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| List of Maps | |
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| How They Lived | |
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| Preface | |
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| Aftermath: Reconstructing the Union; Failing the Freedmen 1865-1877 | |
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| The Reconstruction Crisis | |
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| 1866: The Critical Year | |
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| Radical Reconstruction | |
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| How They Lived: Gullah | |
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| Grant's Troubled Administration | |
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| The Twilight of Reconstruction | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Parties, Patronage, and Pork: Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century | |
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| How the System Worked | |
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| Presidents and Personalities | |
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| How They Lived: A District Leader's Day | |
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| Issues | |
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| Politics in the Cities | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Technology, Industry, and Business: Economic Revolution in the Late Nineteenth Century | |
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| A Land Made for Industry | |
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| Conquering the Wide-Open Spaces | |
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| The Transcontinental Lines | |
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| How They Lived: Building the Transcontinental | |
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| The Organizers | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Living with Leviathan: Big Business and Great Wealth | |
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| Regulating Railroads and Trusts | |
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| Social Critics | |
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| Defenders of the Faith | |
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| How They Lived: The Last Dance of the Idle Rich | |
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| How the Very Rich Lived | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| We Who Built America: Factories and Immigrants | |
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| A New Way of Life | |
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| Who Were the Workers? | |
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| Organize! | |
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| Nation of Immigrants | |
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| Ethnic America | |
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| How They Lived: Crossing the Atlantic | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Urban America: The Growth of Big Cities and Big City Problems | |
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| Cities as Alien Enclaves | |
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| Of the Growth of Great Cities | |
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| How They Lived: Sweatshops | |
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| The Evils of City Life | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| The Last Frontier: Winning the Last of the West 1865-1900 | |
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| The Last Frontier | |
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| The Cattle Kingdom | |
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| How They Lived: Punching Cows | |
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| The Wild West in American Culture | |
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| The Mining Frontier | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Stressful Times Down Home: American Agriculture 1865-1896 | |
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| Farming in a Dry Land | |
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| Southern Farmers | |
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| Protest and Organization | |
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| The Money Question | |
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| How They Lived: The Cigarette Kingdom | |
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| The Populists | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| The Days of McKinley: The United States as a World Power 1896-1903 | |
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| The Landmark Election of 1896 | |
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| Jim Crow Segregation | |
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| An American Empire | |
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| The Spanish-American War | |
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| How They Lived: Avenging the Maine | |
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| Empire Confirmed | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| The World of Teddy Roosevelt: Society and Culture in Transition 1890-1917 | |
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| Symbol of an Age | |
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| The New Middle Class | |
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| A Lively Culture | |
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| Americans at Play | |
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| How They Lived: Coney Island: Democratic Amusement | |
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| Sports | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Age of Reform: The Progressives | |
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| The Progressives | |
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| Progressivism Down Home | |
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| Making People Better | |
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| How They Lived: Bindlestiffs, Tramps, and Bums | |
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| Left of Progressivism | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| The Progressive Presidents: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson 1901-1916 | |
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| T. R. Takes Over | |
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| Roosevelt's Reforms | |
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| A Conservative President in a Progressive Era | |
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| How They Lived: The Mann Act | |
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| Democratic Party Progressivism | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Over There: The United States and the First World War 1914-1918 | |
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| Wilson, the World, and Mexico | |
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| The Great War | |
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| How They Lived: The Tin Lizzie | |
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| America Goes to War | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Over Here: World War I at Home 1917-1920 | |
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| The Progressive War | |
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| Social Changes | |
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| Conformity and Repression | |
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| Wilson and the League of Nations | |
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| How They Lived: "They Dropped Like Flies": The Great Flu Epidemic | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Troubled Years: America after the Great War 1919-1923 | |
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| "The Worst President" | |
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| Postwar Tensions: Labor, Reds, Immigrants | |
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| Racial Tensions | |
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| How They Lived: The National Pastime Business | |
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| Prohibition and Fundamentalism | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Calvin Coolidge and the New Era: When America Was Business 1923-1929 | |
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| The Coolidge Years | |
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| Prosperity and Business Culture | |
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| Get Rich Quick | |
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| How They Lived: Fads, Sensations, and Ballyhoo | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Hard Times: The Great Depression 1930-1933 | |
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| The Face of the Creature | |
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| The Failure of the Old Order | |
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| How They Lived: Weeknights at Eight | |
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| Responses to Hard Times | |
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| The Election of 1932 | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Rearranging America: FDR and the New Deal 1933-1938 | |
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| The Pleasant Man Who Changed America | |
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| The Hundred Days | |
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| New Deal-Failures and Successes | |
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| How They Lived: Not Feeling Sorry for the Rich | |
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| Populist Spellbinders | |
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| The Legacy of the New Deal | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| The Second Great War: America and the World 1933-1942 | |
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| New Deal Foreign Policy | |
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| The World Goes to War | |
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| The United States and the War | |
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| America Goes to War | |
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| How They Lived: Rationing and Scrap Drives | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| World War II: The Pinnacle of Power 1942-1945 | |
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| Stopping Japan | |
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| Defeating Germany First | |
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| The Twilight of Japan, the Nuclear Dawn | |
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| How They Lived: Amphibious Landing | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Cold War: The United States and the Nuclear Age 1946-1952 | |
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| The Shadow of Cold War | |
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| Domestic Politics Under Truman | |
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| Success in Japan, Conflict with China | |
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| Years of Tension | |
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| How They Lived: The Negro Leagues | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| "Happy Days": Popular Culture in the Fifties 1947-1963 | |
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| Let the Good Times Roll | |
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| Suburbia | |
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| Dissenters | |
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| How They Lived: The World of Fashion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Cold War and Civil Rights: The Eisenhower and Kennedy Years 1953-1963 | |
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| The Middle of the Road | |
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| How They Lived: Answer the Door, Somebody's Ringing the Bell | |
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| 1960: Changing of the Guard | |
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| Kennedy Foreign Policy | |
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| Civil Rights: The Battle in the Courts | |
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| Civil Rights: From the Courts to the Streets | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Johnson's Great Society: Reform and Conflict 1961-1968 | |
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| LBJ | |
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| The Great Society | |
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| Vietnam! Vietnam! | |
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| Mr. Johnson's War | |
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| Troubled Years | |
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| How They Lived: The Drug Culture | |
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| The Election of 1968 | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| The Presidency in Crisis: The Nixon, Ford, and Carter Administrations 1968-1980 | |
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| The Nixon Presidency | |
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| Nixon and Vietnam | |
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| Nixon-Kissinger Foreign Policy | |
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| Watergate and Gerald Ford | |
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| How They Lived: Sex: From No-No to Everybody's Doing It | |
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| Quiet Crisis | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Morning in America: The Age of Reagan 1980-1993 | |
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| The Ayatollah and the Actor | |
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| The Reagan Revolution | |
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| Foreign Policy in the Eighties | |
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| The Bush Presidency | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| The Millennium Years: Decadence? Renewal? 1993-2006 | |
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| Cultural Dissonance | |
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| Clinton and the World | |
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| Clintonian America | |
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| Catastrophe, Renewal, War | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Online Sources Guide | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |