The Essential America (Vol. 2) (Narrative History)

by Tindall, George Brown; Shi, David E.; Pearcy, Thomas Lee

• ISBN13: 9780393976243
• ISBN10: 0393976246
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-25
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The oversized page and double-column layout make the text accessible and highlight the book's impressive art program. The text's outstanding pedagogy keeps the central themes of the narrative in sight throughout.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	xi
Preface	xiii
Reconstruction: North and South	287	(20)
On-Line Tutor: The Radical Reconstruction Plan (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch17/topic.htm)	288	(19)
The War's Aftermath	289	(2)
The Battle Over Reconstruction	291	(4)
Reconstructing the South	295	(3)
The Reconstructed South	298	(4)
The Grant Years	302	(5)
PART 5 Growing Pains
New Frontiers: South and West	307	(17)
On-Line Tutor: Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch18/topic.htm)	308	(16)
The New South	309	(6)
The New West	315	(9)
Big Business and Organized Labor	324	(16)
On-Line Tutor: Andrew Carnegie's ``Gospel of Wealth'' (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch19/topic.htm)	325	(15)
The Rise of Big Business	326	(3)
Entrepreneurs	329	(4)
Labor Conditions and Organization	333	(6)
A Nation Transformed	339	(1)
The Emergence of Urban America	340	(21)
On-Line Tutor: Baseball's Early Years (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch20/topic.htm)	341	(20)
America's Move to Town	342	(2)
The New Immigration	344	(3)
Popular Culture	347	(5)
Education and the Professions	352	(1)
Realism in Thought, Culture, and Literature	353	(4)
The Social Gospel	357	(1)
Early Efforts at Urban Reform	358	(3)
Gilded-Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt	361	(18)
On-Line Tutor: The Populist Movement (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch21/topic.htm)	362	(17)
Paradoxical Politics	363	(2)
Corruption and Reform	365	(6)
The Farm Problem and Agrarian Protest Movements	371	(4)
The Economy and the Silver Solution	375	(3)
A New Era	378	(1)
PART 6 Modern America
An American Empire	379	(15)
On-Line Tutor: The Spanish-American War (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch22/topic.htm)	380	(14)
Toward the New Imperialism	381	(1)
Expansion in the Pacific	382	(1)
The Spanish-American War	383	(6)
Imperial Rivalries in East Asia	389	(1)
Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy	389	(5)
The Progressive Era	394	(16)
On-Line Tutor: Theodore Roosevelt (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch23/topic.htm)	395	(15)
Elements of Reform	396	(1)
The Main Features of Progressivism	397	(2)
Roosevelt's Progressivism	399	(2)
Roosevelt's Second Term	401	(1)
From Roosevelt to Taft	402	(2)
Wilson's Progressivism	404	(5)
The Limits of Progressivism	409	(1)
America and the Great War	410	(19)
On-Line Tutor: Mobilizing Public Opinion During World War I (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch24/topic.htm)	411	(18)
Wilson and Foreign Affairs	412	(2)
An Uneasy Neutrality	414	(4)
America's Entry into the War	418	(3)
``The Decisive Power''	421	(3)
The Fight for Peace at Home and Abroad	424	(2)
Lurching from War to Peace	426	(3)
The Modern Temper	429	(11)
On-Line Tutor: The Jazz Age (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch25/topic.htm)	430	(10)
Reaction in the Twenties	431	(3)
The Roaring Twenties	434	(3)
The Culture of Modernism	437	(3)
Republican Resurgence and Decline	440	(15)
On-Line Tutor: The Stock Market Crash (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch26/topic.htm)	441	(14)
``Normalcy''	442	(4)
The New Era	446	(3)
President Hoover, the Engineer	449	(6)
New Deal America	455	(19)
On-Line Tutor: The TVA and the New Deal (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch27/topic.htm)	456	(18)
From Hooverism to the New Deal	457	(3)
Recovery Through Regulation	460	(3)
The Human Cost of Depression	463	(2)
Culture in the Thirties	465	(1)
The Second New Deal	466	(4)
Roosevelt's Second Term	470	(2)
The Legacy of the New Deal	472	(2)
From Isolation to Global War	474	(13)
On-Line Tutor: Pearl Harbor (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch28/topic.htm)	475	(12)
Postwar Isolationism	476	(2)
War Clouds	478	(4)
The Storm in Europe	482	(2)
The Storm in the Pacific	484	(3)
The Second World War	487	(22)
On-Line Tutor: The Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch29/topic.htm)	488	(21)
America's Early Battles	489	(1)
Mobilization at Home	489	(2)
Social Effects of the War	491	(3)
The Allied Drive Toward Berlin	494	(5)
Leapfrogging to Tokyo	499	(2)
A New Age is Born	501	(7)
The Final Ledger	508	(1)
PART 7 The American Age
The Fair Deal and Containment	509	(19)
On-Line Tutor: The House Un-American Activities Committee (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch30/topic.htm)	510	(18)
Demobilization Under Truman	511	(2)
The Cold War	513	(4)
Harry Gives 'Em Hell	517	(3)
The Gold War Heats Up	520	(8)
Through the Picture Window: Society and Culture, 1945--1960	528	(12)
On-Line Tutor: Conformity in the 1950s (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch31/topic.htm)	529	(11)
People of Plenty	530	(3)
A Conforming Culture	533	(2)
Cracks in the Picture Window	535	(4)
A Paradoxical Era	539	(1)
Conflict and Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years	540	(15)
On-Line Tutor: Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch32/topic.htm)	541	(14)
``Time for A Change''	542	(1)
Eisenhower's ``Hidden-Hand'' Presidency	543	(2)
Foreign Intervention	545	(3)
Reelection and Foreign Crises	548	(2)
Festering Problems Abroad	550	(1)
The Early Civil Rights Movement	551	(2)
Assessing the Eisenhower Years	553	(2)
New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s	555	(18)
On-Line Tutor: The Cuban Missile Crisis (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch33/topic.htm)	556	(17)
The New Frontier	557	(2)
Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement	559	(2)
Foreign Frontiers	561	(2)
Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society	563	(3)
From Civil Rights to Black Power	566	(2)
The Tragedy of Vietnam	568	(3)
Sixties Crescendo	571	(2)
Rebellion and Reaction in the 1960s and 1970s	573	(19)
On-Line Tutor: Student Protest and Lethal Response in the Vietnam War Era (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch34/topic.htm)	574	(18)
The Roots of Rebellion	575	(5)
Nixon and Vietnam	580	(3)
Nixon and Middle America	583	(2)
Nixon Triumphant	585	(1)
Watergate	586	(2)
An Unelected President	588	(1)
The Carter Interregnum	589	(3)
Conservative Insurgency	592	(17)
On-Line Tutor: The Collapse of Communism (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch35/topic.htm)	593	(16)
The Reagan Revolution	594	(1)
Reagan's First Term	595	(4)
Reagan's Second Term	599	(4)
The Bush Years	603	(6)
Cultural Politics	609	(1)
On-Line Tutor: The Internet (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch36/topic.htm)	610	(1)
America's Changing Face	611	(3)
Cultural Conservatism	614	(1)
Bush to Clinton	615	(2)
Domestic Issues	617	(2)
Republican Insurgency	619	(2)
Economic and Social Trends	621	(2)
Foreign Policy Challenges	623	(3)
Fin-De-Siecle America	626
Further Reading	1	(14)
Appendix	15	(36)
The Declaration of Independence	15	(3)
Articles of Confederation	18	(5)
The Constitution of the United States	23	(12)
Presidential Elections	35	(4)
Admission of States	39	(1)
Population of the United States	40	(1)
Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820--1998	41	(1)
Immigration by Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820--1998	42	(4)
Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of State	46	(5)
Credits	51	(2)
Index	53