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American Destiny bridges the present to the past. Long renowned for elegant prose that is rich, memorable and concise, this book offers a narrative anchored in central political developments. Its pedagogical mission is to show how history connects to the experiences and expectations that mark modern lives.The authors pursue that mission through a variety of distinctive features, including "Re-Viewing the Past" and "Debating the Past" essays. This book is the concise version of The American Nation, and, as such, it has a compact size and moderat... MORE

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Maps and Graphs	p. xii
Features	p. xiv
American Lives
Re-Viewing the Past
Preface	p. xv
Supplements for Instructors and Students	p. xviii
Acknowledgments	p. xxii
About the Authors	p. xxiv
Prologue: Beginnings	p. 1
First Peoples	p. 1
The Demise of the Big Mammals	p. 2
The Archaic Period: Surviving without Big Mammals	p. 2
The Maize Revolution	p. 4
The Diffusion of Corn	p. 5
Population Growth after AD 800	p. 6
Cahokia: The Hub of Mississippian Culture	p. 7
The Collapse of Urban Centers	p. 8
Eurasia and Africa	p. 9
Europe in Ferment	p. 11
Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas	p. 14
Columbus's Great Triumph-and Error	p. 15
Spain's American Empire	p. 17
Extending Spain's Empire to the North	p. 19
Disease and Population Losses	p. 20
Ecological Imperialism	p. 21
Spain's European Rivals	p. 24
The Protestant Reformation	p. 24
English Beginnings in America	p. 25
The Settlement of Virginia	p. 27
�Purifying� the Church of England	p. 30
Bradford and Plymouth Colony	p. 31
Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony	p. 32
Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson	p. 34
Other New England Colonies	p. 35
Pequot War and King Philip's War	p. 36
Maryland and the Carolinas	p. 37
French and Dutch Settlements	p. 38
The Middle Colonies	p. 39
Cultural Collisions	p. 40
Cultural Fusions	p. 44
American Society in the Making	p. 48
Settlement of New France	p. 49
Society in New Mexico, Texas, and California	p. 49
The English Prevail on the Atlantic Seaboard	p. 52
The Chesapeake Colonies	p. 53
The Lure of Land	p. 54
�Solving� the Labor Shortage: Slavery	p. 55
Prosperity in a Pipe: Tobacco	p. 57
Bacon's Rebellion	p. 59
The Carolinas	p. 60
Home and Family in the South	p. 61
Georgia and the Back Country	p. 62
Puritan New England	p. 63
Democracies without Democrats	p. 65
The Dominion of New England	p. 66
Salem Bewitched	p. 66
A Merchant's World	p. 68
The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis	p. 70
The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples	p. 71
�The Best Poor Man's Country�	p. 73
The Politics of Diversity	p. 73
Becoming Americans	p. 77
America in the British Empire	p. 79
The British Colonial System	p. 80
Mercantilism	p. 81
The Navigation Acts	p. 82
The Effects of Mercantilism	p. 83
The Great Awakening	p. 85
The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Edwards	p. 87
The Enlightenment in America	p. 88
Colonial Scientific Achievements	p. 89
Repercussions of Distant Wars	p. 90
The Great War for the Empire	p. 91
Britain Victorious: The Peace of Paris	p. 95
Burdens of an Expanded Empire	p. 95
Tightening Imperial Controls	p. 97
The Sugar Act	p. 99
American Colonists Demand Rights	p. 100
The Stamp Act: The Pot Set to Boiling	p. 100
Rioters or Rebels?	p. 102
The Declaratory Act	p. 103
The Townshend Duties	p. 104
The Boston Massacre	p. 105
The Boiling Pot Spills Over	p. 106
The Tea Act Crisis	p. 106
From Resistance to Revolution	p. 108
The American Revolution	p. 112
The Shot Heard Round the World	p. 113
The Second Continental Congress	p. 114
The Battle of Bunker Hill	p. 115
The Great Declaration	p. 116
1776: The Balance of Forces	p. 119
Loyalists	p. 120
The British Take New York City	p. 120
Saratoga and the French Alliance	p. 123
The War Moves South	p. 125
Victory at Yorktown	p. 126
Negotiating a Favorable Peace	p. 128
National Government under the Articles of Confederation	p. 130
Financing the War	p. 131
State Republican Governments	p. 131
Social Reform and Antislavery	p. 132
Women and the Revolution	p. 134
Growth of a National Spirit	p. 135
The Great Land Ordinances	p. 136
National Heroes	p. 140
The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant	p. 143
Inadequacies of the Articles of Confederation	p. 144
Daniel Shays's �Little Rebellion�	p. 145
To Philadelphia, and the Constitution	p. 146
The Great Convention	p. 147
The Compromises That Produced the Constitution	p. 148
Ratifying the Constitution	p. 151
Washington as President	p. 153
Congress under Way	p. 155
Hamilton Financial Reform	p. 155
The Ohio Country: A Dark and Bloody Ground	p. 159
Revolution in France	p. 159
Federalists and Republicans: The Rise of Political Parties	p. 161
1794: Crisis and Resolution	p. 162
Jay's Treaty	p. 163
1795: All's Well That Ends Well	p. 164
Washington's Farewell	p. 165
The Election of 1796	p. 165
The XYZ Affair	p. 166
The Alien and Sedition Acts	p. 167
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolves	p. 168
Jeffersonian Democracy	p. 171
Jefferson Elected President	p. 172
The Federalist Contribution	p. 173
Thomas Jefferson: Political Theorist	p. 173
Jefferson as President	p. 174
Jefferson's Attack on the Judiciary	p. 176
The Barbary Pirates	p. 177
The Louisiana Purchase	p. 177
The Federalists Discredited	p. 181
Lewis and Clark	p. 183
The Burr Conspiracy	p. 184
Napoleon and The British	p. 185
The Impressment Controversy	p. 187
The Embargo Act	p. 187
Jeffersonian Democracy	p. 190
National Growing Pains	p. 193
Madison in Power	p. 194
Tecumseh and Indian Resistance	p. 194
Depression and Land Hunger	p. 196
Opponents of War	p. 196
The War of 1812	p. 197
Britain Assumes the Offensive	p. 201
�The Star Spangled Banner�	p. 202
The Treaty of Ghent	p. 203
The Hartford Convention	p. 203
The Battle of New Orleans and the End of the War	p. 204
Anglo-American Rapprochement	p. 206
The Transcontinental Treaty	p. 206
The Monroe Doctrine	p. 207
The Era of Good Feelings	p. 210
New Sectional Issues	p. 211
New Leaders	p. 214
The Missouri Compromise	p. 216
The Election of 1824	p. 219
John Quincy Adams as President	p. 220
Calhoun's Exposition and Protest	p. 220
The Meaning of Sectionalism	p. 221
Toward a National Economy	p. 224
Gentility and the Consumer Revolution	p. 225
Birth of the Factory	p. 226
An Industrial Proletariat?	p. 227
Lowell's Waltham System: Women as Factory Workers	p. 229
Irish and German Immigrants	p. 230
The Persistence of the Household System	p. 231
Rise of Corporations	p. 231
Cotton Revolutionizes the South	p. 232
Revival of Slavery	p. 235
Roads to Market	p. 236
Transportation and the Government	p. 238
Development of Steamboats	p. 239
The Canal Boom	p. 240
New York City: Emporium of the Western World	p. 241
The Marshall Court	p. 243
Jacksonian Democracy	p. 247
�Democratizing� Politics	p. 248
1828: The New Party System in Embryo	p. 249
The Jacksonian Appeal	p. 250
The Spoils System	p. 251
President of All the People	p. 252
Sectional Tensions Revived	p. 253
Jackson: �The Bank … I Will Kill It!�	p. 253
Jackson's Bank Veto	p. 255
Jackson versus Calhoun	p. 256
Indian Removals	p. 257
The Nullification Crisis	p. 260
Boom and Bust	p. 262
The Jacksonians	p. 263
Rise of the Whigs	p. 263
Martin Van Buren: Jacksonianism without Jackson	p. 265
The Log Cabin Campaign	p. 268
The Making of Middle-Class America	p. 271
Tocqueville: Democracy in America	p. 272
The Family Recast	p. 273
The Second Great Awakening	p. 274
The Era of Associations	p. 276
Backwoods Utopias	p. 277
The Age of Reform	p. 279
�Demon Rum�	p. 281
The Abolitionist Crusade	p. 282
Women's Rights	p. 285
The Romantic View of Life	p. 288
Emerson and Thoreau	p. 289
Edgar Allan Poe	p. 290
Nathaniel Hawthorne	p. 291
Herman Melville	p. 292
Walt Whitman	p. 292
Reading and the Dissemination of Culture	p. 294
Education for Democracy	p. 294
The State of the Colleges	p. 296
Westward Expansion	p. 299
Tyler's Troubles	p. 299
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty	p. 300
The Texas Question	p. 301
Manifest Destiny	p. 303
Life on the Trail	p. 303
California and Oregon	p. 304
The Election of 1844	p. 307
Polk as President	p. 307
War with Mexico	p. 308
To the Halls of Montezuma	p. 310
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo	p. 312
The Fruits of Victory: Further Enlargement of the United States	p. 312
Slavery: Storm Clouds Gather	p. 313
The Election of 1848	p. 314
The Gold Rush	p. 316
The Compromise of 1850	p. 317
The Sections Go Their Own Ways	p. 323
The South	p. 32$
The Economics of Slavery	p. 324
Antebellum Plantation Life	p. 327
The Sociology of Slavery	p. 32$
Psychological Effects of Slavery	p. 330
Manufacturing in the South	p. 333
The Northern Industrial Jugg$naut	p. 334
A Nation of Immigrants	p. 335
How Wage Earners Lived	p. 335
Progress and Poverty	p. 337
Foreign Commerce	p. 338
Steam Conquers the Atlantic	p. 339
Canals and Railroads	p. 339
Financing the Railroads	p. 340
Railroads and the Economy	p. 341
Railroads and the Sectional Conflict	p. 344
The Economy on the Eve of Civil War	p. 345
The Coming of the Civil War	p. 347
Slave-Catchers Come North	p. 348
Uncle Tom's Cabin	p. 350
Diversions Abroad: The �Young America� Movement	p. 351
Stephen Douglas: �The Little Giant�	p. 352
The Kansas-Nebraska Act	p. 353
Know-Nothings, Republicans, and the Demise of the Two-Party System	p. 355
�Bleeding Kansas�	p. 356
Senator Sumner Becomes a Martyr for Abolitionism	p. 358
Buchanan Tries His Hand	p. 359
The Dred Scott Decision	p. 360
The Proslavery Lecompton Constitution	p. 362
The Emergence of Lincoln	p. 363
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates	p. 364
John Brown's Raid	p. 366
The Election of 1860	p. 367
The Secession Crisis	p. 371
The War to Save the Union	p. 375
Lincoln's Cabinet	p. 375
Fort Sumter: The First Shot	p. 376
The Blue and the Gray	p. 378
The Test of Battle: Bull Run	p. 380
Paying for the War	p. 381
Politics as Usual	p. 382
Behind Confederate Lines	p. 383
War in the West: Shiloh	p. 384
McClellan: The Reluctant Warrior	p. 385
Lee Counterattacks: Antietam	p. 387
The Emancipation Proclamation	p. 388
The Draft Riots	p. 391
The Emancipated People	p. 392
African American Soldiers	p. 392
Antietam to Gettysburg	p. 393
Lincoln Finds His General: Grant at Vicksburg	p. 395
Economic and Social Effects, North and South	p. 396
Women in Wartime	p. 397
Grant in the Wilderness	p. 398
Sherman in Georgia	p. 400
To Appomattox Court House	p. 403
Winners, Losers, and the Future	p. 403
Reconstruction and the South	p. 409
The Assassination of Lincoln	p. 410
Presidential Reconstruction	p. 411
Republican Radicals	p. 413
Congress Rejects Johnsonian Reconstruction	p. 413
The Fourteenth Amendment	p. 415
The Reconstruction Acts	p. 416
Congress Supreme	p. 416
The Fifteenth Amendment	p. 417
�Black Republican� Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers	p. 419
The Ravaged Land	p. 421
Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System	p. 422
The White Backlash	p. 424
Grant as President	p. 426
The Disputed Election of 1876	p. 427
The Compromise of 1877	p. 429
The Conquest of the West	p. 433
The West after the Civil War	p. 434
The Plains Indians	p. 434
Indian Wars	p. 436
The Destruction of Tribal Life	p. 439
The Lure of Gold and Silver in the West	p. 441
Farmers Struggle to Keep Up	p. 442
Farming as Big Business	p. 443
Western Railroad Building	p. 443
The Cattle Kingdom	p. 447
Open-Range Ranching	p. 447
Barbed-Wire Warfare	p. 448
An Industrial Giant Emerges	p. 451
Essentials of Industrial Growth	p. 452
Railroads: The First Big Business	p. 452
Iron, Oil, and Electricity	p. 454
Competition and Monopoly: The Railroads	p. 457
Competition and Monopoly: Steel	p. 458
Competition and Monopoly: Oil	p. 461
Competition and Monopoly: Retailing and Utilities	p. 462
American Ambivalence to Big Business	p. 462
Reformers: George, Bellamy, Lloyd	p. 465
Reformers: The Marxists	p. 466
The Government Reacts to Big Business: Railroad Regulation	p. 467
The Government Reacts to Big Business: The Sherman Antitrust Act	p. 469
The Labor Union Movement	p. 470
The American Federation of Labor	p. 472
Labor Militancy Rebuffed	p. 473
Whither America, Whither Democracy?	p. 474
American Society in the Industrial Age	p. 477
Middle-Class Life	p. 478
Skilled and Unskilled Workers	p. 479
Working Women	p. 480
Working-Class Family Life	p. 481
Working-Class Attitudes	p. 481
Working Your Way Up	p. 482
The �New� Immigration	p. 484
New Immigrants Face New Nativism	p. 486
The Expanding City and Its Problems	p. 487
Teeming Tenements	p. 488
The Cities Modernize	p. 490
Leisure Activities: More Fun and Games	p. 490
Christianity's Conscience and the Social Gospel	p. 493
The Settlement Houses	p. 495
Civilization and Its Discontents	p. 497
Intellectual and Cultural Trends in the Late Nineteenth Century	p. 500
Colleges and Universities	p. 501
Revolution in the Social Sciences	p. 503
Progressive Education	p. 504
Law and History	p. 505
Realism in Literature	p. 508
Mark Twain	p. 508
William Dean Howells	p. 509
Henry James	p. 511
Realism in Art	p. 511
The Pragmatic Approach	p. 513
The Knowledge Revolution	p. 515
From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877-1896	p. 518
Congress Ascendant	p. 519
Recurrent Issues	p. 520
Party Politics: Sidestepping the Issues	p. 521
Lackluster Presidents: From Hayes to Harrison	p. 522
African Americans in the South after Reconstruction	p. 525
Booker T. Washington: A �Reasonable� Champion for African Americans	p. 527
City Bosses	p. 529
Crops and Complaints	p. 530
The Populist Movement	p. 531
Showdown on Silver	p. 533
The Depression of 1893	p. 535
The Election of 1896	p. 537
The Meaning of the Election	p. 539
The Age of Reform	p. 542
Roots of Progressivism	p. 542
The Muckrakers	p. 544
The Progressive Mind	p. 545
�Radical� Progressives: The Wave of the Future	p. 546
Political Reform: Cities First	p. 550
Political Reform: The States	p. 550
State Social Legislation	p. 551
Political Reform: The Woman Suffrage Movement	p. 553
Theodore Roosevelt: Cowboy in the White House	p. 556
Roosevelt and Big Business	p. 557
Roosevelt and the Coal Strike	p. 558
TR's Triumphs	p. 559
Roosevelt Tilts Left	p. 561
William Howard Taft: The Listless Progressive, or More Is Less	p. 561
Breakup of the Republican Party	p. 563
The Election of 1912	p. 564
Wilson: The New Freedom	p. 565
The Progressives and Minority Rights	p. 568
Black Militancy	p. 570
From Isolation to Empire	p. 574
Isolation or Imperialism?	p. 575
Origins of the Large Policy: Coveting Colonies	p. 575
Toward an Empire in the Pacific	p. 577
Toward an Empire in Latin America	p. 579
The Cuban Revolution	p. 580
The �Splendid Little� Spanish-American War	p. 582
Developing a Colonial Policy	p. 585
The Anti-Imperialists	p. 585
The Philippine Insurrection	p. 587
Cuba and the United States	p. 588
The United States in the Caribbean and Central America	p. 589
The Open Door Policy in China	p. 593
The Panama Canal	p. 595
Imperialism without Colonies	p. 598
Woodrow Wilson and the Great War	p. 601
Wilson's �Moral� Diplomacy	p. 602
Europe Explodes in War	p. 603
Freedom of the Seas	p. 604
The Election of 1916	p. 608
The Road to War	p. 609
Mobilizing the Economy	p. 611
Workers in Wartime	p. 613
Paying for the War	p. 613
Propaganda and Civil Liberties	p. 614
Wartime Reforms	p. 615
Women and Blacks in Wartime	p. 616
Americans: To the Trenches and Over the Top	p. 618
Preparing for place	p. 619
The Paris Peace Conference and the Versailles Treaty	p. 621
The Senate Rejects the League of Nations	p. 624
The Red Scare	p. 627
The Election of 1920	p. 628
Postwar Society and Culture: Change and Adjustment	p. 631
Closing the Gates to New Immigrants	p. 632
New Urban Social Patterns	p. 633
The Younger Generation	p. 635
The �New� Woman	p. 636
Popular Culture: Movies and Radio	p. 637
The Golden Age of Sports	p. 641
Urban-Rural Conflicts: Fundamentalism	p. 642
Urban-Rural Conflicts: Prohibition	p. 644
The Ku Klux Klan	p. 645
Literary Trends	p. 646
The �New Negro�	p. 648
Economic Expansion	p. 651
The Age of the Consumer	p. 651
Henry Ford	p. 653
The Airplane	p. 654
From �Normalcy� to Economic Collapse: 1921-1933	p. 656
Harding and �Normalcy�	p. 656
�The Business of the United States is Business�	p. 657
The Harding Scandals	p. 659
Coolidge Prosperity	p. 662
Peace without a Sword	p. 662
The Peace Movement	p. 664
The Good Neighbor Policy	p. 665
The Totalitarian Challenge	p. 665
War Debts and Reparations	p. 666
The Election of 1928	p. 667
Economic Problems	p. 668
The Stock Market Crash of 1929	p. 669
Hoover and the Depression	p. 670
The Economy Hits Bottom	p. 673
The Depression and Its Victims	p. 674
The Election of 1932	p. 675
The New Deal: 1933-1941	p. 678
The Hundred Days	p. 678
The National Recovery Administration (NRA)	p. 680
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)	p. 681
The Dust Bowl	p. 682
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)	p. 683
The New Deal Spirit	p. 684
The Unemployed	p. 684
Literature during the Depression	p. 685
Three Extremists: Long, Coughlin, and Townsend	p. 686
The Second New Deal	p. 688
The Election of 1936	p. 690
Roosevelt Tries to Undermine the Supreme Court	p. 691
The New Deal Winds Down	p. 692
Significance of the New Deal	p. 693
Women as New Dealers: The Network	p. 694
Blacks during the New Deal	p. 695
A New Deal for Indians	p. 696
The Role of Roosevelt	p. 697
The Triumph of Isolationism	p. 698
War Again in Asia and Europe	p. 699
A Third Term for FDR	p. 702
The Undeclared War	p. 703
War and Peace: 1941-1945	p. 708
The Road to Pearl Harbor	p. 709
Mobilizing the Home Front	p. 710
The War Economy	p. 711
War and Social Change	p. 712
Minorities in Time of War: Blacks, Hispanics, and Indians	p. 713
The Treatment of German and Italian Americans	p. 714
Internment of Japanese Americans	p. 715
Women's Contributions to the War Effort	p. 716
Allied Strategy: Europe First	p. 717
Germany Overwhelmed	p. 720
The Naval War in the Pacific	p. 721
Island Hopping	p. 725
Building the Atom Bomb	p. 727
Wartime Diplomacy	p. 728
Allied Suspicion of Stalin	p. 729
Yalta and Potsdam	p. 730
Collision Courses, Abroad and at Home: 1946-1960	p. 733
The Postwar Economy	p. 734
Truman Becomes President	p. 734
The Containment Policy	p. 735
The Atom Bomb: A �Winning� Weapon?	p. 736
A Turning Point in Greece	p. 736
The Marshall Plan and the Lesson of History	p. 737
The Election of 1948	p. 738
Containing Communism Abroad	p. 740
Hot War in Korea	p. 741
The Communist Issue at Home	p. 743
McCarthyism	p. 744
Dwight D. Eisenhower	p. 745
The Eisenhower-Dulles Foreign Policy	p. 746
McCarthy Self-Destructs	p. 747
Asian Policy after Korea	p. 747
Israel and the Middle East	p. 748
Eisenhower and Khrushchev	p. 749
Latin America Aroused	p. 751
Fighting the Cold War at Home	p. 751
Blacks Challenge Segregation	p. 752
Direct Action Protests: The Montgomery Bus Boycott	p. 754
The Election of 1960	p. 755
From Camelot to Watergate: 1961-1975	p. 760
Kennedy in Camelot	p. 761
The Cuban Crises	p. 761
JFK's Vietnam War	p. 763
�We Shall Overcome�: The Civil Rights Movement	p. 764
Tragedy in Dallas: JFK Assassinated	p. 766
Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society	p. 767
New Racial Turmoil	p. 769
From the �Beat Movement� to Student Radicalism	p. 771
Johnson Escalates the War	p. 772
The Election of 1968	p. 774
Nixon as President: �Vietnamizing� the War	p. 776
The Cambodian �Incursion�	p. 777
D�tente with Communism	p. 778
Nixon in Triumph	p. 779
Domestic Policy under Nixon	p. 780
The Watergate Break-In and Cover-Up	p. 781
The Judgment on Watergate: �Expletive Deleted�	p. 783
Nixon Resigns, Ford Becomes President	p. 784
Running on Empty: 1975-1991	p. 787
The Oil Crisis	p. 787
Ford as President	p. 788
The Fall of South Vietnam	p. 789
Ford versus Carter	p. 789
The Carter Presidency	p. 790
A National Malaise	p. 790
�Constant Decency� in Action	p. 792
The Iran Crisis: Origins	p. 793
The Iran Crisis: Carter's Dilemma	p. 793
The Election of 1980	p. 794
Reagan as President	p. 795
Four More Years	p. 796
�The Reagan Revolution�	p. 797
The New Merger Movement	p. 798
�A Job for Life�: Layoffs Hit Home	p. 799
Corporate Restructuring	p. 799
Rogue Foreign Policy	p. 802
Assessing the Reagan Revolution	p. 803
The Election of 1988	p. 804
George H. W. Bush as President	p. 804
The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe	p. 805
The War in the Persian Gulf	p. 806
Deficits	p. 808
From Boomers to Millennials	p. 811
The New Immigration	p. 812
The Emergence of Modern Feminism	p. 816
Roe v. Wade	p. 818
Conservative Counterattack	p. 819
The Rise of Gay and Lesbian Rights	p. 820
AIDS	p. 821
Publicly Gay	p. 822
Crime and Punishment	p. 823
Crack and Urban Gangs	p. 824
Violence and Popular Culture	p. 824
From Main Street to Mall to Internet	p. 825
From Community to Facebook	p. 827
Greying of the Boomers	p. 831
Shocks and Responses: 1992-Present	p. 834
A New Face: Bill Clinton	p. 835
The Election of 1992	p. 836
A New Start: Clinton as President	p. 836
Emergence of the Republican Majority	p. 836
The Election of 1996	p. 837
Clinton Impeached	p. 837
Clinton's Legacy	p. 839
The Economic Boom and the Internet	p. 840
The 2000 Election: George W. Bush Wins by One Vote	p. 840
The New Terrorism	p. 841
September 11, 2001	p. 842
America Fights Back: War in Afghanistan	p. 843
The Second Iraq War	p. 844
2004: Bush Wins a Second Term	p. 845
Crime: Good News and Bad	p. 846
Hurricane Katrina	p. 847
Iraq Insurgency and Bush's �Surge�	p. 848
2008: McCain v. Obama	p. 852
Financial Meltdown	p. 853
�Yes We Can�: Obama Elected President	p. 854
Obama as President	p. 855
Health Care Reform	p. 856
Immigration Reform	p. 857
Environmental Concerns and Disaster in the Gulf	p. 858
Afghanistan, Again	p. 859
The Persistent Past and Imponderable Future	p. 862
Appendix A-1
Credits C-1
Glossary G-1
Index I-1
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Mark C. Carnes

Mark C. Carnes received his undergraduate degree from Harvard and his Ph.D in history from Columbia University. He has chaired both the history and American studies departments at Barnard College and Columbia University, where he serves as the Ann Whitney Olin professor of history. He is also the general editor of the American National Biography, whose 27th volume will appear in 2011. Carnes has published numerous books on American social and cultural history, including Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America (1989), Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies (1995), Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America�s Past (2001) and Invisible Giants: 50 Americans That Shaped the Nation but Missed the History Books (2002). Carnes also pioneered the Reacting to the Past pedagogy, which won the Theodore Hesburgh Award as the top outstanding pedagogical innovation in the nation (2004). In Reacting to the Past, college students play elaborate games, set in the past, their roles informed by classic texts. (For more on Reacting, see: www.barnard.edu/reacting.) In 2005 the American Historical Association named Carnes the recipient of the William Gilbert Prize for the best article on teaching history. His Mind Games: Rethinking Higher Education will be published in 2012.

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John A. Garraty

John A. Garraty held a Ph.D from Columbia University and an L.H.D. from Michigan State University. He�was the Gouverneur Morris professor emeritus of history at Columbia. He�was also the author, co-author and editor of scores of books and articles, among them biographies of Silas Wright, Henry Cabot Lodge, Woodrow Wilson, George W. Perkins and Theodore Roosevelt. With Carnes, he co-edited the American National Biography. Garraty also contributed a volume � The New Commonwealth � to the New American Nation series and published a pioneering comparative study of the Great Depression.

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