Out of Many: A History of the American People, Combined Edition (Chapters 1-31)

by Faragher, John Mack; Czitrom, Daniel; Buhle, Mari Jo; Armitage, Susan H.

• ISBN13: 9780131944626
• ISBN10: 0131944622
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Hardcover w/CD
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

This edition of a ground-breaking book weaves together the complex interaction of social, political, and historical forces that have shaped the United States and from which "the American people" have evolved. It tells stories of people and of the nation and emphasizes that American history has never been the preserve of any particular region.Traditional turning points and watershed events are integrated with the stories of the nation's many diverse communities. The book's trademark "continental" approach incorporates great hemispheric perspective, while a strong theme of community and memory analyzes the roleand the conflictsof historical memory in shaping communities'understanding of the past.For American history buffs.

Table of Contents

Chapter Opening Illustrations	xxxii
Maps	xxxiv
Charts, Graphs & Tables	xxxvi
Preface	xxxix
About the Authors	xliii
Community & Diversity	xliv
A Continent of Villages, to 1500	2	(28)
American Communities: Cahokia: Thirteenth-Century Life on the Mississippi	4	(1)
Settling the Continent	5	(3)
Who Are the Indian People?	5	(2)
Migration from Asia	7	(1)
Out of Many Voices A Zuni Account of Creation	8	(1)
Clovis: The First American Technology	9	(1)
New Ways of Living on the Land	9	(3)
Hunting Traditions	9	(2)
Desert Culture	11	(1)
Forest Efficiency	11	(1)
The Development of Farming	12	(7)
Mexico	12	(1)
Increasing Social Complexity	13	(1)
The Resisted Revolution	14	(1)
Farmers of the Southwest	14	(1)
The Anasazis	15	(1)
Farmers of the Eastern Woodlands	16	(1)
Mississippian Society	16	(2)
The Politics of Warfare and Violence	18	(1)
Cultural Regions of North America on the Eve of Colonization	19	(4)
The Population of Indian America	19	(1)
The Southwest	20	(1)
The South	21	(2)
Out of Many Voices An Account of the Natchez by a Louisiana Colonist	23	(5)
The Northeast	23	(1)
Conclusion	24	(1)
Chronology	25	(1)
Review Questions	26	(1)
Recommended Reading	26	(2)
Whose History Is It? Images of Indians	28	(2)
When Worlds Collide, 1492--1590	30	(24)
American Communities: The English and the Algonquins at Roanoke	32	(2)
The Expansion of Europe	34	(5)
European Communities	34	(1)
The Merchant Class and the New Monarchies	35	(1)
The Renaissance	35	(1)
Portuguese Explorations	36	(1)
Columbus Reaches the Americas	37	(2)
Out of Many Voices Columbus Writes of the First Contact Between Europeans and Native Americans	39	(1)
The Spanish in the Americas	39	(3)
The Invasion of America	40	(1)
The Destruction of the Indies	41	(1)
Out of Many Voices An Indian Reaction to the Invasion of the Spanish	42	(4)
Intercontinental Exchange	43	(1)
The First Europeans in North America	44	(2)
The Spanish New World Empire	46	(1)
Northern Explorations and Encounters	46	(8)
Fish and Furs	47	(1)
The Protestant Reformation and the First French Colonies	47	(2)
Sixteenth-Century England	49	(1)
Early English Efforts in the Americas	50	(1)
Chronology	51	(1)
Conclusion	52	(1)
Review Questions	53	(1)
Recommended Reading	53	(1)
Planting Colonies in North America, 1588--1701	54	(26)
American Communities: Communities Struggle with Diversity in Seventeenth-Century Santa Fe	56	(1)
Spain and Its Competitors in North America	57	(3)
New Mexico	58	(1)
New France	58	(2)
Out of Many Voices Samuel de Champlain Describes his Attack on the Iroquois	60	(2)
New Netherland	60	(2)
England in the Chesapeake	62	(4)
Jamestown and the Powhatan Confederacy	62	(1)
Tobacco, Expansion, and Warfare	62	(2)
Maryland	64	(1)
Indentured Servants	64	(1)
Community Life in the Chesapeake	65	(1)
The New England Colonies	66	(2)
The Social and Political Values of Puritanism	66	(1)
Early Contacts in New England	66	(1)
Plymouth Colony and the Mayflower Compact	67	(1)
The Massachusetts Bay Colony	67	(1)
Out of Many Voices A Puritan Colonist Writes Home to His Father in England	68	(4)
Indians and Puritans	69	(1)
The New England Merchants	70	(1)
Community and Family in Massachusetts	70	(1)
Dissent and New Communities	71	(1)
The Proprietary Colonies	72	(2)
Early Carolina	72	(1)
From New Netherland to New York	72	(1)
The Founding of Pennsylvania	73	(1)
Conflict and War	74	(6)
King Philip's War	74	(1)
Bacon's Rebellion	75	(1)
Wars in the South	76	(1)
The Glorious Revolution in America	76	(2)
King William's War	78
Chronology	77	(1)
Conclusion	78	(1)
Review Questions	78	(1)
Recommended Reading	79	(1)
Slavery and Empire, 1441--1770	80	(34)
American Communities: African Slaves Build Their Own Community in Coastal Georgia	82	(1)
The Beginnings of African Slavery	83	(2)
Sugar and Slavery	84	(1)
West Africans	84	(1)
The African Slave Trade	85	(5)
The Demography of the Slave Trade	85	(1)
Slavers of All Nations	86	(1)
The Shock of Enslavement	87	(1)
The Middle Passage	88	(1)
Arrival in the New World	89	(1)
Political and Economic Effects on Africa	89	(1)
Out of Many Voices Olaudah Equiano Describes the Middle Passage	90	(1)
The Development of North American Slave Societies	91	(5)
Slavery Comes to North America	92	(1)
The Tobacco Colonies	93	(1)
The Lower South	93	(2)
Slavery in the Spanish Colonies	95	(1)
French Louisiana	95	(1)
Slavery in the North	95	(1)
Out of Many Voices An Early Quaker Meeting Condemns Slavery	96	(1)
African to African American	97	(6)
The Daily Life of Slaves	97	(1)
Families and Communities	98	(1)
African American Culture	99	(1)
The Africanization of the South	100	(1)
Violence and Resistance	101	(2)
Slavery and Empire	103	(4)
Slavery the Mainspring	103	(1)
The Politics of Mercantilism	104	(1)
Wars for Empire	105	(1)
British Colonial Regulation	106	(1)
The Colonial Economy	107	(1)
Slavery and Freedom	107	(5)
The Social Structure of the Slave Colonies	108	(1)
White Skin Privilege	109	(1)
Chronology	109	(1)
Conclusion	110	(1)
Review Questions	111	(1)
Recommended Reading	111	(1)
Whose History Is It? The Living History of Slavery	112	(2)
The Cultures of Colonial North America, 1700--1780	114	(30)
American Communities: From Deerfield to Kahnawake: Crossing Cultural Boundaries	116	(1)
North American Regions	117	(13)
Indian America	118	(1)
The Spanish Borderlands	119	(3)
The French Crescent	122	(2)
New England	124	(1)
The Middle Colonies	125	(1)
The Backcountry	126	(1)
The South	126	(2)
Traditional Culture in the New World	128	(2)
The Frontier Heritage	130	(1)
Out of Many Voices A Widow Announces She Will Continue Her Husband's Business	130	(1)
Diverging Social and Political Patterns	131	(5)
Population Growth and Immigration	131	(2)
Social Class	133	(1)
Economic Growth and Increasing Inequality	134	(1)
Contrasts in Colonial Politics	135	(1)
The Cultural Transformation of British North America	136	(4)
The Enlightenment Challenge	136	(2)
A Decline in Religious Devotion	138	(1)
The Great Awakening	138	(2)
Out of Many Voices A Puritan Minister Sparks a Revival with His Talk of Fire and Brimstone	140	(4)
The Politics of Revivalism	141	(1)
Chronology	142	(1)
Conclusion	142	(1)
Review Questions	143	(1)
Recommended Reading	143	(1)
From Empire to Independence, 1750--1776	144	(32)
American Communities: The First Continental Congress Shapes a National Political Community	146	(2)
The Seven Years' War in America	148	(6)
The Albany Conference of 1754	148	(1)
Colonial Aims and Indian Interests	148	(1)
Frontier Warfare	149	(1)
The Conquest of Canada	150	(1)
The Struggle for the West	151	(3)
The Imperial Crisis in British North America	154	(4)
The Emergence of American Nationalism	154	(1)
The Press, Politics, and Republicanism	154	(1)
The Sugar and Stamp Acts	155	(1)
The Stamp Act Crisis	156	(1)
Repeal of the Stamp Act	157	(1)
``Save Your Money and Save Your Country''	158	(2)
The Townshend Revenue Acts	158	(1)
Nonimportation: An Early Political Boycott	159	(1)
The Massachusetts Circular Letter	159	(1)
Out of Many Voices The Daughters of Liberty Urge Americans to Boycott British Goods	160	(2)
The Politics of Revolt and the Boston Massacre	161	(1)
From Resistance To Rebellion	162	(1)
Intercolonial Cooperation	162	(1)
The Boston Tea Party	163	(1)
Out of Many Voices A Shoemaker Tells of Participating in the Boston Tea Party	163	(4)
The Intolerable Acts	164	(1)
The First Continental Congress	164	(1)
Lexington and Concord	165	(2)
Deciding For Independence	167	(9)
The Second Continental Congress	167	(2)
Canada, the Spanish Borderlands, and the Revolution	169	(1)
Fighting in the North and South	169	(2)
No Turning Back	171	(1)
The Declaration of Independence	172	(2)
Chronology	174	(1)
Conclusion	174	(1)
Review Questions	174	(1)
Recommended Reading	174	(2)
The American Revolution, 1776--1786	176	(30)
American Communities: A National Community Evolves at Valley Forge	178	(1)
The War for Independence	179	(3)
The Patriot Forces	179	(3)
The Loyalists	182	(1)
Out of Many Voices A Camp Woman's Recollection of Yorktown	182	(10)
The Campaign for New York and New Jersey	184	(1)
The Northern Campaigns of 1777	185	(1)
The French Alliance and the Spanish Borderlands	185	(2)
Indian Peoples and the Revolution in the West	187	(2)
The War in the South	189	(2)
Yorktown	191	(1)
The United States in Congress Assembled	192	(6)
The Articles of Confederation	193	(1)
Financing the War	193	(1)
Negotiating Independence	194	(2)
The Crisis of Demobilization	196	(1)
The Problem of the West	196	(2)
Revolutionary Politics in the States	198	(5)
The Broadened Base of Politics	199	(1)
The First State Constitutions	199	(1)
Declarations of Rights	200	(1)
A Spirit of Reform	200	(2)
African Americans and the Revolution	202	(1)
Out of Many Voices a Former Slave Appeals to Remain Free	203	(3)
Conclusion	203	(1)
Chronology	204	(1)
Review Questions	204	(1)
Recommended Reading	205	(1)
The New Nation, 1786--1800	206	(28)
American Communities: A Rural Massachusetts Community Rises in Defense	208	(1)
The Crisis of the 1780s	209	(2)
Economic Crisis	209	(1)
State Remedies	210	(1)
Movement Toward a New National Government	211	(1)
The New Constitution	211	(3)
The Constitutional Convention	212	(1)
Ratifying the New Constitution	213	(1)
Out of Many Voices Western Massachusetts Farmers Oppose Ratification	214	(2)
The Bill of Rights	216	(1)
The First Administration	216	(8)
The Washington Presidency	216	(1)
An Active Federal Judiciary	216	(1)
Hamilton's Controversial Fiscal Program	217	(1)
The Beginnings of Foreign Policy	218	(1)
The United States and the Indian Peoples	219	(1)
Spanish Florida and British Canada	220	(2)
Domestic and International Crises	222	(1)
Jay's and Pinckney's Treaties	223	(1)
Washington's Farewell Address	223	(1)
Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans	224	(3)
The Rise of Political Parties	224	(1)
The Adams Presidency	224	(1)
The Alien and Sedition Acts	225	(1)
The Revolution of 1800	226	(1)
Democratic Political Culture	227	(1)
``The Rising Glory of America''	227	(4)
American Artists	228	(1)
The Liberty of the Press	228	(1)
The Birth of American Literature	229	(1)
Women on the Intellectual Scene	230	(1)
Out of Many Voices A Young Woman Ponders Her Choices	231	(3)
Conclusion	231	(1)
Chronology	232	(1)
Review Questions	232	(1)
Recommended Reading	233	(1)
An Agrarian Republic, 1790--1824	234	(34)
American Communities: Expansion Touches Mandan Villages on the Upper Missouri	236	(2)
North American Communities from Coast to Coast	238	(4)
The Former American Colonies	238	(1)
Spanish Colonies	239	(1)
Haiti and the Caribbean	239	(1)
British North America	239	(1)
Russian America	240	(1)
Trans-Appalachia: Cincinnati	240	(1)
Atlantic Ports: From Charleston to Boston	241	(1)
A National Economy	242	(2)
Cotton and the Economy of the Young Republic	242	(1)
Shipping and the Economic Boom	242	(2)
The Jefferson Presidency	244	(1)
Republican Agrarianism	244	(1)
Out of Many Voices Margaret Bayard Smith Views Jefferson's Inauguration	245	(5)
Jefferson's Government	245	(1)
An Independent Judiciary	246	(1)
Opportunity: The Louisiana Purchase	247	(1)
Incorporating Louisiana	248	(1)
Texas and the Struggle for Mexican Independence	248	(2)
Renewed Imperial Rivalry in North America	250	(2)
Problems with Neutral Rights	250	(1)
The Embargo Act	250	(1)
Madison and the Failure of ``Peaceable Coercion''	250	(1)
A Contradictory Indian Policy	251	(1)
Indian Resistance	251	(1)
Out of Many Voices Red Jacket Defends Native Religion	252	(2)
The War of 1812	254	(3)
The War Hawks	255	(1)
The Campaigns Against Northern and Southern Indians	256	(1)
The Hartford Convention	257	(1)
The Treaty of Ghent	257	(1)
Defining the Boundaries	257	(9)
Another Westward Surge	257	(3)
The Election of 1816 and the Era of Good Feelings	260	(1)
The American System	260	(1)
The Diplomacy of John Quincy Adams	261	(1)
The Panic of 1819	261	(1)
The Missouri Compromise	262	(2)
Conclusion	264	(1)
Chronology	264	(1)
Review Questions	265	(1)
Recommended Reading	265	(1)
Whose History Is It? In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark	266	(2)
The South and Slavery, 1790s--1850s	268	(30)
American Communities: Natchez-Under-the-Hill	270	(2)
King Cotton and Southern Expansion	272	(3)
Cotton and Expansion into the Old Southwest	272	(1)
Slavery the Mainspring---Again	273	(1)
A Slave Society in a Changing World	274	(1)
To Be a Slave	275	(3)
Cotton and the American Slave System	275	(1)
The Internal Slave Trade	275	(1)
Sold ``Down the River''	276	(2)
Out of Many Voices Solomon Northup Describes a New Orleans Slave Pen	278	(3)
Field Work and the Gang System of Labor	278	(1)
House Servants	279	(1)
Artisans and Skilled Workers	280	(1)
The African American Community	281	(5)
The Price of Survival	281	(1)
From Cradle to Grave	281	(2)
Slave Families	283	(1)
African American Religion	283	(1)
Freedom and Resistance	284	(1)
Slave Revolts	285	(1)
Free African Americans	286	(1)
The White Majority	286	(3)
The Middle Class	287	(1)
Poor White People	287	(1)
Yeoman Values	287	(2)
Planters	289	(3)
Small Slave Owners	289	(1)
The Planter Elite	289	(1)
Plantation Life	290	(1)
The Plantation Mistress	291	(1)
Coercion and Violence	291	(1)
The Defense of Slavery	292	(2)
Developing Proslavery Arguments	292	(1)
After Nat Turner	292	(2)
Out of Many Voices Senator James Henry Hammond Defends Slavery	294	(4)
Changes in the South	294	(1)
Conclusion	295	(1)
Chronology	296	(1)
Review Questions	296	(1)
Recommended Reading	297	(1)
The Growth of Democracy, 1824--1840	298	(28)
American Communities: Martin Van Buren Forges a New Kind of Political Community	300	(1)
The New Democratic Politics in North America	301	(8)
Continental Struggles over Popular Rights	301	(1)
The Expansion and Limits of Suffrage	302	(3)
The Election of 1824	305	(1)
The New Popular Democratic Culture	306	(2)
The Election of 1828	308	(1)
The Jackson Presidency	309	(1)
A Popular Figure	309	(1)
A Strong Executive	309	(1)
Out of Many Voices Margaret Bayard Smith Views Another Inauguration	310	(3)
The Nation's Leader versus Sectional Spokesmen	311	(1)
The Nullification Crisis	312	(1)
Changing the Course of Government	313	(1)
Indian Removal	313	(1)
Out of Many Voices ``Our Hearts Are Sickened'': Letter From Cherokee Chief John Ross to the Senate and House of Representatives, September 28, 1836	314	(5)
Internal Improvements	315	(1)
Legal Support for Private Enterprise	316	(1)
The Bank War	316	(1)
Jackson's Reelection in 1832	317	(1)
Whigs, Van Buren, and the Election of 1836	318	(1)
The Panic of 1837	318	(1)
The Second American Party System	319	(2)
Whigs and Democrats	319	(1)
The Campaign of 1840	320	(1)
The Whig Victory Turns to Loss: The Tyler Presidency	321	(1)
American Arts and Letters	321	(5)
Popular Cultures and the Spread of the Written Word	322	(1)
Creating a National American Culture	322	(1)
Artists and Builders	323	(1)
Conclusion	324	(1)
Chronology	324	(1)
Review Questions	325	(1)
Recommended Reading	325	(1)
Industry and the North, 1790s--1840s	326	(30)
American Communities: Women Factory Workers Form a Community in Lowell, Massachusetts	328	(1)
Preindustrial Ways of Working	329	(2)
Rural and Urban Home Production	329	(1)
Patriarchy in Family, Work, and Society	330	(1)
The Social Order	331	(1)
The Transportation Revolution	331	(4)
Roads	331	(1)
Canals and Steamboats	332	(2)
Railroads	334	(1)
The Effects of the Transportation Revolution	334	(1)
The Market Revolution	335	(8)
The Accumulation of Capital	335	(1)
The Putting-Out System	336	(1)
The Spread of Commercial Markets	337	(1)
Commercial Agriculture in the Old Northwest	338	(1)
British Technology and American Industrialization	338	(1)
The Lowell Mills	339	(1)
Family Mills	340	(2)
``The American System of Manufactures''	342	(1)
From Artisan to Worker	343	(3)
Personal Relationships	343	(1)
Mechanization and Women's Work	343	(1)
Time, Work, and Leisure	344	(1)
The Cash Economy	345	(1)
Free Labor	345	(1)
Early Strikes	346	(1)
A New Social Order	346	(1)
Wealth and Class	346	(1)
Out of Many Voices A ``Mill Girl'' Protests	347	(1)
Religion and Personal Life	347	(1)
The New Middle-Class Family	348	(1)
Out of Many Voices Charles G. Finney Revives Rochester	348	(8)
Family Limitation	349	(1)
Middle-Class Children	350	(1)
Sentimentalism	351	(1)
Transcendentalism and Self-Reliance	352	(1)
Chronology	353	(1)
Conclusion	353	(1)
Review Questions	354	(1)
Recommended Reading	354	(2)
Coming to Terms with the New Age, 1820s--1850s	356	(32)
American Communities: Women Reformers of Seneca Falls Respond to the Market Revolution	358	(2)
Immigration and Ethnicity	360	(2)
Patterns of Immigration	360	(1)
Irish Immigration	360	(1)
German Immigration	361	(1)
Out of Many Voices Anna Gavin: An Irishwoman's Memories	362	(3)
Ethnic Neighborhoods	363	(1)
Ethnicity and Whiteness in Urban Popular Culture	364	(1)
Urban America	365	(5)
The Growth of Cities	365	(1)
Class Structure and Living Patterns in the Cities	366	(3)
Civic Order	369	(1)
Urban Life of Free African Americans	369	(1)
The Labor Movement and Urban Politics	370	(3)
The Tradition of Artisanal Politics	370	(1)
The Union Movement	371	(1)
Big-City Machines	372	(1)
Social Reform Movements	373	(6)
Evangelism, Reform, and Social Control	373	(2)
Education and Women Teachers	375	(1)
Temperance	375	(2)
Moral Reform, Asylums, and Prisons	377	(1)
Utopianism and Mormonism	378	(1)
Antislavery and Abolitionism	379	(4)
The American Colonization Society	379	(1)
African Americans' Fight Against Slavery	380	(1)
Abolitionists	381	(1)
Abolitionism and Politics	381	(2)
Out of Many Voices John P. Parker, Conductor on the Underground Railroad	383	(1)
The Women's Rights Movement	383	(5)
The Grimke' Sisters	383	(1)
Women's Rights	384	(1)
Chronology	385	(1)
Conclusion	385	(1)
Review Questions	386	(1)
Recommended Reading	386	(2)
The Territorial Expansion of the United States, 1830s--1850s	388	(32)
American Communities: Texans and Tejanos ``Remember the Alamo!''	390	(2)
Exploring the West	392	(4)
The Fur Trade	392	(1)
Government-Sponsored Exploration	393	(1)
Expansion and Indian Policy	393	(3)
The Politics of Expansion	396	(3)
Manifest Destiny, an Expansionist Ideology	396	(1)
The Overland Trails	396	(2)
Oregon	398	(1)
Out of Many Voices Narcissa Whitman Has an Unexpected Encounter with Civilization	399	(6)
The Santa Fe Trade	401	(1)
Texas	401	(1)
Americans in Texas	402	(1)
Texas and the Election of 1844	403	(2)
The Mexican--American War	405	(4)
Origins of the War	405	(1)
Mr. Polk's War	406	(3)
The Press and Popular War Enthusiasm	409	(1)
California and the Gold Rush	409	(3)
Russian-Californio Trade	409	(1)
Early American Settlement	410	(1)
Gold!	410	(1)
Mining Camps	411	(1)
The Politics of Manifest Destiny	412	(3)
The Wilmot Proviso	412	(1)
The Free-Soil Movement	413	(1)
The Election of 1848	414	(1)
Out of Many Voices An Abolitionist Expresses His Dislike of Politics	415	(3)
Conclusion	415	(1)
Chronology	416	(1)
Review Questions	417	(1)
Recommended Reading	417	(1)
Whose History Is It? Remembering the Alamo	418	(2)
The Coming Crisis, the 1850s	420	(30)
American Communities: Illinois Communities Debate Slavery	422	(2)
America in 1850	424	(1)
Expansion and Growth	424	(1)
Politics, Culture, and National Identity	424	(1)
The Compromise of 1850	425	(7)
Political Parties and Slavery	425	(1)
Congressional Debate	426	(2)
Two Communities, Two Perspectives	428	(1)
Compromises	428	(2)
The Fugitive Slave Act	430	(1)
The Election of 1852	431	(1)
``Young America'': The Politics of Expansion	432	(1)
Out of Many Voices An Escaped Slave Questions Her Freedom in the North	432	(1)
The Crisis of the National Party System	433	(3)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act	434	(1)
``Bleeding Kansas''	434	(2)
Out of Many Voices An Abolitionist Couple Attempts to Live Their Principles in Bleeding Kansas	436	(3)
The Politics of Nativism	436	(2)
The Republican Party and the Election of 1856	438	(1)
The Differences Deepen	439	(4)
The Dred Scott Decision	440	(1)
The Lecompton Constitution	441	(1)
The Panic of 1857	441	(1)
John Brown's Raid	442	(1)
The South Secedes	443	(7)
The Election of 1860	443	(1)
The South Leaves the Union	444	(2)
The North's Political Options	446	(1)
Establishment of the Confederacy	447	(1)
Lincoln's Inauguration	447	(1)
Chronology	448	(1)
Conclusion	448	(1)
Review Questions	449	(1)
Recommended Reading	449	(1)
The Civil War, 1861--1865	450	(30)
American Communities: Mother Bickerdyke Connects Northern Communities to Their Boys at War	452	(2)
Communities Mobilize for War	454	(3)
Fort Sumter: The War Begins	454	(1)
The Call to Arms	454	(1)
The Border States	455	(1)
The Battle of Bull Run	456	(1)
The Relative Strengths of North and South	456	(1)
Governments Organize for War	457	(4)
Lincoln Takes Charge	457	(1)
Expanding the Power of the Federal Government	457	(1)
Diplomatic Objectives	458	(1)
Jefferson Davis Tries to Unify the Confederacy	459	(1)
Confederate Disappointments	460	(1)
Contradictions of Southern Nationalism	461	(1)
The Fighting Through 1862	461	(4)
The War in Northern Virginia	461	(1)
Shiloh and the War for the Mississippi	461	(2)
The War in the Trans--Mississippi West	463	(1)
The Naval War	464	(1)
The Black Response	464	(1)
The Death of Slavery	465	(2)
The Politics of Emancipation	465	(1)
Black Fighting Men	465	(2)
Out of Many Voices Soldier James Henry Gooding Protests Unequal Pay for Black Soldiers, 1863	467	(1)
The Front Lines and The Home Front	468	(4)
The Toll of War	468	(1)
Army Nurses	469	(1)
The Life of the Common Soldier	470	(1)
Wartime Politics	470	(1)
Economic and Social Strains on the North	470	(1)
The New York City Draft Riots	471	(1)
The Failure of Southern Nationalism	472	(1)
The Tide Turns	472	(3)
The Turning Point of 1863	473	(1)
Grant and Sherman	473	(2)
The 1864 Election	475	(1)
Out of Many Voices A Georgia Plantation Mistress Laments Her Losses	475	(5)
Nearing the End	476	(1)
Appomattox	476	(1)
Death of a President	477	(1)
Chronology	478	(1)
Conclusion	478	(1)
Review Questions	479	(1)
Recommended Reading	479	(1)
Reconstruction, 1863--1877	480	(34)
American Communities: Hale County, Alabama: From Slavery to Freedom in a Black Belt Community	482	(2)
The Politics of Reconstruction	484	(7)
The Defeated South	484	(1)
Abraham Lincoln's Plan	485	(1)
Andrew Johnson and Presidential Reconstruction	486	(1)
The Radical Republican Vision	486	(2)
Congressional Reconstruction and the Impeachment Crisis	488	(1)
The Election of 1868	489	(1)
Woman Suffrage and Reconstruction	490	(1)
The Meaning of Freedom	491	(5)
Moving About	492	(1)
The African American Family	493	(1)
African American Churches and Schools	493	(1)
Land and Labor After Slavery	494	(2)
Out of Many Voices Sharecropping Contract Between Reuben Gouldin and D. Kunkle, Augusta County Virginia, January 1, 1867	496	(1)
The Origins of African American Politics	496	(1)
Out of Many Voices An Address to the Loyal Citizens and Congress of the United States, Convention of Colored Citizens, Alexandria, Virginia, August 2--5, 1865	497	(1)
Southern Politics and Society	498	(5)
Southern Republicans	498	(1)
Reconstructing the States: A Mixed Record	499	(1)
White Resistance and ``Redemption''	500	(2)
White Yeomen, White Merchants, and ``King Cotton''	502	(1)
Reconstructing the North	503	(7)
The Age of Capital	503	(2)
Liberal Republicans and the Election of 1872	505	(1)
The Depression of 1873	506	(1)
The Electoral Crisis of 1876	506	(2)
Chronology	508	(1)
Conclusion	508	(1)
Review Questions	509	(1)
Recommended Reading	509	(1)
Whose History Is It? Flying the Stars and Bars: The Contested Meaning of the Confederate Flag	510	(4)
Conquest and Survival: The Trans--Mississippi West, 1860--1900	514	(34)
American Communities: The Oklahoma Land Rush	516	(2)
Indian Peoples Under Siege	518	(4)
On the Eve of Conquest	518	(1)
Reservations and the Slaughter of the Buffalo	519	(1)
The Indian Wars	520	(2)
The Nez Perce	522	(1)
The Internal Empire	522	(4)
Mining Towns	522	(3)
Mormon Settlements	525	(1)
Out of Many Voices Reminiscences of a Chinese Immigrant	526	(3)
Mexican Borderland Communities	527	(2)
The Open Range	529	(2)
The Long Drives	529	(1)
The Sporting Life	529	(1)
Community and Conflict	530	(1)
Farming Communities on the Plains	531	(2)
The Homestead Act	531	(1)
Populating the Plains	531	(2)
Out of Many Voices Memories of Cavalry Life	533	(1)
Work, Dawn to Dusk	533	(1)
The World's Breadbasket	534	(4)
New Production Technologies	535	(1)
Producing for the Global Market	535	(1)
California Agribusiness	536	(1)
The Toll on the Land	537	(1)
The Western Landscape	538	(3)
Nature's Majesty	538	(1)
The Legendary Wild West	539	(1)
The ``American Primitive''	540	(1)
The Transformation of Indian Societies	541	(7)
Reform Policy and Politics	541	(1)
The Ghost Dance	542	(1)
Endurance and Rejuvenation	543	(2)
Chronology	545	(1)
Conclusion	545	(1)
Review Questions	546	(1)
Recommended Reading	547	(1)
The Incorporation of America, 1865--1900	548	(30)
American Communities: Packingtown, Chicago, Illinois	550	(2)
The Rise of Industry, the Triumph of Business	552	(5)
Revolutions in Technology and Transportation	552	(1)
Mechanization Takes Command	553
Expanding the Market for Goods	534	(20)
Integration, Combination, and Merger	554	(1)
The Gospel of Wealth	555	(2)
Labor in the Age of Big Business	557	(2)
The Wage System	557	(1)
The Knights of Labor	558	(1)
Out of Many Voices Working in a Glove Factory	559	(2)
The American Federation of Labor	560	(1)
The New South	561	(2)
An Internal Colony	561	(1)
Southern Labor	561	(1)
The Transformation of Piedmont Communities	562	(1)
The Industrial City	563	(2)
Populating the City	563	(2)
The Urban Landscape	565	(1)
Out of Many Voices An Italian Immigrant's First Impressions	565	(2)
The City and the Environment	567	(1)
The Rise of Consumer Society	567	(4)
``Conspicuous Consumption''	567	(1)
Self-Improvement and the Middle Class	568	(1)
Life in the Streets	569	(2)
Cultures in Conflict, Culture in Common	571	(7)
Education	571	(2)
Leisure and Public Space	573	(1)
National Pastimes	573	(2)
Chronology	575	(1)
Conclusion	575	(1)
Review Questions	576	(1)
Recommended Reading	576	(2)
Commonwealth and Empire, 1870--1900	578	(30)
American Communities: The Cooperative Commonwealth	580	(2)
Toward a National Governing Class	582	(2)
The Growth of Government	582	(1)
The Machinery of Politics	582	(2)
The Spoils System and Civil Service Reform	584	(1)
Farmers and Workers Organize Their Communities	584	(5)
The Grange	584	(1)
The Farmers' Alliance	585	(1)
Workers Search for Power	586	(1)
Women Build Alliances	587	(1)
Populism and the People's Party	588	(1)
The Crisis of the 1890s	589	(1)
The Depression of 1893	589	(1)
Out of Many Voices A Populist Woman on Women's Rights	589	(5)
Strikes: Coeur d'Alene, Homestead, and Pullman	590	(2)
The Social Gospel	592	(1)
The Election of 1896	592	(2)
The Age of Segregation	594	(2)
Nativism and Jim Crow	594	(1)
Mob Violence and Lynching	595	(1)
Tom Watson	596	(1)
``Imperialism of Righteousness''	596	(5)
The White Man's Burden	596	(1)
Foreign Missions	597	(1)
An Overseas Empire	598	(3)
The Spanish--American War	601	(3)
A ``Splendid Little War'' in Cuba	601	(2)
War in the Philippines	603	(1)
Out of Many Voices Soldiers' Letters from the Philippine--U.S. War	604	(4)
Critics of Empire	605	(1)
Chronology	606	(1)
Conclusion	606	(1)
Review Questions	607	(1)
Recommended Reading	607	(1)
Urban America and the Progressive Era, 1900--1917	608	(32)
American Communities: The Henry Street Settlement House: Women Settlement House Workers Create a Community of Reform	610	(2)
The Currents of Progressivism	612	(7)
Unifying Themes	612	(1)
The Female Dominion	612	(2)
The Urban Machine	614	(1)
Political Progressives and Urban Reform	615	(1)
Progressivism in the Statehouse: West and South	615	(2)
New Journalism: Muckraking	617	(1)
Intellectual Trends Promoting Reform	618	(1)
Social Control and Its Limits	619	(2)
The Prohibition Movement	619	(1)
The Social Evil	619	(1)
The Redemption of Leisure	620	(1)
Standardizing Education	621	(1)
Working-Class Communities and Protest	621	(4)
New Immigrants from Two Hemispheres	622	(2)
Urban Ghettos	624	(1)
Out of Many Voices Rose Schneiderman, ``We Have Found You Wanting,'' April 2, 1911	625	(3)
Company Towns	626	(1)
The AFL: ``Unions, Pure and Simple''	626	(1)
The IWW: ``One Big Union''	627	(1)
Rebels in Bohemia	627	(1)
Women's Movements and Black Awakening	628	(2)
The New Woman	629	(1)
Birth Control	629	(1)
Out of Many Voices ``How Can One Control the Size of a Family?'': Letter to Margaret Sanger	630	(2)
Racism and Accommodation	631	(1)
Racial Justice, the NAACP, Black Women's Activism	631	(1)
National Progressivism	632	(8)
Theodore Roosevelt and Presidential Activism	633	(1)
Trustbusting and Regulation	633	(1)
Conservation, Preservation, and the Environment	634	(1)
Republican Split	635	(1)
The Election of 1912: A Four-Way Race	635	(2)
Woodrow Wilson's First Term	637	(1)
Conclusion	637	(1)
Chronology	638	(1)
Review Questions	639	(1)
Recommended Reading	639	(1)
World War I, 1914--1920	640	(32)
American Communities: Vigilante Justice in Bisbee, Arizona	642	(2)
Becoming a World Power	644	(4)
Roosevelt: The Big Stick	644	(1)
Taft: Dollar Diplomacy	645	(2)
Wilson: Moralism and Realism in Mexico	647	(1)
The Great War	648	(4)
The Guns of August	648	(1)
American Neutrality	649	(1)
Preparedness and Peace	649	(2)
Safe for Democracy	651	(1)
American Mobilization	652	(4)
Selling the War	652	(1)
Fading Opposition to War	652	(1)
``You're in the Army Now''	653	(1)
Racism in the Military	654	(1)
Americans in Battle	655	(1)
Out of Many Voices ``Trench Warfare,'' Letter from Private Sam Ross, 42nd Division, American Expeditonary Force, 1917	656	(1)
Over Here	657	(6)
Organizing the Economy	657	(1)
The Business of War	657	(1)
Labor and the War	658	(1)
Women at Work	659	(1)
Woman Suffrage	660	(1)
Prohibition	661	(1)
Public Health	662	(1)
Repression and Reaction	663	(2)
Muzzling Dissent: The Espionage and Sedition Acts	663	(1)
The Great Migration and Racial Tensions	663	(2)
Labor Strife	665	(1)
Out of Many Voices Letters from the Great Migration, 1917	665	(1)
An Uneasy Peace	666	(6)
The Fourteen Points	666	(1)
Wilson in Paris	666	(1)
The Treaty Fight	667	(1)
The Russian Revolution and America's Response	668	(1)
The Red Scare	668	(2)
The Election of 1920	670
Chronology	669	(1)
Conclusion	670	(1)
Review Questions	670	(1)
Recommended Reading	671	(1)
The Twenties, 1920--1929	672	(36)
American Communities: The Movie Audience and Hollywood: Mass Culture Creates a New National Community	674	(2)
Postwar Prosperity and Its Price	676	(6)
The Second Industrial Revolution	676	(1)
The Modern Corporation	676	(1)
Welfare Capitalism	677	(1)
The Auto Age	678	(2)
Cities and Suburbs	680	(1)
Exceptions: Agriculture, Ailing Industries	681	(1)
The New Mass Culture	682	(2)
Movie-Made America	682	(1)
Radio Broadcasting	683	(1)
Out of Many Voices ``Kissing Rudy Valentino'': A High School Student at the Movies in the 1920s	684	(5)
New Forms of Journalism	685	(1)
Advertising Modernity	685	(1)
The Phonograph and the Recording Industry	686	(1)
Sports and Celebrity	687	(1)
A New Morality?	688	(1)
Out of Many Voices To Bob or Not to Bob: Changing Fashion and the ``New Woman'' of the 1920s	689	(1)
Resistance to Modernity	690	(4)
Prohibition	690	(1)
Immigration Restriction	690	(2)
The Ku Klux Klan	692	(1)
Religious Fundamentalism	693	(1)
The State, the Economy, and Business	694	(3)
Harding and Coolidge	695	(1)
Herbert Hoover and the ``Associative State''	696	(1)
War Debts, Reparations, Keeping the Peace	696	(1)
Commerce and Foreign Policy	697	(1)
Promises Postponed	697	(11)
Feminism in Transition	698	(1)
Mexican Immigration	699	(1)
The ``New Negro''	700	(2)
Intellectuals and Alienation	702	(2)
The Election of 1928	704	(1)
Conclusion	705	(1)
Chronology	706	(1)
Review Questions	707	(1)
Recommended Reading	707	(1)
The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929--1940	708	(34)
American Communities: Sit-Down Strike at Flint: Automobile Workers Organize a New Union	710	(2)
Hard Times	712	(5)
The Bull Market	712	(1)
The Crash	712	(1)
Underlying Weaknesses	713	(2)
Mass Unemployment	715	(1)
Hoover's Failure	716	(1)
Protest and the Election of 1932	716	(1)
FDR and the First New Deal	717	(3)
FDR the Man	717	(1)
Restoring Confidence	718	(1)
The Hundred Days	718	(2)
Left Turn and the Second New Deal	720	(3)
Roosevelt's Critics	720	(1)
The Second Hundred Days	721	(2)
Labor's Upsurge: Rise of the CIO	723	(1)
Out of Many Voices ``I Was Able to Make My Voice Really Ring Out''	723	(2)
The New Deal Coalition at High Tide	724	(1)
The New Deal in the South and West	725	(1)
Southern Farming and Landholding	725	(1)
Rural Electrification and Public Works	726	(1)
Out of Many Voices ``What REA Service Means to Our Farm Home''	726	(5)
The Dust Bowl	727	(2)
Water Policy	729	(1)
A New Deal for Indians	730	(1)
Depression-Era Culture	731	(6)
A New Deal for the Arts	731	(2)
The Documentary Impulse	733	(1)
Waiting for Lefty	733	(1)
Film and Radio in the 1930s	734	(2)
The Swing Era	736	(1)
The Limits of Reform	737	(5)
Court Packing	737	(1)
The Women's Network	737	(1)
A New Deal for Minorities?	738	(1)
The Roosevelt Recession	739	(1)
Chronology	740	(1)
Conclusion	740	(1)
Review Questions	741	(1)
Recommended Reading	741	(1)
World War II, 1941--1945	742	(36)
American Communities: Los Alamos, New Mexico	744	(2)
The Coming of World War II	746	(4)
The Shadows of War	746	(1)
Isolationism	746	(1)
Roosevelt Readies for War	747	(2)
Pearl Harbor	749	(1)
Arsenal of Democracy	750	(3)
Mobilizing for War	750	(1)
Organizing the Economy	751	(1)
New Workers	751	(2)
Out of Many Voices Working in Defense Plants	753	(1)
The Home Front	754	(3)
Families in Wartime	754	(1)
The Internment of Japanese Americans	755	(1)
``Double V'': Victory at Home and Abroad	756	(1)
Out of Many Voices Memories of Japanese Internment During World War II	757	(2)
Zoot-Suit Riots	758	(1)
Popular Culture and ``The Good War''	758	(1)
Men and Women in Uniform	759	(4)
Creating the Armed Forces	759	(1)
Women Enter the Military	760	(1)
Old Practices and New Horizons	761	(1)
The Medical Corps	761	(1)
Prisoners of War	762	(1)
The World at War	763	(7)
Soviets Halt Nazi Drive	765	(1)
The Allied Offensive	765	(1)
The Allied Invasion of Europe	766	(1)
The High Cost of European Victory	767	(1)
The War in Asia and the Pacific	768	(2)
The Last Stages of War	770	(6)
The Holocaust	770	(1)
The Yalta Conference	771	(1)
The Atomic Bomb	771	(1)
Chronology	772	(1)
Conclusion	773	(1)
Review Questions	774	(1)
Recommended Reading	774	(2)
Whose History Is It? Exhibiting the Enola Gay	776	(2)
The Cold War, 1945--1952	778	(32)
American Communities: University of Washington, Seattle: Students and Faculty Face the Cold War	780	(1)
Global Insecurities at War's End	781	(3)
Financing the Future	782	(1)
The Division of Europe	782	(2)
The United Nations and Hopes for Collective Security	784	(1)
The Policy of Containment	784	(4)
The Truman Doctrine	785	(1)
The Marshall Plan	786	(1)
The Berlin Crisis and the Formation of NATO	786	(1)
Atomic Diplomacy	787	(1)
Cold War Liberalism	788	(3)
``To Err Is Truman''	788	(1)
The 1948 Election	789	(1)
The Fair Deal	790	(1)
The Cold War At Home	791	(4)
The National Security Act of 1947	791	(1)
The Loyalty-Security Program	792	(1)
The Red Scare in Hollywood	793	(1)
Spy Cases	793	(1)
McCarthyism	794	(1)
Cold War Culture	795	(2)
An Anxious Mood	796	(1)
The Family as Bulwark	797	(1)
Out of Many Voices Building Bomb Shelters	797	(4)
Military-Industrial Communities in the West	799	(1)
Zeal for Democracy	800	(1)
Stalemate for the Democrats	801	(3)
The ``Loss'' of China	801	(1)
The Korean War	802	(2)
The Price of National Security	804	(1)
Out of Many Voices Fighting the Chinese in Korea	804	(6)
``I like Ike'': The Election of 1952	806	(1)
Chronology	807	(1)
Conclusion	808	(1)
Review Questions	808	(1)
Recommended Reading	809	(1)
America at Midcentury, 1952--1963	810	(34)
American Communities: Popular Music in Memphis	812	(2)
American Society at Midcentury	814	(3)
The Eisenhower Presidency	814	(1)
Subsidizing Prosperity	815	(1)
Suburban Life	816	(1)
Out of Many Voices ``The Problem That Has No Name,'' Two Suburban Housewives in the 1950s	817	(4)
Organized Labor and the AFL-CIO	818	(1)
Lonely Crowds and Organization Men	819	(1)
The Expansion of Higher Education	819	(1)
Health and Medicine	820	(1)
Youth Culture	821	(2)
The Youth Market	821	(1)
``Hail! Hail! Rock `n' Roll!''	822	(1)
Out of Many Voices Alan Freed Defends ``The Big Beat,'' 1955	823	(1)
Almost Grown	823	(1)
Deviance and Delinquency	824	(1)
Mass Culture and its Discontents	824	(4)
Television: Tube of Plenty	825	(1)
Television and Politics	826	(1)
Culture Critics	827	(1)
The Cold War Continued	828	(5)
The ``New Look'' in Foreign Affairs	828	(1)
Covert Action	829	(1)
Intervening Around the World	830	(3)
Ike's Warning: The Military-Industrial Complex	833	(1)
John F. Kennedy and the New Frontier	833	(9)
The Election of 1960	833	(1)
New Frontier Liberalism	834	(2)
Kennedy and the Cold War	836	(1)
The Cuban Revolution and the Bay of Pigs	837	(1)
The Missile Crisis	837	(2)
The Assassination of President Kennedy	839
Chronology	838	(1)
Conclusion	839	(1)
Review Questions	840	(1)
Recommended Reading	840	(2)
Whose History Is It? Any Old Way You Choose It: Rock and Roll as History, Mith, and Commerce	842	(2)
The Civil Rights Movement, 1945--1966	844	(36)
American Communities: The Montgomery Bus Boycott: An African American Community Challenges Segregation	846	(2)
Origins of the Movement	848	(5)
Civil Rights After World War II	848	(2)
The Segregated South	850	(1)
Brown v. Board of Education	851	(1)
Crisis in Little Rock	852	(1)
No Easy Road to Freedom, 1957--62	853	(4)
Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC	853	(2)
Sit-Ins: Greensboro, Nashville, Atlanta	855	(1)
SNCC and the ``Beloved Community''	856	(1)
The Election of 1960 and Civil Rights	856	(1)
Out of Many Voices Fanny Lou Hamer Tries to Register to Vote, Indianola, Mississippi, 1962	857	(3)
Freedom Rides	858	(2)
The Albany Movement: The Limits of Protest	860	(1)
The Movement at High Tide, 1963--65	860	(11)
Birmingham	860	(3)
JFK and the March on Washington	863	(2)
LBJ and the Civil Rights Act of 1964	865	(1)
Mississippi Freedom Summer	865	(3)
Malcolm X and Black Consciousness	868	(1)
Selma and the Voting Rights Act of 1965	869	(2)
Civil Rights Beyond Black and White	871	(2)
Mexican Americans and Mexican Immigrants	871	(2)
Out of Many Voices The American GI Forum Desegregates a Texas School, 1954	873	(7)
Puerto Ricans	874	(1)
Japanese Americans	874	(1)
Indian Peoples	875	(1)
Remaking The Golden Door: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965	876	(1)
Chronology	877	(1)
Conclusion	877	(1)
Review Questions	878	(1)
Recommended Reading	878	(2)
War Abroad, War at Home, 1965--1974	880	(40)
American Communities: Uptown, Chicago, Illinois	882	(2)
Vietnam: America's Longest War	884	(2)
Johnson's War	884	(1)
Deeper into the Quagmire	884	(1)
The Credibility Gap	885	(1)
A Generation in Conflict	886	(5)
``The Times They Are A-Changin''	886	(2)
From Campus Protest to Mass Mobilization	888	(1)
Teenage Soldiers	889	(2)
Out of Many Voices A Soldier's Letter from Vietnam	891	(1)
Wars on Poverty	892	(4)
The Great Society	892	(2)
Crisis in the Cities	894	(1)
Urban Uprisings	894	(2)
1968	896	(4)
The Tet Offensive	896	(2)
King, the War, and the Assassination	898	(1)
The Democratic Campaign	899	(1)
``The Whole World Is Watching!''	899	(1)
The Politics of Identity	900	(8)
Black Power	900	(1)
Sisterhood Is Powerful	901	(3)
Gay Liberation	904	(1)
The Chicano Rebellion	904	(2)
Red Power	906	(1)
The Asian American Movement	907	(1)
The Nixon Presidency	908	(4)
The Southern Strategy	908	(1)
Nixon's War	909	(2)
``The China Card''	911	(1)
Out of Many Voices Tragedy on the Campus at Kent State University	912	(1)
Domestic Policy	912	(1)
Watergate	913	(5)
Foreign Policy as Conspiracy	913	(1)
The Age of Dirty Tricks	914	(1)
The Fall of the Executive	914	(1)
Conclusion	914	(1)
Chronology	915	(1)
Review Questions	916	(1)
Recommended Reading	917	(1)
Whose History Is It? The Vietnam Veterans Memorial	918	(2)
The Conservative Ascendancy, 1974--1991	920	(36)
American Communities: Grass Roots Conservatism in Orange County, California	922	(2)
The Overextended Society	924	(2)
A Troubled Economy	924	(2)
Sunbelt/Snowbelt Communities	926	(1)
Out of Many Voices Confessions of a ``Panic'' Buyer	926	(5)
``Lean Years Presidents'': Ford and Carter	927	(2)
The New Urban Politics	929	(1)
The Endangered Environment	930	(1)
The New Conservatism	931	(3)
The New Right	931	(1)
Anti-ERA, Antiabortion	932	(2)
``The Me Decade''	934	(1)
Out of Many Voices Opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment	934	(1)
Adjusting to a New World	935	(4)
A Thaw in the Cold War	935	(1)
Foreign Policy and ``Moral Principles''	936	(1)
(Mis)Handling the Unexpected	937	(1)
The Iran Hostage Crisis	938	(1)
The 1980 Election	938	(1)
Reagan Revolution	939	(4)
The Great Communicator	939	(1)
Reaganomics	940	(1)
The Election of 1984	941	(1)
Recession, Recovery, Fiscal Crisis	942	(1)
Best of Times, Worst of Times	943	(4)
The Celebration of Wealth	943	(1)
A Two-Tiered Society	944	(1)
The Feminization of Poverty	945	(1)
Epidemics: Drugs, AIDS, Homelessness	946	(1)
Reagan's Foreign Policy	947	(9)
The Evil Empire	947	(1)
The Reagan Doctrine and Central America	948	(1)
The Iran-Contra Scandal	949	(2)
The Collapse of Communism	951	(1)
Chronology	952	(1)
Conclusion	953	(1)
Review Questions	954	(1)
Recommended Reading	954	(2)
Toward a Transnational America, since 1988	956
American Communities: The World Trade Center, New York, as a Transnational Community	958	(2)
``A Kinder, Gentler Nation''	960	(3)
Reagan's Successor: George H.W. Bush	960	(1)
The Persian Gulf War	960	(2)
The Economy and The Election of 1992	962	(1)
The Clinton Presidency	963	(3)
A ``New Democrat'' in the White House	963	(2)
Clinton's Internationalism	965	(1)
Presiding over the Boom	966	(1)
Changing American Communities	966	(6)
Silicon Valley	966	(1)
An Electronic Culture	967	(1)
The New Immigrants and Their Communities	968	(4)
A New Age of Anxiety	972	(1)
The Racial Divide	973	(1)
Out of Many Voices A Cambodian Woman In Chicago	973	(5)
The Forces of Fear	974	(1)
The Culture Wars	975	(2)
High Crimes and Misdemeanors	977	(1)
The New Millennium	978	(3)
The Election of 2000	979	(1)
Global Warming	980	(1)
A Global Community?	981	(1)
War on Terror	981	(4)
Terrorist Attack on America	981	(2)
Reshaping U.S. Foreign Policy	983	(1)
Invasion of Iraq	984	(1)
Out of Many Voices Waiting to Be ``Called Up''	985
The Election of 2004	988	(1)
Chronology	989	(1)
Review Questions	990	(1)
Recommended Reading	991
Appendix	1	(1)
Bibliography	1	(1)
U.S. History Document CD-ROM	1	(1)
Credits	1	(1)
Index	1