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Wonder and Woe: The Rise of Industrial America, 1865-1900 | |
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Sources of the Industrial Revolution | |
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The Railroads | |
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Modern Business Practices | |
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Rising Concern over Corporate Power | |
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Andrew Carnegie: Making Steel and Transforming the Corporation | |
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Rockefeller and the Rise of the Trust | |
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Creating a Mass Market | |
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The Art of Selling | |
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Images As History Advertising and the Art of Cultivating Anxiety and Desire | |
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Shopping as Experience: The Department Store | |
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Bringing the Market to the Frontier | |
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Selling to the World | |
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The World of Work Transformed | |
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The Impact of New Technology | |
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Hard Times for Industrial Workers | |
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Exploitation, Intimidation, and Conflict | |
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Competing Visions The Legitimacy of Unions | |
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New Roles and Opportunities for Women | |
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Conflicting Visions of Industrial Capitalism | |
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Capitalism Championed | |
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Capitalism Criticized | |
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Power in Numbers: Organized Labor | |
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Choices And Consequences To Strike or Not to Strike? | |
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The Great Upheaval of 1886 | |
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Chapter Review | |
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Becoming a Modern Society: America in the Gilded Age, 1877-1900 | |
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To the Cities: Americans and Immigrants Spur Urban Growth | |
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The Emergence of Ethnic Enclaves | |
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The Troubled City | |
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"Boss Rule": The Political Machine | |
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Competing Visions How Best to Help the Poor? | |
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A Search for Solutions | |
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The Nativist Impulse | |
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A Different View: Urban Reforms | |
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Capturing a New View of Poverty: Jacob Riis and Housing Reform | |
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Images As History Seeing the Poor | |
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Living among the Poor: Settlement Houses | |
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The White City | |
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New Habits, Roles and Lifestyles | |
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The New Urban Landscape | |
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New Roles and Expectations for Woman | |
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New Forms of Leisure and Popular Culture | |
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Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous | |
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The Challenge from Below | |
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Out of Touch Politics | |
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The People's Party | |
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Industrial Conflict and Depression | |
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Choices And Consequences The Pullman Strike | |
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The Election of 1896 and Political Realignment | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chapter Review | |
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The Progressive Era | |
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The Origins of Progressive Reform | |
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Rising Concerns and Common Ideals | |
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Muckrakers | |
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Experts and Professionals | |
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The Social Gospel | |
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Urban and State Reforms | |
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Attacking the Machine | |
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Regulating Transit and Utility Monopolies | |
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Direct Democracy | |
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Choices And Consequences Representative or Direct Democracy? | |
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Labor Legislation | |
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The Darker Side of Progressivism | |
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Moral Reform and Social Control | |
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The Eugenics Movement | |
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Images As History Promoting Racial Hygiene (Eugenics) | |
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Failure of the Anti-Lynching Crusade | |
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Progressivism in National Politics | |
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Roosevelt the Reformer | |
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Regulating Big Business | |
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The Conservation Movement | |
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Competing Visions The Battle of Hetch Hetchy | |
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The Radical Challenge | |
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Wilson's "New Freedom" | |
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Women's Suffrage | |
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Imperial America: The United States in the World, 1890-1914 | |
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Becoming a World Power | |
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The Impulse for Expansion | |
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European Imperialism | |
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The Spanish-American War | |
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The Growing Conflict with Spain | |
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Images As History Atrocity Stories | |
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The Decision to Intervene in Cuba | |
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Fighting the War Against Spain | |
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Creating an American Empire | |
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The Debate Over Colonies | |
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Competing Visions The White Man's Burden | |
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The Philippine-American War | |
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America and East Asia | |
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The Open Door in China | |
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Relations with Japan | |
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Angel Island | |
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Choices And Consequences The Legal Construction of "Whiteness" | |
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In America's Backyard | |
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The Panama Canal | |
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The Roosevelt Corollary | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chapter Review | |
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The Great War: World War I, 1914-1918 | |
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The War in Europe | |
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The Perils of Neutrality | |
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America Enters the War | |
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Conflicting Views among the Allies on the War's Purpose | |
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The War at Home | |
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Gearing Up for War | |
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Black Migration | |
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Female Suffrage | |
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Rallying the Public | |
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Images As History Propaganda Posters | |
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German Spies, Civil Liberties, and Immigrants | |
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Fighting the War | |
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Raising an Army | |
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Choices And Consequences Alvin York, Deciding to Serve | |
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"You're in the Army Now" | |
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On the Western Front | |
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Flu Epidemic | |
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The Final Campaigns | |
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Peace | |
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The Paris Peace Conference | |
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The Treaty Fight at Home | |
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Competing Visions Joining the League of Nations | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chapter Review | |
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A Turbulent Decade: The Twenties | |
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Cars and Planes: The Promise of the Twenties | |
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The Car Culture | |
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On the Road | |
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Welfare Capitalism and Consumer Culture | |
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The Age of Flight: Charles A. Lindbergh | |
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Cultural Turbulence | |
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The Lost Generation | |
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Prohibition | |
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The First Red Scare and Immigration Restrictions | |
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Fundamentalism | |
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Racial Violence and Civil Rights | |
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Lynching, Racial Rioting, and the Ku Klux Klan | |
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Marcus Garvey | |
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Competing Visions Debating Garveyism | |
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The Harlem Renaissance | |
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The New Woman | |
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Life for Women in the Twenties | |
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Images As History Advertising the New Woman | |
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Margaret Sanger and the Fight for Birth Control | |
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Ensuring Peace: Diplomacy in the Twenties | |
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Disarmament | |
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Choices And Consequences Preventing War in Europe | |
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Wartime Debts | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chapter Review | |
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A New Deal for America: The Great Depression, 1929-1940 | |
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Herbert Hoover | |
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Economic Weaknesses in a Time of Prosperity | |
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The Stock Market Crash of 1929 | |
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Hoover's Response to the Depression | |
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Choices And Consequences Evicting the Bonus Marchers | |
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A New President and a New Deal | |
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FDR: The Politician | |
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Managing Appearances | |
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The Temper of the Poor: Passivity and Anger | |
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Recovering from the Depression | |
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Revamping Banking and Financial Institution | |
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Father Charles Coughlin | |
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Helping Industry and People | |
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Putting People to Work | |
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A New Deal for Farmers | |
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Handling the Farm Crisis | |
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Hitting the Road | |
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Repatriating Mexican Immigrants | |
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Images As History Migrant Mother, an American Icon | |
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Reforms to Ensure Social Justice | |
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The Challenge from Huey Long: "Share Our Wealth" | |
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Social Security | |
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Supporting Unions | |
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Competing Visions Sharing the Wealth | |
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The Resurgence of Labor | |
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A New Deal for African Americans | |
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The Supreme Court Weighs In | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chapter Review | |
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World War II: Fighting the Good War, 1939-1945 | |
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The Approaching War | |
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Fascism and Appeasement | |
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The Arsenal of Democracy | |
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War with Japan | |
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On the Home Front | |
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Images of the Enemy | |
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Internment Camps | |
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Competing Visions Civil Liberties and National Security Clash | |
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Prosperity, Scarcity, and Opportunities for Women | |
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Racial Discord | |
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On the Front Lines | |
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Defeat, Then Victory | |
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Images As History Combat Photography | |
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The Final Push in Europe | |
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America's Response to the Holocaust | |
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The Holocaust | |
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Ending the Pacific War | |
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Edging Closer to Japan | |
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Dropping the Atomic Bomb | |
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Choices And Consequences How to Use the Atomic Bomb | |
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The Final Surrender | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chapter Review | |
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A Divided World: The Early Cold War, 1945-1963 | |
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Origins of the Cold War | |
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Differing Goals in the Postwar World | |
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The American Vision Takes Shape: Kennan's Long Telegram | |
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The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan | |
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The Berlin Airlift and NATO | |
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Fighting Communism: Cold and Hot War | |
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Communism Rising: 1949 | |
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The Korean War | |
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Nuclear Fallout and Fear | |
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Images As History Surviving an Atomic Bomb Blast | |
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Fallout Shelters | |
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Spies in Our Midst | |
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The Second Red Scare | |
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HUAC against Hollywood | |
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Competing Visions Naming Names in Hollywood | |
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McCarthyism | |
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Averting Nuclear War | |
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Sputnik | |
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The Berlin Wall | |
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Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis | |
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Choices And Consequences The Cuban Missile Crisis | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chapter Review | |
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In a Land of Plenty: Contentment and Discord, 1945-1960 | |
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Securing the New Deal Legacy | |
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The Labor Movement Curtailed | |
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Presidential Agendas: Truman and Eisenhower | |
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A Middle Class America | |
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Postwar Prosperity | |
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The Move to the Suburbs | |
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Competing Visions Suburbs: American Dream or Nightmare? | |
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Popular Culture in the Fifties | |
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The Television Age Arrives | |
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Teen Culture and Rock and Roll | |
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The Beats | |
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Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement | |
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"Separate But Equal": Challenging Segregated Schools | |
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Emmett Till | |
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Images As History Inspiring a New Generation to Act | |
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Choices And Consequences Rosa Parks Makes History | |
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The Little Rock Nine, 1957 | |
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The Sit-ins | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chapter Review | |
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A Nation Divided: The Vietnam War, 1945-1975 | |
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The Long Road to War | |
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The Escalating Importance of Vietnam | |
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Taking Over from the French | |
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Debates within the Kennedy Administration | |
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The Kennedy Assassination | |
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The Gulf of Tonkin | |
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Choices And Consequences Making Vietnam America's War | |
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Fighting in Vietnam | |
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The Bombing Campaign | |
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On the Ground | |
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The Tet Offensive | |
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Images As History The Role of the Press in Vietnam | |
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Controversy of the Home Front | |
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The Antiwar Movement | |
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My Lai | |
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Competing Visions Who Was Responsible for the My Lai Massacre? | |
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The Long Road to Peace | |
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Seeking Peace with Honor | |
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Vietnam: The War by the Numbers | |
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Cambodia: Invasion and Outrage | |
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Withdrawal | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chapter Review | |
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A Decade of Discord: The Challenge of the Sixties | |
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The Liberal Moment | |
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Kennedy and the New Frontier | |
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A Liberal Court | |
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Choices And Consequences Is School Prayer Constitutional? | |
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The 1964 Election | |
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Images As History Birmingham, 1963 | |
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March on Washington, 1963 | |
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Freedom Summer, 1964 | |
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Selma and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 | |
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The Liberal Revolution | |
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Kennedy and the New Frontier | |
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A Liberal Court | |
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The 1964 Election | |
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The Great Society | |
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Nonviolence Triumphant: The Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1965 | |
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Kennedy and the Freedom Riders | |
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Images As History Birmingham, 1963 | |
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March on Washington | |
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Freedom Summer | |
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Selma and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 | |
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The Fractured Left | |
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The New Left and the Counterculture | |
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Malcolm X: An Alternative to Nonviolence | |
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Watts and Chicago | |
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Black Power and the Black Panthers | |
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Competing Visions Defining Black Power | |
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Women's Liberation Movement | |
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The End of an Era | |
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The Faltering Civil Rights Movement | |
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The Great Society Unravels | |
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The Demise of the Counterculture | |
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Keeping Protest Alive: Mexican Americans and Native Americans | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chapter Review | |
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A Nation Adrift: America in the 1970s and 1980s | |
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The Age of Limits | |
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Frustration at Home and Overseas | |
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The Watergate Scandal | |
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Images As History Watergate through Political Cartoons | |
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Ford and Carter: A Crisis of Presidential Leadership | |
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A Weakened Presidency and an Ailing Economy | |
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Defining American Foreign Policy After Vietnam | |
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The Leadership Crisis Continues: Carter in the White House | |
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New Paths in Foreign Affairs | |
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Choices And Consequences Ending the Iranian Hostage Crisis | |
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The Rights Revolution | |
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The Equal Rights Amendment and Abortion Controversies | |
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Competing Visions Defining the Ideal Woman | |
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Gay Rights | |
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Environmentalism | |
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The Rise of the Right | |
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The New Conservative Coalition | |
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The Reagan Presidency | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chapter Review | |
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Modern Times: Living a Post-Cold War World | |
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Changing Contours of American Society | |
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Choices And Consequences Coming to America | |
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Persian Gulf War | |
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The Culture Wars | |
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Competing Visions Liberalism on America's College Campuses | |
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Terrorism | |
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Images As History 9/11 | |
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Globalization | |