Preface

1. The "Taming" of the West

Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War

2. Beyond Emancipation

Booker T. Washington and the Atlanta Compromise

3. The New Industrial Era

The Rise of Andrew Carnegie

4. The Birth of Environmentalism

John Muir and the American Wilderness

5. New Immigrants

Russian Jews in the United States

6. Expanding American Democracy

The Woman Suffrage Victory

7. American Volunteers in World War I

The Lafayette Escadrille

8. Modernity Versus Tradition

The Scopes Trial and the American Character

9. The New Deal

Eleanor Roosevelt and the Politics of Compassion

10. Total War

The Bombing of Hiroshima

11. The Cold War at Home

Joseph McCarthy and Anticommunism

12. The Civil Rights Movement

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Road to Birmingham

13. Turmoil on the Campuses

Berkeley in the Sixties

14. The New Age of Technology

Steve Jobs and Apple

15. America and the Cold War

Colin Powell’s Career from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf

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