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Chapter Opening Illustrations | |
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Maps | |
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Charts, Graphs & Tables | |
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Preface | |
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About the Authors | |
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Community & Diversity | |
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A Continent of Villages, to 1500 | |
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American Communities: Cahokia: Thirteenth-Century Life on the Mississippi | |
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Settling the Continent | |
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Out of Many Voices: A Zuni Account of Creation | |
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New Ways of Living on the Land | |
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The Development of Farming | |
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Cultural Regions of North America on the Eve of Colonization | |
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Out of Many Voices: An Account of the Natchez by a Louisiana Colonist | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chronology | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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Whose History is it?: Images of Indians | |
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When Worlds Collide, 1492-1590 | |
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American Communities: The English and the Algonquins at Roanoke | |
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The Expansion of Europe | |
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Out of Many Voices: Columbus Writes of the First Contact Between Europeans and Native Americans | |
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The Spanish in the Americas | |
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Out of Many Voices: An Indian Reaction to the Invasion of the Spanish | |
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Northern Explorations and Encounters | |
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Chronology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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Planting Colonies in North America, 1588-1701 | |
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American Communities: Communities Struggle with Diversity in Seventeenth-Century Santa Fe | |
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Spain and Its Competitors in North America | |
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Out of Many Voices: Samuel de Champlain Describes his Attack on the Iroquois | |
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England in the Chesapeake | |
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The New England Colonies | |
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Out of Many Voices: A Puritan Colonist Writes Home to His Father in England | |
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The Proprietary Colonies | |
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Conflict and War | |
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Chronology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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Slavery and Empire, 1441-1770 | |
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American Communities: African Slaves Build Their Own Community in Coastal Georgia | |
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The Beginnings of African Slavery | |
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The African Slave Trade | |
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Out of Many Voices: Olaudah Equiano Describes the Middle Passage | |
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The Development of North American Slave Societies | |
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Out of Many Voices: An Early Quaker Meeting Condemns Slavery | |
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African to African American | |
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Slavery and Empire | |
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Slavery and Freedom | |
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Chronology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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Whose History is it?: The Living History of Slavery | |
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The Cultures of Colonial North America, 1700-1780 | |
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American Communities: From Deerfield to Kahnawake: Crossing Cultural Boundaries | |
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North American Regions | |
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Out of Many Voices: A Widow Announces She Will Continue Her Husband's Business | |
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Diverging Social and Political Patterns | |
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The Cultural Transformation of British North America | |
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Out of Many Voices: A Puritan Minister Sparks a Revival with His Talk of Fire and Brimstone | |
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Chronology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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From Empire to Independence, 1750-1776 | |
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American Communities: The First Continental Congress Shapes a National Political Community | |
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The Seven Years' War in America | |
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The Imperial Crisis in British North America | |
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"Save Your Money and Save Your Country" | |
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Out of Many Voices The Daughters of Liberty Urge Americans to Boycott British Goods | |
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From Resistance To Rebellion | |
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Out of Many Voices A Shoemaker Tells of Participating in the Boston Tea Party | |
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Deciding For Independence | |
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Chronology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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The American Revolution, 1776-1786 | |
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American Communities: A National Community Evolves at Valley Forge | |
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The War for Independence | |
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Out of Many Voices A Camp Woman's Recollection of Yorktown | |
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The United States in Congress Assembled | |
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Revolutionary Politics in the States | |
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Out of Many Voices A Former Slave Appeals to Remain Free | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chronology | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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The New Nation, 1786-1800 | |
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American Communities: A Rural Massachusetts Community Rises in Defense | |
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The Crisis of the 1780s | |
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The New Constitution | |
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Out of Many Voices Western Massachusetts Farmers Oppose Ratification | |
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The First Administration | |
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Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans | |
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"The Rising Glory of America" | |
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Out of Many Voices A Young Woman Ponders Her Choices | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chronology | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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An Agrarian Republic, 1790-1824 | |
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American Communities: Expansion Touches Mandan Villages on the Upper Missouri | |
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North American Communities from Coast to Coast | |
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A National Economy | |
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The Jefferson Presidency | |
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Out of Many Voices Margaret Bayard Smith Views Jefferson's Inauguration | |
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Renewed Imperial Rivalry in North America | |
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Out of Many Voices Red Jacket Defends Native Religion | |
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The War of 1812 | |
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Defining the Boundaries | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chronology | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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Whose History Is It? In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark | |
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The South and Slavery, 1790s-1850s | |
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American Communities: Natchez-Under-the-Hill | |
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King Cotton and Southern Expansion | |
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To Be a Slave | |
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Out of Many Voices Solomon Northup Describes a New Orleans Slave Pen | |
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The African American Community | |
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The White Majority | |
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Planters | |
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The Defense of Slavery | |
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Out of Many Voices Senator James Henry Hammond Defends Slavery | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chronology | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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The Growth of Democracy, 1824-1840 | |
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American Communities: Martin Van Buren Forges a New Kind of Political Community | |
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The New Democratic Politics in North America | |
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The Jackson Presidency | |
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Out of Many Voices Margaret Bayard Smith Views Another Inauguration | |
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Changing the Course of Government | |
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Out of Many Voices "Our Hearts Are Sickened": Letter from Cherokee Chief John Ross to the Senate and House of Representatives, September 28, 1836 | |
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The Second American Party System | |
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American Arts and Letters | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chronology | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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Industry and the North, 1790s-1840s | |
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American Communities: Women Factory Workers Form a Community in Lowell, Massachusetts | |
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Preindustrial Ways of Working | |
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The Transportation Revolution | |
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The Market Revolution | |
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From Artisan to Worker | |
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A New Social Order | |
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Out of Many Voices A "Mill Girl" Protests | |
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Out of Many Voices Charles G. Finney Revives Rochester | |
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Chronology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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Coming to Terms With the New AGE, 1820s-1850s | |
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American Communities: Women Reformers of Seneca Falls Respond to the Market Revolution | |
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Immigration and Ethnicity | |
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Out of Many Voices Anna Gavin: An Irishwoman's Memories | |
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Urban America | |
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The Labor Movement and Urban Politics | |
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Social Reform Movements | |
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Antislavery and Abolitionism | |
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Out of Many Voices John P. Parker, Conductor on the Underground Railroad | |
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The Women's Rights Movement | |
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Chronology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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The Territorial Expansion of the United States, 1830s-1850s | |
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American Communities: Texans and Tejanos "Remember the Alamo!" | |
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Exploring the West | |
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The Politics of Expansion | |
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Out of Many Voices Narcissa Whitman Has an Unexpected Encounter With Civilization | |
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The Mexican-American War | |
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California and the Gold Rush | |
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The Politics of Manifest Destiny | |
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Out of Many Voices An Abolitionist Expresses His Dislike of Politics | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chronology | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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Whose History Is It? Remembering the Alamo | |
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The Coming Crisis, the 1850s | |
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American Communities: Illinois Communities Debate Slavery | |
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America in 1850 | |
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The Compromise of 1850 | |
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Out of Many Voices An Escaped Slave Questions Her Freedom in the North | |
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The Crisis of the National Party System | |
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Out of Many Voices An Abolitionist Couple Attempts to Live Their Principles in Bleeding Kansas | |
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The Differences Deepen | |
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The South Secedes | |
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Chronology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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The Civil War, 1861-1865 | |
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American Communities: Mother Bickerdyke Connects Northern Communities to Their Boys at War | |
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Communities Mobilize for War | |
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Governments Organize for War | |
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The Fighting Through 1862 | |
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The Death of Slavery | |
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Out of Many Voices Soldier James Henry Gooding Protests Unequal Pay for Black Soldiers, 1863 | |
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The Front Lines and The Home Front | |
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The Tide Turns | |
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Out of Many Voices A Georgia Plantation Mistress Laments Her Losses | |
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Chronology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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Reconstruction, 1863-1877 | |
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American Communities: Hale County, Alabama: From Slavery to Freedom in a Black Belt Community | |
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The Politics of Reconstruction | |
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The Meaning of Freedom | |
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Out of Many Voices Sharecropping Contract Between Reuben Gouldin and D. Kunkle, Augusta County Virginia, January 1, 1867 | |
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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 | |
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Southern Politics and Society | |
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Reconstructing the North | |
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Chronology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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Whose History Is It? Flying the Stars and Bars: The Contested Meaning of the Confederate Flag | |
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Conquest and Survival: The Trans-Mississipi West, 1860-1900 | |
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American Communities: The Oklahoma Land Rush | |
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Indian Peoples Under Siege | |
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The Internal Empire | |
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Out of Many Voices Reminiscences of a Chinese Immigrant | |
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The Open Range | |
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Farming Communities on the Plains | |
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Out of Many Voices Memories of Cavalry Life | |
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The World's Breadbasket | |
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The Western Landscape | |
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The Transformation of Indian Societies | |
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Chronology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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The Incorporation of America, 1865-1900 | |
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American Communities: Packingtown, Chicago, Illinois | |
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The Rise of Industry, the Triumph of Business | |
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Labor in the Age of Big Business | |
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Out of Many Voices Working in a Glove Factory | |
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The New South | |
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The Industrial City | |
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Out of Many Voices An Italian Immigrant's First Impressions | |
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The Rise of Consumer Society | |
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Cultures in Conflict, Culture in Common | |
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Chronology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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Commonwealth and Empire, 1870-1900 | |
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American Communities: The Cooperative Commonwealth | |
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Toward a National Governing Class | |
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Farmers and Workers Organize Their Communities | |
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The Crisis of the 1890s | |
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Out of Many Voices A Populist Woman on Women's Rights | |
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The Age of Segregation | |
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"Imperialism of Righteousness" | |
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The Spanish-American War | |
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Out of Many Voices Soldiers' Letters from the Philippine-U.S. War | |
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Chronology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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Urban America and the Progressive Era, 1900-1917 | |
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American Communities: The Henry Street Settlement House: Women Settlement House Workers Create a Community of Reform | |
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The Currents of Progressivism | |
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Social Control and Its Limits | |
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Working-Class Communities and Protest | |
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Out of Many Voices Rose Schneiderman, "We Have Found You Wanting," April 2, 1911 | |
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Women's Movements and Black Awakening | |
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Out of Many Voices "How Can One Control the Size of a Family?": Letter to Margaret Sanger | |
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National Progressivism | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chronology | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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World War I, 1914-1920 | |
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American Communities: Vigilante Justice in Bisbee, Arizona | |
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Becoming a World Power | |
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The Great War | |
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American Mobilization | |
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Out of Many Voices "Trench Warfare," Letter from Private Sam Ross, 42nd Division, American Expeditonary Force, 1917 | |
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Over Here | |
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Repression and Reaction | |
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Out of Many Voices Letters From the Great Migration, 1917 | |
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An Uneasy Peace | |
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Chronology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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The Twenties, 1920-1929 | |
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American Communities: The Movie Audience and Hollywood: Mass Culture Creates a New National Community | |
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Postwar Prosperity and Its Price | |
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The New Mass Culture | |
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Out of Many Voices "Kissing Rudy Valentino": A High School Student at the Movies in the 1920s | |
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Out of Many Voices To Bob or Not to Bob: Changing Fashion and the "New Woman" of the 1920s | |
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Resistance to Modernity | |
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The State, the Economy, and Business | |
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Promises Postponed | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chronology | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1940 | |
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American Communities: Sit-Down Strike at Flint: Automobile Workers Organize a New Union | |
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Hard Times | |
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FDR and the First New Deal | |
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Left Turn and the Second New Deal | |
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Out of Many Voices "I Was Able to Make My Voice Really Ring Out" | |
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The New Deal in the South and West | |
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Out of Many Voices "What REA Service Means to Our Farm Home" | |
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Depression-Era Culture | |
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The Limits of Reform | |
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Chronology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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World War II, 1941-1945 | |
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American Communities: Los Alamos, New Mexico | |
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The Coming Of World War II | |
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Arsenal of Democracy | |
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Out of Many Voices Working in Defense Plants | |
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The Home Front | |
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Out of Many Voices Memories of Japanese Internment During World War II | |
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Men and Women in Uniform | |
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The World at War | |
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The Last Stages of War | |
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Chronology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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Whose History is it? Exhibiting the Enola Gay | |
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The Cold War, 1945-1952 | |
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American Communities: University of Washington, Seattle: Students and Faculty Face the Cold War | |
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Global Insecurities at War's End | |
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The Policy of Containment | |
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Cold War Liberalism | |
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The Cold War At Home | |
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Cold War Culture | |
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Out of Many Voices Building Bomb Shelters | |
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Stalemate for the Democrats | |
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Out of Many Voices Fighting the Chinese in Korea | |
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Chronology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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America at Midcentury, 1952-1963 | |
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American Communities: Popular Music in Memphis | |
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American Society at Midcentury | |
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Out of Many Voices "The Problem That Has No Name," Two Suburban Housewives in the 1950s | |
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Youth Culture | |
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Out of Many Voices Alan Freed Defends "The Big Beat," 1955 | |
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Mass Culture and its Discontents | |
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The Cold War Continued | |
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John F. Kennedy and the New Frontier | |
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Chronology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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Whose History is it? Any Old Way You Choose It: Rock and Roll as History, Mith, and Commerce | |
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The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1966 | |
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American Communities: The Montgomery Bus Boycott: An African American Community Challenges Segregation | |
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Origins of the Movement | |
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No Easy Road to Freedom, 1957-62 | |
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Out of Many Voices Fanny Lou Hamer Tries to Register to Vote, Indianola, Mississippi, 1962 | |
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The Movement at High Tide, 1963-65 | |
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Civil Rights Beyond Black and White | |
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Out of Many Voices The American GI Forum Desegregates a Texas School, 1954 | |
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Chronology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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War Abroad, War at Home, 1965-1974 | |
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American Communities: Uptown, Chicago, Illinois | |
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Vietnam: America's Longest War | |
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A Generation in Conflict | |
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Out of Many Voices A Soldier's Letter from Vietnam | |
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Wars on Poverty | |
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1968 | |
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The Politics of Identity | |
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The Nixon Presidency | |
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Out of Many Voices Tragedy on the Campus at Kent State University | |
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Watergate | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chronology | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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Whose History is it? The Vietnam Veterans Memorial | |
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The Conservative Ascendancy, 1974-1991 | |
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American Communities: Grass Roots Conservatism in Orange County, California | |
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The Overextended Society | |
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Out of Many Voices Confessions of a "Panic" Buyer | |
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The New Conservatism | |
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Out of Many Voices Opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment | |
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Adjusting to a New World | |
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Reagan Revolution | |
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Best of Times, Worst of Times | |
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Reagan's Foreign Policy | |
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Chronology | |
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Conclusion | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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Toward a Transnational America, since 1988 | |
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American Communities: The World Trade Center, New York, as a Transnational Community | |
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"A Kinder, Gentler Nation" | |
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The Clinton Presidency | |
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Changing American Communities | |
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A New Age of Anxiety | |
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Out of Many Voices A Cambodian Woman In Chicago | |
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The New Millennium | |
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War on Terror | |
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Out of Many Voices Waiting to Be "Called Up" | |
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Chronology | |
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Review Questions | |
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Recommended Reading | |
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Appendix | |
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Bibliography | |
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U.S. History Document CD-ROM | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |