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American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation, Concise Edition, Volume 2 (since 1865)
ISBN: 9780321510860 | 0321510860
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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With the political history of the nation as its organizational framework,American Destiny: Narrative of a Nationdescribes the development and growth of the United States as the product of the myriad actions, ideas, and forces of the immense variety of individuals and groups who together comprise the American people.
| Detailed Content? | |
| Maps and Graphs Feature Essays Re-viewing the Past Debating the Past Preface | |
| The War to Save the Union | |
| Lincoln s Cabinet | |
| Fort Sumter: The First Shot | |
| The Blue and the Gray | |
| The Test of Battle: Bull Run | |
| Paying for the War | |
| Politics as Usual | |
| Behind Confederate Lines | |
| War in the West: Shiloh | |
| McClellan: The Reluctant Warrior | |
| Lee Counterattacks: Antietam | |
| The Emancipation Troclamation | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| American Ambivalence to Big Business | |
| Reformers: George, Bellamy, Lloyd, and 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? | |
| 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 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 | |
| Debating The Past | |
| Did Immigrants Assimilate? | |
| Intellectual and Cultural Trends | |
| Colleges and Universities | |
| Revolution in the Social Sciences | |
| Progressive Education | |
| History | |
| Realism in Literature | |
| Mark Twain | |
| William Dean Howells | |
| Henry James | |
| The Pragmatic Approach | |
| The Knowledge Revolution | |
| Re-Viewing the Past Titanic | |
| Debating the Past Did the Frontier Engender Individualism and | |
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