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American Nation, The: A History of the United States, Volume 2 (since 1865)
ISBN: 9780205568109 | 0205568106
Edition: 13thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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The political history of the United States is intimately tied with its social, economic and cultural development. Co-authors Mark Carnes and John Garraty explore this relationship and show how it took the voices and actions of many peoples to produce this singular political structure - The United States of America. Long renowned for its elegant narrative style, "The American Nation "in this Thirteenth Edition retains its most significant strength--its rich and memorable prose.
| Maps and Graphs | |
| Features | |
| American Lives | |
| Re-Viewing the Past | |
| Mapping the Past | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Preface | |
| About the Authors | |
| The War to Save the Union | |
| Lincoln's Cabinet | |
| Fort Sumter: The First Shot | |
| The Blue and the Gray | |
| The Test... MORE | |
| Paying for the War | |
| Politics as Usual | |
| Behind Confederate Lines | |
| War in the West: Shiloh | |
| McClellan: The Reluctant Warrior | |
| Lee Counterattacks: Antietam | |
| The Emancipation Proclamation | |
| The Draft Riots | |
| The Emancipated People | |
| African American Soldiers | |
| Antietam to Gettysburg | |
| Lincoln Finds His General: Grant at Vicksburg | |
| Economic and Social Effects, North and South | |
| Women in Wartime | |
| Grant in the Wilderness | |
| Sherman in Georgia | |
| To Appomattox Court House | |
| Winners, Losers, and the Future | |
| Re-Viewing the Past | |
| Glory | |
| Re-Viewing the Past | |
| Cold Mountain | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Why Did the South Lose the Civil War? | |
| Reconstruction and the South | |
| The Assassination of Lincoln | |
| Presidential Reconstruction | |
| Republican Radicals | |
| Congress Rejects Johnsonian Reconstruction | |
| The Fourteenth Amendment | |
| The Reconstruction Acts | |
| Congress Supreme | |
| The Fifteenth Amendment | |
| "Black Republican" Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers | |
| The Ravaged Land | |
| Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System | |
| The White Backlash | |
| Grant as President | |
| The Disputed Election of 1876 | |
| The Compromise of 1877 | |
| Mapping the Past | |
| The Politics of Reconstruction | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Were Reconstruction Governments Corrupt? | |
| The Conquest of the West | |
| The West After the Civil War | |
| The Plains Indians | |
| Indian Wars | |
| The Destruction of Tribal Life | |
| The Lure of Gold and Silver in the West | |
| Big Business and the Land Bonanza | |
| Western Railroad Building | |
| The Cattle Kingdom | |
| Open-Range Ranching | |
| Barbed-Wire Warfare | |
| American Lives | |
| Nat Love | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Was the Frontier Exceptionally Violent? | |
| An Industrial Giant | |
| Essentials of Industrial Growth | |
| Railroads: The First Big Business | |
| Iron, Oil, and Electricity | |
| Competition and Monopoly: The Railroads | |
| Competition and Monopoly: Steel | |
| Competition and Monopoly: Oil | |
| Competition and Monopoly: Retailing and Utilities | |
| American Ambivalence to Big Business | |
| Reformers: George, Bellamy, Lloyd | |
| Reformers: The Marxists | |
| The Government Reacts to Big Business: Railroad Regulation | |
| The Government Reacts to Big Business: The Sherman Antitrust Act | |
| The Labor Union Movement | |
| The American Federation of Labor | |
| Labor Militancy Rebuffed | |
| Whither America, Whither Democracy? | |
| Mapping the Past | |
| Were the Railroads Indispensable to Economic Growth? | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Were the Industrialists "Robber Barons" or Savvy Entrepreneurs? | |
| American Society in the Industrial Age | |
| Middle-Class Life | |
| Skilled and Unskilled Workers | |
| Working Women | |
| Farmers | |
| Working-Class Family Life | |
| Working-Class Attitudes | |
| Working Your Way Up | |
| The "New" Immigration | |
| New Immigrants Face New Nativism | |
| The Expanding City and Its Problems | |
| Teeming Tenements | |
| The Cities Modernize | |
| Leisure Activities: More Fun and Games | |
| Christianity's Conscience and the Social Gospel | |
| The Settlement Houses | |
| Civilization and Its Discontents | |
| Mapping the Past | |
| Cholera: A New Disease Strikes the Nation | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Did Immigrants Assimilate? | |
| Intellectual and Cultural Trends | |
| Colleges and Universities | |
| Revolution in the Social Sciences | |
| Progressive Education | |
| Law and History | |
| Realism in Literature | |
| Mark Twain | |
| William Dean Howells | |
| Henry James | |
| Realism in Art | |
| The Pragmatic Approach | |
| The Knowledge Revolution | |
| Re-Viewing the Past | |
| Titanic | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Did the Frontier Engender Individualism and Democracy? | |
| Politics: Local, State, and National | |
| Congress Ascendant | |
| Recurrent Issues | |
| Party Politics: Sidestepping the Issues | |
| Lackluster Presidents: From Hayes to Harrison | |
| Blacks in the South After Reconstruction | |
| Booker T. Washington: A "Reasonable" Champion for Blacks | |
| City Bosses | |
| Crops and Complaints | |
| The Populist Movement | |
| Showdown on Silver | |
| The Depression of 1893 | |
| The Election of 1896 | |
| The Meaning of the Election | |
| Mapping the Past | |
| The Election of 1896 | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Were City Governments Corrupt and Incompetent? | |
| The Age of Reform | |
| Roots of Progressivism | |
| The Muckrakers | |
| The Progressive Mind | |
| "Radical" Progressives: The Wave of the Future | |
| Political Reform: Cities First | |
| Political Reform: The States | |
| State Social Legislation | |
| Political Reform: The Woman Suffrage Movement | |
| Political Reform: Income Taxes and Popular Election of Senators | |
| Theodore Roosevelt: Cowboy in the White House | |
| Roosevelt and Big Business | |
| Roosevelt and the Coal Strike | |
| TR's Triumphs | |
| Roosevelt Tilts Left | |
| William Howard Taft: The Listless Progressive, or More Is Less | |
| Breakup of the Republican Party | |
| The Election of 1912 | |
| Wilson: The New Freedom | |
| The Progressives and Minority Rights | |
| Black Militancy | |
| American Lives | |
| Emma Goldman | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Were the Progressives Forward-Looking? | |
| From Isolation to Empire | |
| Isolation or Imperialism? | |
| Origins of the Large Policy: Coveting Colonies | |
| Toward an Empire in the Pacific | |
| Toward an Empire in Latin America | |
| The Cuban Revolution | |
| The "Splendid Little" Spanish-American War | |
| Developing a Colonial Policy | |
| The Anti-Imperialists | |
| The Philippine Insurrection | |
| Cuba and the United States | |
| The United States in the Caribbean and Central America | |
| The Open Door Policy | |
| The Panama Canal | |
| Imperialism Without Colonies | |
| American Lives | |
| Frederick Funston | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Did the United States Acquire an Overseas Empire for Economic Reasons? | |
| Woodrow Wilson and the Great War | |
| Wilson's "Moral" Diplomacy | |
| Europe Explodes in War | |
| Freedom of the Seas | |
| The Election of 1916 | |
| The Road to War | |
| Mobilizing the Economy | |
| Workers in Wartime | |
| Paying for the War | |
| Propaganda and Civil Liberties | |
| Wartime Reforms | |
| Women and Blacks in Wartime | |
| Americans: To the Trenches and Over the Top | |
| Preparing for Peace | |
| The Paris Peace Conference and the Versailles Treaty | |
| The Senate Rejects the League of Nations | |
| Demobilization | |
| The Red Scare | |
| The Election of 1920 | |
| American Lives | |
| Harry S Truman | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Did a Stroke Sway Wilson's Judgment? | |
| Postwar Society and Culture: Change and Adjustment | |
| Closing the Gates to New Immigrants | |
| New Urban Social Patterns | |
| The Younger Generation | |
| The "New" Woman | |
| Popular Culture: Movies and Radio | |
| The Golden Age of Sports | |
| Urban-Rural Conflicts: Fundamentalism | |
| Urban-Rural Conflicts: Prohibition | |
| The Ku Klux Klan | |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | |
| Literary Trends | |
| The "New Negro" | |
| Economic Expansion | |
| The Age of the Consumer | |
| Henry Ford | |
| The Airplane | |
| Re-Viewing the Past | |
| Chicago | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Was the Decade of the 1920s One of Self-Absorption? | |
| The New Era: 1921-1933 | |
| Harding and "Normalcy" | |
| "The Business of the United States Is Business" | |
| The Harding Scandals | |
| Coolidge Prosperity | |
| Peace Without a Sword | |
| The Peace Movement | |
| The Good Neighbor Policy | |
| The Totalitarian Challenge | |
| War Debts and Reparations | |
| The Election of 1928 | |
| Economic Problems | |
| The Stock Market Crash of 1929 | |
| Hoover and the Depression | |
| The Economy Hits Bottom | |
| The Depression and Its Victims | |
| The Election of 1932 | |
| Mapping the Past | |
| FDR's Political Revolution | |
| Debating the Past | |
| What Caused the Great Depression? | |
| The New Deal: 1933-1941 | |
| The Hundred Days | |
| The National Recovery Administration (NRA) | |
| The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) | |
| The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | |
| The New Deal Spirit | |
| The Unemployed | |
| Literature in the Depression | |
| Three Extremists: Long, Coughlin, and Townsend | |
| The Second New Deal | |
| The Election of 1936 | |
| Roosevelt Tries to Undermine the Supreme Court | |
| The New Deal Winds Down | |
| Significance of the New Deal | |
| Women as New Dealers: The Network | |
| Blacks During the New Deal | |
| A New Deal for Indians | |
| The Role of Roosevelt | |
| The Triumph of Isolationism | |
| War Again in Europe | |
| A Third Term for FDR | |
| The Undeclared War | |
| Re-Viewing the Past | |
| Cinderella Man | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Did the New Deal succeed? | |
| War and Peace | |
| The Road to Pearl Harbor | |
| Mobilizing the Home Front | |
| The War Economy | |
| War and Social Change | |
| Minorities in Time of War: Blacks, Hispanics, and Indians | |
| The Treatment of German and Italian Americans | |
| Internment of the Japanese | |
| Women's Contribution to the War Effort | |
| Allied Strategy: Europe First | |
| Germany Overwhelmed | |
| The Naval War in the Pacific | |
| Island Hopping | |
| Building the Atom Bomb | |
| Wartime Diplomacy | |
| Allied Suspicion of Stalin | |
| Yalta and Potsdam | |
| Re-Viewing the Past | |
| Saving Private Ryan | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Should the United States Have Used Atomic Bombs Against Japan? | |
| The American Century | |
| Truman Becomes President | |
| The Postwar Economy | |
| The Containment Policy | |
| The Atom Bomb: A "Winning" Weapon? | |
| A Turning Point in Greece | |
| The Marshall Plan and the Lesson of History | |
| Dealing with Japan and China | |
| The Election of 1948 | |
| Containing Communism Abroad | |
| Hot War in Korea | |
| The Communist Issue at Home | |
| McCarthyism | |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
| The Eisenhower-Dulles Foreign Policy | |
| McCarthy Self-Destructs | |
| Asian Policy After Korea | |
| Israel and the Middle East | |
| Eisenhower and Khrushchev | |
| Latin America Aroused | |
| The Politics of Civil Rights | |
| The Election of 1960 | |
| Re-Viewing the Past | |
| Good Night, and Good Luck | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Did Truman Needlessly Exacerbate Relations with the Soviet Union? | |
| From Camelot to Watergate | |
| Kennedy in Camelot | |
| The Cuban Crises | |
| The Vietnam War | |
| "We Shall Overcome": The Civil Rights Movement | |
| Tragedy in Dallas: JFK Assassinated | |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson | |
| The Great Society | |
| Johnson Escalates the War | |
| Opposition to the War | |
| The Election of 1968 | |
| Nixon as President: "Vietnamizing" the War | |
| The Cambodian "Incursion" | |
| Détente with Communism | |
| Nixon in Triumph | |
| Domestic Policy Under Nixon | |
| The Watergate Break-in | |
| More Troubles for Nixon | |
| The Judgment on Watergate: "Expletive Deleted" | |
| The Meaning of Watergate | |
| Mapping the Past | |
| School Segregation After the Brown Decision | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Would JFK Have Sent a Half-Million American Troops to Vietnam? | |
| Society in Flux | |
| A Society on the Move | |
| The Advent of Television | |
| At Home and Work | |
| The Growing Middle Class | |
| Religion in Changing Times | |
| Literature and Art | |
| The Perils of Progress | |
| New Racial Turmoil | |
| Native-Born Ethnics | |
| Rethinking Public Education | |
| Students in Revolt | |
| The Counterculture | |
| The Sexual Revolution | |
| Women's Liberation | |
| Mapping the Past | |
| Roe v. Wade (1978) and the Abortion Controversy | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Did Mass Culture Make Life Shallow? | |
| Running on Empty: The Nation Transformed | |
| The Oil Crisis | |
| Ford as President | |
| The Fall of South Vietnam | |
| Ford Versus Carter | |
| The Carter Presidency | |
| A National Malaise | |
| Stagflation: The Weird Economy | |
| Families Under Stress: Defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment | |
| Cold War or Détente? | |
| The Iran Crisis: Origins | |
| The Iran Crisis: Carter's Dilemma | |
| The Election of 1980 | |
| Reagan as President | |
| Four More Years | |
| "The Reagan Revolution" | |
| Change and Uncertainty | |
| AIDS | |
| The New Merger Movement | |
| "A Job for Life": Layoffs Hit Home | |
| A "Bipolar" Economy, a Fractured Society | |
| The Iran-Contra Arms Deal | |
| American Lives | |
| Bill Gates | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Did Reagan end the Cold War? | |
| Misdemeanors and High Crimes | |
| The Election of 1988 | |
| Crime and Punishment | |
| "Crack" and Urban Gangs | |
| George H. W. Bush as President | |
| The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe | |
| The War in the Persian Gulf | |
| The Deficit Worsens | |
| Looting the Savings and Loans | |
| Whitewater and the Clintons | |
| The Election of 1992 | |
| A New Start: Clinton | |
| Emergence of the Republican Majority | |
| The Election of 1996 | |
| A Racial Divide | |
| Violence and Popular Culture | |
| Clinton Impeached | |
| Clinton's Legacy | |
| The Economic Boom and the Internet | |
| The 2000 Election: George W. Bush Wins by One Vote | |
| Terrorism Intensifies | |
| September 11, 2001 | |
| America Fights Back: War in Afghanistan | |
| The Second Iraq War | |
| The Election of 2004 | |
| The Imponderable Future | |
| Mapping the Past | |
| Twenty Years of Terrorism | |
| Debating the Past | |
| Do Historians Ever Get it Right? | |
| Appendix | |
| The Declaration of Independence | |
| The Articles of Confederation | |
| The Constitution of the United States of America | |
| Amendments to the Constitution | |
| Presidential Elections, 1789-2004 | |
| Glossary | |
| Picture Credits | |
| Index | |
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