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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 | |