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Maps | p. xiii |
Figures and Tables | p. xv |
Features | p. xvii |
Preface | p. xix |
Supplements | p. xxiii |
Acknowledgments | p. xxvii |
About the Authors | p. xxxi |
The Agony of Reconstruction | p. 450 |
Robert Smalls and Black Politicians during Reconstruction | p. 451 |
The President versus Congress | p. 452 |
Wartime Reconstruction | p. 453 |
Andrew Johnson at the Helm | p. 453 |
Congress Takes the Initiative | p. 456 |
Congressional Reconstruction Plan Enacted | p. 457 |
The Impeachment Crisis | p. 458 |
Reconstructing Southern Society | p. 460 |
Reorganizing Land and Labor | p. 460 |
Black Codes: A New Name for Slavery? | p. 462 |
Republican Rule in the South | p. 462 |
Claiming Public and Private Rights | p. 464 |
Retreat from Reconstruction | p. 466 |
Rise of the Money Question | p. 466 |
Final Efforts of Reconstruction | p. 466 |
A Reign of Terror Against Blacks | p. 467 |
Spoilsmen versus Reformers | p. 469 |
Reunion and the New South | p. 471 |
The Compromise of 1877 | p. 471 |
"Redeeming" a New South | p. 472 |
The Rise of Jim Crow | p. 473 |
Conclusion: Henry McNeal Turner and the "Unfinished Revolution" | p. 475 |
Feature Essay: Changing Views of Reconstruction | p. 476 |
The West: Exploiting an Empire | p. 480 |
Lean Bear's Changing West | p. 481 |
Beyond the Frontier | p. 482 |
Crushing the Native Americans | p. 483 |
Life of the Plains Indians | p. 483 |
"As Long as Waters Run": Searching for an Indian Policy | p. 485 |
Final Battles on the Plains | p. 486 |
The End of Tribal Life | p. 487 |
Settlement of the West | p. 491 |
Men and Women on the Overland Trail | p. 492 |
Land for the Taking | p. 493 |
Territorial Government | p. 495 |
The Spanish-Speaking Southwest | p. 495 |
The Bonanza West | p. 496 |
The Mining Bonanza | p. 496 |
Gold from the Roots Up: The Cattle Bonanza | p. 499 |
Sodbusters on the Plains: The Farming Bonanza | p. 502 |
New Farming Methods | p. 503 |
Discontent on the Farm | p. 505 |
The Final Fling | p. 506 |
Conclusion: The Meaning of the West | p. 507 |
Feature Essay: Blacks in Blue: The Buffalo Soldiers in the West | p. 488 |
The Industrial Society | p. 510 |
A Machine Culture | p. 511 |
Industrial Development | p. 512 |
An Empire on Rails | p. 512 |
"Emblem of Motion and Power" | p. 513 |
Building the Empire | p. 514 |
Linking the Nation via Trunk Lines | p. 515 |
Rails Across the Continent | p. 516 |
Problems of Growth | p. 518 |
An Industrial Empire | p. 519 |
Carnegie and Steel | p. 519 |
Rockefeller and Oil | p. 521 |
The Business of Invention | p. 522 |
The Sellers | p. 525 |
The Wage Earners | p. 529 |
Working Men, Working Women, Working Children | p. 529 |
Culture of Work | p. 531 |
Labor Unions | p. 531 |
Labor Unrest | p. 533 |
Conclusion: Industrialization's Benefits and Costs | p. 536 |
Feature Essay: Chicago's "Second Nature" | p. 526 |
Toward an Urban Society, 1877-1900 | p. 538 |
The Overcrowded City | p. 539 |
The Lure of the City | p. 540 |
Skyscrapers and Suburbs | p. 540 |
Tenements and the Problems of Overcrowding | p. 541 |
Strangers in a New Land | p. 543 |
Immigrants and the City | p. 547 |
The House That Tweed Built | p. 548 |
Social and Cultural Change, 1877-1900 | p. 550 |
Manners and Mores | p. 551 |
Leisure and Entertainment | p. 552 |
Changes in Family Life | p. 554 |
Changing Views: A Growing Assertiveness Among Women | p. 554 |
Educating the Masses | p. 555 |
Higher Education | p. 557 |
The Stirrings of Reform | p. 560 |
Progress and Poverty | p. 560 |
New Currents in Social Thought | p. 560 |
The Settlement Houses | p. 562 |
A Crisis in Social Welfare | p. 564 |
Conclusion: The Pluralistic Society | p. 565 |
Feature Essay: Ellis Island: Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears | p. 544 |
Law and Society: Plessy v. Ferguson: The Shaping of Jim Crow | p. 567 |
Political Realignments in the 1890s | p. 572 |
Hardship and Heartache | p. 573 |
Politics of Stalemate | p. 574 |
The Party Deadlock | p. 575 |
Experiments in the States | p. 576 |
Reestablishing Presidential Power | p. 576 |
Republicans in Power: The Billion-Dollar Congress | p. 578 |
Tariffs, Trusts, and Silver | p. 578 |
The 1890 Elections | p. 579 |
The Rise of the Populist Movement | p. 579 |
The Farm Problem | p. 580 |
The Fast-Growing Farmers' Alliance | p. 581 |
The People's Party | p. 582 |
The Crisis of the Depression | p. 583 |
The Panic of 1893 | p. 583 |
Coxey's Army and the Pullman Strike | p. 584 |
The Miners of the Midwest | p. 585 |
A Beleaguered President | p. 587 |
Breaking the Party Deadlock | p. 587 |
Changing Attitudes | p. 588 |
"Everybody Works But Father" | p. 588 |
Changing Themes in Literature | p. 589 |
The Presidential Election of 1896 | p. 591 |
The Mystique of Silver | p. 591 |
The Republicans and Gold | p. 594 |
The Democrats and Silver | p. 594 |
Campaign and Election | p. 595 |
The McKinley Administration | p. 596 |
Conclusion: A Decade's Dramatic Changes | p. 598 |
Feature Essay: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | p. 592 |
Toward Empire | p. 600 |
Roosevelt and the Rough Riders | p. 601 |
America Looks Outward | p. 602 |
Catching the Spirit of Empire | p. 602 |
Reasons for Expansion | p. 603 |
Foreign Policy Approaches, 1867-1900 | p. 606 |
The Lure of Hawaii and Samoa | p. 608 |
The New Navy | p. 610 |
War with Spain | p. 611 |
A War for Principle | p. 611 |
"A Splendid Little War" | p. 613 |
"Smoked Yankees" | p. 615 |
The Course of the War | p. 616 |
Acquisition of Empire | p. 617 |
The Treaty of Paris Debate | p. 619 |
Guerrilla Warfare in the Philippines | p. 620 |
Governing the Empire | p. 622 |
The Open Door | p. 623 |
Conclusion: Outcome of the War with Spain | p. 624 |
Feature Essay: Americans by the Numbers: The 1890 Census | p. 604 |
The Progressive Era | p. 626 |
Muckrakers Call for Reform | p. 627 |
The Changing Face of Industrialism | p. 628 |
The Innovative Model T | p. 629 |
The Burgeoning Trusts | p. 630 |
Managing the Machines | p. 631 |
Society's Masses | p. 633 |
Better Times on the Farm | p. 633 |
Women and Children at Work | p. 634 |
The Niagara Movement and the NAACP | p. 635 |
"I Hear the Whistle": Immigrants in the Labor Force | p. 639 |
Conflict in the Workplace | p. 641 |
Organizing Labor | p. 642 |
Working with Workers | p. 644 |
Amoskeag | p. 644 |
A New Urban Culture | p. 645 |
Production and Consumption | p. 645 |
Living and Dying in an Urban Nation | p. 646 |
Popular Pastimes | p. 647 |
Experimentation in the Arts | p. 649 |
Conclusion: A Ferment of Discovery and Reform | p. 650 |
Feature Essay: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement | p. 636 |
From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism | p. 654 |
The Republicans Split | p. 655 |
The Spirit of Progressivism | p. 656 |
The Rise of the Professions | p. 657 |
The Social-Justice Movement | p. 658 |
The Purity Crusade | p. 659 |
Woman Suffrage, Women's Rights | p. 660 |
A Ferment of Ideas: Challenging the Status Quo | p. 662 |
Reform in the Cities and States | p. 663 |
Interest Groups and the Decline of Popular Politics | p. 663 |
Reform in the Cities | p. 664 |
Action in the States | p. 665 |
The Republican Roosevelt | p. 667 |
Busting the Trusts | p. 667 |
"Square Deal" in the Coalfields | p. 668 |
Roosevelt Progressivism at Its Height | p. 669 |
Regulating the Railroads | p. 669 |
Cleaning Up Food and Drugs | p. 669 |
Conserving the Land | p. 671 |
The Ordeal of William Howard Taft | p. 672 |
Party Insurgency | p. 673 |
The Ballinger-Pinchot Affair | p. 673 |
Taft Alienates the Progressives | p. 673 |
Differing Philosophies in the Election of 1912 | p. 675 |
Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom | p. 676 |
The New Freedom in Action | p. 676 |
Wilson Moves Toward the New Nationalism | p. 678 |
Conclusion: The Fruits of Progressivism | p. 682 |
Feature Essay: Madam C.J. Walker: African American Business Pioneer | p. 680 |
Law and Society: Muller v. Oregon: Expanding the Definition of Acceptable Evidence | p. 684 |
The Nation at War | p. 688 |
The Sinking of the Lusitania | p. 689 |
A New World Power | p. 690 |
"I Took the Canal Zone" | p. 691 |
The Roosevelt Corollary | p. 692 |
Ventures in the Far East | p. 693 |
Taft and Dollar Diplomacy | p. 693 |
Foreign Policy Under Wilson | p. 694 |
Conducting Moral Diplomacy | p. 694 |
Troubles Across the Border | p. 694 |
Toward War | p. 696 |
The Neutrality Policy | p. 696 |
Freedom of the Seas | p. 697 |
The U-Boat Threat | p. 698 |
"He Kept Us Out of War" | p. 699 |
The Final Months of Peace | p. 700 |
Over There | p. 701 |
Mobilization | p. 701 |
War in the Trenches | p. 702 |
Over Here | p. 706 |
The Conquest of Convictions | p. 706 |
A Bureaucratic War | p. 708 |
Labor in the War | p. 709 |
The Treaty of Versailles | p. 712 |
A Peace at Paris | p. 712 |
Rejection in the Senate | p. 715 |
Conclusion: Postwar Disillusionment | p. 716 |
Feature Essay: Measuring the Mind | p. 704 |
Transition to Modern America | p. 718 |
Wheels for the Millions | p. 719 |
The Second Industrial Revolution | p. 720 |
The Automobile Industry | p. 720 |
Patterns of Economic Growth | p. 720 |
Economic Weaknesses | p. 722 |
City Life in the Jazz Age | p. 723 |
Women and the Family | p. 724 |
The Roaring Twenties | p. 726 |
The Flowering of the Arts | p. 727 |
The Rural Counterattack | p. 732 |
The Fear of Radicalism | p. 732 |
Prohibition | p. 734 |
The Ku Klux Klan | p. 735 |
Immigration Restriction | p. 736 |
The Fundamentalist Challenge | p. 737 |
Politics of the 1920s | p. 737 |
Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover | p. 737 |
Republican Policies | p. 738 |
The Divided Democrats | p. 739 |
The Election of 1928 | p. 740 |
Conclusion: The Old and the New | p. 741 |
Feature Essay: Marcus Garvey: Racial Redemption and Black Nationalism | p. 730 |
Law and Society: The Scopes "Monkey" Trial: Contesting Cultural Differences | p. 743 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal | p. 748 |
The Struggle Against Despair | p. 749 |
The Great Depression | p. 750 |
The Great Crash | p. 750 |
Effect of the Depression | p. 752 |
Fighting the Depression | p. 754 |
Hoover and Voluntarism | p. 754 |
The Emergence of Roosevelt | p. 754 |
The Hundred Days | p. 755 |
Roosevelt and Recovery | p. 757 |
Roosevelt and Relief | p. 759 |
Roosevelt and Reform | p. 761 |
Challenges to FDR | p. 762 |
Social Security | p. 762 |
Labor Legislation | p. 763 |
Impact of the New Deal | p. 764 |
Rise of Organized Labor | p. 764 |
The New Deal Record on Help to Minorities | p. 766 |
Women at Work | p. 767 |
End of the New Deal | p. 768 |
The Election of 1936 | p. 768 |
The Supreme Court Fight | p. 769 |
The New Deal in Decline | p. 773 |
Conclusion: The New Deal and American Life | p. 774 |
Feature Essay: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Quest for Social Justice | p. 770 |
America and the World, 1921-1945 | p. 776 |
A Pact Without Power | p. 777 |
Retreat, Reversal, and Rivalry | p. 778 |
Retreat in Europe | p. 778 |
Cooperation in Latin America | p. 779 |
Rivalry in Asia | p. 780 |
Isolationism | p. 780 |
The Lure of Pacifism and Neutrality | p. 781 |
War in Europe | p. 783 |
The Road to War | p. 784 |
From Neutrality to Undeclared War | p. 784 |
Showdown in the Pacific | p. 786 |
Turning the Tide Against the Axis | p. 788 |
Wartime Partnerships | p. 788 |
Halting the German Blitz | p. 790 |
Checking Japan in the Pacific | p. 791 |
The Home Front | p. 792 |
The Arsenal of Democracy | p. 792 |
A Nation on the Move | p. 794 |
Win-the-War Politics | p. 797 |
Victory | p. 798 |
War Aims and Wartime Diplomacy | p. 798 |
Triumph and Tragedy in the Pacific | p. 802 |
Conclusion: The Transforming Power of War | p. 804 |
Feature Essay: The Face of the Holocaust | p. 800 |
The Onset of the Cold War | p. 806 |
The Potsdam Summit | p. 807 |
The Cold War Begins | p. 808 |
The Division of Europe | p. 808 |
Withholding Economic Aid | p. 810 |
The Atomic Dilemma | p. 810 |
Containment | p. 811 |
The Truman Doctrine | p. 811 |
The Marshall Plan | p. 812 |
The Western Military Alliance | p. 813 |
The Berlin Blockade | p. 814 |
The Cold War Expands | p. 815 |
The Military Dimension | p. 815 |
The Cold War in Asia | p. 816 |
The Korean War | p. 817 |
The Cold War at Home | p. 819 |
Truman's Troubles | p. 819 |
Truman Vindicated | p. 822 |
The Loyalty Issue | p. 823 |
McCarthyism in Action | p. 824 |
The Republicans in Power | p. 825 |
Eisenhower Wages the Cold War | p. 827 |
Entanglement in Indochina | p. 829 |
Containing China | p. 830 |
Turmoil in the Middle East | p. 830 |
Covert Actions | p. 831 |
Waging Peace | p. 831 |
Conclusion: The Continuing Cold War | p. 833 |
Feature Essay: The "Lost Sheep" of the Korean War | p. 820 |
Affluence and Anxiety | p. 836 |
Levittown: The Flight to the Suburbs | p. 837 |
The Postwar Boom | p. 839 |
Postwar Prosperity | p. 839 |
Life in the Suburbs | p. 840 |
The Good Life? | p. 841 |
Areas of Greatest Growth | p. 841 |
Critics of the Consumer Society | p. 842 |
The Reaction to Sputnik | p. 846 |
Farewell to Reform | p. 847 |
Truman and the Fair Deal | p. 847 |
Eisenhower's Modern Republicanism | p. 848 |
The Struggle over Civil Rights | p. 849 |
Civil Rights as a Political Issue | p. 850 |
Desegregating the Schools | p. 850 |
The Beginnings of Black Activism | p. 852 |
Conclusion: Restoring National Confidence | p. 854 |
Feature Essay: Rise of a New Idiom in Modern Painting: Abstract Expressionism | p. 844 |
The Turbulent Sixties | p. 856 |
Kennedy versus Nixon: The First Televised Presidential Candidate Debate | p. 857 |
Kennedy Intensifies the Cold War | p. 859 |
Flexible Response | p. 859 |
Crisis over Berlin | p. 859 |
Containment in Southeast Asia | p. 860 |
Containing Castro: The Bay of Pigs Fiasco | p. 861 |
Containing Castro: The Cuban Missile Crisis | p. 861 |
The New Frontier at Home | p. 864 |
The Congressional Obstacle | p. 865 |
Economic Advance | p. 865 |
Moving Slowly on Civil Rights | p. 866 |
"I Have a Dream" | p. 867 |
The Supreme Court and Reform | p. 868 |
"Let Us Continue" | p. 869 |
Johnson in Action | p. 870 |
The Election of 1964 | p. 871 |
The Triumph of Reform | p. 872 |
Johnson Escalates the Vietnam War | p. 876 |
The Vietnam Dilemma | p. 876 |
Escalation | p. 877 |
Stalemate | p. 878 |
Years of Turmoil | p. 880 |
The Student Revolt | p. 880 |
Protesting the Vietnam War | p. 881 |
The Cultural Revolution | p. 882 |
"Black Power" | p. 882 |
Ethnic Nationalism | p. 884 |
Women's Liberation | p. 884 |
The Return of Richard Nixon | p. 885 |
Vietnam Undermines Lyndon Johnson | p. 885 |
The Democrats Divide | p. 886 |
The Republican Resurgence | p. 888 |
Conclusion: The End of an Era | p. 889 |
Feature Essay: Unintended Consequences: The Second Great Migration | p. 874 |
A Crisis in Confidence, 1969-1980 | p. 892 |
The Watergate Break-in | p. 893 |
Nixon in Power | p. 895 |
Reshaping the Great Society | p. 895 |
Nixonomics | p. 896 |
Building a Republican Majority | p. 897 |
In Search of Detente | p. 897 |
Ending the Vietnam War | p. 898 |
The Crisis of Democracy | p. 899 |
The Election of 1972 | p. 899 |
The Watergate Scandal | p. 900 |
Energy and the Economy | p. 901 |
The October War | p. 901 |
The Oil Shocks | p. 902 |
The Search for an Energy Policy | p. 903 |
The Great Inflation | p. 904 |
The Shifting American Economy | p. 904 |
Private Lives-Public Issues | p. 905 |
The Changing American Family | p. 908 |
Gains and Setbacks for Women | p. 908 |
The Gay Liberation Movement | p. 910 |
Politics after Watergate | p. 912 |
The Ford Administration | p. 912 |
The 1976 Campaign | p. 913 |
Disenchantment with Carter | p. 913 |
From Detente to Renewed Cold War | p. 914 |
Retreat in Asia | p. 914 |
Accommodation in Latin America | p. 915 |
The Quest for Peace in the Middle East | p. 916 |
The Cold War Resumes | p. 917 |
Conclusion: A Failed Presidency | p. 918 |
Feature Essay: Three Mile Island and Chernobyl: The Promise and Peril of Nuclear Power | p. 906 |
Law and Society: Roe v. Wade: The Struggle over Women's Reproductive Rights | p. 920 |
The Republican Resurgence, 1980-1992 | p. 926 |
Reagan and the Rise of Conservatism | p. 927 |
Reagan in Power | p. 929 |
The Reagan Victory | p. 929 |
Cutting Spending and Taxes | p. 930 |
Limiting the Role of Government | p. 931 |
Reaganomics | p. 933 |
Recession and Recovery | p. 933 |
The Growing Deficit | p. 933 |
The Rich Grow Richer | p. 936 |
Reagan Affirmed | p. 938 |
Reagan and the World | p. 939 |
Challenging the "Evil Empire" | p. 939 |
Turmoil in the Middle East | p. 940 |
Confrontation in Central America | p. 941 |
Trading Arms for Hostages | p. 942 |
Reagan the Peacemaker | p. 943 |
Social Dilemmas | p. 944 |
The AIDS Epidemic | p. 944 |
The War on Drugs | p. 946 |
Passing the Torch to Bush | p. 947 |
The Changing Palace Guard | p. 947 |
The Election of 1988 | p. 948 |
Bush's Domestic Agenda | p. 949 |
The End of the Cold War | p. 950 |
Waging Peace | p. 952 |
Conclusion: Republican Economic Woes | p. 954 |
Feature Essay: The Christian Right | p. 934 |
Law and Society: Bakke v. Regents of the University of California: The Question of Affirmative Action | p. 956 |
America in Flux | p. 960 |
The Buck Starts Here | p. 961 |
The Changing American Population | p. 963 |
A People on the Move | p. 963 |
The Revival of Immigration | p. 964 |
The Surging Hispanics | p. 965 |
Advance and Retreat for African Americans | p. 966 |
Americans from Asia and the Middle East | p. 967 |
Melting Pot or Multiethnic Diversity? | p. 968 |
Democratic Revival | p. 969 |
The Election of 1992 | p. 969 |
Economic Recovery | p. 970 |
President versus Congress | p. 971 |
Contract with America | p. 973 |
The Clinton Rebound | p. 974 |
Clinton and the World | p. 976 |
Global Tensions in the Post-Cold War Era | p. 976 |
Intervening in Somalia and Haiti | p. 977 |
Halting Civil War in Bosnia | p. 978 |
Saving Kosovo | p. 979 |
The End of the Century | p. 980 |
From Deficit to Surplus | p. 980 |
Violence in the 1990s | p. 980 |
Shadow on the White House | p. 982 |
The New Millennium | p. 984 |
The Disputed Election of 2000 | p. 984 |
Bush's Domestic Agenda | p. 986 |
Terrorism: Attack and Counterattack | p. 990 |
The New American Empire? | p. 993 |
Conclusion: The American Century? | p. 996 |
Feature Essay: The Dot.com Boom and Bust | p. 988 |
Appendix | p. A-1 |
The Declaration of Independence | p. A-3 |
The Articles of Confederation | p. A-5 |
The Constitution of the United States of America | p. A-9 |
Amendments to the Constitution | p. A-14 |
Presidential Elections | p. A-18 |
Political and Physical Map of the United States | p. A-24 |
Political Map of the World | p. A-26 |
Glossary | p. G-1 |
Credits | p. C-1 |
Index | p. I-1 |
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