John Mack Faragher is an Arthur Unobskey professor of American history and the director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University. Born in Arizona and raised in southern California, he received his B.A. at the University of California, Riverside, and his Ph.D. at Yale University. He is the author of Women and Men on the Overland Trail (1979), Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (1986), Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1992), The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000) and A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland (2005).

Mari Jo Buhle

Mari Jo Buhle is a William R. Kenan, Jr. University professor emerita of American civilization and history at Brown University specializing in American women’s history. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920 (1981) and Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (1998). She is also the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left (second edition, 1998). Buhle held a fellowship (1991-1996) from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She is currently an honorary fellow of the history department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Daniel Czitrom

Daniel Czitrom is a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College. Born and raised in New York City, he received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan (1982), which won the First Books Award of the American Historical Association and has been translated into Spanish and Chinese. He is the co-author of Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn of the Century New York (2008). He has served as a historical consultant and been featured as an on-camera commentator for several documentary film projects, including the PBS productions New York : A Documentary Film, American Photography: A Century of Images and The Great Transatlantic Cable. He is currently writing New York Exposed: How a Gilded Age Police Scandal Shocked the Nation and Launched the Progressive Era (Oxford).

Susan H. Armitage

Susan H. Armitage is a professor of history and women’s studies emerita at Washington State University, where she was a Claudius O. and Mary R. Johnson distinguished professor. She earned her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Among her many publications on western women’s history are three co-edited books, The Women’s West (1987), So Much To Be Done: Women on the Mining and Ranching Frontier (1991) and Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women’s West (1997). She served as editor of the feminist journal Frontiers from 1996 to 2002.  Her most recent publication, co-edited with Laurie Mercier, is Speaking History: Oral Histories of the American Past, 1865-Present (2009).

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Community and Diversity

CHAPTER 17 RECONSTRUCTION 1863—1877

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Hale County, Alabama: From Slavery to Freedom in a Black Belt Community

The Politics of Reconstruction

The Meaning of Freedom

SEEING HISTORY Changing Images of Reconstruction

Southern Politics and Society

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Ku Klux Klan in Alabama

Reconstructing the North

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

CHAPTER 18 CONQUEST AND SURVIVAL: The Trans-Mississippi West 1860—1900

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Oklahoma Land Rush

Indian Peoples Under Siege

The Internal Empire

The Open Range

SEEING HISTORY The Legendary Cowboy: Nat Love, Deadwood Dick          

Farming Communities on The Plains

The World’s Breadbasket

The Western Landscape

The Transformation of Indian Societies

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

CHAPTER 19 PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION IN THE GILDED AGE 1865—1900

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Haymarket Square, Chicago, May 4, 1886

The Rise of Industry, the Triumph of Business

SEEING HISTORY The Standard Oil Company

Labor in the Age of Big Business

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Regulating the Conditions and Limiting the Hours of Labor in the State of Illinois

The New South

The Industrial City

The Rise of Consumer Society

Cultures in Conflict, Culture in Common

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

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CHAPTER 20 DEMOCRACY AND EMPIRE 1870—1900

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Annexation of Hawai’i

Toward a National Governing Class

Farmers and Workers Organize their Communities

The Crisis of the 1890s

Politics of Reform, Politics of Order

The Path to Imperialism

SEEING HISTORY The White Man’s Burden

Onto a Global Stage 

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Two Sides of Anti-Imperialism

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

CHAPTER 21 URBAN AMERICA AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900—1917

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Henry Street Settlement House: Women Settlement House Workers Create a Community of Reform

The Origins of Progressivism  

SEEING HISTORY Photographing Poverty in the Slums of New York

Progressive Politics in Cities and States  

Social Control and Its Limits 

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Debating Prohibition in Progressive-Era Ohio

Challenges to Progressivism  

Women’s Movements and Black Activism  

National Progressivism  

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

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CHAPTER 22 A GLOBAL POWER: The United States in the Era of the Great War 1901—1920

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The American Expeditionary Force in France

Becoming a World Power 

The Great War 

American Mobilization 

SEEING HISTORY Selling War

Over Here  

Repression and Reaction

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Race Riot in Tulsa 

An Uneasy Peace  

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

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CHAPTER 23 THE TWENTIES 1920—1929

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Movie Audience And Hollywood: Mass Culture Creates A New National Community

Postwar Prosperity and Its Price

The State, the Economy, and Business

The New Mass Culture

SEEING HISTORY Creating Celebrity

Modernity and traditionalism

Promises Postponed

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

CHAPTER 24 THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL 1929-1940

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Sit-Down Strike at Flint: Automobile Workers Organize a New Union

Hard Times 

FDR and The First New Deal 

FDR the Man

Left Turn and the Second New Deal 

The New Deal in the South and West 

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Californians Face the Influx of “Dust Bowl” Migrants

The Limits of Reform 

Depression-Era Culture 

SEEING HISTORY Documenting Hard Times in Black and White and Color

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Chapter 25   World War II 1941—1945

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES   Los Alamos, New Mexico

The Coming of World War II  

The Great Arsenal of Democracy  

SEEING HISTORY Norman Rockwell’s “Rosie, the Riveter”

The Home Front  

Men and Women in Uniform  

The World at War  

The Last Stages of War  

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT On Deploying the Atomic Bomb

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

CHAPTER 26 THE COLD WAR BEGINS 1945—1952

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES   University of Washington, Seattle: Students and Faculty Face the Cold War

Global Insecurities at War’s End 

The Policy Of Containment 

Cold War Liberalism  

The Cold War At Home 

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Congress and the Red Scare

Cold War Culture 

SEEING HISTORY The Hollywood Film Invasion, U.S.A

Stalemate for the Democrats 

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

CHAPTER 27 AMERICA AT MIDCENTURY 1952—1963

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES  Popular Music in Memphis

Under the Cold War’s Shadow  

The Affluent Society  

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Integrating Levittown, Pennsylvania

Youth Culture  

Mass Culture and Its Discontents

The Coming of the New Frontier  

SEEING HISTORY Televising a National Tragedy

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

CHAPTER 28 THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 1945—1966

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Montgomery Bus Boycott: An African American Community Challenges Segregation

Origins of the Movement 

SEEING HISTORY Visualizing Civil Rights

No Easy Road to Freedom, 1957—62 

The Movement at High Tide, 1963—65 

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Showdown in Oxford: Integrating Ole Miss

Civil Rights Beyond Black and White 

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

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CHAPTER 29 WAR ABROAD, WAR AT HOME 1965—1974

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Uptown, Chicago, Illinois

Vietnam: America’s Longest War  

A Generation in Conflict  

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Prospects for Peace in Vietnam, April 1965

Wars on Poverty  

1968: Year of Turmoil  

The Politics of Identity  

The Nixon Presidency  

SEEING HISTORY Kim Phuc, Fleeing a Napalm Attack Near Trang Bang

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

CHAPTER 30 THE CONSERVATIVE ASCENDANCY 1974—1991

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Grassroots Conservatism in Orange County, California

The Overextended Society 

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania

The New Right 

SEEING HISTORY The Inaugurations of Carter and Reagan

The Reagan Revolution 

Best of Times, Worst of Times 

Toward A New World Order 

“A Kinder, Gentler Nation” 

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

CHAPTER 31 THE UNITED STATES IN A GLOBAL AGE 1992—2010

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Transnational Communities in San Diego and Tijuana

The Presidency of Bill Clinton

Changing American Communities

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Illegal Immigrants and the Border Fence

President George W. Bush and the War on Terror

SEEING HISTORY The 9/11 Attacks

Barack Obama and the Audacity of Hope

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Appendix

Bibliography

Credits

Index

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