Edward T. O’Donnell is an Associate Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. He is the author of many scholarly articles for journals such as The Journal of Urban History, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and The Public Historian, as well as several books, including Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (Random House, 2003) and the forthcoming Talisman of a Lost Hope: Henry George and Gilded Age America (Columbia University Press). Since 2002, he has worked with more than ten Teaching American History grant programs.
Saul Cornell is a professor of History at Ohio State University and one of the nation’s leading legal and constitutional historians. His studies A Well Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control and The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 were both nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has published articles in the Journal of American History, the William and Mary Quarterly, American Studies, and the Law and History Review, among other journals.
Wonder and Woe: The Rise of Industrial America, 1865-1900 | |
Sources of the Industrial Revolution | |
The Railroads | |
Modern Business Practices | |
Rising Concern over Corporate Power | |
Andrew Carnegie: Making Steel and Transforming the Corporation | |
Rockefeller and the Rise of the Trust | |
Creating a Mass Market | |
The Art of Selling | |
Images As History Advertising and the Art of Cultivating Anxiety and Desire | |
Shopping as Experience: The Department Store | |
Bringing the Market to the Frontier | |
Selling to the World | |
The World of Work Transformed | |
The Impact of New Technology | |
Hard Times for Industrial Workers | |
Exploitation, Intimidation, and Conflict | |
Competing Visions The Legitimacy of Unions | |
New Roles and Opportunities for Women | |
Conflicting Visions of Industrial Capitalism | |
Capitalism Championed | |
Capitalism Criticized | |
Power in Numbers: Organized Labor | |
Choices And Consequences To Strike or Not to Strike? | |
The Great Upheaval of 1886 | |
Chapter Review | |
Becoming a Modern Society: America in the Gilded Age, 1877-1900 | |
To the Cities: Americans and Immigrants Spur Urban Growth | |
The Emergence of Ethnic Enclaves | |
The Troubled City | |
"Boss Rule": The Political Machine | |
Competing Visions How Best to Help the Poor? | |
A Search for Solutions | |
The Nativist Impulse | |
A Different View: Urban Reforms | |
Capturing a New View of Poverty: Jacob Riis and Housing Reform | |
Images As History Seeing the Poor | |
Living among the Poor: Settlement Houses | |
The White City | |
New Habits, Roles and Lifestyles | |
The New Urban Landscape | |
New Roles and Expectations for Woman | |
New Forms of Leisure and Popular Culture | |
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous | |
The Challenge from Below | |
Out of Touch Politics | |
The People's Party | |
Industrial Conflict and Depression | |
Choices And Consequences The Pullman Strike | |
The Election of 1896 and Political Realignment | |
Conclusion | |
Chapter Review | |
The Progressive Era | |
The Origins of Progressive Reform | |
Rising Concerns and Common Ideals | |
Muckrakers | |
Experts and Professionals | |
The Social Gospel | |
Urban and State Reforms | |
Attacking the Machine | |
Regulating Transit and Utility Monopolies | |
Direct Democracy | |
Choices And Consequences Representative or Direct Democracy? | |
Labor Legislation | |
The Darker Side of Progressivism | |
Moral Reform and Social Control | |
The Eugenics Movement | |
Images As History Promoting Racial Hygiene (Eugenics) | |
Failure of the Anti-Lynching Crusade | |
Progressivism in National Politics | |
Roosevelt the Reformer | |
Regulating Big Business | |
The Conservation Movement | |
Competing Visions The Battle of Hetch Hetchy | |
The Radical Challenge | |
Wilson's "New Freedom" | |
Women's Suffrage | |
Imperial America: The United States in the World, 1890-1914 | |
Becoming a World Power | |
The Impulse for Expansion | |
European Imperialism | |
The Spanish-American War | |
The Growing Conflict with Spain | |
Images As History Atrocity Stories | |
The Decision to Intervene in Cuba | |
Fighting the War Against Spain | |
Creating an American Empire | |
The Debate Over Colonies | |
Competing Visions The White Man's Burden | |
The Philippine-American War | |
America and East Asia | |
The Open Door in China | |
Relations with Japan | |
Angel Island | |
Choices And Consequences The Legal Construction of "Whiteness" | |
In America's Backyard | |
The Panama Canal | |
The Roosevelt Corollary | |
Conclusion | |
Chapter Review | |
The Great War: World War I, 1914-1918 | |
The War in Europe | |
The Perils of Neutrality | |
America Enters the War | |
Conflicting Views among the Allies on the War's Purpose | |
The War at Home | |
Gearing Up for War | |
Black Migration | |
Female Suffrage | |
Rallying the Public | |
Images As History Propaganda Posters | |
German Spies, Civil Liberties, and Immigrants | |
Fighting the War | |
Raising an Army | |
Choices And Consequences Alvin York, Deciding to Serve | |
"You're in the Army Now" | |
On the Western Front | |
Flu Epidemic | |
The Final Campaigns | |
Peace | |
The Paris Peace Conference | |
The Treaty Fight at Home | |
Competing Visions Joining the League of Nations | |
Conclusion | |
Chapter Review | |
A Turbulent Decade: The Twenties | |
Cars and Planes: The Promise of the Twenties | |
The Car Culture | |
On the Road | |
Welfare Capitalism and Consumer Culture | |
The Age of Flight: Charles A. Lindbergh | |
Cultural Turbulence | |
The Lost Generation | |
Prohibition | |
The First Red Scare and Immigration Restrictions | |
Fundamentalism | |
Racial Violence and Civil Rights | |
Lynching, Racial Rioting, and the Ku Klux Klan | |
Marcus Garvey | |
Competing Visions Debating Garveyism | |
The Harlem Renaissance | |
The New Woman | |
Life for Women in the Twenties | |
Images As History Advertising the New Woman | |
Margaret Sanger and the Fight for Birth Control | |
Ensuring Peace: Diplomacy in the Twenties | |
Disarmament | |
Choices And Consequences Preventing War in Europe | |
Wartime Debts | |
Conclusion | |
Chapter Review | |
A New Deal for America: The Great Depression, 1929-1940 | |
Herbert Hoover | |
Economic Weaknesses in a Time of Prosperity | |
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 | |
Hoover's Response to the Depression | |
Choices And Consequences Evicting the Bonus Marchers | |
A New President and a New Deal | |
FDR: The Politician | |
Managing Appearances | |
The Temper of the Poor: Passivity and Anger | |
Recovering from the Depression | |
Revamping Banking and Financial Institution | |
Father Charles Coughlin | |
Helping Industry and People | |
Putting People to Work | |
A New Deal for Farmers | |
Handling the Farm Crisis | |
Hitting the Road | |
Repatriating Mexican Immigrants | |
Images As History Migrant Mother, an American Icon | |
Reforms to Ensure Social Justice | |
The Challenge from Huey Long: "Share Our Wealth" | |
Social Security | |
Supporting Unions | |
Competing Visions Sharing the Wealth | |
The Resurgence of Labor | |
A New Deal for African Americans | |
The Supreme Court Weighs In | |
Conclusion | |
Chapter Review | |
World War II: Fighting the Good War, 1939-1945 | |
The Approaching War | |
Fascism and Appeasement | |
The Arsenal of Democracy | |
War with Japan | |
On the Home Front | |
Images of the Enemy | |
Internment Camps | |
Competing Visions Civil Liberties and National Security Clash | |
Prosperity, Scarcity, and Opportunities for Women | |
Racial Discord | |
On the Front Lines | |
Defeat, Then Victory | |
Images As History Combat Photography | |
The Final Push in Europe | |
America's Response to the Holocaust | |
The Holocaust | |
Ending the Pacific War | |
Edging Closer to Japan | |
Dropping the Atomic Bomb | |
Choices And Consequences How to Use the Atomic Bomb | |
The Final Surrender | |
Conclusion | |
Chapter Review | |
A Divided World: The Early Cold War, 1945-1963 | |
Origins of the Cold War | |
Differing Goals in the Postwar World | |
The American Vision Takes Shape: Kennan's Long Telegram | |
The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan | |
The Berlin Airlift and NATO | |
Fighting Communism: Cold and Hot War | |
Communism Rising: 1949 | |
The Korean War | |
Nuclear Fallout and Fear | |
Images As History Surviving an Atomic Bomb Blast | |
Fallout Shelters | |
Spies in Our Midst | |
The Second Red Scare | |
HUAC against Hollywood | |
Competing Visions Naming Names in Hollywood | |
McCarthyism | |
Averting Nuclear War | |
Sputnik | |
The Berlin Wall | |
Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis | |
Choices And Consequences The Cuban Missile Crisis | |
Conclusion | |
Chapter Review | |
In a Land of Plenty: Contentment and Discord, 1945-1960 | |
Securing the New Deal Legacy | |
The Labor Movement Curtailed | |
Presidential Agendas: Truman and Eisenhower | |
A Middle Class America | |
Postwar Prosperity | |
The Move to the Suburbs | |
Competing Visions Suburbs: American Dream or Nightmare? | |
Popular Culture in the Fifties | |
The Television Age Arrives | |
Teen Culture and Rock and Roll | |
The Beats | |
Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement | |
"Separate But Equal": Challenging Segregated Schools | |
Emmett Till | |
Images As History Inspiring a New Generation to Act | |
Choices And Consequences Rosa Parks Makes History | |
The Little Rock Nine, 1957 | |
The Sit-ins | |
Conclusion | |
Chapter Review | |
A Nation Divided: The Vietnam War, 1945-1975 | |
The Long Road to War | |
The Escalating Importance of Vietnam | |
Taking Over from the French | |
Debates within the Kennedy Administration | |
The Kennedy Assassination | |
The Gulf of Tonkin | |
Choices And Consequences Making Vietnam America's War | |
Fighting in Vietnam | |
The Bombing Campaign | |
On the Ground | |
The Tet Offensive | |
Images As History The Role of the Press in Vietnam | |
Controversy of the Home Front | |
The Antiwar Movement | |
My Lai | |
Competing Visions Who Was Responsible for the My Lai Massacre? | |
The Long Road to Peace | |
Seeking Peace with Honor | |
Vietnam: The War by the Numbers | |
Cambodia: Invasion and Outrage | |
Withdrawal | |
Conclusion | |
Chapter Review | |
A Decade of Discord: The Challenge of the Sixties | |
The Liberal Moment | |
Kennedy and the New Frontier | |
A Liberal Court | |
Choices And Consequences Is School Prayer Constitutional? | |
The 1964 Election | |
Images As History Birmingham, 1963 | |
March on Washington, 1963 | |
Freedom Summer, 1964 | |
Selma and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 | |
The Liberal Revolution | |
Kennedy and the New Frontier | |
A Liberal Court | |
The 1964 Election | |
The Great Society | |
Nonviolence Triumphant: The Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1965 | |
Kennedy and the Freedom Riders | |
Images As History Birmingham, 1963 | |
March on Washington | |
Freedom Summer | |
Selma and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 | |
The Fractured Left | |
The New Left and the Counterculture | |
Malcolm X: An Alternative to Nonviolence | |
Watts and Chicago | |
Black Power and the Black Panthers | |
Competing Visions Defining Black Power | |
Women's Liberation Movement | |
The End of an Era | |
The Faltering Civil Rights Movement | |
The Great Society Unravels | |
The Demise of the Counterculture | |
Keeping Protest Alive: Mexican Americans and Native Americans | |
Conclusion | |
Chapter Review | |
A Nation Adrift: America in the 1970s and 1980s | |
The Age of Limits | |
Frustration at Home and Overseas | |
The Watergate Scandal | |
Images As History Watergate through Political Cartoons | |
Ford and Carter: A Crisis of Presidential Leadership | |
A Weakened Presidency and an Ailing Economy | |
Defining American Foreign Policy After Vietnam | |
The Leadership Crisis Continues: Carter in the White House | |
New Paths in Foreign Affairs | |
Choices And Consequences Ending the Iranian Hostage Crisis | |
The Rights Revolution | |
The Equal Rights Amendment and Abortion Controversies | |
Competing Visions Defining the Ideal Woman | |
Gay Rights | |
Environmentalism | |
The Rise of the Right | |
The New Conservative Coalition | |
The Reagan Presidency | |
Conclusion | |
Chapter Review | |
Modern Times: Living a Post-Cold War World | |
Changing Contours of American Society | |
Choices And Consequences Coming to America | |
Persian Gulf War | |
The Culture Wars | |
Competing Visions Liberalism on America's College Campuses | |
Terrorism | |
Images As History 9/11 | |
Globalization | |
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