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Maps, Figures, and Tables | |
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A Note to My Fellow Teachers | |
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A Personal Welcome to Students | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Supplements | |
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About the Authors | |
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The Agony Of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 | |
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Robert Smalls and Black Politicians During Reconstruction | |
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The President versus Congress | |
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Reconstructing Southern Society | |
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Retreat from Reconstruction | |
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Reunion and the New South | |
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Conclusion: Henry McNeal Turner and the "Unfinished Revolution." | |
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The West: Exploiting An Empire, 1849-1902 | |
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Lean Bear's Changing West | |
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Beyond the Frontier | |
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Crushing the Native Americans | |
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Settlement of the West | |
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The Bonanza West | |
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Conclusion: The Meaning of the West | |
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The Industrial Society, 1850-1901 | |
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A Machine Culture | |
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Industrial Development | |
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An Empire on Rails | |
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An Industrial Empire | |
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The Sellers | |
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The Wage Earners | |
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Culture of Work | |
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Conclusion: Industrialization's Benefits and Costs | |
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Toward An Urban Society, 1877-1900 | |
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The Overcrowded City | |
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The Lure of the City | |
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Social and Cultural Change, 1877-1900 | |
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The Spread of Jim Crow | |
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The Stirrings of Reform | |
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Conclusion: The Pluralistic Society | |
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Political Realignments, 1876-1901 | |
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Hardship and Heartache | |
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Politics of Stalemate | |
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Republicans in Power: The Billion-Dollar Congress | |
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The Rise of the Populist Movement | |
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The Crisis of the Depression | |
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Changing Attitudes | |
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The Presidential Election of 1896 | |
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The McKinley Administration | |
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Conclusion: A Decade's Dramatic Changes | |
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Toward Empire, 1865-1902 | |
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Roosevelt and the Rough Riders | |
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America Looks Outward | |
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War with Spain | |
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Acquisition of Empire | |
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Conclusion: Outcome of the War with Spain | |
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The Progressive Era, 1895-1917 | |
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Muckrakers Call for Reform | |
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The Changing Face of Industrialism | |
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Society's Masses | |
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Conflict in the Workplace | |
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A New Urban Culture | |
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Conclusion: A Ferment of Discovery and Reform | |
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From Roosevelt To Wilson In The Age Of Progressivism, 1900-1920 | |
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The Republicans Split | |
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The Spirit of Progressivism | |
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Reform in the Cities and States | |
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The Republican Roosevelt | |
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Roosevelt Progressivism at Its Height | |
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The Ordeal of William Howard Taft | |
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Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom | |
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Conclusion: The Fruits of Progressivism | |
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The Nation At War, 1901-1920 | |
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The Sinking of the Lusitania | |
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A New World Power | |
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Foreign Policy Under Wilson | |
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Toward War | |
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Over There | |
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Over Here | |
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The Treaty of Versailles | |
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Conclusion: Post-War Disillusionment | |
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Transition To Modern America, 1919-1928 | |
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Wheels for the Millions | |
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The Second Industrial Revolution | |
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City Life in the Roaring Twenties | |
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The Conservative Counterattack | |
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Republican Politics | |
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Conclusion: The Old and the New | |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt And The New Deal, 1929-1939 | |
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The Struggle Against Despair | |
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The Great Depression | |
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Fighting the Depression | |
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Reforming American Life | |
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The Impact of the New Deal | |
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The New Deal's End | |
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Conclusion: The New Deal and American Life | |
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America And The World, 1921-1945 | |
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A Pact Without Power | |
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Isolationism | |
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The Road to War | |
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Turning the Tide Against the Axis | |
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The Home Front | |
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Victory | |
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Conclusion: The Transforming Power of War | |
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The Onset Of The Cold War, 1945-1960 | |
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The Potsdam Summit | |
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The Cold War Begins | |
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Containment | |
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The Cold War Expands | |
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The Cold War at Home | |
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Conclusion: The Continuing Cold War | |
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Affluence And Anxiety, 1945-1960 | |
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Levittown: The Flight to the Suburbs | |
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The Postwar Boom | |
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The Good Life? | |
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The Struggle over Civil Rights | |
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Conclusion: Restoring National Confidence | |
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The Turbulent Sixties, 1960-1968 | |
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Kennedy v. Nixon: The First Televised Presidential Candidate Debate | |
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Kennedy Intensifies the Cold War | |
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The New Frontier at Home | |
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LBJ's Great Society | |
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Johnson Escalates the Vietnam War | |
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Years of Turmoil | |
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The Return of Richard Nixon | |
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Conclusion: The End of an Era | |
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To A New Conservatism, 1969-1988 | |
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Reagan and America's Shift to the Right | |
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The Tempting of Richard Nixon | |
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Oil and Inflation | |
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Private Lives, Public Issues | |
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Politics and Diplomacy after Watergate | |
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The Reagan Revolution | |
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Reagan and the World | |
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Conclusion: Challenging the New Deal | |
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Into The Twenty-First Century, 1989-2010 | |
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"This Will Not Stand": Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era | |
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The First President Bush | |
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The Changing Faces of America | |
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The New Democrats | |
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Republicans Resurgent | |
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Barack Obama's Triumph and Trials | |
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Conclusion: The End of the American Future–or Not? | |
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Appendix | |
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Glossary | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |