Experience History Vol 2: Since 1865

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

TR

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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