ethnic Cultures of the Backcountry	71	(2)
Scots-Irish and Germans	71	(1)
Native Americans Define the Middle Ground	72	(1)
Spanish Borderlands of the Eighteenth Century	73	(3)
Conquering the Northern Frontier	74	(1)
Peoples of the Spanish Borderlands	75	(1)
British Colonies in an Atlantic World	76	(2)
Provincial Cities	76	(1)
Economic Transformation	77	(1)
Religious Revivals in Provincial Societies	78	(4)
American Enlightenment	79	(1)
The Great Awakening	80	(2)
Clash of Political Cultures	82	(2)
The Reality of British Politics	82	(1)
Governing the Colonies: The American Experience	82	(1)
Colonial Assemblies	83	(1)
Century of Imperial War	84	(7)
King William's and Queen Anne's Wars	84	(2)
King George's War and Its Aftermath	86	(1)
Albany Congress and Braddock's Defeat	87	(1)
Seven Years' War	88	(3)
Rule Britannia?	91	(4)
We Americans
Learning to Live with Diversity in the Eighteenth Century: What Is an American?	95	(3)
The American Revolution: From Gentry Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763--1783	98	(24)
Contested Meanings of Empire	99	(2)
Breakdown of Political Trust	99	(1)
No Taxation Without Representation: The American Perspective	100	(1)
Challenge and Resistance: Eroding the Bonds of Empire	101	(7)
Mobilizing the People	102	(2)
A Foolish Boast: Tea and Sovereignty	104	(1)
Creating Patriotic Martyrs	105	(1)
Last Days of the Old Order, 1770--1773	106	(1)
The Final Provocation: The Boston Tea Party	107	(1)
Decision for Independence	108	(3)
Shots Heard Around the World	108	(2)
Beginning ``The World Over Again''	110	(1)
Fighting for Independence	111	(5)
Testing the American Will	112	(1)
Victory in a Year of Defeat	113	(1)
The French Alliance	114	(1)
The Final Campaign	115	(1)
The Loyalist Dilemma	116	(1)
Winning the Peace	116	(3)
Post-Colonial Challenge	119	(3)
The Republican Experiment	122	(24)
Living in a Revolutionary Society	123	(2)
Social and Political Reform	123	(1)
Slaves and Women in the New Republic	124	(1)
The States: The Lessons of Republicanism	125	(2)
Blueprints for State Government	125	(1)
Power to the People	126	(1)
Stumbling Toward a New National Government	127	(4)
Articles of Confederation	127	(1)
Western Land: Key to the First Constitution	128	(1)
Northwest Ordinance: The Confederation's Major Achievement	129	(2)
Strengthening Federal Authority	131	(3)
The Nationalist Critique	131	(2)
Diplomatic Humiliation	133	(1)
``Have We Fought for This?''	134	(4)
A Crisis Mentality	134	(1)
The Philadelphia Convention	135	(1)
Inventing a Federal Republic	136	(1)
Compromise Saves the Convention	136	(1)
Compromising with Slavery	137	(1)
Whose Constitution? Struggle for Ratification	138	(4)
Federalists and Antifederalists	138	(2)
Adding the Bill of Rights	140	(2)
A New Beginning	142	(4)
Democracy in Distress: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788--1800	146	(24)
Power of Public Opinion	146	(2)
Principle and Pragmatism: Establishing a New Government	148	(1)
Conflicting Visions: Jefferson and Hamilton	149	(2)
Hamilton's Plan for Prosperity and Security	151	(2)
Funding and Assumption	151	(1)
Interpreting the Constitution: The Bank Controversy	152	(1)
Setback for Hamilton	153	(1)
Charges of Treason: The Battle over Foreign Affairs	153	(3)
The Peril of Neutrality	154	(1)
Jay's Treaty Sparks Domestic Unrest	155	(1)
Pushing the Native Americans Aside	156	(1)
Popular Political Culture	156	(2)
Whiskey Rebellion Linked to Republican Conspiracy	157	(1)
Washington's Farewell	158	(1)
The Adams Presidency	158	(5)
The XYZ Affair and Domestic Politics	159	(1)
Crushing Political Dissent	160	(1)
Silencing Political Opposition: The Alien and Sedition Acts	161	(1)
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions	162	(1)
Adams's Finest Hour	162	(1)
The Peaceful Revolution: The Election of 1800	163	(4)
We Americans
Counting the People: The Federal Census of 1790	167	(3)
Jeffersonian Ascendancy: Theory and Practice of Government	170	(22)
Defining Identity in a New Republic	171	(3)
Westward the Course of Empire	171	(2)
Commercial Life in the Cities	173	(1)
Republicans in Power	174	(4)
Jeffersonian Reforms	174	(1)
The Louisiana Purchase	175	(2)
The Lewis and Clark Expedition	177	(1)
Conflict with the Barbary States	177	(1)
Jefferson's Critics	178	(4)
Attack on the Judges	178	(1)
Politics of Desperation	179	(1)
Murder and Conspiracy: The Curious Career of Aaron Burr	180	(1)
The Slave Trade	181	(1)
Embarrassments Overseas	182	(3)
Embargo Divides the Nation	183	(1)
A New Administration Goes to War	183	(2)
Fumbling Toward Conflict	185	(1)
The Strange War of 1812	185	(4)
Hartford Convention: The Demise of the Federalists	187	(1)
Treaty of Ghent Ends the War	188	(1)
Republican Legacy	189	(3)
Nation Building and Nationalism	192	(21)
Expansion and Migration	193	(5)
Extending the Boundaries	193	(2)
Settlement to the Mississippi	195	(2)
The People and Culture of the Frontier	197	(1)
Transportation and the Market Economy	198	(6)
A Revolution in Transportation: Roads and Steamboats	199	(1)
The Canal Boom	200	(1)
Emergence of a Market Economy	201	(1)
Commerce and Banking	202	(1)
Early Industrialism	202	(2)
The Politics of Nation Building After the War of 1812	204	(9)
The Republicans in Power	204	(1)
Monroe as President	205	(1)
The Missouri Compromise	206	(1)
Postwar Nationalism and the Supreme Court	207	(2)
Nationalism in Foreign Policy: The Monroe Doctrine	209	(1)
Adams and the End of the Era of Good Feeling	210	(3)
The Triumph of White Men's Democracy	213	(22)
Democracy in Theory and Practice	214	(6)
Democracy and Society	215	(1)
Democratic Culture	216	(2)
The Democratic Ferment	218	(2)
Jackson and the Politics of Democracy	220	(5)
The Election of 1824 and John Quincy Adams's Administration	220	(1)
Jackson Comes to Power	221	(1)
Indian Removal	222	(2)
The Nullification Crisis	224	(1)
The Bank War and the Second Party System	225	(5)
Biddle, the Bank Veto, and the Election of 1832	226	(1)
Killing the Bank	227	(1)
The Emergence of the Whigs	228	(1)
The Rise and Fall of Van Buren	228	(2)
Heyday of the Second Party System	230	(5)
Tocqueville's Wisdom	232	(3)
The Pursuit of Perfection	235	(20)
The Rise of Evangelicalism	236	(4)
The Second Great Awakening: The Frontier Phase	236	(2)
The Second Great Awakening in the North	238	(1)
From Revivalism to Reform	239	(1)
Domesticity and Changes in the American Family	240	(4)
Marriage and Sex Roles	240	(3)
The Discovery of Childhood	243	(1)
Institutional Reform	244	(2)
The Extension of Education	244	(1)
Discovering the Asylum	245	(1)
Reform Turns Radical	246	(9)
Divisions in the Benevolent Empire	246	(1)
The Abolitionist Enterprise	247	(2)
From Abolitionism to Women's Rights	249	(1)
Radical Ideas and Experiments	249	(2)
Fads and Fashions	251	(1)
Counterpoint on Reform	252	(3)
An Age of Expansionism	255	(27)
Movement to the Far West	256	(7)
Borderlands of the 1830s	256	(2)
The Texas Revolution	258	(1)
The Republic of Texas	259	(1)
Trails of Trade and Settlement	260	(1)
The Mormon Trek	261	(2)
Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War	263	(7)
Tyler and Texas	263	(1)
The Triumph of Polk and Annexation	264	(1)
The Doctrine of Manifest Destiny	264	(1)
Polk and the Oregon Question	265	(2)
War with Mexico	267	(1)
Settlement of the Mexican-American War	268	(2)
Internal Expansionism	270	(9)
The Triumph of the Railroad	270	(1)
The Industrial Revolution Takes Off	271	(2)
Mass Immigration Begins	273	(2)
The New Working Class	275	(4)
We Americans
The Irish in Boston, 1845--1865	279	(3)
Masters and Slaves	282	(21)
Slavery and the Southern Economy	283	(4)
Economic Adjustment in the Upper South	283	(1)
The Rise of the Cotton Kingdom	284	(1)
Slavery and Industrialization	285	(1)
The ``Profitability'' Issue	286	(1)
The Slaveholding Society	287	(6)
The Planters' World	287	(3)
Planters and Slaves	290	(1)
The World of the Plain Folk	291	(1)
A Closed Mind and a Closed Society	292	(1)
The Black Experience Under Slavery	293	(10)
Forms of Slave Resistance	294	(2)
The Struggles of Free Blacks	296	(1)
African American Religion	297	(2)
The Slave Family	299	(4)
The Sectional Crisis	303	(25)
The Compromise of 1850	304	(4)
The Problem of Slavery in the Mexican Cession	304	(1)
The Wilmot Proviso Launches the Free-Soil Movement	304	(1)
Squatter Sovereignty and the Election of 1848	305	(1)
Taylor Takes Charge	306	(1)
Forging a Compromise	306	(2)
Political Upheaval, 1852--1856	308	(6)
The Party System in Crisis	309	(1)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act Raises a Storm	309	(2)
An Appeal to Nativism: The Know-Nothing Episode	311	(1)
Kansas and the Rise of the Republicans	312	(1)
Sectional Division in the Election of 1856	313	(1)
The House Divided, 1857--1860	314	(6)
Cultural Sectionalism	314	(1)
The Dred Scott Case	315	(1)
The Lecompton Controversy	316	(1)
Debating the Morality of Slavery	316	(1)
The South's Crisis of Fear	317	(2)
The Election of 1860	319	(1)
Explaining the Crisis	320	(5)
We Americans
Hispanic America after 1847: A Case Study in Majority Rule	325	(3)
Secession and the Civil War	328	(26)
The Storm Gathers	329	(5)
The Deep South Secedes	329	(2)
The Failure of Compromise	331	(1)
And the War Came	332	(2)
Adjusting to Total War	334	(9)
Prospects, Plans, and Expectations	334	(2)
Mobilizing the Home Fronts	336	(2)
Political Leadership: Northern Success and Southern Failure	338	(1)
Early Campaigns and Battles	339	(3)
The Diplomatic Struggle	342	(1)
Fight to the Finish	343	(11)
The Coming of Emancipation	343	(1)
African Americans and the War	344	(1)
The Tide Turns	345	(1)
Last Stages of the Conflict	346	(3)
Effects of the War	349	(5)
The Agony of Reconstruction	354	(22)
The President Versus Congress	355	(8)
Wartime Reconstruction	356	(1)
Andrew Johnson at the Helm	357	(1)
Congress Takes the Initiative	358	(2)
Congressional Reconstruction Plan Enacted	360	(1)
The Impeachment Crisis	361	(2)
Reconstruction in the South	363	(4)
Social and Economic Adjustments	363	(2)
Political Reconstruction in the South	365	(2)
The Age of Grant	367	(3)
Rise of the Money Question	367	(1)
Retreat from Reconstruction	368	(1)
Spoilsmen Versus Reformers	369	(1)
Reunion and the New South	370	(6)
The Compromise of 1877	370	(1)
The New South	371	(5)
The West: Exploiting an Empire	376	(25)
Beyond the Frontier	377	(1)
Crushing the Native Americans	377	(6)
Life of the Plains Indians	378	(1)
``As Long as Waters Run'': Searching for an Indian Policy	378	(2)
Final Battles on the Plains	380	(1)
The End of Tribal Life	381	(2)
Settlement of the West	383	(3)
Men and Women on the Overland Trail	383	(1)
Land for the Taking	384	(2)
The Spanish-Speaking Southwest	386	(1)
The Bonanza West	386	(12)
The Mining Bonanza	387	(2)
Gold from the Roots Up: The Cattle Bonanza	389	(3)
Sodbusters on the Plains: The Farming Bonanza	392	(1)
New Farming Methods	392	(1)
Discontent on the Farm	393	(1)
The Final Fling	394	(4)
We Americans
Blacks in Blue: The Buffalo Soldiers in the West	398	(3)
The Industrial Society	401	(21)
Industrial Development	402	(1)
An Empire on Rails	403	(4)
Building the Empire	404	(1)
Linking the Nation via Trunk Lines	404	(2)
Rails Across the Continent	406	(1)
Problems of Growth	407	(1)
An Industrial Empire	407	(5)
Carnegie and Steel	408	(1)
Rockefeller and Oil	409	(2)
The Business of Invention	411	(1)
The Sellers	412	(2)
The Wage Earners	414	(8)
Working Men, Working Women, Working Children	414	(1)
Culture of Work	415	(1)
Labor Unions	416	(1)
Labor Unrest	417	(5)
Toward an Urban Society, 1877--1900	422	(23)
The Lure of the City	422	(6)
Skyscrapers and Suburbs	423	(1)
Tenements and Privies	424	(1)
Strangers in a New Land	424	(2)
Immigrants and the City	426	(1)
The House That Tweed Built	427	(1)
Social and Cultural Change, 1877--1900	428	(7)
Manners and Mores	429	(1)
Leisure and Entertainment	430	(1)
Changes in Family Life	431	(1)
Changing Views: A Growing Assertiveness Among Women	432	(1)
Educating the Masses	433	(1)
Higher Education	434	(1)
The Stirrings of Reform	435	(7)
New Currents in Social Thought	436	(2)
The Settlement Houses	438	(1)
A Crisis in Social Welfare	438	(4)
We Americans
Americans by the Numbers: The 1890 Census	442	(3)
Political Realignments in the 1890s	445	(19)
Politics of Stalemate	446	(3)
The Party Deadlock	446	(1)
Experiments in the States	447	(1)
Reestablishing Presidential Power	447	(2)
Republicans in Power: The Billion-Dollar Congress	449	(1)
The Rise of the Populist Movement	450	(2)
The Farm Problem	450	(1)
The Fast-Growing Farmers' Alliance	451	(1)
The People's Party	452	(1)
The Crisis of the Depression	452	(3)
Coxey's Army and the Pullman Strike	453	(1)
The Miners of the Midwest	453	(1)
A Beleaguered President	454	(1)
Breaking the Party Deadlock	455	(1)
Changing Attitudes	455	(2)
``Everybody Works But Father''	456	(1)
Changing Themes in Literature	456	(1)
The Presidential Election of 1896	457	(3)
The Mystique of Silver	457	(1)
The Campaign and Election	458	(2)
The McKinley Administration	460	(4)
Toward Empire	464	(21)
America Looks Outward	464	(6)
Catching the Spirit of Empire	465	(1)
Foreign Policy Approaches, 1867--1900	466	(2)
The Lure of Hawaii and Samoa	468	(1)
The New Navy	469	(1)
War with Spain	470	(6)
A War for Principle	470	(2)
``A Splendid Little War''	472	(1)
``Smoked Yankees''	473	(1)
The Course of the War	473	(3)
Debate over Empire	476	(9)
Guerrilla Warfare in the Philippines	478	(2)
Governing the Empire	480	(1)
The Open Door	481	(4)
The Progressive Era	485	(19)
The Changing Face of Industrialism	486	(4)
The Innovative Model T	487	(1)
The Burgeoning Trusts	487	(1)
Managing the Machines	488	(2)
Society's Masses	490	(4)
Better Times on the Farm	490	(1)
Women at Work	491	(1)
The Niagara Movement and the NAACP	492	(1)
``I Hear the Whistle'': Immigrants in the Labor Force	493	(1)
Conflict in the Workplace	494	(2)
A New Urban Culture	496	(8)
Popular Pastimes	497	(1)
Experimentation in the Arts	498	(6)
From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism	504	(25)
The Spirit of Progressivism	505	(6)
The Rise of the Professions	506	(1)
The Social-Justice Movement	506	(1)
The Purity Crusade	507	(1)
Woman Suffrage, Women's Rights	508	(2)
A Ferment of Ideas: Challenging the Status Quo	510	(1)
Reform in the Cities and States	511	(4)
Interest Groups and the Decline of Popular Politics	512	(1)
Reform in the Cities	512	(1)
Action in the States	513	(2)
The Republican Roosevelt	515	(2)
Busting the Trusts	515	(1)
``Square Deal'' in the Coalfields	516	(1)
Roosevelt Progressivism at Its Height	517	(2)
The Ordeal of William Howard Taft	519	(3)
Party Insurgency	520	(1)
The Ballinger-Pinchot Affair	520	(1)
Taft Alienates the Progressives	520	(1)
Differing Philosophies in the Election of 1912	521	(1)
Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom	522	(7)
The New Freedom in Action	523	(1)
Wilson Moves Toward the New Nationalism	524	(5)
The Nation at War	529	(25)
A New World Power	530	(3)
``I Took the Canal Zone''	531	(1)
The Roosevelt Corollary	532	(1)
Ventures in the Far East	532	(1)
Foreign Policy Under Wilson	533	(2)
Conducting Moral Diplomacy	533	(1)
Troubles Across the Border	534	(1)
Toward War	535	(5)
The Neutrality Policy	536	(1)
Freedom of the Seas	536	(1)
The U-Boat Threat	537	(1)
``He Kept Us Out of War''	538	(1)
The Final Months of Peace	539	(1)
Over There	540	(3)
Mobilization	540	(1)
War in the Trenches	541	(2)
Over Here	543	(4)
The Conquest of Convictions	543	(1)
A Bureaucratic War	544	(1)
Labor in the War	545	(2)
The Treaty of Versailles	547	(7)
A Peace at Paris	548	(2)
Rejection in the Senate	550	(4)
Transition to Modern America	554	(20)
The Second Industrial Revolution	555	(3)
The Automobile Industry	555	(1)
Patterns of Economic Growth	556	(1)
Economic Weaknesses	557	(1)
The New Urban Culture	558	(5)
Women and the Family	559	(1)
The Roaring Twenties	560	(1)
The Literary Flowering	561	(2)
The Rural Counterattack	563	(4)
The ``Red Scare''	563	(1)
Prohibition	564	(1)
The Ku Klux Klan	565	(1)
Immigration Restriction	566	(1)
The Fundamentalist Controversy	567	(1)
Politics of the 1920s	567	(7)
Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover	568	(1)
Republican Policies	568	(1)
The Divided Democrats	569	(1)
The Election of 1928	570	(4)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal	574	(23)
The Great Depression	575	(2)
The Great Bull Market	575	(2)
Effect of the Depression	577	(1)
Fighting the Depression	577	(6)
Hoover and Voluntarism	578	(1)
The Emergence of Roosevelt	578	(1)
The Hundred Days	579	(1)
Roosevelt and Recovery	580	(1)
Roosevelt and Relief	581	(2)
Roosevelt and Reform	583	(3)
Angry Voices	583	(1)
Social Security	584	(1)
Labor Legislation	585	(1)
Impact of the New Deal	586	(3)
Rise of Organized Labor	586	(1)
The New Deal Record on Help to Minorities	587	(1)
Women at Work	588	(1)
End of the New Deal	589	(8)
The Election of 1936	589	(2)
The Supreme Court Fight	591	(1)
The New Deal in Decline	592	(1)
Evaluation of the New Deal	593	(4)
America and the World, 1921--1945	597	(25)
Retreat, Reversal, and Rivalry	598	(3)
Retreat in Europe	598	(1)
Cooperation in Latin America	599	(1)
Rivalry in Asia	600	(1)
Isolationism	601	(2)
The Lure of Pacifism and Neutrality	601	(1)
War in Europe	602	(1)
The Road to War	603	(4)
From Neutrality to Undeclared War	603	(2)
Showdown in the Pacific	605	(2)
Turning the Tide Against the Axis	607	(5)
Wartime Partnerships	608	(1)
Halting the German Blitz	609	(1)
Checking Japan in the Pacific	610	(2)
The Home Front	612	(4)
A Nation on the Move	613	(2)
Win-the-War Politics	615	(1)
Victory	616	(6)
War Aims and Wartime Diplomacy	616	(1)
Triumph and Tragedy in the Pacific	617	(5)
The Onset of the Cold War	622	(26)
The Cold War Begins	623	(3)
The Division of Europe	623	(1)
Withholding Economic Aid	624	(1)
The Atomic Dilemma	625	(1)
Containment	626	(4)
The Truman Doctrine	626	(1)
The Marshall Plan	627	(1)
The Western Military Alliance	628	(1)
The Berlin Blockade	629	(1)
The Cold War Expands	630	(5)
The Military Dimension	630	(1)
The Cold War in Asia	631	(2)
The Korean War	633	(2)
The Cold War at Home	635	(5)
Truman's Troubles and Vindication	635	(2)
The Loyalty Issue	637	(1)
McCarthyism in Action	638	(1)
The Republicans in Power	638	(2)
Eisenhower Wages the Cold War	640	(8)
Entanglement in Indochina	640	(1)
Containing China	641	(1)
Turmoil in the Middle East	642	(1)
Covert Actions	643	(1)
Waging Peace	643	(5)
Affluence and Anxiety	648	(15)
The Postwar Boom	649	(3)
Postwar Prosperity	650	(1)
Life in the Suburbs	651	(1)
The Good Life?	652	(2)
Areas of Greatest Growth	652	(1)
Critics of the Consumer Society	653	(1)
The Reaction to Sputnik	653	(1)
Farewell to Reform	654	(2)
Truman and the Fair Deal	654	(1)
Eisenhower's Modern Republicanism	655	(1)
The Struggle over Civil Rights	656	(7)
Civil Rights as a Political Issue	657	(1)
Desegregating the Schools	657	(1)
The Beginnings of Black Activism	658	(5)
The Turbulent Sixties	663	(35)
Kennedy Intensifies the Cold War	664	(5)
Flexible Response	665	(1)
Crisis over Berlin	665	(1)
Containment in Southeast Asia	666	(1)
Containing Castro: The Bay of Pigs Fiasco	667	(1)
Containing Castro: The Cuban Missile Crisis	668	(1)
The New Frontier At Home	669	(4)
The Congressional Obstacle and Economic Advance	669	(2)
Moving Slowly on Civil Rights	671	(1)
``I Have a Dream''	672	(1)
The Supreme Court and Reform	672	(1)
``Let Us Continue''	673	(4)
Johnson in Action	674	(1)
The Election of 1964	675	(1)
The Triumph of Reform	676	(1)
Johnson Escalates the Vietnam War	677	(5)
The Vietnam Dilemma	678	(2)
Escalation	680	(1)
Stalemate	680	(2)
Years of Turmoil	682	(5)
The Student Revolt	682	(2)
The Cultural Revolution	684	(1)
``Black Power''	685	(1)
Ethnic Nationalism	686	(1)
Women's Liberation	686	(1)
The Return of Richard Nixon	687	(9)
Vietnam Undermines Lyndon Johnson	687	(1)
Democrats Divided	688	(1)
The Republican Resurgence	689	(7)
We Americans
Unintended Consequences: The Second Great Migration	696	(2)
A Crisis in Confidence, 1969--1980	698	(27)
Nixon in Power	699	(5)
Reshaping the Great Society	700	(1)
Nixonomics	701	(1)
Building a Republican Majority	701	(1)
In Search of Detente	702	(1)
Ending the Vietnam War	703	(1)
The Crisis of Democracy	704	(2)
The Election of 1972	704	(1)
The Watergate Scandal	705	(1)
Energy and the Economy	706	(5)
The October War	706	(1)
The Oil Shocks	707	(1)
The Search for an Energy Policy	708	(2)
The Great Inflation	710	(1)
The Shifting American Economy	710	(1)
Private Lives---Public Issues	711	(5)
The Changing American Family	711	(1)
Gains and Setbacks for Women	712	(2)
The Gay Liberation Movement	714	(2)
Politics After Watergate	716	(2)
The Ford Administration and the 1976 Campaign	716	(1)
Disenchantment with Carter	717	(1)
From Detente to Renewed Cold War	718	(7)
Retreat in Asia	718	(1)
Accommodation in Latin America	719	(1)
The Quest for Peace in the Middle East	719	(1)
The Cold War Resumes	720	(5)
The Republican Resurgence, 1980--1992	725	(31)
Reagan in Power	727	(3)
The Reagan Victory	727	(1)
Cutting Spending and Taxes	728	(1)
Limiting the Role of Government	729	(1)
Reaganomics	730	(4)
Recession and Recovery	730	(1)
The Growing Deficit	731	(1)
The Rich Grow Richer	732	(1)
Reagan Affirmed	733	(1)
Reagan and the World	734	(7)
Challenging the ``Evil Empire''	735	(1)
Turmoil in the Middle East	736	(1)
Confrontation in Central America	737	(2)
Trading Arms for Hostages	739	(1)
Reagan the Peacemaker	740	(1)
Social Dilemmas	741	(4)
The AIDS Epidemic	741	(2)
The War on Drugs	743	(2)
Passing the Torch	745	(11)
The Changing Palace Guard	745	(2)
The Election of 1988	747	(1)
Defaults and Deficits	748	(1)
The End of the Cold War	749	(3)
Waging Peace	752	(4)
America in Flux: The Anxious Nineties	756
The Changing American Population	758	(6)
A People on the Move	758	(1)
The Revival of Immigration	759	(1)
Advance and Retreat for African Americans	760	(1)
The Emerging Hispanics	761	(2)
Asian Americans on the Rise	763	(1)
Melting Pot or Multiethnic Diversity?	763	(1)
Economic Crosscurrents	764	(3)
Recession and Stagnation	764	(1)
The Plight of the Middle Class	765	(2)
Democratic Revival	767	(8)
The Election of 1992	767	(1)
Economic Recovery	768	(2)
President Versus Congress	770	(3)
The Clinton Rebound	773	(2)
After the Cold War	775	(5)
Clinton and the World	775	(2)
Intervening in Somalia and Haiti	777	(1)
Halting Civil War in Bosnia	777	(2)
Saving Kosovo	779	(1)
The End of the Century	780	(11)
From Deficit to Surplus	780	(1)
Violence in the 1990s	781	(3)
Shadow on the White House	784	(2)
A Nation Divided	786	(5)
We Americans
Asian Americans: Climbing ``The Mountain of Gold''	791
Appendix	1	(1)
The Declaration of Independence	3	(3)
The Articles of Confederation	6	(5)
The Constitution of the United States of America	11	(7)
Amendments to the Constitution	18	(6)
Presidential Elections	24	(4)
Supreme Court Justices	28	(2)
Admission of States into the Union	30	(2)
A Demographic Profile of the American People	32
Credits	1	(1)
Index	1