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Chapter 17. Reconstructing the Union, 1865-1877

An American Story: The Secret Sale at Davis Bend

Presidential Reconstruction

Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan
The Mood of the South
Johnson's Program of Reconstruction
The Failure of Johnson's Program
Johnson's Break with Congress
The Fourteenth Amendment
Dueling Documents: Equality and the Vote in Reconstruction
The Elections of 1866

Congressional Reconstruction

Post-Emancipation Societies in the Americas
The Land Issue
Impeachment

Reconstruction in the South

Black Office Holding
White Republicans in the South
The New State Governments
Economic Issues and Corruption

Black Aspirations

Experiencing Freedom
The Black Family
The Schoolhouse and the Church
New Working Conditions
The Freedmen's Bureau
Daily Lives: The Black Sharecropper's Cabin
Planters and a New Way of Life

The Abandonment of Reconstruction

The Election of Grant
The Grant Administration
Growing Northern Disillusionment
The Triumph of White Supremacy
The Disputed Election of 1876
Historian's Toolbox: Dressed to Kill
The Failure of Reconstruction
REVIEW CHART: MAJOR PLAYERS IN RECONSTRUCTION
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 18. The New South & the Trans-Mississippi West, 1870-1914

An American Story: "Come West"

The Southern Burden

Agriculture in the New South
Tenancy and Sharecropping
Southern Industry
Timber and Steel
The Sources of Southern Poverty

Life in the New South

Rural Life
The Church
Segregation

Western Frontiers

Western Landscapes
Indian Peoples and the Western Environment
Whites and the Western Environment: Competing Visions

The War for the West

Contact and Conflict
Custer's "Last Stand"--And the Indians'
Killing with Kindness
Historian's Toolbox: A White Man's View of Custer's Defeat
Borderlands
Dueling Documents: "Americanizing" the Indians
Ethno-Racial Identity in the New West

Boom and Bust in the West

Mining Sets a Pattern

The Transcontinental Railroad
Cattle Kingdom
Home on the Range
A Boom and Bust Cycle

The Final Frontier

A Rush for Land
Farming on the Plains
A Plains Existence
Daily Lives: The Frontier Kitchen of the Plains
The Urban Frontier
The West and the World Economy
Packaging and Exporting the "Wild West"
The South and the West in Sum
REVIEW CHART: THE WAR FOR THE WEST
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: Where Have All the Bison Gone?

Chapter 19. The New Industrial Order, 1870-1914

An American Story: "Waiting for their Brains"

The Development of Industrial Systems

Natural Resources and Industrial Technology
Systematic Invention
Transportation and Communication
Finance Capital
The Corporation
Daily Lives: The Rise of Information Systems
An International Pool of Labor

Railroads: America's First Big Business

A Managerial Revolution
Competition and Consolidation
The Challenge of Finance

The Growth of Big Business

Strategies of Growth
Carnegie Integrates Steel
Rockefeller and the Great Standard Oil Trust
The Mergers of J. Pierpont Morgan
Corporate Defenders
Corporate Critics
Short and Long Term Costs of Doing Business

The Workers' World

Industrial Work
Children, Women, and African Americans
Historian's Toolbox: Digital Detecting
The American Dream of Success

The Systems of Labor

Early Unions
The Knights of Labor
The American Federation of Labor
The Limits of Industrial Systems
Dueling Documents: Two Sides of Haymarket
Management Strikes
REVIEW CHART: THE STRUCTURES AND STRATEGIES OF BIG BUSINESS
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 20. The Rise of an Urban Order, 1870-1914

An American Story: A Day in the Life of Boss Plunkitt

A New Urban Age

The Urban Explosion
The Great Global Migration
Holding the City Together
Bridges and Skyscrapers
The Urban Environment: Slum and Tenement

Running and Reforming the City

Historian's Toolbox: Machine Age Voting
Boss Rule
Rewards, Costs, and Accomplishments
Nativism, Revivals, and the Social Gospel
The Social Settlement Movement

City Life

The Immigrants in the City
Urban Middle-Class Life
Victorianism and the Pursuit of Virtue
Dueling Documents: City Scenes
City Life and "Manliness"
Challenges to Convention

City Culture

Public Education in an Urban Industrial World
Higher Learning and the Rise of the Professional
Higher Education for Women
A Culture of Consumption
Leisure
City Entertainment at Home and on the Road
Daily Lives: The Vaudeville Show
REVIEW CHART: THE GROWTH OF CITIES
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 21. The Political System under Strain at Home and Abroad, 1877-1900

An American Story: "The World United at Chicago"

Politics of Paralysis

Political Stalemate
The Parties
The Issues
The White House from Hayes to Harrison
Ferment in the States and Cities

The Revolt of the Farmers

The Harvest of Discontent
The Origins of the Farmers' Alliance
Alliance Peaks
The Election of 1892
Dueling Documents: What Can a Farmer Do?

The New Realignment

The Depression of 1893
The Rumblings of Unrest
The Battle of the Standards
Historian's Toolbox: Pinning the Winning Ticket
The Rise of Jim Crow Politics
The African-American Response
McKinley in the White House

Visions of Empire

Imperialism, European-Style and American
The Shapers of American Imperialism
Dreams of a Commercial Empire

The Imperial Moment

Mounting Tensions
The Imperial War
Daily Lives: The New Navy
War in Cuba
Peace and the Debate over Empire
From Colonial War to Colonial Rule
An Open Door in China
REVIEW CHART: ACQUIRING AN EMPIRE: 1860-1900
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: Engendering the Spanish-American War

Chapter 22. The Progressive Era, 1890-1920

An American Story: Burned Alive in the City

The Roots of Progressive Reform

The Progressive System of Beliefs
The Pragmatic Approach
The Progressive Method

The Search for the Good Society

Poverty in a New Light
Expanding the Women's Sphere
Social Welfare
Women's Suffrage

Controlling the Masses

Stemming the Immigrant Tide
The Curse of Demon Rum
Daily Lives: "Amusing the Million"
Prostitution
"For Whites Only"
Historian's Toolbox: Mementos of Murder

The Politics of Municipal and State Reform

The Reformation of the Cities
Progressivism in the States

Progressivism Goes to Washington

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A Square Deal
Bad Food and Pristine Wilds
The Troubled Taft
Dueling Documents: Preservation versus Conservation
The Election of 1912

Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality

Early Career
The Reforms of the New Freedom
Labor and Social Reform
REVIEW CHART: THE PROGRESSIVE AMENDMENTS
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 23. The United States and the Collapse of the Old World Order, 1901-1920

An American Story: "A Path between the Seas"

Progressive Diplomacy

Big Stick in the Caribbean
A "Diplomatist of the Highest Rank"
Dollar Diplomacy

Woodrow Wilson and Moral Diplomacy

Missionary Diplomacy
Intervention in Mexico

The Road to War

The Guns of August
Neutral but Not Impartial
The Diplomacy of Neutrality
Peace, Preparedness, and the Election of 1916
Wilson's Final Peace Offensive

War and Society

The Slaughter of Stalemate
"You're in the Army Now"
Historian's Toolbox: Sounding the Times: Sounding the Times

Mobilizing the Economy

War Work
Great Migrations
Propaganda and Civil Liberties
Over There
Dueling Documents: The Limits of Free Speech
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
Daily Lives: The Doughboys Abroad

The Lost Peace

The Treaty of Versailles
The Battle for the Treaty
Red Scare
REVIEW CHART: THE FATE OF WILSON'S 14 POINTS
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 24. The New Era, 1920-1929

An American Story: Yesterday Meets Today in the New Era

The Roaring Economy

Technology and Consumer Spending
The Booming Construction Industry
The Automobile
The Future of Energy
The Business of America
Welfare Capitalism
The Consumer Culture
Historian's Toolbox: Youth in a Jar

A Mass Society

A "New Woman"
Daily Lives: The Beauty Contest
Mass Media
The Cult of Celebrity
"Ain't We Got Fun"
The Art of Alienation
A "New Negro"
Dueling Documents: "The Problem of the Color Line"

Defenders of the Faith

Nativism and Immigration Restriction
The "Noble Experiment"
Fundamentalism versus Darwinism
KKK

Republican Ascendant

The Politics of "Normalcy"
The Politics of Mellon and Hoover
Distress Signals at Home and Abroad
The Election of 1928

The Great Bull Market

The Rampaging Bull
The Great Crash
The Sickening Slide in Global Perspective
The Causes of the Great Depression
REVIEW CHART: THE CULTURE WARS OF THE 1920S
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 25. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939

An American Story: Letters from the Edge

The Human Impact of the Great Depression Hard Times

Hard Times
The Golden Age of Radio and Film
"Dirty Thirties": An Ecological Disaster
Historian's Toolbox: Superheroes as Cultural Icons
Mexican Americans and Repatriation
African Americans in the Depression

The Tragedy of Herbert Hoover

The Failure of Relief
The Hoover Depression Program
Stirrings of Discontent
The Bonus Army
The Election of 1932

The Early New Deal (1933-1935)

The Democratic Roosevelts
Dueling Documents: Two Views of the "Forgotten Man"
Saving the Banks
Relief for the Unemployed
Planning for Industrial Recovery
Planning for Agriculture

A Second New Deal (1935-1936)

Dissent from the Deal
The Second Hundred Days
The Election of 1936

The New Deal and the American People

The New Deal and Western Water
The Limited Reach of the New Deal
Tribal Rights
A New Deal for Women
The Rise of Organized Labor
"Art for the Millions"
Daily Lives: Post Office Murals

The End of the New Deal

Packing the Courts
The End of the New Deal
The Legacy of the New Deal
REVIEW CHART: WHAT THE NEW DEAL DID
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 26. America's Rise to Globalism, 1927-1945

An American Story: "Oh Boy"

The United States in a Troubled World

Pacific Interests
Becoming a Good Neighbor
The Diplomacy of Isolationism
Neutrality Legislation
Inching toward War
Hitler's Invasion
Retreat from Isolation
Disaster in the Pacific

A Global War

Strategies for War
Gloomy Prospects
A Grand Alliance
The Naval War in the Pacific
Turning Points in Europe
Mobilizing for a Global War
Minorities at War
Women at War

War Production

Coordinating Production
Historian's Toolbox: Selling the Sizzle When the Steak is Missing
Science, the War, and the Environment
War Work and Prosperity
Organized Labor
Women Workers

A Question of Rights

Little Italy
Concentration Camps
At War with Jim Crow
The New Deal in Retreat
Dueling Documents: Zooters and the Sleepy Lagoon Case

Winning the War and the Peace

The Fall of the Third Reich
Two Roads to Tokyo
Big Three Diplomacy
Daily Lives: Air Power Shrinks the Globe
The Road to Yalta
Daily Lives: Air Power Shrinks the Globe
The Fallen Leader
The Holocaust
A Lasting Peace
Atom Diplomacy
REVIEW CHART: PIVOTAL EVENTS IN WORLD WAR II
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: Did the Atomic Bomb Save Lives?

Chapter 27. Cold War America 1945-1954

An American Story: Glad to Be Home?

The Rise of the Cold War

American Suspicions
Communist Expansion
A Policy of Containment
The Truman Doctrine
The Marshall Plan
The Fall of Eastern Europe
Historian's Toolbox: Kix Atomic Bomb Ring of 1946
The Atomic Shield versus the Iron Curtain

Postwar Prosperity

Postwar Energy and the Environment
Postwar Adjustments
Daily Lives: Jackie Robinson Integrates Baseball
Truman under Attack
A Welfare Program for GIs
Dueling Documents: Taft-Hartley: Containing Labor
The Election of 1948

The Cold War at Home

The Shocks of 1949
The Loyalty Crusade
HUAC, Hollywood, and Unions
The Ambitions of Senator McCarthy

From Cold War to Hot War and Back

Police Action
The Chinese Intervene
Truman versus MacArthur
The Global Implications of the Cold War
The Election of 1952
The Fall of McCarthy
REVIEW CHART: COLD WAR/RED SCARE: MILEPOSTS
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 28. The Suburban Era 1945-1963

An American Story: Dynamic Obsolescence

The Rise of the Suburbs

A Boom in Babies and in Housing
Cities and Suburbs Transformed

The Culture of Suburbia

American Civil Religion
Daily Lives: The New Suburbia
"Homemaking" Women in the Workaday World
A Revolution in Sexuality?
The Flickering Gray Screen
Historian's Toolbox: Their First Television

The Politics of Calm

Eisenhower's Modern Republicanism
The Conglomerate World

Cracks in the Consensus

Critics of Mass Culture
The Rebellion of Young America
The “Beats” Generation

Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers

To the Brink?
Brinkmanship in Asia
The Covert Side of the New Look
Rising Nationalism
The Response to Sputnik
Dueling Documents: The Kitchen Debate
Thaws and Freezes

The Cold War along a New Frontier

The Election of 1960
The Hard-Nosed Idealists of Camelot
The (Somewhat) New Frontier at Home
Kennedy's Cold War
Cold War Frustrations
Confronting Khrushchev
The Missiles of October
REVIEW CHART: CONSENSUS VERSUS CONFLICT IN THE SUBURBAN ERA
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 29. Civil Rights & Uncivil Liberties 1947-1969

An American Story: Two Roads to Integration

The Civil Rights Movement

The Changing South and African Americans
The NAACP and Civil Rights
The Brown Decision
Latino Civil Rights
A New Civil Rights Strategy
Little Rock and the White Backlash

A Movement Becomes a Crusade

Riding to Freedom
Civil Rights at High Tide
The Fire Next Time
Black Power
Violence in the Streets
Historian's Toolbox: Power to Which People?

Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society

The Origins of the Great Society
The Election of 1964
The Great Society
The Reforms of the Warren Court

The Counterculture

Activists on the New Left and Right
Vatican II and American Catholics
Dueling Documents: Student Voices for a New America
The Rise of the Counterculture
The Rock Revolution
Daily Lives: The Politics of Dress
The West Coast Scene
REVIEW CHART: THE WARREN COURT: CRITICAL DECISIONS IN AN ERA OF UPHEAVAL
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 30. The Vietnam Era 1963-1975

An American Story: Who Is the Enemy?

The Road to Vietnam

Lyndon Johnson's War
Rolling Thunder

Social Consequences of the War

The Soldiers' War
The War at Home

The Unraveling

Tet Offensive
The Shocks of 1968
Revolutionary Clashes Worldwide
Whose Silent Majority

The Nixon Era

Vietnamization--and Cambodia
Fighting a No-Win War
The Move toward Detente

The New Identity Politics

Historian's Toolbox: Farm Workers' Altar
Latino Activism
The Choice of American Indians
Asian Americans
Gay Rights
Feminism
Equal Rights and Abortion

Value Politics: The Consumer and Environmental Movements

Technology and Unbridled Growth
Political Action
The Legacy of Identity and Value Politics
Dueling Documents: Two Views of Science and Nature
The End of the War

Pragmatic Conservatism

Daily Lives: The Race to the Moon
Nixon's New Federalism
Stagflation
Social Policies and the Court
Triumph and Revenge
Break-In
To the Oval Office
Resignation

The Road's End for Vietnam and Liberalism

A Post-Imperial President
Energy and the Middle East
Limits across the Globe
REVIEW CHART: THE MAKING OF A QUAGMIRE: VIETNAM
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: The Contested Ground of Collective Memory

Chapter 31. The Conservative Challenge, 1976-1992

An American Story: The New American Commons

The Conservative Rebellion

Tax Revolt
The Diverse Evangelical World
The Catholic Conscience
Moving Religion into Politics
The Media as Battleground
Dueling Documents: The Culture Wars

Jimmy Carter: Restoring the Faith

The Search for Direction
Energy and the Environment
The Sagging Economy
Foreign Policy: Principled or Pragmatic?
The Middle East: Hope and Hostages
A President Held Hostage

Prime Time with Ronald Reagan

The Great Communicator
The Reagan Agenda
A Halfway Revolution
Deregulating the Environment
The Contours of Science and the Landscape of Technoburbs
Winners and Losers in the Labor Market

Standing Tall in a Chaotic World

The Military Buildup
Disaster in the Middle East
Frustrations in Central America
The Iran-Contra Connection
Cover Blown
From Cold War to Glasnost

An End to the Cold War

A Post-Cold War Foreign Policy
Historian's Toolbox: The Berlin Wall
The Gulf War
Domestic Doldrums
Daily Lives: Life in the Underclass
The Conservative Court
Disillusionment and Anger
The Election of 1992
REVIEW CHART: REAGAN AND BUSH: CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTIONARIES OR PRAGMATIC LEADERS?
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 32. The United States in a Global Community, 1989 - Present

An American Story: Of Grocery Chains and Migration Chains

The New Immigration

The New Look of America--Asian Americans
Daily Lives: Motels as an Ethnic Niche
The New Look of America--Latinos
Illegal Immigration
Links with the Home Country
Religious Diversity

Clinton and the New Global Order

The New World Disorder
Yugoslavian Turmoil
Middle East Peace

The Clinton Presidency on Trial

Recovery without Reform
The Conservative Revolution Revived
Women's Issues in the Clinton Years
Scandal
Hanging by a Chad: The Election of 2000

The United States in a Networked and Multicultural World

The Internet Revolution
American Workers in a Two-Tiered Economy
Historian's Toolbox: Mapping the Internet
African Americans and the Persistence of the Racial Divide
African Americans in a Full-Employment Economy
Global Pressures in a Multicultural America
The New Debate

Terrorism in a Global Age

A Conservative Agenda at Home
Unilateralism in Foreign Affairs
The Roots of Terror
The War on Terror: First Phase
The War in Iraq
A Messy Aftermath
Governing from the Right
Disasters Domestic and Foreign
The Election of 2008
Financial Collapse
Obama: Hope Versus Pragmatism
Dueling Documents: Cold War over Global Warming
REVIEW CHART: HALLMARKS OF GLOBALIZATION
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING