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| Preface | |
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| The Agony of 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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| Henry McNeal Turner and the "Unfinished Revolution" | |
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| The 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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| The Meaning of the West | |
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| The Industrial Society | |
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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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| Industrialization's Benefits and Costs | |
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| Toward an Urban Society, 1877-1900 | |
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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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| The Pluralistic Society | |
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| Political Realignments in the 1890s | |
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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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| A Decade's Dramatic Changes | |
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| Toward Empire | |
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| America Looks Outward | |
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| War with Spain | |
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| Outcome of the War with Spain | |
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| The Progressive Era | |
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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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| A Ferment of Discovery and Reform | |
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| From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism | |
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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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| The Fruits of Progressivism | |
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| The Nation at War | |
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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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| Postwar Disillusionment | |
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| Transition to Modern America | |
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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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| The Old and the New | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal | |
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| The Great Depression | |
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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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| Evaluation of the New Deal | |
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| America and the World, 1921-1945 | |
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| Retreat, Reversal, and Rivalry | |
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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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| The Transforming Power of War | |
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| The Onset of the Cold War | |
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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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| The Continuing Cold War | |
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| Affluence and Anxiety | |
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| The Postwar Boom | |
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| Farewell to Reform | |
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| The Struggle over Civil Rights | |
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| The Continuing Civil Rights Movement | |
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| The Turbulent Sixties | |
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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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| The End of an Era | |
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| The Rise of a New Conservatism, 1969-1988 | |
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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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| Challenging the New Deal | |
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| To the Twenty-First Century, 1989-2009 | |
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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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| Old Issues, New Challenges | |
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| The Vulnerabilities of Power | |
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| Appendix | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| The Constitution of the United States of America | |
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| Amendments to the Constitution | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Suggested Web Sites | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |