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| List of Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Reconstruction: North and South | |
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| The War's Aftermath | |
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| The Battle over Political Reconstruction | |
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| The Assassination of Lincoln | |
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| Reconstructing the South | |
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| The Reconstructed South | |
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| The Grand Years | |
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| Growing Pains | |
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| Big Business and Organized Labor | |
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| The Rise of Big Business | |
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| Entrepreneurs | |
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| The Working Class | |
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| The South and the West Transformed | |
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| The Myth of the New South | |
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| The New West | |
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| The Emergence of Urban America | |
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| America's Move to Town | |
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| The New Immigration | |
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| Popular Culture | |
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| Education and Social Thought | |
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| Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt | |
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| Paradoxical Politics | |
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| Corruption and Reform: Hayes to Harrison | |
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| The Farm Problem and Agrarian Protest Movements | |
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| The Economy and the Silver Solution | |
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| Race Relations During the 1890s | |
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| Modern America | |
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| Seizing An American Empire | |
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| Toward the New Imperialism | |
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| Expansion in the Pacific | |
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| The War of 1898 | |
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| Imperial Rivalries in East Asia | |
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| Big-Stick Diplomacy | |
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| "Making the World Over": The Progressive Era | |
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| Elements of Reform | |
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| The Social Gospel | |
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| Early Efforts at Urban Reform | |
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| Features of Progressivism | |
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| Roosevelt's Progressivism | |
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| Roosevelt's Second Term | |
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| From Roosevelt to Taft | |
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| Woodrow Wilson's Progressivism | |
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| Limits of Progressivism | |
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| America and the Great War | |
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| Wilson and Foreign Affairs | |
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| An Uneasy Neutrality | |
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| America's Entry into the War | |
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| America at War | |
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| The Fight for the Peace | |
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| Lurching from War to Peace | |
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| The Modern Temper | |
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| The Reactionary Twenties | |
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| The "Jazz Age" During the "Roaring Twenties" | |
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| Mass Culture | |
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| The Modernist Revolt | |
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| Republican Resurgence and Decline | |
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| "Normalcy" | |
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| Isolationism in Foreign Affairs | |
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| The Harding Scandals | |
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| The New Era | |
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| President Hoover, the Engineer | |
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| Global Concerns | |
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| From Hooverism to the New Deal | |
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| New Deal America | |
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| Regulatory Efforts | |
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| The Social Cost of the Depression | |
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| Culture in the Thirties | |
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| The New Deal Matures | |
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| Roosevelt's Second Term | |
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| The Legacy of the New Deal | |
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| The Second World War | |
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| From Isolationism to Intervention | |
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| Foreign Crises | |
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| War Clouds | |
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| The Storm in Europe | |
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| The Storm in the Pacific | |
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| A World War | |
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| Mobilization at Home | |
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| Social Effects of the War | |
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| The Allied Drive Toward Berlin | |
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| Leapfrogging to Tokyo | |
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| A New Age is Born | |
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| The Final Ledger | |
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| The American Age | |
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| The Fair Deal and Containment | |
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| Demobilization Under Truman | |
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| The Cold War | |
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| Civil Rights During the 1940s | |
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| The Cold War Heats up | |
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| The 1950s: Affluence and Anxiety in an Atomic Age | |
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| A People of Plenty | |
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| A Conformist Culture | |
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| Cracks in the Picture Window | |
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| Alienation and Liberation | |
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| Moderate Republicanism-The Eisenhower Years | |
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| The Early Years of the Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Foreign Policy in the 1950s | |
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| Foreign Interventions | |
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| Reflection and Foreign Crises | |
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| Festering Problems Abroad | |
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| Assessing the Eisenhower Presidency | |
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| New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s | |
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| The New Frontier | |
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| Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Foreign Frontiers | |
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| Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society | |
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| From Civil Rights to Black Power | |
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| The Tragedy of Vietnam | |
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| Sixties Crescendo | |
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| Rebellion and Reaction: The 1960s and 1970s | |
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| The Roots of Rebellion | |
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| Nixon and Middle America | |
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| Nixon and Vietnam | |
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| Nixon Triumphant | |
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| Watergate | |
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| An Unelected President | |
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| A Conservative Realignment: 1977-1990 | |
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| The Carter Presidency | |
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| The Reagan Revolution | |
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| Reagan's First Term | |
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| Reagan's Second Term | |
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| The Changing Social Landscape | |
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| The Bush Administration | |
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| Cultural Conservatism | |
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| America in a New Millennium | |
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| America's Changing Mosaic | |
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| Bush to Clinton | |
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| Domestic Policy in Clinton's First Term | |
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| Republican Insurgency | |
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| The Clinton Years at Home | |
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| Foreign-Policy Challenges | |
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| The Election of 2000 | |
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| Compassionate Conservatism | |
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| Global Terrorism | |
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| Second-Term Blues | |
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| A Historic Election | |
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| Obama's First Term | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Appendix | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| Articles of Confederation | |
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| The Constitution of the United States | |
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| Amendments to the Constitution | |
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| Presidential Elections | |
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| Admission of States | |
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| Population of the United States | |
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| Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820-2011 | |
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| Immigration by Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-2011 | |
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| Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Secretaries of State | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |