Pursuit of Liberty Vol. 1 : A History of the American People

by Wilson, R. Jackson; Gilbert, James; Kupperman, Karen Ordahl; Nissenbaum, Stephen; Scott, Donald M.

• ISBN13: 9780673469229
• ISBN10: 0673469220
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-08
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This text takes a unique approacheach chapter is split into two distinct parts. In the first part of each chapter, the authors tell the story of a very specific and concrete episode: witchcraft hysteria in Salem Village in 1692, for example. The second part of the chapter is a discussion of the historical setting of the chapters episode, placing it in its historical context. This incident-narrative approach allows the student to examine a subject in depth and then understand how it relates to the larger fabric of American history.

Table of Contents

DETAILED CONTENTS	v	(5)
MAPS, TABLES, AND FIGURES	x	(2)
PREFACE	xii	(4)
SUPPLEMENTS	xvi	(3)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xix	(2)
ABOUT THE AUTHORS	xxi
14 RECONSTRUCTION	1	(44)
Episode: Edisto Island--Land and Freedom	3	(16)
Reunion and Reconstruction	19	(26)
15 THE POLITICS OF RESTORATION	45	(36)
Episode: The Election of 1876	47	(16)
Government in an Age of Industrial Capitalism	63	(18)
16 THE CLIMAX OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION	81	(42)
Episode: The Haymarket--Strike and Violence in Chicago	83	(14)
Factories, Workers, and a New Social Order	97	(26)
17 A NEW WEST	123	(40)
Episode: Massacre at Wounded Knee	125	(17)
Last Frontiers	142	(21)
18 THE GOSPEL OF WEALTH	163	(36)
Episode: The Lizzie Borden Murders	165	(18)
Money, Class, and Women	183	(16)
19 THE POLITICS OF REFORM	199	(40)
Episode: The Most Dangerous Woman in America	201	(16)
In Search of the Public Interest	217	(22)
20 IMPERIAL AMERICA	239	(50)
Episode: The Conquests of the Philippines	241	(21)
Progressive Foreign Policy, from Empire to World War	262	(27)
21 MASS CULTURE AND THE JAZZ AGE	289	(34)
Episode: Lindbergh's Flight	291	(13)
Society and Culture in the 1920s	304	(19)
22 CAPITALISM IN TRANSITION	323	(48)
Episode: Defeat of the Bonus Marchers	325	(14)
Crash, Depression, and a New Deal	339	(32)
23 A GLOBAL NATION	371	(50)
Episode: Hiroshima	373	(19)
World War and Cold War	392	(29)
24 THE AMERICAN CENTURY	421	(46)
Episode: Martin Luther King, Jr.--The Pursuit of Liberty	423	(18)
An Era of Promise	441	(26)
25 LIBERALISM IN DECLINE	467	(44)
Episode: Chicago, 1968	469	(20)
The Limits of Politics	489	(22)
26 QUESTIONS OF CREDIBILITY	511	(46)
Episode: Three Mile Island--An Accident Waiting to Happen	513	(18)
The Credibility Crisis	531	(26)
27 AN ERA OF IDEOLOGIES	557	(58)
Episode: The Case of "Baby M"--Private Lives and Public Morals	559	(27)
The Eighties and Beyond	586	(29)
28 AMERICAN DIVERSITY	615
Episode: Witnessing	617	(17)
The Politics of Diversity	634
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE	A-1	(3)
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA	A-4	(9)
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION	A-13
CREDITS	C-1
INDEX	I-1