Created Equal : A Social and Political History of the United States, Volume II: From 1865 (Chapters 15-30)

by Jones, Jacqueline; Wood, Peter H.; May, Elaine Tyler; Borstelmann, Thomas; Ruiz, Vicki L.

• ISBN13: 9780321053008
• ISBN10: 0321053001
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

With its sweeping, inclusive view of American history, Created Equal emphasizes social historyincluding the lives and labors of women, immigrants, working people, and persons of color in all regions of the countrywhile delivering the basics of political and economic history. This new text acknowledges and reflects the diversity of class, culture, region, and gender that has always been the American story, and pays unique attention to the large middle class that has been central to the development of American society.

Table of Contents

Each chapter contains “For Further Reading,” and “Features.”

15. In The Wake of War: Consolidating A Triumphant Union, 1865-1877.
The Struggle over the South.
Claiming Territory for the Union.
The Republican Vision and Its Limits.
Connecting History: Two Presidents Impeached.
Interpreting History: A Southern Labor Contract.

VI. INCORPORATION OF THE NATION.

16. Standardizing the Nation: Innovations in Technology, Business, and Culture, 1877-1890.
The New Shape of Business.
Cities Set the Standard: The Creation of a National Urban Culture.
Thrills, Chills, and Bathtubs: The Emergence of Consumer Culture.
Connecting History: Advertising.
Interpreting History: Andrew Carnegie's “Gospel of Wealth.”

17. Challenges to Government and Corporate Power: Resistance and Reform, 1877-1890.
Resistance to Legal and Military Authority.
Revolt in the Workplace.
Crosscurrents of Reform.
Connecting History: Rural Protests and Rebellions.
Interpreting History: Platform Statement of Presidential Candidate Belva Lockwood, 1884.

18. Political and Cultural Conflict in a Decade of Depression and War: The 1890s.
Frontiers at Home, Lost and Found.
The Search for Alliances.
American Imperialism.
Connecting History: Systems of Education.
Interpreting History: Proceedings of the Congressional Committee on the Philippines.

VII. CONSTRUCTING MODERN AMERICA.

19. The Promise and Perils of Progressive Reform, 1900-1912.
Migration and Immigration: The Changing Face of the Nation.
Work, Science, and Leisure.
Reformers and Radicals.
Expanding National Power.
Expanding National Power Abroad.
William Howard Taft.
Connecting History: Rose Freedman.
Interpreting History: Defining Whiteness.

20. War and Revolution, 1912-1920.
A World in Upheaval.
The Great War and American Neutrality.
The United States Goes to War.
The Struggle to Win the Peace.
Connecting History: The League of Nations and International Security.
Interpreting History: African American Women in the Great War.

21. The Promise of Consumer Culture: The 1920s.
The Decline of Reform.
Hollywood and Harlem: National Cultures in Black and White.
The Trials of Science.
The Business of Politics.
Consumer Dreams and Nightmares.
Connecting History: The Persistence of the Ku Klux Klan.
Interpreting History: Mario Puzo, The Fortunate Pilgrim.

VIII. FROM POVERTY TO WORLD POWER.

22. Hardship and Hope in the 1930s: The Great Depression.
The Great Depression.
Presidential Responses to the Depression.
Herbert Hoover: The Idealist.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Pragmatist.
“Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself.”
The New Deal.
A New Political Culture.
Connecting History: Presidents and the Media.
Interpreting History: Songs of the Great Depression.

23. Global Conflict: World War II, 1937-1945.
Mobilizing for War.
Pearl Harbor: The United States Enters the War.
The Home Front.
“Rosie the Riveter” and “Victory Girls.”
Race and War.
Total War.
Connecting History: The Atomic Bomb: Political and Cultural Fallout.
Interpreting History: Scientists Advise Truman on the Atomic Bomb.

24. Cold War and Hot War, 1945-1953.
The Uncertainties of Victory.
The Quest for Security.
A Cold War Society.
The United States and Asia.
Connecting History: The Origins of the Cold War.
Interpreting History: NSC-68.

IX. AFFLUENCE AND DISSENT.

25. American Dreams and Nightmares, 1953-1963.
Cold War—Warm Hearth.
The Civil Rights Movement.
The Eisenhower Years.
Outsiders and Opposition.
The Kennedy Era.
Connecting History: Anticommunism.
Interpreting History: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring.

26. The Nation Divides: The Vietnam War and Social Conflict, 1964-1971.
Lyndon Johnson and the Apex of Liberalism.
Into War in Vietnam.
The Movement.
The Conservative Response.
Backlashes.
Connecting History: Wars and Social Reform in the 20th Century.
Interpreting History: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Vietnam War.

27. Reexamining National Priorities, 1972-1979.
Twin Shocks: Détente and Watergate.
Discovering the Limits of the U.S. Economy.
Reshuffling Politics.
Diffusing the Women's Movement.
Connecting History: Energy Use in the United States.
Interpreting History: The Church Committee and Covert CIA Operations.

X. THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL NATION.

28. The Cold War Returns—And Ends, 1979-1991.
Anticommunism Revived.
Republican Rule at Home.
Cultural Conflict.
The End of the Cold War.
Connecting History: Is Material Success Corrupting?
Interpreting History: Religion and Politics in the 1980s.

29. Post-Cold War America, 1991-2000.
The Economy—Global and Domestic.
Tolerance and Its Limits.
Harmful Tendencies.
The Clinton Presidency.
The Nation and the World.
The Contested Election of 2000.
Connecting History: Voting.
Interpreting History: Vermont Civil Union Law.

30. A Global Nation for the New Millennium.
The American Place in a Global Economy.
The Stewardship of Natural Resources.
The Expansion of American Culture Abroad.
Identity in Contemporary America.
Connecting History: The Internet and the World Wide Web.
Interpreting History: The Slow Food Movement.

Appendix.
The Declaration of Independence.
The Articles of Confederation.
The Constitution of the United States of America.
Amendments to the Constitution.
Presidential Elections.
Vice Presidents and Cabinet Members by Administration.
Supreme Court Justices.

Credits.

Index.