The American Past A Survey of American History, Volume II: Since 1865

by Conlin, Joseph R.

• ISBN13: 9780495050599
• ISBN10: 0495050598
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-16
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Now in its Eighth Edition, Conlin's introductory American history text continues to offer a colorful and engaging look at the individuals, events, and ideas that have shaped our nation's past. Accessible and lively, it sets the story in political context, while providing balanced coverage of social, cultural, economic, intellectual, constitutional, diplomatic, and military events. Consistent scholarship and a unique organization make this book comprehensive and manageable. The text benefits from Conlin's literary prose style, which lends a unifying voice that captures and holds students' interest. Conlin's text is available in the following volume options: THE AMERICAN PAST: A SURVEY OF AMERICAN HISTORY, Comprehensive, (Chapters 1-51), ISBN: 0495050148; VOLUME I:TO 1877, (Chapters 1-25), ISBN: 0495050571; VOLUME II: SINCE 1865, (Chapters 25-51), ISBN: 0495050598.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. xv
How They Lived	p. xvii
Preface	p. xix
Aftermath: Reconstructing the Union; Failing the Freedmen 1865-1877	p. 408
The Reconstruction Crisis	p. 408
1866: The Critical Year	p. 413
Radical Reconstruction	p. 415
How They Lived: Gullah	p. 416
Grant's Troubled Administration	p. 420
The Twilight of Reconstruction	p. 421
Further Reading	p. 423
Key Terms	p. 423
Online Sources Guide	p. 423
Parties, Patronage, and Pork: Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century	p. 424
How the System Worked	p. 425
Presidents and Personalities	p. 429
How They Lived: A District Leader's Day	p. 432
Issues	p. 436
Politics in the Cities	p. 437
Further Reading	p. 440
Key Terms	p. 441
Online Sources Guide	p. 441
Technology, Industry, and Business: Economic Revolution in the Late Nineteenth Century	p. 442
A Land Made for Industry	p. 442
Conquering the Wide-Open Spaces	p. 448
The Transcontinental Lines	p. 452
How They Lived: Building the Transcontinental	p. 452
The Organizers	p. 455
Further Reading	p. 45
Key Terms	p. 460
Online Sources Guide	p. 460
Living with Leviathan: Big Business and Great Wealth	p. 461
Regulating Railroads and Trusts	p. 462
Social Critics	p. 465
Defenders of the Faith	p. 467
How They Lived: The Last Dance of the Idle Rich	p. 468
How the Very Rich Lived	p. 470
Further Reading	p. 473
Key Terms	p. 474
Online Sources Guide	p. 474
We Who Built America: Factories and Immigrants	p. 475
A New Way of Life	p. 475
Who Were the Workers?	p. 477
Organize!	p. 479
Nation of Immigrants	p. 483
Ethnic America	p. 485
How They Lived: Crossing the Atlantic	p. 486
Further Reading	p. 490
Key Terms	p. 490
Online Sources Guide	p. 491
Urban America: The Growth of Big Cities and Big City Problems	p. 492
Cities as Alien Enclaves	p. 492
Of the Growth of Great Cities	p. 496
How They Lived: Sweatshops	p. 500
The Evils of City Life	p. 501
Further Reading	p. 504
Key Terms	p. 505
Online Sources Guide	p. 505
The Last Frontier: Winning the Last of the West 1865-1900	p. 506
The Last Frontier	p. 506
The Cattle Kingdom	p. 515
How They Lived: Punching Cows	p. 516
The Wild West in American Culture	p. 518
The Mining Frontier	p. 520
Further Reading	p. 522
Key Terms	p. 522
Online Sources Guide	p. 522
Stressful Times Down Home: American Agriculture 1865-1896	p. 523
Farming in a Dry Land	p. 524
Southern Farmers	p. 527
Protest and Organization	p. 529
The Money Question	p. 530
How They Lived: The Cigarette Kingdom	p. 531
The Populists	p. 533
Further Reading	p. 536
Key Terms	p. 537
Online Sources Guide	p. 537
The Days of McKinley: The United States as a World Power 1896-1903	p. 538
The Landmark Election of 1896	p. 538
Jim Crow Segregation	p. 542
An American Empire	p. 544
The Spanish-American War	p. 546
How They Lived: Avenging the Maine	p. 549
Empire Confirmed	p. 550
Further Reading	p. 555
Key Terms	p. 555
Online Sources Guide	p. 556
The World of Teddy Roosevelt: Society and Culture in Transition 1890-1917	p. 557
Symbol of an Age	p. 558
The New Middle Class	p. 560
A Lively Culture	p. 563
Americans at Play	p. 566
How They Lived: Coney Island: Democratic Amusement	p. 566
Sports	p. 570
Further Reading	p. 572
Key Terms	p. 573
Online Sources Guide	p. 573
Age of Reform: The Progressives	p. 574
The Progressives	p. 574
Progressivism Down Home	p. 578
Making People Better	p. 581
How They Lived: Bindlestiffs, Tramps, and Bums	p. 582
Left of Progressivism	p. 585
Further Reading	p. 587
Key Terms	p. 588
Online Sources Guide	p. 588
The Progressive Presidents: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson 1901-1916	p. 589
T. R. Takes Over	p. 589
Roosevelt's Reforms	p. 592
A Conservative President in a Progressive Era	p. 594
How They Lived: The Mann Act	p. 595
Democratic Party Progressivism	p. 598
Further Reading	p. 601
Key Terms	p. 601
Online Sources Guide	p. 601
Over There: The United States and the First World War 1914-1918	p. 602
Wilson, the World, and Mexico	p. 602
The Great War	p. 605
How They Lived: The Tin Lizzie	p. 611
America Goes to War	p. 612
Further Reading	p. 617
Key Terms	p. 618
Online Sources Guide	p. 618
Over Here: World War I at Home 1917-1920	p. 619
The Progressive War	p. 619
Social Changes	p. 622
Conformity and Repression	p. 625
Wilson and the League of Nations	p. 628
How They Lived: "They Dropped Like Flies": The Great Flu Epidemic	p. 628
Further Reading	p. 634
Key Terms	p. 635
Online Sources Guide	p. 635
Troubled Years: America after the Great War 1919-1923	p. 636
"The Worst President"	p. 637
Postwar Tensions: Labor, Reds, Immigrants	p. 639
Racial Tensions	p. 642
How They Lived: The National Pastime Business	p. 645
Prohibition and Fundamentalism	p. 646
Further Reading	p. 649
Key Terms	p. 650
Online Sources Guide	p. 650
Calvin Coolidge and the New Era: When America Was Business 1923-1929	p. 651
The Coolidge Years	p. 651
Prosperity and Business Culture	p. 654
Get Rich Quick	p. 659
How They Lived: Fads, Sensations, and Ballyhoo	p. 660
Further Reading	p. 664
Key Terms	p. 664
Online Sources Guide	p. 664
Hard Times: The Great Depression 1930-1933	p. 665
The Face of the Creature	p. 665
The Failure of the Old Order	p. 668
How They Lived: Weeknights at Eight	p. 671
Responses to Hard Times	p. 672
The Election of 1932	p. 676
Further Reading	p. 677
Key Terms	p. 678
Online Sources Guide	p. 678
Rearranging America: FDR and the New Deal 1933-1938	p. 679
The Pleasant Man Who Changed America	p. 679
The Hundred Days	p. 682
New Deal-Failures and Successes	p. 685
How They Lived: Not Feeling Sorry for the Rich	p. 687
Populist Spellbinders	p. 688
The Legacy of the New Deal	p. 690
Further Reading	p. 693
Key Terms	p. 693
Online Sources Guide	p. 694
The Second Great War: America and the World 1933-1942	p. 695
New Deal Foreign Policy	p. 695
The World Goes to War	p. 698
The United States and the War	p. 701
America Goes to War	p. 703
How They Lived: Rationing and Scrap Drives	p. 706
Further Reading	p. 710
Key Terms	p. 710
Online Sources Guide	p. 710
World War II: The Pinnacle of Power 1942-1945	p. 711
Stopping Japan	p. 711
Defeating Germany First	p. 716
The Twilight of Japan, the Nuclear Dawn	p. 721
How They Lived: Amphibious Landing	p. 722
Further Reading	p. 726
Key Terms	p. 727
Online Sources Guide	p. 727
Cold War: The United States and the Nuclear Age 1946-1952	p. 728
The Shadow of Cold War	p. 728
Domestic Politics Under Truman	p. 733
Success in Japan, Conflict with China	p. 736
Years of Tension	p. 740
How They Lived: The Negro Leagues	p. 740
Further Reading	p. 745
Key Terms	p. 745
Online Sources Guide	p. 746
"Happy Days": Popular Culture in the Fifties 1947-1963	p. 747
Let the Good Times Roll	p. 747
Suburbia	p. 753
Dissenters	p. 758
How They Lived: The World of Fashion	p. 759
Further Reading	p. 761
Key Terms	p. 762
Online Sources Guide	p. 762
Cold War and Civil Rights: The Eisenhower and Kennedy Years 1953-1963	p. 763
The Middle of the Road	p. 763
How They Lived: Answer the Door, Somebody's Ringing the Bell	p. 768
1960: Changing of the Guard	p. 769
Kennedy Foreign Policy	p. 771
Civil Rights: The Battle in the Courts	p. 773
Civil Rights: From the Courts to the Streets	p. 777
Further Reading	p. 780
Key Terms	p. 780
Online Sources Guide	p. 781
Johnson's Great Society: Reform and Conflict 1961-1968	p. 782
LBJ	p. 782
The Great Society	p. 784
Vietnam! Vietnam!	p. 787
Mr. Johnson's War	p. 789
Troubled Years	p. 790
How They Lived: The Drug Culture	p. 792
The Election of 1968	p. 795
Further Reading	p. 798
Key Terms	p. 799
Online Sources Guide	p. 799
The Presidency in Crisis: The Nixon, Ford, and Carter Administrations 1968-1980	p. 800
The Nixon Presidency	p. 800
Nixon and Vietnam	p. 804
Nixon-Kissinger Foreign Policy	p. 806
Watergate and Gerald Ford	p. 808
How They Lived: Sex: From No-No to Everybody's Doing It	p. 810
Quiet Crisis	p. 814
Further Reading	p. 816
Key Terms	p. 817
Online Sources Guide	p. 817
Morning in America: The Age of Reagan 1980-1993	p. 818
The Ayatollah and the Actor	p. 818
The Reagan Revolution	p. 821
Foreign Policy in the Eighties	p. 824
The Bush Presidency	p. 827
Further Reading	p. 832
Key Terms	p. 832
Online Sources Guide	p. 833
The Millennium Years: Decadence? Renewal? 1993-2006	p. 834
Cultural Dissonance	p. 835
Clinton and the World	p. 838
Clintonian America	p. 841
Catastrophe, Renewal, War	p. 847
Further Reading	p. 852
Key Terms	p. 853
Online Sources Guide	p. 853
Appendix	p. 1
Key Terms	p. 1
Photo Credits	p. 1
Index	p. 1
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