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Recovering the Past | |
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Maps | |
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Preface | |
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Supplements | |
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About the Authors | |
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The Union Reconstructed | |
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The Bittersweet Aftermath of War | |
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National Reconstruction Politics | |
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RECOVERING the PAST: Novels | |
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The Lives of Freedpeople | |
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Reconstruction in the Southern States | |
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Conclusion: A Mixed Legacy | |
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A Modernizing People, 1877 to 1929 | |
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The Realities of Rural America | |
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Modernizing Agriculture | |
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The West | |
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Resolving the Native American Question | |
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The New South | |
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RECOVERING the PAST: Magazines | |
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Farm Protest | |
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Conclusion: Farming in the Industrial Age | |
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The Rise of Smokestack America | |
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The Texture of Industrial Progress | |
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Industrial Work and the Laboring Class | |
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Capital Versus Labor | |
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Strive and Succeed | |
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The Politics of the Gilded Age | |
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RECOVERING the PAST: Congressional Hearings | |
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Conclusion: The Complexity of Industrial Capitalism | |
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The New Metropolis | |
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The Industrial City | |
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The New Urban Geography | |
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Reforming the City | |
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RECOVERING the PAST: World's Fairs | |
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Conclusion: Cities Transformed | |
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Becoming a World Power | |
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Steps Toward Empire | |
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Expansionism in the 1890s | |
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War in Cuba and the Philippines | |
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Theodore Roosevelt's Energetic Diplomacy | |
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RECOVERING the PAST: Political Cartoons | |
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Conclusion: The Responsibilities of Power | |
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The Progressives Confront Industrial Capitalism | |
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The Social Justice Movement | |
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RECOVERING the PAST: Documentary Photographs | |
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The Worker in the Progressive Era | |
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Reform in the Cities and States | |
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Theodore Roosevelt and the Square Deal | |
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Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom | |
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Conclusion: The Limits of Progressivism | |
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The Great War | |
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The Early War Years | |
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The United States Enters the War | |
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The Military Experience | |
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RECOVERING the PAST: Government Propaganda | |
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Domestic Impact of the War | |
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Planning for Peace | |
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Conclusion: The Divided Legacy of the Great War | |
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Affluence and Anxiety | |
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Postwar Problems | |
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A Prospering Economy | |
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Clashing Values | |
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Hopes Raised, Promises Deferred | |
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The Business of Politics | |
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RECOVERING the PAST: Advertising | |
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Conclusion: A New Era of Prosperity and Problems | |
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A Resilient People, 1929 to Present | |
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The Great Depression and the New Deal | |
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The Great Depression | |
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Economic Decline | |
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Roosevelt and the First New Deal | |
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One Hundred Days | |
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The Second New Deal | |
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The Last Years of the New Deal | |
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The Other Side of the 1930s | |
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RECOVERING the PAST: The Movies | |
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Conclusion: The Mixed Legacy of the Great Depression and the New Deal | |
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World War II | |
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The Twisting Road to War | |
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Battles and Bullets | |
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The Impact of War | |
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Insiders and Outsiders | |
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RECOVERING the PAST: History, Memory, and Monuments | |
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Conclusion: Peace, Prosperity, and International Responsibility | |
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Chills and Fever During the Cold War, 1945-1960 | |
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Origins of the Cold War | |
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Containing the Soviet Union | |
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Containment in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America | |
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Atomic Weapons and the Cold War | |
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The Cold War at Home | |
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RECOVERING the PAST: Public Opinion Polls | |
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Conclusion: Tire Cold War in Perspective | |
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Postwar America at Home, 1945-1960 | |
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Economic Boom | |
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Demographic and Technological Shifts | |
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Consensus and Conformity | |
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Origins of the Welfare State | |
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The Other America | |
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RECOVERING the PAST: Clothing | |
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Conclusion: Qualms amid Affluence | |
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Reform and Rebellion in the Turbulent Sixties, 1960-1969 | |
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John F. Kennedy: The Camelot Years | |
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RECOVERING the PAST: Television | |
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Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society | |
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Continuing Confrontations with Communists | |
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War in Vietnam and Turmoil at Home | |
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Conclusion: Political and Social Upheaval | |
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Disorder and Discontent, 1969-1980 | |
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The Decline of Liberalism | |
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The Ongoing Effort in Vietnam | |
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Constitutional Conflict and Its Consequences | |
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The Continuing Quest for Social Reform | |
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RECOVERING the PAST: Popular Music | |
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Conclusion: Sorting Out the Pieces | |
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Conservatism and a Shift in Course, 1980-2010 | |
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New Politics in a Conservative Age | |
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An End to Social Reform | |
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Economic and Demographic Change | |
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RECOVERING the PAST: Autobiography | |
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Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War | |
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Conclusion: The Recent PAST in Perspective | |
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Appendix | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |
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Credits | |