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| List of Maps | |
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| How They Lived | |
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| Preface | |
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| Discoveries: Indians, Europeans, and the Americas About 15,000 B.C. to A.D. 1550 | |
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| The First Colonization | |
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| How They Lived: Locked in a Circle of Time | |
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| Europe: Driven and Expansive | |
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| Portugal and Spain: The Van of Exploration | |
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| The Spanish Empire | |
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| The Columbian Exchange | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Settlements Across the Sea: The Reasons, the Failures, and a Success 1550-1624 | |
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| The English Reformation | |
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| Elizabethan England: The Seedbed of English America | |
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| How They Lived: Common Seamen | |
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| Beginnings of an Empire | |
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| Jamestown | |
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| Other Beginnings | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Thirteen Colonies: England's American Empire 1620-1732 | |
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| The New England Colonies | |
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| Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire | |
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| How They Lived: Puritan Sunday | |
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| Proprietary Colonies | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| English Intentions, American Facts of Life: Colonial Society in the 1600s | |
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| Trade | |
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| Mercantilism in the South | |
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| How They Lived: Finding the Way | |
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| New England | |
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| The Middle Colonies | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Other Americans: Colonial Indians and Africans | |
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| Eastern Woodlands Indians | |
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| A World Turned Upside Down | |
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| Americans From Africa | |
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| The African Slave Trade | |
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| How They Lived: Slave Stations | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Competition for a Continent: French America and British America 1608-1763 | |
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| New France and Louisiana | |
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| A Century of War | |
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| Social Developments | |
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| Social Mobility | |
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| Politics: Imperial and Colonial | |
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| How They Lived: Piracy's Golden Age | |
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| Culture and Religion | |
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| Britain's Glorious Triumph | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Family Quarrels: Dissension in the Colonies 1763-1770 | |
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| Imperial Problems | |
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| The Stamp Act Crisis | |
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| How They Lived: School for Politicians | |
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| Act Two | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| From Riot to Rebellion: The Road to Independence 1770-1776 | |
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| Storms Within the Lull | |
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| How They Lived: Redcoats | |
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| The March Toward War | |
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| Rebellion | |
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| Cutting the Tie | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| The War for Independence: Winning the Revolution 1776-1781 | |
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| An Imbalance of Power | |
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| Boston won, New York Lost | |
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| The Tide Turns | |
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| How They Lived: Ignoring the Revolution | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Inventing a Country: American Constitutions 1781-1789 | |
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| State Constitutions | |
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| America Under the Articles of Confederation | |
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| How They Lived: Laying Out the Land | |
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| Difficulties and Failures | |
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| The Constitution | |
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| Ratification | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| We the People: Putting the Constitution to Work 1789-1800 | |
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| The First Presidency | |
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| Troubles Abroad | |
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| How They Lived: Turning Forests into Farms | |
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| The Tumultuous Northwest | |
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| The Presidency of John Adams | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Jeffersonian America: Expansion and Frustration 1800-1815 | |
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| The Election of 1800 | |
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| The Sage of Monticello | |
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| The Louisiana Purchase | |
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| Foreign Woes | |
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| Jemmy Applejohn and the War of 1812 | |
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| How They Lived: Frontier Society | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Beyond the Appalachians: The West in the Early Nineteenth Century | |
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| The First American West | |
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| Patterns of Settlement | |
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| Programs | |
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| The Transportation Revolution | |
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| How They Lived: Digging the Erie Canal | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Nation Awakening: Political and Economic Development 1815-1824 | |
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| The Era of Good Feelings | |
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| Successful Diplomacy | |
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| Industrialization | |
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| A Country Made for Industry | |
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| How They Lived: Roads | |
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| The South at the Crossroads | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| The People's Hero: Andrew Jackson and a New Era 1824-1830 | |
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| The Skewed Election of 1824 | |
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| The Age of the Common Man | |
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| The Revolution of 1828 | |
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| How They Lived: Dueling the American Way | |
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| Issues of Jackson's First Term | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| In the Shadow of Old Hickory: Personalities and Politics 1830-1842 | |
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| Van Buren Versus Calhoun | |
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| The War With the Bank | |
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| The Second American Party System | |
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| How They Lived: Alma Mater | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Religion and Reform: Evangelicals and Enthusiasts 1800-1850 | |
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| Age of Reason, Age of Reaction | |
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| Religious Ferment | |
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| Reformers | |
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| How They Lived: European Observers | |
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| Home-Grown Religion; Utopian Reform | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| A Different Country: The South and Slavery | |
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| Southern Antislavery | |
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| Threats to the Southern Order | |
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| How They Lived: African Slave Traders: Defying the Law | |
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| The South Closes Ranks | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| The Peculiar Institution: Slavery as It Was Perceived; Slavery as It Was | |
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| "De Old Plantation" | |
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| The Abolitionists | |
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| What Slavery Was Like | |
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| How They Lived: Fugitive Slaves | |
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| Life in the Quarters | |
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| Protest | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| From Sea to Shining Sea: American Expansion 1820-1848 | |
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| The Mexican Borderlands | |
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| The Oregon Country | |
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| How They Lived: Zorro and the Californios | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Apples of Discord: The Poisoned Fruits of Victory 1844-1854 | |
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| The Sectional Split Takes Shape | |
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| The Crisis of 1850 | |
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| How They Lived: How They Mined the Gold | |
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| The Compromise | |
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| The Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| The Collapse of the Union: From Debate to Violence 1854-1861 | |
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| Bleeding Kansas | |
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| A Hardening of Lines | |
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| How They Lived: The Irish Famine and the Know-Nothings | |
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| The Election of 1860 | |
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| The Confederacy | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Tidy Plans, Ugly Realities: The Civil War through 1862 | |
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| The Art and Science of War | |
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| The Sobering Campaign of 1861 | |
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| How They Lived: Facing Battle | |
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| 1862 and Stalemate | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Driving Old Dixie Down: General Grant's War of Attrition 1863-1865 | |
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| The Campaigns of 1863 | |
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| How They Lived: Marching through Georgia | |
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| Total War | |
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| The American Tragedy | |
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| Consequences of the Civil War | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Aftermath: Reconstructing the Union; Failing the Freedmen 1865-1877 | |
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| The Reconstruction Crisis | |
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| 1866: The Critical Year | |
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| Radical Reconstruction | |
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| How They Lived: Gullah | |
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| Grant's Troubled Administration | |
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| The Twilight of Reconstruction | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Parties, Patronage, and Pork: Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century | |
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| How the System Worked | |
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| Presidents and Personalities | |
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| How They Lived: A District Leader's Day | |
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| Issues | |
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| Politics in the Cities | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Technology, Industry, and Business: Economic Revolution in the Late Nineteenth Century | |
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| A Land Made for Industry | |
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| Conquering the Wide-Open Spaces | |
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| The Transcontinental Lines | |
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| How They Lived: Building the Transcontinental | |
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| The Organizers | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Living with Leviathan: Big Business and Great Wealth | |
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| Regulating Railroads and Trusts | |
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| Social Critics | |
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| Defenders of the Faith | |
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| How They Lived: The Last Dance of the Idle Rich | |
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| How the Very Rich Lived | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| We Who Built America: Factories and Immigrants | |
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| A New Way of Life | |
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| Who Were the Workers? | |
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| Organize! | |
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| Nation of Immigrants | |
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| Ethnic America | |
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| How They Lived: Crossing the Atlantic | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Urban America: The Growth of Big Cities and Big City Problems | |
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| Cities as Alien Enclaves | |
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| Of the Growth of Great Cities | |
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| How They Lived: Sweatshops | |
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| The Evils of City Life | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| The Last Frontier: Winning the Last of the West 1865-1900 | |
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| The Last Frontier | |
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| The Cattle Kingdom | |
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| How They Lived: Punching Cows | |
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| The Wild West in American Culture | |
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| The Mining Frontier | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Stressful Times Down Home: American Agriculture 1865-1896 | |
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| Farming in a Dry Land | |
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| Southern Farmers | |
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| Protest and Organization | |
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| The Money Question | |
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| How They Lived: The Cigarette Kingdom | |
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| The Populists | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| The Days of McKinley: The United States as a World Power 1896-1903 | |
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| The Landmark Election of 1896 | |
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| Jim Crow Segregation | |
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| An American Empire | |
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| The Spanish-American War | |
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| How They Lived: Avenging the Maine | |
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| Empire Confirmed | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| The World of Teddy Roosevelt: Society and Culture in Transition 1890-1917 | |
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| Symbol of an Age | |
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| The New Middle Class | |
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| A Lively Culture | |
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| Americans at Play | |
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| How They Lived: Coney Island: Democratic Amusement | |
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| Sports | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Age of Reform: The Progressives | |
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| The Progressives | |
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| Progressivism Down Home | |
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| Making People Better | |
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| How They Lived: Bindlestiffs, Tramps, and Bums | |
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| Left of Progressivism | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| The Progressive Presidents: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson 1901-1916 | |
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| T. R. Takes Over | |
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| Roosevelt's Reforms | |
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| A Conservattive President in a Progressive Era | |
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| How They Lived: The Mann Act | |
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| Democratic Party Progressivism | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Over There: The United States and the First World War 1914-1918 | |
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| Wilson, the World, and Mexico | |
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| The Great War | |
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| How They Lived: The Tin Lizzie | |
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| America Goes to War | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Over Here: World War I at Home 1917-1920 | |
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| The Progressive War | |
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| Social Changes | |
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| Conformity and Repression | |
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| Wilson and the League of Nations | |
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| How They Lived: "They Dropped Like Flies": The Great Flu Epidemic | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Troubled Years: America after the Great War 1919-1923 | |
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| "The Worst President" | |
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| Postwar Tensions: Labor, Reds, Immigrants | |
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| Racial Tensions | |
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| How They Lived: The National Pastime Business | |
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| Prohibition and Fundamentalism | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Calvin Coolidge and the New Era: When America Was Business 1923-1929 | |
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| The Collidge Years | |
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| Prosperity and Business Culture | |
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| Get Rich Quick | |
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| How They Lived: Fads, Sensations, and Ballyhoo | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Hard Times: The Great Depression 1930-1933 | |
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| The Face of the Creature | |
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| The Failure of the Old Order | |
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| How They Lived: Weeknights at Eight | |
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| Responses to Hard Times | |
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| The Election of 1932 | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Rearranging America: FDR and the New Deal 1933-1938 | |
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| The Pleasant Man Who Changed America | |
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| The Hundred Days | |
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| New Deal-Failures and Successes | |
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| How They Lived: Not Feeling Sorry for the Rich | |
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| Populist Spellbinders | |
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| The Legacy of the New Deal | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| The Second Great War: America and the World 1933-1942 | |
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| New Deal Foreign Policy | |
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| The World Goes to War | |
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| The United States and the War | |
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| America Goes to War | |
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| How They Lived: Rationing and Scrap Drives | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| World War II: The Pinnacle of Power 1942-1945 | |
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| Stopping Japan | |
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| Defeating Germany First | |
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| The Twilight of Japan, the Nuclear Dawn | |
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| How They Lived: Amphibious Landing | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Cold War: The United States and the Nuclear Age 1946-1952 | |
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| The Shadow of Cold War | |
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| Domestic Politics Under Truman | |
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| Success in Japan, Conflict With China | |
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| Years of Tension | |
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| How They Lived: The Negro Leagues | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| "Happy Days": Popular Culture in the Fifties 1947-1963 | |
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| Let the Good Times Roll | |
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| Suburbia | |
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| Dissenters | |
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| How They Lived: The World of Fashion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Cold War and Civil Rights: The Eisenhower and Kennedy Years 1953-1963 | |
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| The Middle of the Road | |
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| How They Lived: Answer the Door, Somebody's Ringing the Bell | |
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| 1960: Changing of the Guard | |
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| Kennedy Foreign Policy | |
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| Civil Rights: The Battle in the Courts | |
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| Civil Rights: From the Courts to the Streets | |
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| Johnson's Great Society: Reform and Conflict 1961-1968 | |
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| LBJ | |
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| The Great Society | |
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| Vietnam! Vietnam! | |
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| Mr. Johnson's War | |
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| Troubled Years | |
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| How They Lived: The Drug Culture | |
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| The Election of 1968 | |
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| The Presidency in Crisis: The Nixon, Ford, and Carter Administrations 1968-1980 | |
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| The Nixon Presidency | |
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| Nixon and Vietnam | |
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| Nixon-Kissinger Foreign Policy | |
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| Watergate and Gerald Ford | |
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| How They Lived: Sex: From No-No to Everybody's Doing It | |
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| Quiet Crisis | |
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| Morning in America: The Age of Reagan 1980-1993 | |
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| The Ayatollah and the Actor | |
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| The Reagan Revolution | |
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| Foreign Policy in the Eighties | |
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| The Bush Presidency | |
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| The Millennium Years: Decadence? Renewal? 1993-2006 | |
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| Cultural Dissonance | |
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| Clinton and the World | |
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| Clintonian America | |
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| Catastrophe, Renewal, War | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |