American Stories: A History of the United States, Volume 2
ISBN: 9780205572700 | 0205572707
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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Based on the idea that you can't (and don't want to)cover everything in a survey course, H.W. Brands and a team of award-winning historians present the story of American history in a refreshing new way. American Stories: A History of the United Statesconcentrates on the topics most commonly taught in an American historysurvey course, with a focus on the major themes and the connections between them. A unique pedagogical program developed and implemented by instructional designers provides a consistent structure for students as the story of Amer... MORE
| The Agony of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 | |
| Robert Smalls and Black Politicians During Reconstruction | |
| The President versus Congress | |
| Reconstructing Southern Society | |
| Retreat from Reconstruction | |
| Reunion and the New South | |
| Conclusion: Henry McNeal Turner and the Unfinished Revolution | |
| The West: Exploiting an Empire, 1849-1902 | |
| Lean Bear'... MORE | |
| Beyond the Frontier | |
| Crushing the Native Americans | |
| Settlement of the West | |
| The Bonanza West | |
| Conclusion: The Meaning of the West | |
| The Industrial Society, 1850-1901 | |
| A Machine Culture | |
| Industrial Development | |
| An Empire on Rails | |
| An Industrial Empire | |
| The Sellers | |
| The Wage Earners | |
| Culture of Work | |
| Conclusion: Industrialization's Benefits and Costs | |
| Toward an Urban Society, 1877-1900 | |
| The Overcrowded City | |
| The Lure of the City | |
| Social and Cultural Change, 1877-1900 | |
| The Stirrings of Reform | |
| Conclusion: The Pluralistic Society | |
| Political Realignments, 1876-1901 | |
| Hardship and Heartache | |
| Politics of Stalemate | |
| Republicans in Power: The Billion-Dollar Congress | |
| The Rise of the Populist Movement | |
| The Crisis of the Depression | |
| Changing Attitudes | |
| The Presidential Election of 1896 | |
| The McKinley Administration | |
| Conclusion: A Decade's Dramatic Changes | |
| Toward Empire, 1865-1902 | |
| Roosevelt and the Rough Riders | |
| America Looks Outward | |
| War with Spain | |
| Acquisition of Empire | |
| Conclusion: Outcome of the War with Spain | |
| The Progressive Era, 1895-1917 | |
| Muckrakers Call for Reform | |
| The Changing Face of Industrialism | |
| Society's Masses | |
| Conflict in the Workplace | |
| A New Urban Culture | |
| Conclusion: A Ferment of Discovery and Reform | |
| From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism, 1900-1920 | |
| The Republicans Split | |
| The Spirit of Progressivism | |
| Reform in the Cities and States | |
| The Republican Roosevelt | |
| Roosevelt Progressivism at Its Height | |
| The Ordeal of William Howard Taft | |
| Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom | |
| Conclusion: The Fruits of Progressivism | |
| The Nation at War, 1901-1920 | |
| The Sinking of theLusitania | |
| A New World Power | |
| Foreign Policy Under Wilson | |
| Toward War | |
| Over There | |
| Over Here | |
| The Treaty of Versailles | |
| Conclusion: Post-War Disillusionment | |
| Transition to Modern America, 1919-1928 | |
| Wheels for the Millions | |
| The Second Industrial Revolution | |
| City Life in the Roaring Twenties | |
| The Conservative Counterattack | |
| Republican Politics | |
| Conclusion: The Old and the New | |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1929-1939 | |
| The Struggle Against Despair | |
| The Great Depression | |
| Fighting the Depression | |
| Reforming American Life | |
| The Impact of the New Deal | |
| The New Deal's End | |
| Conclusion:The New Deal and American Life | |
| America and the World, 1921-1945 | |
| A Pact Without Power | |
| Isolationism | |
| The Road to War | |
| Turning the Tide Against the Axis | |
| The Home Front | |
| Victory | |
| Conclusion: The Transforming Power of War | |
| The Onset of the Cold War, 1945-1960 | |
| The Potsdam Summit | |
| The Cold War Begins | |
| Containment | |
| The Cold War Expands | |
| The Cold War at Home | |
| Conclusion: The Continuing Cold War | |
| Affluence and Anxiety, 1945-1960 | |
| Levittown: The Flight to the Suburbs | |
| The Postwar Boom | |
| The Good Life? | |
| The Struggle over Civil Rights | |
| Conclusion: Restoring National Confidence | |
| The Turbulent Sixties, 1960-1968 | |
| The First Televised Presidential Candidate Debate | |
| Kennedy Intensifies the Cold War | |
| The New Frontier at Home | |
| LBJ's Great Society | |
| Johnson Escalates the Vietnam War | |
| Years of Turmoil | |
| The Return of Richard Nixon | |
| Conclusion: The End of an Era | |
| To a New Conservatism, 1969-1988 | |
| Reagan and America's Shift to the Right | |
| The Tempting of Richard Nixon | |
| Oil and Inflation | |
| Private Lives, Public Issues | |
| Politics and Diplomacy after Watergate | |
| The Reagan Revolution | |
| Reagan and the World | |
| Conclusion: Challenging the New Deal | |
| To the Twenty-first Century, 1989-2008 | |
| "This Will Not Stan;: Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era | |
| The First President Bush | |
| The Changing Faces of America | |
| The New Democrats | |
| Republicans Triumphant | |
| Challenges of the New Century | |
| Conclusion: The Paradox of Power | |
| Appendix A-1 | |
| The Declaration of Independence | |
| The Articles of Confederation | |
| The Constitution of the United States of America | |
| Amendments to the Constitution | |
| Presidential Elections | |
| Presidents and Vice Presidents | |
| Glossary G-1 | |
| Credits C-1 | |
| Index I-1 | |
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