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| Maps, Figures, and Tables | |
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| A Note to My Fellow Teachers | |
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| A Personal Welcome to Students | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Supplements | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| New World Encounters, Preconquest-1608. | |
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| Diverse Cultures: De Vaca's Journey Through Native America | |
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| Native Americans Before the Conquest. | |
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| Conditions of Conquest. | |
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| West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies. | |
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| Europe on the Eve of Conquest. | |
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| Spain in the Americas. | |
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| The French Claim Canada. | |
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| The English Take Up the Challenge. | |
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| Conclusion: Campaign to Sell America. | |
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| England'S New World Experiments 1607-1732. | |
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| Profit and Piety: Competing Visions for English Settlement. | |
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| Breaking Away: Decisions to Move to America | |
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| A "New" England in America. | |
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| Diversity in the Middle Colonies. | |
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| Planting the Southern Colonies. | |
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| Conclusion: Living with Diversity. | |
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| Putting Down Roots: Opportunity And Oppression In Colonial Society, 1619-1692. | |
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| Families in an Atlantic Empire. | |
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| Social Stability: New England Colonies of the Seventeenth Century. | |
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| The Challenge of the Chesapeake Environment. | |
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| Race and Freedom in British America. | |
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| Blueprint for Empire. | |
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| Colonial Political Revolt. | |
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| Conclusion: Foundations of an Atlantic Empire. | |
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| Experience Of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America, 1680-1763. | |
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| Constructing an Anglo-American Identity: the Journal of William Byrd. | |
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| Tensions in the Backcountry. | |
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| Spanish Borderlands of the Eighteenth Century. | |
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| The Impact of European Ideas on American Culture. | |
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| Religious Revivals in Provincial Societies. | |
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| Clash of Political Cultures. | |
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| Century of Imperial War. | |
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| Conclusion: Rule Britannia? | |
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| The American Revolution: From Elite Protest To Popular Revolt, 1763-1783. | |
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| Moment of Decision: Commitment and Sacrifice. | |
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| Structure of Colonial Society. | |
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| Eroding the Bonds of Empire. | |
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| Steps Toward Independence. | |
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| Fighting for Independence. | |
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| Conclusion: Preserving Independence. | |
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| The Republican Experiment, 1783-1788. | |
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| A New Political Morality. | |
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| Defining Republican Culture. | |
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| Stumbling Toward a New National Government. | |
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| "Have We Fought for This?" | |
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| Whose Constitution? Struggle for Ratification. | |
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| Conclusion: Success Depends on the People. | |
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| Democracy And Dissent: The Violence Of Party Politics, 1788-1800. | |
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| Force of Public Opinion. | |
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| Principle and Pragmatism: Establishing a New Government. | |
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| Hamilton's Plan for Prosperity and Security. | |
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| Charges of Treason: the Battle over Foreign Affairs. | |
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| Popular Political Culture. | |
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| The Adams Presidency: Politics of Mistrust. | |
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| Conclusion: Danger of Political Extremism. | |
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| Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision, 1800-1814. | |
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| Limits of Equality. | |
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| The Republic Expands. | |
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| Jefferson as President. | |
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| Race and Dissent Under Jefferson. | |
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| Embarrassments Overseas. | |
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| The Strange War of 1812. | |
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| Conclusion: the "Second War of Independence." | |
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| Nation Building And Nationalism, 1815-1825. | |
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| A Revolutionary War Hero Revisits America in 1824. | |
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| Expansion and Migration. | |
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| Transportation and the Market Economy. | |
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| The Politics of Nation Building after the War of 1812. | |
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| Conclusion: the End of the Era of Good Feeling. | |
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| The Triumph Of White Men's Democracy, 1824-1840. | |
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| Democratic Space: the New Hotels. | |
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| Democracy in Theory and Practice. | |
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| Jackson and the Politics of Democracy. | |
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| The Bank War and the Second Party System. | |
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| Heyday of the Second Party System. | |
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| Conclusion: Tocqueville's Wisdom. | |
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| Slaves And Masters, 1793-1861. | |
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| Nat Turner's Rebellion: A Turning Point in the Slave South. | |
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| The World of Southern Blacks. | |
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| White Society in the Antebellum South. | |
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| Slavery and the Southern Economy. | |
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| Conclusion: Worlds in Conflict. | |
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| The Pursuit Of Perfection, 1800-1861. | |
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| Redeeming the Middle Class. | |
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| The Rise of Evangelicalism. | |
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| Domesticity and Changes in the American Family. | |
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| Reform Turns Radical. | |
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| Conclusion: Counterpoint on Reform. | |
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| An Age Of Expansionism, 1830-1861. | |
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| The Spirit of Young America. | |
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| Texas, Manifest Destiny, and the Mexican-American War. | |
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| Internal Expansionism and the Industrial Revolution. | |
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| Conclusion: the Costs of Expansion. | |
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| The Sectional Crisis, 1846-1861. | |
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| Brooks Assaults Sumner in Congress. | |
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| The Compromise of 1850. | |
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| Political Upheaval, 1852-1856. | |
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| The House Divided, 1857-1860. | |
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| Conclusion: Explaining the Crisis. | |
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| Secession And The Civil War, 1860-1865. | |
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| The Emergence of Lincoln. | |
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| The Storm Gathers. | |
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| Adjusting to Total War. | |
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| Fight to the Finish. | |
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| Effects of the War. | |
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| Conclusion: An Organizational Revolution. | |
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| The Agony Of Reconstruction, 1863-1877. | |
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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: Henry McNeal Turner and the "Unfinished Revolution." | |
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| The West: Exploiting An Empire, 1849-1902. | |
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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, 1850-1901. | |
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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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| Culture of Work. | |
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| Conclusion: Industrialization's 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 Spread of Jim Crow | |
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| The Stirrings of Reform. | |
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| Conclusion: the Pluralistic Society. | |
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| Political Realignments, 1876-1901. | |
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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, 1865-1902. | |
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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, 1895-1917. | |
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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, 1900-1920. | |
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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, 1901-1920. | |
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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, 1919-1928. | |
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| Wheels for the Millions. | |
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| The Second Industrial Revolution. | |
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| City Life in the Roaring Twenties. | |
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| The Conservative Counterattack. | |
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| Republican Politics. | |
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| Conclusion: the Old and the New. | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt And The New Deal, 1929-1939. | |
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| The Struggle Against Despair. | |
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| The Great Depression. | |
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| Fighting the Depression. | |
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| Reforming American Life. | |
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| The Impact of the New Deal. | |
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| The New Deal's End. | |
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| Conclusion: the New Deal and American Life. | |
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| America And The World, 1921-1945. | |
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| A Pact Without Power. | |
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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, 1945-1960. | |
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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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| Conclusion: the Continuing Cold War. | |
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| Affluence And Anxiety, 1945-1960. | |
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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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| The Struggle over Civil Rights. | |
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| Conclusion: Restoring National Confidence. | |
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| The Turbulent Sixties, 1960-1968. | |
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| Kennedy v. 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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| LBJ's Great Society. | |
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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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| To 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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| Oil and Inflation. | |
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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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| Into The Twenty-First Century, 1989-2010 | |
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| �This Will Not Stand": Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era. | |
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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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| Republicans Resurgent. | |
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| Barack Obama's Triumph and Trials | |
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| Conclusion: the End of the American Future-or Not? | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |