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List of Maps	p. xvii
Preface	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
Reconstruction: North and South	p. 704
The War's Aftermath	p. 705
The Battle over Political Reconstruction	p. 711
The Assassination of Lincoln	p. 713
Reconstructing the South	p. 720
The Reconstructed South	p. 724
The Grand Years	p. 732
Growing Pains
Big Business and Organized Labor	p. 751
The Rise of Big Business	p. 751
Entrepreneurs	p. 761
The Working Class	p. 768
The South and the West Transformed	p. 790
The Myth of the New South	p. 791
The New West	p. 797
The Emergence of Urban America	p. 820
America's Move to Town	p. 821
The New Immigration	p. 826
Popular Culture	p. 832
Education and Social Thought	p. 839
Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt	p. 848
Paradoxical Politics	p. 849
Corruption and Reform: Hayes to Harrison	p. 853
The Farm Problem and Agrarian Protest Movements	p. 864
The Economy and the Silver Solution	p. 872
Race Relations During the 1890s	p. 878
Modern America
Seizing An American Empire	p. 897
Toward the New Imperialism	p. 898
Expansion in the Pacific	p. 900
The War of 1898	p. 903
Imperial Rivalries in East Asia	p. 920
Big-Stick Diplomacy	p. 922
"Making the World Over": The Progressive Era	p. 932
Elements of Reform	p. 934
The Social Gospel	p. 935
Early Efforts at Urban Reform	p. 937
Features of Progressivism	p. 944
Roosevelt's Progressivism	p. 950
Roosevelt's Second Term	p. 953
From Roosevelt to Taft	p. 958
Woodrow Wilson's Progressivism	p. 962
Limits of Progressivism	p. 977
America and the Great War	p. 980
Wilson and Foreign Affairs	p. 980
An Uneasy Neutrality	p. 983
America's Entry into the War	p. 995
America at War	p. 1001
The Fight for the Peace	p. 1007
Lurching from War to Peace	p. 1015
The Modern Temper	p. 1022
The Reactionary Twenties	p. 1024
The "Jazz Age" During the "Roaring Twenties"	p. 1034
Mass Culture	p. 1044
The Modernist Revolt	p. 1050
Republican Resurgence and Decline	p. 1060
"Normalcy"	p. 1061
Isolationism in Foreign Affairs	p. 1065
The Harding Scandals	p. 1069
The New Era	p. 1074
President Hoover, the Engineer	p. 1078
Global Concerns	p. 1086
From Hooverism to the New Deal	p. 1092
New Deal America	p. 1100
Regulatory Efforts	p. 1105
The Social Cost of the Depression	p. 1110
Culture in the Thirties	p. 1117
The New Deal Matures	p. 1120
Roosevelt's Second Term	p. 1129
The Legacy of the New Deal	p. 1136
The Second World War	p. 1142
From Isolationism to Intervention	p. 1142
Foreign Crises	p. 1143
War Clouds	p. 1150
The Storm in Europe	p. 1152
The Storm in the Pacific	p. 1159
A World War	p. 1163
Mobilization at Home	p. 1165
Social Effects of the War	p. 1167
The Allied Drive Toward Berlin	p. 1175
Leapfrogging to Tokyo	p. 1185
A New Age is Born	p. 1188
The Final Ledger	p. 1200
The American Age
The Fair Deal and Containment	p. 1209
Demobilization Under Truman	p. 1210
The Cold War	p. 1215
Civil Rights During the 1940s	p. 1225
The Cold War Heats up	p. 1232
The 1950s: Affluence and Anxiety in an Atomic Age	p. 1246
A People of Plenty	p. 1248
A Conformist Culture	p. 1258
Cracks in the Picture Window	p. 1261
Alienation and Liberation	p. 1263
Moderate Republicanism-The Eisenhower Years	p. 1268
The Early Years of the Civil Rights Movement	p. 1273
Foreign Policy in the 1950s	p. 1282
Foreign Interventions	p. 1285
Reflection and Foreign Crises	p. 1290
Festering Problems Abroad	p. 1294
Assessing the Eisenhower Presidency	p. 1296
New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s	p. 1300
The New Frontier	p. 1300
Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement	p. 1306
Foreign Frontiers	p. 1314
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society	p. 1322
From Civil Rights to Black Power	p. 1331
The Tragedy of Vietnam	p. 1338
Sixties Crescendo	p. 1344
Rebellion and Reaction: The 1960s and 1970s	p. 1350
The Roots of Rebellion	p. 1351
Nixon and Middle America	p. 1367
Nixon and Vietnam	p. 1376
Nixon Triumphant	p. 1381
Watergate	p. 1387
An Unelected President	p. 1392
A Conservative Realignment: 1977-1990	p. 1400
The Carter Presidency	p. 1401
The Reagan Revolution	p. 1412
Reagan's First Term	p. 1417
Reagan's Second Term	p. 1425
The Changing Social Landscape	p. 1429
The Bush Administration	p. 1438
Cultural Conservatism	p. 1446
America in a New Millennium	p. 1450
America's Changing Mosaic	p. 1451
Bush to Clinton	p. 1452
Domestic Policy in Clinton's First Term	p. 1456
Republican Insurgency	p. 1458
The Clinton Years at Home	p. 1462
Foreign-Policy Challenges	p. 1466
The Election of 2000	p. 1469
Compassionate Conservatism	p. 1472
Global Terrorism	p. 1473
Second-Term Blues	p. 1482
A Historic Election	p. 1487
Obama's First Term	p. 1491
Glossary	p. A1
Appendix	p. A59
The Declaration of Independence	p. A61
Articles of Confederation	p. A66
The Constitution of the United States	p. A74
Amendments to the Constitution	p. A86
Presidential Elections	p. A96
Admission of States	p. A104
Population of the United States	p. A105
Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820-2011	p. A106
Immigration by Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-2011	p. A108
Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Secretaries of State	p. A117
Further Readings	p. A123
Credits	p. A137
Index	p. A141
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