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Preface | |
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1890s: The Beginnings of Modern America | |
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The Sculptor of Modern America: The Corporation | |
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The New Technology: Edison, Energy-and Secretaries | |
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Boom Hidden in Bust | |
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The Collapse of the First Barrier: The South, White and Black | |
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The Collapse of the Second Barrier: Laborers and Unions | |
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The Collapse of the Third Barrier: Protest Movements | |
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect of the Old Frontier and the New City | |
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The Collapse of the Fourth Barrier: Churches | |
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The Collapse of the Fifth Barrier: The Political Party System | |
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The United States Becomes a Great World Power | |
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"That Splendid Little War" | |
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The Peace: Closing Cuba, Opening China | |
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1900-1917: The Progressive Era | |
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The Reform Impulse | |
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Big Business | |
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Cities and Slums | |
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Morality and Democracy | |
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Women and the Progressive Impulse | |
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Sin and Society: The Muckrakers | |
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The Reform Ideology | |
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Nativism Versus the Melting Pot | |
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Racism and Reform | |
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Theodore Roosevelt | |
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The Square Deal | |
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Boxing: Black Champions and White Hopes | |
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The New Nationalism | |
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Taft and the Insurgents | |
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Woodrow Wilson | |
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Enacting the New Freedom | |
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1900-1917: A Progressive Foreign Policy-From Peace to War | |
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Theodore Roosevelt | |
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"I Took the Canal" … | |
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… and Also Santo Domingo | |
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Roosevelt Loses His Balance | |
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The Failure of Big-Stick Diplomacy | |
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Replacing Bullets with Dollars | |
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Replacing Dollars with Bullets | |
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Canada | |
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China Once Again | |
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The Ultimate Progressive Diplomat | |
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Ashcans and the Armory Show | |
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The Far Eastern Merry-Go-Round | |
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Marine Corps Progressivism | |
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The First Twentieth-Century Revolution: Mexico | |
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First Phase: American Entry into World War I | |
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Second Phase: Submarines | |
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Third Phase: Making the World Safe for Democracy | |
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1917-1920: The Failure of World War I | |
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Mobilization and Reform | |
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Prohibition and Woman Suffrage | |
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Propaganda and Politics | |
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Curbing Dissent: Why | |
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Socialists and Pacifists | |
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Curbing Dissent: How | |
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Another Revolution | |
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Intervening in the Russian Revolution | |
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The Yanks in Europe | |
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1919: Red Scare | |
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1919: Black Scare | |
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Baseball: Sport and Business | |
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The Road to Paris | |
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At Paris | |
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Rejection | |
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1920-1929: The New Era | |
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Republican Politics: Harding and Coolidge | |
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A New Order: Republican Alternatives to Wilson's League of Nations | |
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The Washington Naval Conference | |
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The New Order Reconstructs the Old | |
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The New Order in Latin America | |
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The Politics of Cultural Conflict | |
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Bessie Smith and the Blues | |
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Prohibition and Crime | |
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The Ku Klux Klan | |
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Fundamentalism and the Schools | |
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The Garvey Movement and the "New Negro" | |
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New Women and the New Morality | |
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The Discontent of the Intellectuals | |
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The End of the New Order: 1929 | |
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1929-1936: The Depression and the New Deal | |
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Herbert Hoover and the Depression | |
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The Breakdown of Relief | |
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The Bonus Army | |
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Agrarian Protest | |
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James Cagney and the Gangster Film | |
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Roosevelt and the New Deal | |
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The Blue Eagle | |
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Triple A | |
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Conservation and Public Power: The Tennessee Valley Authority | |
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Solidarity Forever? | |
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Relief and Security | |
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The New Deal Coalition | |
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1933-1941: Hard Times-Politics and Society | |
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The Old Folks' Crusade | |
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"Share Our Wealth" | |
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The Radio Priest and His Flock | |
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The Popular Front | |
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Black Americans and the New Deal | |
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Hallie Flanagan and the Federal Theater Project | |
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Women and Families Face the Depression | |
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The Conservative Response | |
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"Court Packing" | |
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The Waning of the New Deal | |
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Nativism and the Approach of War | |
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1929-1941: The Big Breakdown-The United States and the World | |
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"Mad Dogs" and Englishmen: The Manchurian Crisis of 1931-1932 | |
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New Order to New Deal | |
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Edward R. Murrow and the Radio | |
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Areas of Special Interest: Latin America and the Soviet Union | |
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The Failure of Political Neutrality | |
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The Failure of the New Deal | |
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The Ghost of 1919 | |
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The Trials of Unneutral Neutrality | |
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The Last Step | |
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1941-1947: War and Peace | |
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Images of War | |
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The War Economy | |
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Womanpower on the Home Front | |
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Fighting Inflation | |
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Dr. New Deal Meets Dr. Win-the-War | |
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Civil Rights and the South | |
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Cultural Pluralism and Civil Liberties | |
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Labor and Politics | |
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War and Social Change | |
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Martha Graham and Modern Dance | |
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Truman's Troubles: The Politics of Inflation | |
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1941-1947: One World Into Two | |
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Churchill and Stalin Versus Roosevelt | |
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One World, or Gullible's Travels | |
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1943-Turning of the Tide | |
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One World Becomes Two: Yalta and Afterward | |
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The Holocaust | |
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Truman | |
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Stalin | |
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Potsdam: The Turn in American Policy | |
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China: Another Revolution Amid the Cold War | |
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Margaret Bourke-White and Photojournalism | |
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The Bomb | |
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Back to the 1920s | |
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New Science-New Dangers | |
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Crises in the Mediterranean-And at Home | |
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"Scaring Hell" Out of the American People | |
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Avoiding the 1930s: The Marshall Plan | |
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1947-1952: The America of the Cold War | |
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The Physique of a Superpower: The American Economy | |
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Crisis Diplomacy: 1947-1948 | |
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Dr. Kinsey and Sex Research | |
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Stalin's Response: The Berlin Blockade | |
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Cold War Politics: The 1948 Election | |
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The Fair Deal: Civil Rights | |
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NATO: Multipurpose Militarism | |
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The Bursting of the Bubble: 1949-1950 | |
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Korea: June 1950 | |
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Changing "Containment" to "Liberation": The United States on the Offensive | |
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Truman and MacArthur | |
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Limited War at Home | |
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Civil Liberties Under Siege | |
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McCarthyism | |
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1952-1957: Eisenhower and the American Consensus | |
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The Suburban Society | |
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Domestic Ideals in Postwar America | |
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The Mood of the 1950s | |
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Republicans on the Potomac | |
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The Waning of McCarthyism | |
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Desegregation and the South | |
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Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation | |
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Acheson to Dulles | |
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Crises in a Third Camp: Iran, Guatemala, and Southeast Asia | |
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The Turn: Suez and Hungary, 1956 | |
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1957-1963: New Frontiers at Home and Abroad | |
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After Suez: Europe | |
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After Suez: Newly Emerging Areas | |
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The Good Neighbor and a Changing Neighborhood | |
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The Eisenhower Legacy and the New Frontier | |
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John F. Kennedy | |
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Congress and the New Frontier | |
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David Smith: The Machine Shop and Sculpture | |
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The New Economics | |
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Kennedy and Civil Rights | |
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The Worldwide New Frontier | |
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ICBMs and Green Berets | |
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The New Frontier Contained: 1961-1962 | |
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The Brink: The Cuban Missile Crisis | |
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Vietnam | |
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The New Frontier in Vietnam: 1961-1963 | |
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1963-1968: The Great Society and Vietnam | |
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The 1964 Election | |
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Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society | |
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The Warren Court: Judicial Activism | |
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Origins of the New Feminism | |
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Black Power and Urban Riots | |
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The Global Background to Vietnam | |
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Latin America and Africa | |
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Vietnam Abroad | |
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Vietnam in the White House | |
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Child Care: Dr. Spock and the Peace Movement | |
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Vietnam at Home | |
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The New Left and the Counterculture | |
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The 1968 Election | |
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1969-1975: The Imperial Presidency and Watergate | |
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The Nixon Foreign Policies | |
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The Nixon Failures: 1970-1971 | |
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Racing to the Moon | |
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The Nixon Successes: 1971-1972 | |
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Richard Nixon and the New Majority | |
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The "Social Issue" and the Supreme Court | |
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The Impact of the Women's Movement | |
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Native Americans and Wounded Knee II | |
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The Election of 1972 | |
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Watergate and the Presidency | |
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Football and Politics | |
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The Loss of Civil Liberties | |
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Impeachment: The Presidency from Nixon to Ford | |
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Henry Kissinger: Foreign Policy from Nixon to Ford | |
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1976-1984: New Directions | |
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Jimmy Carter and the "New Realities" | |
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Carter's Foreign Policy: Confusion … | |
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… to Cold War | |
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Political Evangelicalism and the Moral Majority | |
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The Reagan Redirection | |
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The Poor and the Yuppies | |
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Affirmative Action and Undocumented Aliens: Dilemmas of Race and Ethnicity | |
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The Computer Revolution After Four Centuries of Evolution | |
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The Feminization of Poverty, the ERA, and the Gender Gap | |
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New Directions in U.S. Foreign Policy, or The Great Debate over the Use of Force | |
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Central America | |
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Negotiating with the "Evil Empire" | |
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The 1984 Election | |
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1985-1992: The End of the Cold War | |
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The Roaring Eighties | |
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Americans and the Emerging World: The Reagan Doctrine to Iranamok | |
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The Court and the Constitution: Bork and the Bicentennial | |
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Earth Day and the Environment | |
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The Fitness Craze | |
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Women, the Workplace, and the Family | |
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AIDS, Drugs, and Privacy | |
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Bush Versus Dukakis: 1988 | |
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Culture Wars and the Bush Administration | |
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The End of the "Evil Empire"-and of the Cold War | |
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The Persian Gulf War | |
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To the End of the Century | |
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1993-2000: The Road to the Twenty-First Century | |
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"A Different Kind of Democrat": The Media and the Election of 1992 | |
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The World of Multinationals-and Militias | |
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The New Immigration and Its Impact | |
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Basketball: From Naismith to Nike | |
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Bill Clinton and the End of Liberalism | |
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Clinton's Foreign Policies: Reverses … | |
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… to Victories | |
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Gender, Law, and Politics | |
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The Election of 1996 | |
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Clinton's Second Term | |
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Clinton in a Fragmenting World | |
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9/11: Causes and Consequences | |
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The Supreme Court Chooses a President | |
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9/11 and the Invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq: 2001-2004 | |
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The Constitution, the Court, and Domestic Terrorism | |
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Bush Reelected: 2004 | |
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Economic Inequality | |
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The 300 Millionth American | |
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Transforming the Supreme Court | |
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The Growing Crisis Over Global Warming | |
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The "Last Throes" of Terrorism? U.S. Foreign Policy After 2003 | |
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Conclusion: The World After 9/11 | |
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2007-2012: Obama-"America Is a Place Where All Things Are Possible" (Sometimes) | |
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The Great Recession, 2007-? | |
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The Great Recession: An End to an American Dream? | |
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Obama Wins: The Election of 2008 | |
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A "New, New Deal": Barack Obama's Domestic Policy | |
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The Roberts Court | |
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Women in Ascent | |
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School Wars | |
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The World as a Pool Table | |
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The "Arab Spring"-and Some Implications | |
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The 2012 Elections: Obama, Romney-and Hurricane Sandy | |
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Guide to Further Reading | |
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Index | |
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About the Authors | |