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Each chapter ends with "Conclusion," "Chronology," "Key Terms," and "For Review" questions | |
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North American Foundations | |
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First Founders | |
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Ancient America | |
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A Thousand Years of Change: 500 to 1500 | |
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Linking the Continents | |
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Spain Enters the Americas | |
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The Protestant Reformation Plays Out in America | |
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Interpreting History: "These Gods That We Worship Give Us Everything We Need." | |
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European Footholds in North America, 1600-1660 | |
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Spain's Ocean-Spanning Reach | |
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France and Holland: Overseas Competition for Spain | |
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English Beginnings on the Atlantic Coast | |
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The Puritan Experiment | |
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The Chesapeake Bay Colonies | |
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Interpreting History: Anne Bradstreet: "The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America." | |
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Controlling the Edges of the Continent, 1660-1715 | |
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France and the American Interior | |
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The Spanish Empire on the Defensive | |
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England's American Empire Takes Shape | |
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Bloodshed in the English Colonies: 1670-1690 | |
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Consequences of War and Growth: 1690-1715 | |
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Interpreting History: "Long Enough to be Called a City." | |
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A Century of Colonial Expansion To 1775 | |
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African Enslavement: the Terrible Transformation | |
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The Descent into Race Slavery | |
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The Growth of Slave Labor Camps | |
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England Enters the Atlantic Slave Trade | |
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Survival in a Strange New Land | |
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The Transformation Completed | |
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Interpreting History: "Releese Us out of This Cruell Bondegg." | |
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An American Babel, 1713-1763 | |
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New Cultures on the Western Plains | |
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Britain's Mainland Colonies: A New Abundance of People | |
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The Varied Economic Landscape | |
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Matters of Faith: the Great Awakening | |
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The French Lose a North American Empire | |
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Interpreting History: "The Creature Must Have Been the Size of a Small House" | |
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The Limits of Imperial Control, 1763-1775 | |
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New Challenges to Spain's Expanded Empire | |
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New Challenges to Britain's Expanded Empire | |
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"The Unconquerable Rage of the People." | |
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A Conspiracy of Corrupt Ministers? | |
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Launching a Revolution | |
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Interpreting History: "Squeez'd and Oppressed." A 1768 Petition by 30 Regulators | |
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The Unfinished Revolution, 1775-1803 | |
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Revolutionaries at War, 1775-1783 | |
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"Things Are Now Come to That Crisis." | |
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Declaring Independence | |
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The Struggle to Win French Support | |
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Legitimate States, a Respectable Military | |
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The Long Road to Yorktown | |
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Interpreting History: "By What Means Do You Expect to Conquer America?" | |
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New Beginnings: the 1780s | |
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Beating Swords into Plowshares | |
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Competing for Control of the Mississippi Valley | |
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Debtor and Creditor, Taxpayer and Bondholder | |
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Drafting a New Constitution | |
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Ratification and the Bill of Rights | |
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Interpreting History: Demobilization: "Turned Adrift Like Old Worn-Out Horses." | |
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Revolutionary Legacies, 1789-1803 | |
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Competing Political Visions in the New Nation | |
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People of Color: New Freedoms, New Struggles | |
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Continuity and Change in the West | |
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Shifting Social Identities in the Post-Revolutionary Era | |
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The Election of 1800: Revolution or Reversal? | |
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Interpreting History: A Farmer Worries About the Power of "The Few," 1798 | |
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Expanding the Boundaries of Freedom and Slavery, 1803-1848 | |
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Defending and Expanding the New Nation, 1803-1818 | |
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The British Menace | |
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The War of 1812 | |
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The "Era of Good Feelings"? | |
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The Rise of the Cotton Plantation Economy | |
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Interpreting History: Cherokee Women Petition Against Further Land Sales to Whites in 1817 | |
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Expanding Westward: Society and Politics in the "Age of the Common Man," 1819-1832 | |
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The Politics Behind Western Expansion | |
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Federal Authority and Its Opponents | |
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Real People in the "Age of the Common Man." | |
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Ties That Bound a Growing Population | |
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Interpreting History: Eulalia Perez Describes her Work in a California Mission, 1823 | |
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Peoples in Motion, 1832-1848 | |
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Mass Migrations | |
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A Multitude of Voices in the National Political Arena | |
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Reform Impulses | |
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The United States Extends Its Reach | |
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Interpreting History:Senator John C. Calhoun Warns Against Incorporating Mexico into the United States | |
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Disunion and Reunion | |
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The Crisis over Slavery, 1848-1860 | |
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Regional Economies and Conflicts | |
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Individualism vs. Group Identity | |
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The Paradox of Southern Political Power | |
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The Deepening Conflict over Slavery | |
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Interpreting History:Professor George Howe on the Subordination of Women | |
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"To Fight to Gain a Country": the Civil War | |
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Mobilization for War, 1861-1862 | |
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The Course of War, 1862-1864 | |
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The Other War: African American Struggles for Liberation | |
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Battle Fronts and Home Fronts in 1863 | |
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The Prolonged Defeat of the Confederacy, 1864-1865 | |
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Interpreting History: A Virginia Slaveholder Objects to the Impressment of Slaves | |
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In the Wake of War: Consolidating a Triumphant Union, 1865-1877 | |
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The Struggle over the South | |
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Claiming Territory for the Union | |
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The Republican Vision and Its Limits | |
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Interpreting History: A Georgia Planter Appeals to a Freedmen's Bureau Officer | |
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The Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1900 | |
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Standardizing the Nation: Innovations in Technology, Business, and Culture, 1877-1890 | |
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The New Shape of Business | |
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The Birth of a National Urban Culture | |
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Thrills, Chills, and Toothpaste: the Emergence of Consumer Culture | |
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Defending the New Industrial Order | |
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Interpreting History: Andrew Carnegie and the "Gospel of Wealth." | |
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Challenges to Government and Corporate Power, 1877-1890 | |
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Resistance to Legal and Military Authority | |
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Revolt in the Workplace | |
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Crosscurrents of Reform | |
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Interpreting History: Albert Parson's Plea for Anarchy | |
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Political and Cultural Conflict in a Decade of Depression and War: the 1890s | |
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Frontiers at Home, Lost and Found | |
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The Search for Alliances | |
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American Imperialism | |
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Interpreting History: Proceedings of the Congressional Committee on the Philippines | |
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Reform At Home, Revolution Abroad, 1900-1929 | |
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The Promise and Perils of Progressive Reform, 1900-1912 | |
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Immigration: the Changing Face of the Nation | |
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Work, Science, and Leisure | |
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Reformers and Radicals | |
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Expanding National Power | |
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Interpreting History: Defining Whiteness | |
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War and Revolution, 1912-1920 | |
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A World in Upheaval | |
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The Great War and American Neutrality | |
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The United States Goes to War | |
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The Struggle to Win the Peace | |
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Interpreting History: African American Women in the Great War | |
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All That Jazz: 1920s | |
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The Decline of Progressive Reform and the Business of Politics | |
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Hollywood and Harlem: National Cultures in Black and White | |
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Science on Trial | |
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Consumer Dreams and Nightmares | |
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Interpreting History: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby | |
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From Depression and War To World Power, 1929-1953 | |
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Hardship and Hope: the Great Depression of the 1930s | |
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The Great Depression | |
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Presidential Responses to the Depression | |
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The New Deal | |
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A New Political Culture | |
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Interpreting History: Songs of the Great Depression | |
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Global Conflict: World War II, 1937-1945 | |
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The United States Enters the War | |
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Total War | |
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The Home Front | |
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The End of the War | |
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Interpreting History: Zelda Webb Anderson, "You Just Met One Who Does Not Know How to Cook." | |
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Cold War and Hot War, 1945-1953 | |
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The Uncertainties of Victory | |
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The Quest for Security | |
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American Security and Asia | |
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A Cold War Society | |
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Interpreting History: NSC-68 | |
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The Cold War At Full Tide, 1953-1979 | |
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Domestic Dreams and Atomic Nightmares, 1953-1963 | |
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Cold War, Warm Hearth | |
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The Civil Rights Movement | |
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The Eisenhower Years | |
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The Kennedy Era | |
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Interpreting History: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring | |
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The Nation Divides: the Vietnam War and Social Conflict, 1964-1971 | |
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Lyndon Johnson and the Apex of Liberalism | |
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Into War in Vietnam | |
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The Movement | |
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The Conservative Response | |
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Interpreting History: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Vietnam War | |
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Reconsidering National Priorities, 1972-1979 | |
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Twin Shocks: Dÿtente and Watergate | |
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Discovering the Limits of the U.S. Economy | |
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Reshuffling Politics | |
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Diffusing the Women's Movement | |
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Interpreting History: the Church Committee and CIA Covert Operations | |
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Global Connections At Home and Abroad, 1979-2006 | |
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The Cold War Returns���and Ends, 1979-1991 | |
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Anticommunism Revived | |
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Republican Rule at Home | |
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Cultural Conflict | |
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The End of the Cold War | |
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Interpreting History: Religion and Politics in the 1980s | |
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Post-Cold War America, 1991-2000 | |
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The Economy: Global and Domestic | |
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Tolerance and Its Limits | |
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The Clinton Years | |
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The Contested Election of 2000 | |
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Interpreting History: Vermont Civil Union Law | |
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A Global Nation in the New Millennium | |
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Politics in the New Millennium | |
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The American Place in a Global Economy | |
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The Stewardship of Natural Resources | |
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The Expansion of American Popular Culture Abroad | |
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Identity in Contemporary America | |
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Interpreting History: the Slow Food Movement | |
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Appendix | |
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The Declaration of Independence | |
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The Articles of Confederation | |
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The Constitution of the United States of America | |
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Amendments to the Constitution | |
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Presidential Elections | |
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Present Day United States | |
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Present Day World | |
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Glossary | |