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New World Encounters | |
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Clash of Cultures: the Meaning of Murder in Early Maryland | |
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Native American Histories Before Conquest | |
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A World Transformed | |
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West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies | |
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Europe on the Eve of Conquest | |
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Imagining a New World | |
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French Exploration and Settlement | |
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The English New World | |
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Rehearsal in Ireland for American Colonization | |
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An Unpromising Beginning: Mystery at Roanoke | |
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Conclusion: Propganda for Empire | |
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England's Colonial Experiments | |
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Profit and Piety: Competing Blueprints for English Settlement | |
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Breaking Away | |
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The Chesapeake: Dreams of Wealth | |
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Reforming England in America | |
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Diversity in the Middle Colonies | |
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Quakers in America | |
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Planting the Carolinas | |
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The Founding of Georgia | |
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Conclusion: Living with Diversity | |
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Putting Down Roots | |
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Families in an Atlantic Empire | |
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Sources of 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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Rise of a Commercial Empire | |
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Colonial Factions Spark Revolt, 1676-1691 | |
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Conclusion: Local Aspirations Within an Atlantic Empire | |
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Colonies in an Empire | |
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Constructing an Anglo-American Identity: the Journal of William Byrd | |
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Growth and Diversity | |
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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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We Americans: Learning to Live with Diversity in the Eighteenth Century: What Is an American? | |
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The American Revolution | |
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Rethinking the Meaning of Equality | |
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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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The Loyalist Dilemma | |
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Winning the Peace | |
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Conclusion: Preserving Independence | |
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The Republican Experiment | |
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A New Moral Order | |
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Defining Republican Culture | |
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Living in the Shadow of Revolution | |
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The States: Experiments in Republicanism | |
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Stumbling Toward a New National Government | |
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Strengthening Federal Authority | |
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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 | |
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Partisan Passions | |
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Principle and Pragmatism: Establishing a New Government | |
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Conflicting Visions: Jefferson and Hamilton | |
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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 | |
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The Peaceful Revolution: the Election of 1800 | |
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Conclusion: Danger of Political Extremism | |
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We Americans: Counting the People: the Federal Census of 1790 | |
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Republican Ascendancy | |
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Limits of Equality | |
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Regional Identities in a New Republic | |
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Jefferson as President | |
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Jefferson's Critics | |
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Embarrassments Overseas | |
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The Strange War of 1812 | |
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Conclusion: Republican Legacy | |
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Nation Building and Nationalism | |
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A Revolutionary War Hero Revisits America in 1824 | |
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Expansion and Migration | |
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A Revolution in Transportation | |
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Emergence of a 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 | |
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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 | |
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Nat Turner's Rebellion: A Turning Point in the Slave South | |
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The Divided Society of the Old 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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We Americans: Harriet Jacobs and Maria Norcom: Women of Southern Households | |
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The Pursuit of Perfection | |
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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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Institutional Reform | |
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Reform Turns Radical | |
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Conclusion: Counterpoint on Reform | |
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An Age of Expansionism | |
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The Spirit of Young America | |
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Movement to the Far West | |
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Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War | |
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Internal Expansionism | |
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Conclusion: the Costs of Expansion | |
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We Americans: the Irish in Boston, 1845-1865 | |
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The Sectional Crisis | |
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The Brooks-Sumner Brawl 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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We Americans: Hispanic America After 1848: A Case Study in Majority Rule | |
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Secession and the Civil War | |
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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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Conclusion: An Organizational Revolution | |
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The Agony of Reconstruction | |
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Robert Smalls and Black Politicians During Reconstruction | |
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The President Versus Congress | |
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Reconstructing Southern Society | |
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Retreat from Reconstruction | |
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Reunion and the New South | |
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Conclusion: the "Unfinished Revolution." | |
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The West | |
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Lean Bear's Changing West | |
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Beyond the Frontier | |
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Crushing the Native Americans | |
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Settlement of the West | |
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The Bonanza West | |
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Conclusion: the Meaning of the West | |
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The Industrial Society | |
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A Machine Culture | |
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Industrial Development | |
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An Empire on Rails | |
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An Industrial Empire | |
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The Sellers | |
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The Wage Earners | |
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Conclusion: Industrializations Benefits and Costs | |
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Toward an Urban Society, 1877-1900 | |
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The Overcrowded City | |
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The Lure of the City | |
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Social and Cultural Change, 1877-1900 | |
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The Stirrings of Reform | |
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Conclusion: A Pluralistic Society | |
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We Americans: Ellis Island: Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears | |
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Political Realignments in the 1890s | |
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Hardship and Heartache | |
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Politics of Stalemate | |
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Republicans in Power: the Billion-Dollar Congress | |
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The Rise of the Populist Movement | |
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The Crisis of the Depression | |
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Changing Attitudes | |
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The Presidential Election of 1896 | |
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The McKinley Administration | |
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Conclusion: A Decade's Dramatic Changes | |
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Toward Empire | |
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Roosevelt and the Rough Riders | |
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America Looks Outward | |
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War with Spain | |
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Acquisition of Empire | |
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Conclusion: Outcome of the War with Spain | |
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The Progressive Era | |
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Muckrakers' Call for Reform | |
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The Changing Face of Industrialism | |
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Society's Masses | |
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Conflict in the Workplace | |
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A New Urban Culture | |
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Conclusion: A Ferment of Discovery and Reform | |
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From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism | |
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The Republicans' Split | |
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The Spirit of Progressivism | |
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Reform in the Cities and States | |
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The Republican Roosevelt | |
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Roosevelt Progressivism at Its Height | |
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The Ordeal of William Howard Taft | |
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Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom | |
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Conclusion: the Fruits of Progressivism | |
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The Nation at War | |
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The Sinking of the Lusitania | |
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A New World Power | |
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Foreign Policy Under Wilson | |
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Toward War | |
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Over There | |
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Over Here | |
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The Treaty of Versailles | |
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Conclusion: Post-War Disillusionment | |
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Transition to Modern America | |
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Wheels for the Millions | |
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The Second Industrial Revolution | |
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City Life in the Jazz Age | |
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The Rural Counterattack | |
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Politics of the 1920s | |
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Conclusion: the Old and the New | |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal | |
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The Struggle Against Despair | |
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The Great Crash | |
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Fighting the Depression | |
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Roosevelt and Reform | |
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Impact of the New Deal | |
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End of the New Deal | |
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Conclusion: Evaluation of the New Deal | |
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America and the World, 1921-1945 | |
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A Pact Without Power | |
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Retreat, Reversal, and Rivalry | |
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Isolationism | |
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The Road to War | |
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Turning the Tide Against the Axis | |
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The Home Front | |
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Victory | |
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Conclusion: the Transforming Power of War | |
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The Onset of the Cold War | |
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The Potsdam Summit | |
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The Cold War Begins | |
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Containment | |
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The Cold War Expands | |
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The Cold War at Home | |
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Eisenhower Wages the Cold War | |
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Conclusion: the Continuing Cold War | |
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Affluence and Anxiety | |
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Levittown: the Flight to the Suburbs | |
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The Postwar Boom | |
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The Good Life? | |
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Farewell to Reform | |
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The Struggle over Civil Rights | |
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Conclusion: Restoring National Confidence | |
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The Turbulent Sixties | |
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Kennedy versus Nixon: the First Televised Presidential Candidate Debate | |
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Kennedy Intensifies the Cold War | |
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The New Frontier at Home | |
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"Let Us Continue." | |
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Johnson Escalates the Vietnam War | |
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Years of Turmoil | |
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The Return of Richard Nixon | |
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Conclusion: the End of an Era | |
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We Americans: Unintended Consequences: the Second Great Migration | |
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The Rise of a New Conservatism, 1969���1988 | |
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Reagan and America's Shift to the Right | |
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The Tempting of Richard Nixon | |
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The Economy of Stagflation | |
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Private Lives, Public Issues | |
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Politics and Diplomacy after Watergate | |
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The Reagan Revolution | |
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Reagan and the World | |
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Conclusion: Challenging the New Deal | |
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The Christian Right | |
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Roe v. Wade: the Struggle over Women's Reproductive Rights | |
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To the Twenty-first Century, 1989���2009 | |
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"This Will Not Stand" | |
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The First President Bush | |
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The Changing Faces of America | |
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The New Democrats | |
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Clinton and the World | |
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Republicans Triumphant | |
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Challenges of the New Century | |
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Conclusion: the Paradox of Power | |
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The Dot.com Boom, Bust, and Echo | |
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Appendix A-1 | |
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The Declaration of Independence | |
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The Articles of Confederation | |
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The Constitution of the United States of America | |
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Amendments to the Constitution | |
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Presidential Elections | |
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Glossary G-1 | |
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Credits C-1 | |
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Index I-1 | |