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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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Reconstructing the South | |
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The Reconstructed South | |
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The Grant 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 | |
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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 Progressive | |
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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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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 | |