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| List of Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| A New World | |
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| Discovery and Settlement | |
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| Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizations | |
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| First Contacts | |
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| Exploration and Conquest of the New World | |
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| Settling the Chesapeake | |
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| Settling New England | |
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| Renewed Settlement | |
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| Thriving Colonies | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Colonial Ways of Life | |
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| The Shape of Early America | |
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| Society and Economy in the Southern Colonies | |
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| Society and Economy in New England | |
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| Society and Economy in the Middle Colonies | |
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| Colonial Cities | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| The Great Awakening | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Imperial Perspective | |
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| English Administration of the Colonies | |
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| The Habit of Self-Government | |
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| Troubled Neighbors | |
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| The Colonial Wars | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| From Empire to Independence | |
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| The Heritage of War | |
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| Western Lands | |
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| Grenville's Colonial Policy | |
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| Fanning the Flames | |
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| Discontent on the Frontier | |
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| A Worsening Crisis | |
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| Shifting Authority | |
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| Independence | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Building a Nation | |
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| The American Revolution | |
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| 1776: Washington's Narrow Escape | |
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| American Society at War | |
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| 1777: Setbacks for the British | |
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| 1778: Both Sides Regroup | |
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| The War in the South | |
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| Negotiations | |
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| The Political Revolution | |
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| The Social Revolution | |
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| Emergence of an American Culture | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Shaping a Federal Union | |
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| The Confederation | |
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| Adopting the Constitution | |
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| "A More Perfect Union" | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Federalists: Washington and Adams | |
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| A New Nation | |
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| Hamilton's Vision of America | |
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| The Republican Alternative | |
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| Crises Foreign and Domestic | |
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| Land Settlement | |
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| Transfer of Power | |
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| The Adams Years | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Republicanism: Jefferson and Madison | |
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| Jefferson in Office | |
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| Divisions in the Republican Party | |
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| War in Europe | |
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| The War of 1812 | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Nationalism and Sectionalism | |
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| Economic Nationalism | |
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| "Good Feelings" | |
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| Crises and Compromises | |
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| Judicial Nationalism | |
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| Nationalist Diplomacy | |
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| One-Party Politics | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| An Expansive Nation | |
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| The Jacksonian Impulse | |
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| A New Political Culture | |
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| Jackson Takes Office | |
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| Nullification | |
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| Racial Prejudice in the Jacksonian Era | |
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| The Bank Controversy | |
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| Van Buren and the New Party System | |
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| Assessing the Jackson Years | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Dynamics of Growth | |
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| Agriculture and the National Economy | |
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| Transportation and the National Economy | |
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| The Growth of Industry | |
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| The Popular Culture | |
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| Immigration | |
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| Organized Labor | |
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| Jacksonian Inequality | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| An American Renaissance: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform | |
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| Rational Religion | |
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| The Second Great Awakening | |
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| Romanticism in America | |
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| The Flowering of American Literature | |
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| Education | |
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| Some Movements for Reform | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Manifest Destiny | |
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| The Tyler Years | |
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| The Western Frontier | |
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| Moving West | |
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| Annexing Texas | |
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| Polk's Presidency | |
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| The Mexican War | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| A House Divided and Rebuilt | |
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| The Old South: An American Tragedy | |
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| Distinctive Features of the Old South | |
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| White Society in the South | |
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| Black Society in the South | |
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| The Culture of the Southern Frontier | |
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| Antislavery Movements | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Crisis of Union | |
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| Slavery in the Territories | |
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| The Compromise of 1850 | |
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| Foreign Adventures | |
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| The Kansas-Nebraska Crisis | |
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| The Deepening Sectional Crisis | |
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| The Center Comes Apart | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The War of the Union | |
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| End of the Waiting Game | |
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| The War's Early Course | |
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| Emancipation | |
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| Women and the War | |
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| Government During the War | |
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| The Faltering Confederacy | |
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| The Confederacy's Defeat | |
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| A Modern War | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Reconstruction: North and South | |
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| The War's Aftermath | |
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| The Battle Over 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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| Further Reading | |
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| Growing Pains | |
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| New Frontiers: South and West | |
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| The New South | |
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| The New West | |
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| Further Reading | |
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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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| Labor Conditions and Organization | |
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| A Nation Transformed | |
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| Further Reading | |
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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 the Professions | |
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| Realism in Thought, Culture, and Literature | |
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| The Social Gospel | |
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| Early Efforts at Urban Reform | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Gilded-Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt | |
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| Paradoxical Politics | |
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| Corruption and Reform | |
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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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| A New Era | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Modern America | |
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| An American Empire | |
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| Toward the New Imperialism | |
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| Expansion in the Pacific | |
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| The Spanish-American War | |
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| Imperial Rivalries in East Asia | |
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| Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Progressive Era | |
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| Elements of Reform | |
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| The Main 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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| Wilson's Progressivism | |
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| The Limits of Progressivism | |
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| Further Reading | |
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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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| "The Decisive Power" | |
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| The Fight for the Peace at Home and Abroad | |
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| Lurching From War to Peace | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Modern Temper | |
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| Reaction in the Twenties | |
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| The Roaring Twenties | |
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| The Culture of Modernism | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Republican Resurgence and Decline | |
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| "Normalcy" | |
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| The New Era | |
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| President Hoover, the Engineer | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| New Deal America | |
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| From Hooverism to the New Deal | |
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| Recovery Through Regulation | |
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| The Human Cost of the Depression | |
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| Culture in the Thirties | |
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| The Second New Deal | |
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| Roosevelt's Second Term | |
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| The Legacy of the New Deal | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| From Isolation to Global War | |
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| Postwar Isolationism | |
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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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| Further Reading | |
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| The Second World War | |
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| America's Early Battles | |
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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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| Further Reading | |
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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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| Harry Gives 'em Hell | |
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| The Cold War Heats Up | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Through the Picture Window: Society and Culture, 1945-1960 | |
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| People of Plenty | |
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| A Conforming Culture | |
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| Cracks in the Picture Window | |
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| A Paradoxical Era | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Conflict and Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years | |
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| "Time for A Change" | |
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| Eisenhower's "Hidden-Hand" Presidency | |
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| Foreign Intervention | |
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| Reelection and Foreign Crises | |
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| Festering Problems Abroad | |
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| The Early Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Assessing the Eisenhower Years | |
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| Further Reading | |
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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 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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| Further Reading | |
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| Rebellion and Reaction in the 1960s and 1970s | |
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| The Roots of Rebellion | |
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| Nixon and Vietnam | |
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| Nixon and Middle America | |
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| Nixon Triumphant | |
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| Watergate | |
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| An Unelected President | |
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| The Carter Interregnum | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Conservative Insurgency | |
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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 Bush Years | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Cultural Politics | |
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| America's Changing Face | |
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| Cultural Conservatism | |
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| Bush to Clinton | |
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| Domestic Issues | |
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| Republican Insurgency | |
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| Economic and Social Trends | |
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| Foreign Policy Challenges | |
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| Fin-De-Siecle America | |
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| Further Reading | |
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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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| 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 1820-1990 | |
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| Immigration by Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-1989 | |
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| Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of State | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |