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| New World Encounters | |
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| Clash of Cultures: the Meaning of Murder in Early Maryland | |
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| Native American Histories Before Conquest | |
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| A World Transformed | |
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| West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies | |
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| Europe on the Eve of Conquest | |
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| Imagining a New World | |
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| French Exploration and Settlement | |
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| The English New World | |
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| Rehearsal in Ireland for American Colonization | |
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| An Unpromising Beginning: Mystery at Roanoke | |
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| Conclusion: Propganda for Empire | |
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| England's Colonial Experiments | |
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| Profit and Piety: Competing Blueprints for English Settlement | |
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| Breaking Away | |
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| The Chesapeake: Dreams of Wealth | |
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| Reforming England in America | |
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| Diversity in the Middle Colonies | |
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| Quakers in America | |
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| Planting the Carolinas | |
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| The Founding of Georgia | |
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| Conclusion: Living with Diversity | |
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| Putting Down Roots | |
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| Families in an Atlantic Empire | |
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| Sources of Stability: New England Colonies of the Seventeenth Century | |
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| The Challenge of the Chesapeake Environment | |
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| Race and Freedom in British America | |
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| Rise of a Commercial Empire | |
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| Colonial Factions Spark Revolt, 1676-1691 | |
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| Conclusion: Local Aspirations Within an Atlantic Empire | |
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| Colonies in an Empire | |
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| Constructing an Anglo-American Identity: the Journal of William Byrd | |
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| Growth and Diversity | |
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| Spanish Borderlands of the Eighteenth Century | |
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| The Impact of European Ideas on American Culture | |
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| Religious Revivals in Provincial Societies | |
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| Clash of Political Cultures | |
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| Century of Imperial War | |
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| Conclusion: Rule Britannia? | |
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| We Americans: Learning to Live with Diversity in the Eighteenth Century: What Is an American? | |
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| The American Revolution | |
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| Rethinking the Meaning of Equality | |
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| Structure of Colonial Society | |
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| Eroding the Bonds of Empire | |
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| Steps Toward Independence | |
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| Fighting for Independence | |
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| The Loyalist Dilemma | |
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| Winning the Peace | |
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| Conclusion: Preserving Independence | |
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| The Republican Experiment | |
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| A New Moral Order | |
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| Defining Republican Culture | |
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| Living in the Shadow of Revolution | |
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| The States: Experiments in Republicanism | |
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| Stumbling Toward a New National Government | |
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| Strengthening Federal Authority | |
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| "Have We Fought for This?" | |
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| Whose Constitution? Struggle for Ratification | |
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| Conclusion: Success Depends on the People | |
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| Democracy and Dissent | |
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| Partisan Passions | |
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| Principle and Pragmatism: Establishing a New Government | |
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| Conflicting Visions: Jefferson and Hamilton | |
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| Hamilton's Plan for Prosperity and Security | |
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| Charges of Treason: the Battle over Foreign Affairs | |
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| Popular Political Culture | |
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| The Adams Presidency | |
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| The Peaceful Revolution: the Election of 1800 | |
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| Conclusion: Danger of Political Extremism | |
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| We Americans: Counting the People: the Federal Census of 1790 | |
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| Republican Ascendancy | |
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| Limits of Equality | |
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| Regional Identities in a New Republic | |
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| Jefferson as President | |
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| Jefferson's Critics | |
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| Embarrassments Overseas | |
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| The Strange War of 1812 | |
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| Conclusion: Republican Legacy | |
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| Nation Building and Nationalism | |
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| A Revolutionary War Hero Revisits America in 1824 | |
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| Expansion and Migration | |
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| A Revolution in Transportation | |
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| Emergence of a Market Economy | |
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| The Politics of Nation Building after the War of 1812 | |
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| Conclusion: the End of the Era of Good Feeling | |
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| The Triumph of White Men's Democracy | |
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| Democratic Space: the New Hotels | |
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| Democracy in Theory and Practice | |
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| Jackson and the Politics of Democracy | |
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| The Bank War and the Second Party System | |
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| Heyday of the Second Party System | |
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| Conclusion: Tocqueville's Wisdom | |
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| Slaves and Masters | |
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| Nat Turner's Rebellion: A Turning Point in the Slave South | |
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| The Divided Society of the Old South | |
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| The World of Southern Blacks | |
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| White Society in the Antebellum South | |
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| Slavery and the Southern Economy | |
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| Conclusion: Worlds in Conflict | |
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| We Americans: Harriet Jacobs and Maria Norcom: Women of Southern Households | |
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| The Pursuit of Perfection | |
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| Redeeming the Middle Class | |
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| The Rise of Evangelicalism | |
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| Domesticity and Changes in the American Family | |
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| Institutional Reform | |
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| Reform Turns Radical | |
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| Conclusion: Counterpoint on Reform | |
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| An Age of Expansionism | |
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| The Spirit of Young America | |
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| Movement to the Far West | |
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| Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War | |
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| Internal Expansionism | |
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| Conclusion: the Costs of Expansion | |
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| We Americans: the Irish in Boston, 1845-1865 | |
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| The Sectional Crisis | |
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| The Brooks-Sumner Brawl in Congress | |
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| The Compromise of 1850 | |
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| Political Upheaval, 1852-1856 | |
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| The House Divided, 1857-1860 | |
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| Conclusion: Explaining the Crisis | |
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| We Americans: Hispanic America After 1848: A Case Study in Majority Rule | |
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| Secession and the Civil War | |
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| The Emergence of Lincoln | |
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| The Storm Gathers | |
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| Adjusting to Total War | |
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| Fight to the Finish | |
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| Conclusion: An Organizational Revolution | |
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| The Agony of Reconstruction | |
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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: the "Unfinished Revolution." | |
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| The West | |
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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 | |
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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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| Conclusion: Industrializations 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 Stirrings of Reform | |
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| Conclusion: A Pluralistic Society | |
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| We Americans: Ellis Island: Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears | |
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| Political Realignments in the 1890s | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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| Wheels for the Millions | |
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| The Second Industrial Revolution | |
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| City Life in the Jazz Age | |
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| The Rural Counterattack | |
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| Politics of the 1920s | |
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| Conclusion: the Old and the New | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal | |
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| The Struggle Against Despair | |
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| The Great Crash | |
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| Fighting the Depression | |
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| Roosevelt and Reform | |
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| Impact of the New Deal | |
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| End of the New Deal | |
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| Conclusion: Evaluation of the New Deal | |
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| America and the World, 1921-1945 | |
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| A Pact Without Power | |
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| Retreat, Reversal, and Rivalry | |
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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 | |
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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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| Eisenhower Wages the Cold War | |
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| Conclusion: the Continuing Cold War | |
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| Affluence and Anxiety | |
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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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| Farewell to Reform | |
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| The Struggle over Civil Rights | |
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| Conclusion: Restoring National Confidence | |
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| The Turbulent Sixties | |
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| Kennedy versus 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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| "Let Us Continue." | |
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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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| We Americans: Unintended Consequences: the Second Great Migration | |
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| The Rise of 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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| The Economy of Stagflation | |
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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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| The Christian Right | |
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| Roe v. Wade: the Struggle over Women's Reproductive Rights | |
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| To the Twenty-first Century, 1989���2009 | |
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| "This Will Not Stand" | |
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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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| Clinton and the World | |
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| Republicans Triumphant | |
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| Challenges of the New Century | |
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| Conclusion: the Paradox of Power | |
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| The Dot.com Boom, Bust, and Echo | |
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| Appendix A-1 | |
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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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| Glossary G-1 | |
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| Credits C-1 | |
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| Index I-1 | |