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| Reconstruction, 1863-1877 | |
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| Opening Vignette: James T. Rapier emerges in the early 1870s as Alabama's most prominent black leader | |
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| Wartime Reconstruction | |
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| Documenting the American Promise: The Meaning of Freedom | |
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| Presidential Reconstruction | |
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| The Promise of Technology: Filling the "Empty Sleeve": Artificial Limbs | |
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| Congressional Reconstruction | |
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| The Struggle in the South | |
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| Historical Question: What Did the Ku Klux Klan Really Want? | |
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| Reconstruction Collapses | |
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| Conclusion: "A Revolution But Half Accomplished" | |
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| The Contested West, 1870-1900 | |
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| Opening Vignette: Native American boarding school students celebrate Indian citizenship | |
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| Conquest and Empire in the West | |
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| Beyond America's Borders: Imperialism, Colonialism, and the Treatment of the Sioux and the Zulu | |
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| Gold Fever and the Mining West | |
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| The Promise of Technology: Hydraulic Mining | |
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| Land Fever | |
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| Documenting the American Promise: Young Women Homesteaders and the Promise of the West | |
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| Conclusion: The Mythic West | |
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| Business and Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1895 | |
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| Opening Vignette: Mark Twain and the Gilded Age | |
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| Old Industries Transformed, New Industries Born | |
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| Global Comparison: Railroad Track Mileage, 1890 | |
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| Documenting the American Promise: Rockefeller and His Critics | |
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| The Promise of Technology: Electrifying America: The War of the Currents | |
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| From Competition to Consolidation | |
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| Historical Question: Social Darwinism: Did Wealthy Industrialists Practice What They Preached? | |
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| Politics and Culture | |
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| Presidential Politics | |
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| Economic Issues and Party Realignment | |
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| Conclusion: Business Dominates an Era | |
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| The City and Its Workers, 1870-1900 | |
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| Opening Vignette: Workers build the Brooklyn Bridge | |
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| The Rise of the City | |
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| Global Comparison: European Emigration, 1870-1890 | |
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| Seeking the American Promise: Seeking Refuge: A Russian Jew Flees the Pogroms | |
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| At Work in Industrial America | |
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| Workers Organize | |
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| At Home and at Play | |
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| City Growth and City Government | |
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| Beyond America's Borders: The World's Columbian Exposition and Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs | |
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| Conclusion: Who Built the Cities? | |
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| Dissent, Depression, and War, 1890-1900 | |
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| Opening Vignette: Frances Willard participates in the creation of the Populist Party in 1892 | |
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| The Farmers' Revolt | |
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| Global Comparison: Share of the World Wheat Market, 1860-1890 | |
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| Documenting the American Promise: Populist Voices of Protest | |
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| The Labor Wars | |
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| Women's Activism | |
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| Depression Politics | |
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| The United States and the World | |
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| Beyond America's Borders: Regime Change in Hawaii | |
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| War and Empire | |
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| Historical Question: Did Terrorists Sink the Maine? | |
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| Conclusion: Rallying around the Flag | |
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| Progressivism from the Grass Roots to the White House, 1890-1916 | |
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| Opening Vignette: Jane Addams founds Hull House | |
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| Grassroots Progressivism | |
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| Beyond America's Borders: Protecting the World's Workers: The National Consumers' League | |
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| Progressivism: Theory and Practice | |
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| Progressivism Finds a President: Theodore Roosevelt | |
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| The Promise of Technology: Flash Photography and the Birth of Photojournalism | |
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| Historical Question: Progressives and Conservation: Should Hetch Hetchy Be Dammed or Saved? | |
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| Progressivism Stalled | |
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| Woodrow Wilson and Progressivism at High Tide | |
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| The Limits of Progressive Reform | |
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| Conclusion: The Transformation of the Liberal State | |
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| World War I: The Progressive Crusade at Home and Abroad, 1914-1920 | |
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| Opening Vignette: General Pershing struggles to protect the autonomy of the American Expeditionary Force | |
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| Woodrow Wilson and the World | |
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| "Over There" | |
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| Historical Question: What Did the Doughboys Find in France? | |
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| Global Comparison: Casualties of the First World War | |
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| The Crusade for Democracy at Home | |
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| Documenting the American Promise: The Final Push for Woman Suffrage | |
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| A Compromised Peace | |
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| Democracy at Risk | |
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| Beyond America's Borders: Bolshevism | |
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| Conclusion: Troubled Crusade | |
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| From New Era to Great Depression, 1920-1932 | |
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| Opening Vignette: Henry Ford puts America on wheels | |
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| The New Era | |
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| The Promise of Technology: Household Appliances: Laborsaving Devices for Women? | |
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| The Roaring Twenties | |
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| Historical Question: Was There a Sexual Revolution in the 1920s? | |
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| Seeking the American Promise: A Place of One's Own: The Quest for Home Ownership | |
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| Resistance to Change | |
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| The Great Crash | |
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| Life in the Depression | |
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| Conclusion: Dazzle and Despair | |
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| The New Deal Experiment, 1932-1939 | |
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| Opening Vignette: The Bonus Army marches into Washington, D.C. | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Patrician in Government | |
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| Beyond America's Borders: Fascism: Adolf Hitler and National Socialism | |
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| Launching the New Deal | |
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| Challenges to the New Deal | |
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| Toward a Welfare State | |
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| Seeking the American Promise: Textile Workers Strike for Better Wages and Working Conditions | |
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| The New Deal from Victory to Deadlock | |
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| Global Comparison: National Populations and Economies, circa 1938 | |
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| Conclusion: Achievements and Limitations of the New Deal | |
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| The United States and the Second World War, 1939-1945 | |
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| Opening Vignette: Colonel Paul Tibbets drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan | |
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| Peacetime Dilemmas | |
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| The Onset of War | |
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| Mobilizing for War | |
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| Documenting the American Promise: Japanese Internment | |
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| Global Comparison: Weapons Produced by the Axis and Allied Powers during World War II | |
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| Fighting Back | |
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| The Wartime Home Front | |
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| Beyond America's Borders: Nazi Anti-Semitism and the Atomic Bomb | |
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| Toward Unconditional Surrender | |
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| Historical Question: Why Did the Allies Win World War II? | |
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| Conclusion: Allied Victory and America's Emergence as a Superpower | |
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| Cold War Politics in the Truman Years, 1945-1953 | |
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| Opening Vignette: Helen Gahagan Douglas, congresswoman and loyal Truman ally, supports the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, and the war in Korea | |
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| From the Grand Alliance to Containment | |
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| Documenting the American Promise: The Emerging Cold War | |
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| Truman and the Fair Deal at Home | |
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| Historical Question: What Happened to Rosie the Riveter? | |
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| Seeking the American Promise: The GI Bill Transforms Higher Education | |
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| The Cold War Becomes Hot: Korea | |
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| Conclusion: The Cold War's Costs and Consequences | |
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| The Politics and Culture of Abundance, 1952-1960 | |
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| Opening Vignette: Vice President Nixon and Russian premier Khrushchev debate the merits of U.S. and Soviet societies | |
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| Eisenhower and the Politics of the "Middle Way" | |
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| Liberation Rhetoric and the Practice of Containment | |
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| Seeking the American Promise: Operation Pedro Pan: Young Political Refugees Take Flight | |
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| New Work and Living Patterns in an Economy of Abundance | |
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| The Promise of Technology: Air-Conditioning | |
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| The Culture of Abundance | |
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| Global Comparison: The Baby Boom in International Perspective | |
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| Emergence of a Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Documenting the American Promise: The Brown Decision | |
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| Conclusion: Peace and Prosperity Mask Unmet Challenges | |
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| Reform, Rebellion, and Reaction, 1960-1974 | |
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| Opening Vignette: Fannie Lou Hamer leads grassroots struggles of African Americans for voting rights and political empowerment | |
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| Liberalism at High Tide | |
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| The Second Reconstruction | |
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| A Multitude of Movements | |
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| Documenting the American Promise: Student Protest | |
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| The Promise of Technology: The Pill | |
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| The New Wave of Feminism | |
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| Beyond America's Borders: Transnational Feminisms | |
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| Liberal Reform in the Nixon Administration | |
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| Conclusion: Achievements and Limitations of Liberalism | |
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| Vietnam and the Limits of Power, 1961-1975 | |
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| Opening Vignette: American GIs arrive in Vietnam | |
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| New Frontiers in Foreign Policy | |
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| Lyndon Johnson's War against Communism | |
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| Historical Question: Why Couldn't the United States Bomb Its Way to Victory in Vietnam? | |
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| The Promise of Technology: The Military Helicopter | |
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| A Nation Polarized | |
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| Beyond America's Borders: 1968: A Year of Protest | |
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| Nixon, Detente, and the Search for Peace in Vietnam | |
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| Conclusion: An Unwinnable War | |
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| America Moves to the Right, 1969-1989 | |
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| Opening Vignette: Phyllis Schlafly promotes conservatism | |
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| Nixon and the Rise of Postwar Conservatism | |
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| Seeking the American Promise: A Mother Campaigns for a Say in Her Children's Education | |
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| Constitutional Crisis and Restoration | |
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| The "Outsider" Presidency of Jimmy Carter | |
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| Global Comparison: Energy Consumption per Capita, 1980 | |
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| Ronald Reagan and the Conservative Ascendancy | |
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| Historical Question: Why Did the ERA Fail? | |
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| Continuing Struggles over Rights | |
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| Documenting the American Promise: Protecting Gay and Lesbian Rights | |
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| Ronald Reagan Confronts an "Evil Empire" | |
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| Conclusion: Reversing the Course of Government | |
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| The End of the Cold War and the Challenges of Globalization, Since 1989 | |
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| Opening Vignette: Colin Powell adjusts to a post-Cold War world | |
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| Domestic Stalemate and Global Upheaval: The Presidency of George H. W. Bush | |
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| Seeking the American Promise: Suing for Access: Disability Rights and the Courts | |
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| The Clinton Administration's Search for the Middle Ground | |
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| The United States in a Globalizing World | |
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| Global Comparison: Countries with the Highest Military Expenditures, 2005 | |
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| The Promise of Technology: The Internet | |
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| Beyond America's Borders: Jobs in a Globalizing Era | |
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| President George W. Bush: Conservatism at Home and Radical Initiatives Abroad | |
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| Conclusion: Defining the Government's Role at Home and Abroad | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Documents | |
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| Facts and Figures: Government, Economy, and Demographics | |
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| Research Resources in U.S. History | |
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| Index | |
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| Atlas of the Territorial Growth of the United States | |