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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: Exploiting an Empire | |
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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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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���2006 | |
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To the Twenty-first Century, 1989���2006 | |
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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 | |