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Table of Contents

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    • About the Author
    • Preface
    • 1What Does Freedom Mean?: Reconstruction, 1865–1877
      • 1.1Race, Reunion, and the Aftermath of War
      • 1.2Congressional Reconstruction
      • 1.3Challenges of Reconstruction
      • 1.4Reconstruction Reversed
      • 1.5Conclusion
      • 1.6Further Reading
    • 2Western Expansion, the New South, and Industrial America, 1870–1890

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      • 2.1Native Americans and the Trans-Mississippi West

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      • 2.2Winning and Losing the West

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      • 2.3Growth of Industrial America and the New South

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      • 2.4Challenging the Gilded Age

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      • 2.5Further Reading

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    • 3Populism and Imperialism, 1890–1900

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      • 3.1Urban American and Popular Culture

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      • 3.2National Politics and the Populist Party

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      • 3.3Immigration, Ethnicity, and the “Nadir of Race Relations”

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      • 3.4Imperialism at Home and Abroad

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      • 3.5Further Reading

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    • 4From Populism to the Progressive Era, 1900–1912

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      • 4.1National Politics during the Progressive Era

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      • 4.2The Progressives

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      • 4.3Radicalism and the Limits of Egalitarian Reform

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      • 4.4Life in “Modern America”

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      • 4.5Conclusion

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      • 4.6Further Reading

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    • 5The Late Progressive Era and World War, 1912–1920

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      • 5.1The Wilson Administration and the Coming War

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      • 5.2The Great War and America

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      • 5.3Armistice and Aftermath

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      • 5.4Conclusion

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      • 5.5Further Reading

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    • 6Roaring Twenties to the Great Depression, 1920–1932

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      • 6.1Prosperity and Its Limits

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      • 6.2Immigration and Closing the Golden Door

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      • 6.3Popular Culture and a Renaissance in Harlem

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      • 6.4The Crash: From Decadence to Depression

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      • 6.5Conclusion

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      • 6.6Further Reading

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    • 7The New Deal and Origins of World War II, 1932–1939

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      • 7.1The First New Deal, 1933–1935

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      • 7.2Last Hired, First Fired: Women and Minorities in the Great Depression

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      • 7.3Second New Deal and Its Opponents, 1935–1939

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      • 7.4America’s Entry into World War II

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      • 7.5Conclusion

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      • 7.6Further Reading

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    • 8America and World War II, 1941–1945

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      • 8.1Pearl Harbor and the Arsenal of Democracy

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      • 8.2Double V: Freedom Abroad, Freedom at Home

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      • 8.3D-Day to Victory

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      • 8.4Conclusion

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      • 8.5Further Reading

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    • 9The Cold War at Home and Abroad, 1945–1953

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      • 9.1Postwar Europe, Asia, and the Middle East

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      • 9.2Postwar America

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      • 9.3Red Scares, Lavender Scares, and the Quest for Equality during the Early Cold War

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      • 9.4Containment and the Korean “Conflict”

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      • 9.5Further Reading

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    • 10The Cold War and the Affluent Society, 1954–1963

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      • 10.1The Global Cold War during the Eisenhower Administration

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      • 10.2America during the Eisenhower Years

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      • 10.3America and the World during the Kennedy Years

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      • 10.4Conclusion

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      • 10.5Further Reading

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    • 11Vietnam and Civil Disobedience, 1963–1969

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      • 11.1From New Frontier to Great Society

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      • 11.2The Great Society and the Vietnam War

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      • 11.3“More than a Hamburger:” Civil Rights and Social Justice

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      • 11.41968–1969: Unrest and Upheaval

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      • 11.5Further Reading

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    • 12The 1970s

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      • 12.1Vietnam, Détente, and Watergate

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      • 12.2Détente, Decline, and Domestic Politics

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      • 12.3Equality and Liberation in the New America

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      • 12.4The Middle East and Malaise: America in the Late 1970s

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      • 12.5Conclusion

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      • 12.6Further Reading

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    • 13The Reagan and Bush Years, 1980–1992

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      • 13.1Conservatism and the “Reagan Revolution”

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      • 13.2The End of the Cold War

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      • 13.3American Life in the 1980s

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      • 13.4The Presidency of George Bush (Sr.)

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      • 13.5Conclusion

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      • 13.6Further Reading

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    • 14America in Our Time, 1992–Present

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      • 14.1America during the Clinton Administration

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      • 14.2From the Center to the Edge: America during the George W. Bush Administration

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      • 14.3Diversity in the New America

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      • 14.4Continuity and Change: The United States and the Transition from Bush to Obama

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      • 14.5Conclusion

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      • 14.6Further Reading

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