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Preface | |
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About the Authors | |
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Worlds Apart | |
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Native American Societies before 1492 | |
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West African Societies | |
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Western Europe on the Eve of Exploration | |
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Contact | |
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Competition for a Continent | |
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Transplantaion and Adaptation 1600-1685 | |
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The French in North America | |
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The Dutch Overseas Empire | |
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English Settlement in the Chesapeake | |
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The Founding of New England | |
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Competition in the Caribbean | |
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The Restoration Colonies | |
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A Meeting of Cultures | |
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Indians and Europeans | |
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Africans and Europeans | |
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European Laborers in Early America | |
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English Colonies in an Age of Empire 1660s-1763 | |
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Economic Development and Imperial Trade in the British Colonies | |
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The Transformation of Culture | |
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The Colonial Political World | |
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Expanding Empires | |
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A Century of Warfare | |
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Imperial Breakdown 1763-1774 | |
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The Crisis of Imperial Authority | |
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Republican Ideology and Colonial Protest | |
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The Stamp Act Crisis | |
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The Townshend Crisis | |
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Domestic Divisions | |
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The Final Imperial Crisis | |
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The War for Independence 1774-1783 | |
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From Rebellion to War | |
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The Continental Congress Becomes a National Government | |
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The Combatants | |
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The War in the North, 1776-1777 | |
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The War Widens, 1778-1781 | |
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The War and Society, 1775-1783 | |
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The American Victory, 1782-1783 | |
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The First Republic 1776-1789 | |
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The New Order of Republicanism | |
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Problems at Home | |
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Diplomatic Weaknesses | |
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Toward a New Union | |
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A New Republic and the Rise of Parties 1789-1800 | |
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Washington's America | |
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Forging a New Government | |
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The Emergence of Parties | |
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The Last Federalist Administration | |
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The Triumph and Collapse of Jeffersonian Republicanism 1800-1824 | |
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Jefferson's Presidency | |
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Madison and the Coming of War | |
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The War of 1812 | |
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The Era of Good Feelings | |
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The Breakdown of Unity | |
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The Jacksonian Era 1824- 1845 | |
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The Egalitarian Impulse | |
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Jackson's Presidency | |
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Van Buren and Hard Times | |
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The Rise of the Whig Party | |
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The Whigs in Power | |
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Slavery and the Old South 1800-1860 | |
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The Lower South | |
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The Upper South | |
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Slave Life and Culture | |
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Free Society | |
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The Proslavery Argument | |
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The Market Revolution and Social Reform 1815-1850 | |
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Industrial Change and Urbanization | |
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Reform and Moral Order | |
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Institutions and Social Improvement | |
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Abolitionism and Women's Rights | |
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The Way West 1815-1850 | |
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The Agricultural Frontier | |
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The Frontier of the Plains Indians | |
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The Mexican Borderlands | |
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Politics, Expansion, and War | |
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The Politics of Sectionalism 1846-1861 | |
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Slavery in the Territories | |
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Political Realignment | |
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The Road to Disunion | |
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Battle Cries and Freedom Songs The Civil War 1861-1865 | |
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Mobilization, North and South | |
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The Early War, 1861-1862 | |
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Turning Points, 1862-1863 | |
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The War Transforms the North | |
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The Confederacy Disintegrates | |
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The Union Prevails, 1864-1865 | |
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Reconstruction 1865-1877 | |
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White Southerners and the Ghosts of the Confederacy, 1865 | |
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More Than Freedom: African American Aspirations in 1865 | |
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Federal Reconstruction, 1865-1870 | |
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Counter-Reconstruction, 1870-1874 | |
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Redemption, 1874-1877 | |
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A New South: Economic Progress and Social Tradition 1877-1900 | |
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The "Newness" of the New South | |
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The Southern Agrarian Revolt | |
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Women in the New South | |
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Settling the Race Issue | |
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Industry, Immigrants, and Cities 1870-1900 | |
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New Industry | |
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New Immigrants | |
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New Cities | |
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Transforming the West 1865-1890 | |
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Subjugating Native Americans | |
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Exploiting the Mountains: The Mining Bonanza | |
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Using the Grass: The Cattle Kingdom | |
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Working the Earth: Homesteaders and Agricultural Expansion | |
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Politics and Government 1877-1900 | |
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The Structure and Style of Politics | |
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The Limits of Government | |
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Public Policies and National Elections | |
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The Crisis of the 1890s | |
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T he Progressive Era 1900-1917 | |
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The Ferment of Reform | |
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Reforming Society | |
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Reforming Country Life | |
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Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Presidency | |
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Woodrow Wilson and Progressive Reform | |
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Creating an Empire 1865-1917 | |
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The Roots of Imperialism | |
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First Steps | |
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The Spanish-American War | |
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Imperial Ambitions: The United States and East Asia, 1899-1917 | |
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Imperial Power: The United States and Latin America, 1899-1917 | |
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Engaging Europe: New Concerns, Old Constraints | |
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America and the Great Way 1914-1920 | |
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Waging Neutrality | |
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Waging War in America | |
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Waging War and Peace Abroad | |
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Waging Peace at Home | |
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Towards a Modern America The 1920s | |
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The Economy That Roared | |
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The Business of Government | |
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Cities and Suburbs | |
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Mass Culture in the Jazz Age | |
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Culture Wars | |
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A New Era in the World? | |
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Herbert Hoover and the Final Triumph of the New Era | |
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The Great Depression and the New Deal 1929-1939 | |
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Hard Times in Hooverville | |
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Herbert Hoover and the Depression | |
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Launching the New Deal | |
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Consolidating the New Deal | |
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The New Deal and American Life | |
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Ebbing of the New Deal | |
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Good Neighbors and Hostile Forces | |
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World War II 1939-1945 | |
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The Dilemmas of Neutrality | |
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Holding the Line | |
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Mobilizing for Victory | |
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The Home Front | |
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War and Peace | |
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The Cold War at Home and Abroad 1946-1952 | |
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Launching the Great Boom | |
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Truman, Republicans, and the Fair Deal | |
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Confronting the Soviet Union | |
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Cold War and Hot War | |
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The Second Red Scare | |
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The Confident Years 1953-1964 | |
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A Decade of Affluence | |
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Facing Off with the Soviet Union | |
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John F. Kennedy and the Cold War | |
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Righteousness Like a Mighty Stream: The Struggle for Civil Rights | |
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Shaken to the Roots 1965-1980 | |
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The End of Consensus | |
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Cities Under Stress | |
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The Year of the Gun, 1968 | |
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Nixon, Watergate, and the Crisis of the Early 1970s | |
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Jimmy Carter: Idealism and Frustration in the White House | |
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The Reagan Revolution and a Changing World 1981-1992 | |
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Reagan's Domestic Revolution | |
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The Climax of the Cold War | |
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Growth in the Sunbelt | |
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Values in Collision | |
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Complacency, Crisis, and Global Reengagement 1993-2008 | |
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Politics of the Center | |
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A New Economy? | |
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Broadening Democracy | |
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Edging into a New Century | |
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Paradoxes of Power | |
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Appendix | |
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Glossary | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |