CHAPTER 1 Peoples in Motion: The Atlantic World to 1590
The First Americans
Migration, Settlement, and the Rise of Agriculture
The Aztec
Mound Builders and Pueblo Dwellers
Eastern Woodlands Indian Societies
American Societies on the Eve of European Contact
European Civilization in Turmoil
The Allure of the East and the Challenge of Islam
Trade, Commerce, and Urbanization
COMPETING VISIONS European and Huron Views of Nature
Renaissance and Reformation
New Monarchs and the Rise of the Nation-State
Columbus and the Columbian Exchange
Columbus Encounters the Indians
European Technology in the Era of the Columbian Exchange
The Conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires
IMAGES AS HISTORY Blood of the Gods: Aztec Human Sacrifice
West African Worlds
West African Societies, Islam, and Trade
The Portuguese-African Connection
African Slavery
European Colonization of the Atlantic World
The Black Legend and the Creation of New Spain
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Facing the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico City
Fishing and Furs: France's North Atlantic Empire
English Expansion: Ireland and Virginia
Europeans and the Indian Peoples of the Americas
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 2 Models of Settlement: English Colonial Societies, 1590-1700
The Chesapeake
The Founding of Jamestown
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES The Ordeal of Pocahontas
Tobacco Agriculture and Political Reorganization
Lord Baltimore's Refuge: Maryland
Life in the Chesapeake: Tobacco and Society
New England
Plymouth Plantation
IMAGES AS HISTORY Corruption versus Piety: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century
Thanksgiving Myths and Realities
A Godly Commonwealth
Schism and Heresy
Expansion and Conflict
The Caribbean Colonies
Power Is Sweet
Barbados: The Emergence of a Slave Society
The Restoration Era and the Proprietary Colonies
The English Conquest of the Dutch Colony of New Netherland
A Peaceable Kingdom: Quakers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania
COMPETING VISIONS Lord Baltimore and William Penn: Two Visions of Religious Toleration
The Carolinas
The Crisis of the Late Seventeenth Century
War and Rebellion
The Dominion of New England and the Glorious Revolution
The Salem Witchcraft Hysteria
The Whig Ideal and the Emergence of Political Stability
The Whig Vision of Politics
Mercantilism, Federalism, and the Structure of Empire
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 3 Growth, Slavery, and Conflict: Colonial America, 1710-1763
Culture and Society in the Eighteenth Century
The Refinement of America
IMAGES AS HISTORY A Portrait of Colonial Aspirations
More English, Yet More American
Strong Assemblies and Weak Governors
Enlightenment and Awakening
Georgia's Utopian Experiment
COMPETING VISIONS Slavery and Georgia
American Champions of the Enlightenment
Awakening, Revivalism, and American Society
Indian Revivals
African Americans in the Colonial Era
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Southern Slavery
Northern Slavery and Free Blacks
Slave Resistance and Rebellion
An African American Culture Emerges under Slavery
Immigration, Regional Economies, and Inequality
Immigration to the Colonies
Regional Economies
New England
The Mid-Atlantic
The Upper and Lower South
The Backcountry
Cities: Expansion and Inequality
Rural America: Land Becomes Scarce
War and the Contest over Empire
The Rise and Fall of the Middle Ground
War and the Contest for Empire
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Quakers, Pacifism, and the Paxton Uprising
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 4 Revolutionary America, 1764-1783
Tightening the Reins of Empire
Taxation without Representation
The Stamp Act Crisis
An Assault on Liberty
The Intolerable Acts and the First Continental Congress
Lexington, Concord, and Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
Patriots vs. Loyalists
The Battle of Bunker Hill
IMAGES AS HISTORY Trumbull's The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill
Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence
The Plight of the Loyalists
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES A Loyalist Wife's Dilemma
Americaat War
The War in the North
The Southern Campaigns and Final Victory at Yorktown
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Popular Politics in the Revolutionary Era
Constitutional Experiments: Testing the Limits of Democracy
African Americans' Struggle's for Freedom
The American Revolution in Indian Country
Liberty's Daughters: Women and the Revolutionary Movement
COMPETING VISIONS Remember the Ladies
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 5 A Virtuous Republic: Creating a Workable Government 1783-1789
Republicanism and the Politics of Virtue
George Washington: The American Cincinnatus
The Politics of Virtue: Views from the States
IMAGES AS HISTORY Views of Women's Role
Democracy Triumphant?
Debtors versus Creditors
Life under the Articles of Confederation
No Taxation with Representation
Diplomacy: Frustration and Stalemate
Settling the Old Northwest
Shays' Rebellion
COMPETING VISIONS Reactions to Shays's Rebellion
The Movement for Constitutional Reform
Large States versus Small States
Conflict over Slavery
Filling out the Constitutional Design
The Great Debate
Federalists versus Anti-Federalists
The Theory of the Large Republic: The Genius of James Madison
Ratification
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES To Ratify or Not, That Is the Question
The Creation of a Loyal Opposition
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 6 Political Passions in the New Republic, 1789-1800
Launching the New Government
Choosing the First President
The First Federal Elections: Completing the Constitution
Filling Out the Branches of Government
Hamilton's Ambitious Program
Hamilton's Vision for the New Republic
The Assumption of State Debts
Madison's Opposition
The Bank, the Mint, and the Report on Manufactures
Jefferson and Hamilton: Contrasting Visions of the Republic
Partisanship without Parties
A New Type of Politician
The Growth of the Partisan Press
The Democratic-Republican Societies
Conflicts at Home and Abroad
The French Revolution in America
Adams versus Clinton: A Contest for Vice President
Diplomatic Controversies and Triumphs
Violence along the Frontier
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Washington's Decision to Crush the Whiskey Rebellion
Cultural Politics in a Passionate Age
Political Fashions and Fashionable Politics
Literature, Education, and Gender
Federalists, Republicans, and the Politics of Race
IMAGES AS HISTORY Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences
The Stormy Presidency of John Adams
Washington's Farewell Address
The XYZ Affair and Quasi-War with France
The Alien and Sedition Acts
COMPETING VISIONS Congressional Debate over the Sedition Act
The Disputed Election of 1800
Gabriel's Rebellion
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 7 JEFFERSONIAN AMERICA, 1800-1824
Politics in Jeffersonian America
Jefferson's Visions of Government
The Jeffersonian Style
Political Slurs and the Politics of Honor
Religion in Jeffersonian America
An Expanding Empire of Liberty
Dismantling the Federalist Program
The Courts: The Last Bastion of Federalist Power
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES John Marshall's Dilemma
The Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark
Pan-Indian Revivalism, and Jeffersonian Expansionism
Dissension at Home
Jefferson's Attack on the Federalist Judiciary
The Controversial Mr. Burr
AmericaConfronts a World at War
The Failure of Peaceable Coercion
Madison's Travails: Diplomatic Blunders Abroad and Tensions on the Frontier
The War of 1812
COMPETING VISIONS War Hawks and Their Critics
The Hartford Convention
The Republic Reborn: Consequences of the War of 1812
The National Republican Vision of James Monroe
IMAGES AS HISTORY Samuel Morse's House of Representatives and the National Republican Vision
Diplomatic Triumphs
Economic and Technological Innovation
Judicial Nationalism
Crisis and the Collapse of the National Republican Consensus
The Panic of 1819
The Missouri Crisis
Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 8 The Democratization of American Culture, 1824-1840
Democracy in America
Democratic Culture
COMPETING VISIONS Should White Men without Property Have the Vote?
Davy Crockett and the Frontier Myth
Andrew Jackson and His Age
The Election of 1824 and The Corrupt Bargain
The Election of 1828: Old Hickory's Triumph
The Reign of King Mob
States' Rights and the Nullification Crisis
White Man's Democracy
Race and Politics in the Jacksonian Era
The Cherokee Cases
Resistance and Removal
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Acquiescence or Resistance: The Cherokee Dilemma
Democrats, Whigs, and the Second Party System
Third Party Challenges: Anti-Masonry and Workingmen's Parties
The Bank War and the Rise of the Whigs
IMAGES AS HISTORY Old Hickory or King Andrew: Popular Images of Andrew Jackson
Economic Crisis and the Presidency of Martin Van Buren
Playing the Democrats' Game: Whigs in the Election of 1840
The Log Cabin Campaign
Gender and Social Class: The Whig Appeal
Democrats and Whigs: Two Visions of Government and Society
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 9 Workers, Farmers, and Slaves: The Transformation of the American Economy, 1815-1848
The Market Revolution
Agricultural Changes and Consequences
A Nation on the Move: Roads, Canals, Steamboats, and Trains
IMAGES AS HISTORY Nature, Technology, and the Railroad: George Innes' Lackawanna Valley (1855)
Spreading the News
The Spread of Industrialization
From Artisan to Worker
Women and Work
The Lowell Experiment
COMPETING VISIONS The Lowell Strike of 1834
Urban Industrialization
The Changing Urban Landscape
Old Port Cities and the New Cities of the Interior
Immigrants and the City
Free Black Communities in the North
Riot, Unrest, and Crime
Southern Society
The Planter Class
Yeoman and Tenant Farmers
Free Black Communities
White Southern Culture
Life and Labor under Slavery
Varied Systems of Slave Labor
Life in the Slave Quarters
Slave Religion and Music
Resistance and Revolt
Slavery and the Law
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Conscience or Duty: Judge Ruffin's Quandary
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 10 Revivalism, Reform, and Artistic Renaissance, 1820-1850
Revivalism and Reform
Revivalism and the Market Revolution
Temperance
COMPETING VISIONS Temperance Reform and Its Critics
Schools, Prisons, and Asylums
Abolitionism and the Pro-Slavery Response
The Rise of Immediatism
IMAGES AS HISTORY The Greek Slave
Anti-Abolitionism and the Abolitionist Response
The Pro-Slavery Argument
The Cult of True Womanhood, Reform, and Women's Rights
The New Domestic Ideal
Controlling Sexuality
The Path Toward Seneca Falls
Religious and Secular Utopianism
Millennialism, Perfectionism, and Religious Utopianism
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Mary Cragin's Experiment in Free Love at Oneida
Secular Utopias
Literature and Popular Culture
Literature and Social Criticism
Domestic Fiction, Board Games, and Crime Stories
Slaves Tell Their Story: Slavery in American Literature
Lyceums and Lectures
Nature's Nation
Landscape Painting
Parks and Cemeteries
Revival and Reform in American Architecture
Conclusion
Chapter Review
Chapter 11 To Overspread the Continent: Westward Expansion and Political Conflict, 1840-1848
Manifest Destiny and Changing Visions of the West
British, French, and Indian Encounters
Manifest Destiny and the Overland Trail
The Native American Encounter with Manifest Destiny
IMAGES AS HISTORY George Catlin and Mah-to-toh-pa: Representing Indians for an American Audience
The Mormon Flight to Utah
American Expansionism into the Southwest
The Transformation of Northern Mexico
The Clash of Interests in Texas
The Republic of Texas and the Politics of Annexation
Polk's Expansionist Vision
The Mexican War and Its Consequences
A Controversial War
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Henry David Thoreau and Civil Disobedience
War with Mexico
Images of the Mexican War
The Wilmot Proviso
Sectionalism and the Election of 1848
COMPETING VISIONS Slavery and Election of 1848
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 12 Slavery and Sectionalism: The Political Crisis of 1848-1861
The Slavery Question in the Territories
The Gold Rush
Organizing California and New Mexico
The Compromise of 1850
Sectionalism on the Rise
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Resisting the Fugitive Slave Act
Political Realignment
Young America
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Republicans and Know-Nothings
Ballots and Blood
IMAGES AS HISTORY The Foreign Menace
Deepening Controversy
Two Societies
The Industrial North
Cotton Is Supreme
The Other South
Divergent Visions
A House Divided
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
John Brown's Raid
The Election of 1860
Secession
COMPETING VISIONS Secession or Union?
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 13 A Nation Torn Apart: The Civil War, 1861-1865
Mobilization, Strategy, and Diplomacy
Comparative Advantages and Disadvantages
Mobilization in the North
Mobilization in the South
Wartime Diplomacy
The Early Campaigns, 1861-1863
No Short and Bloodless War
The Peninsular Campaign
A New Kind of War
Toward Emancipation
Slaughter and Stalemate
IMAGES AS HISTORY Photography and the Visualization of Modern War
Behind the Lines
Meeting the Demands of Modern War
Hardships on the Home Front
New Roles for Women
Copperheads
Conscription and Civil Unrest
COMPETING VISIONS Civil Liberties in a Civil War
Toward Union Victory
Turning Point: 1863
African Americans Under Arms
The Confederacy Begins to Crumble
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Equal Peril, Unequal Pay
Victory in Battle and at the Polls
War Is Hell
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 14 Now That We Are Free: Reconstruction and the New South, 1863-1890
Preparing for Reconstruction
Emancipation Test Cases
Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan
Radical Republicans Offer a Different Vision
The Fruits of Freedom
Freedom of Movement
Forty Acres and a Mule
Uplift through Education
The Black Church
The Struggle to Define Reconstruction
The Conservative Vision of Freedom: Presidential Reconstruction
COMPETING VISIONS Demanding Rights, Protecting Privilege
Congressional Reconstruction and the Fourteenth Amendment
Radical Republicans Take Control
Implementing Reconstruction
The Republican Party in the South
Creating Reconstruction Governments in the South
The Election of 1868
The Fifteenth Amendment
The Rise of White Resistance
Reconstruction Abandoned
Corruption and Scandal
The North's Retreat
IMAGES AS HISTORY Political Cartoons Reflect the Shift in Public Opinion
The Election of 1872
Hard Times
The Return of Terrorism
The End of Reconstruction
The New South
Redeemer Rule
The Lost Cause
The New South Economy
The Rise of Sharecropping
Jim Crow
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Sanctioning Separation
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 15 Conflict and Conquest: The Transformation of the West, 1860-1900
Natives and Newcomers
Congress Promotes Westward Settlement
The Diversity of the Native American West
Native American Tribes of the Great Plains
The Great Westward Migration
The Economic Transformation of the West
The Railroad Fuels Western Development
Hard Times for Farmers
The Cattle Kingdom
Fortunes Beneath the Ground: The Mining Booms
The Environmental Legacy
COMPETING VISIONS Preservation versus Exploitation
Native Americans under Siege
Mounting Problems for Native Americans
Wars on the Plains
War and Conflict in the Far West
In Pursuit of a Solution
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Forced Assimilation versus Cultural Preservation
Resistance and Romanticism
Resistance and Persistence
Creating Mythical Heroes and Images
IMAGES AS HISTORY Annie Oakley
The West in Art and Literature
Historians Reinterpret the American West
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 16 Wonder and Woe: The Rise of Industrial America, 1865-1900
The Emergence of Big Business
Sources of the Industrial Revolution
The Railroads
Modern Business Practices
Rising Concern over Corporate Power
Andrew Carnegie: Making Steel and Transforming the Corporation
Rockefeller and the Rise of the Trust
Creating a Mass Market
The Art of Selling
IMAGES AS HISTORY Advertising and the Art of Cultivating Anxiety and Desire
Shopping as Experience: The Department Store
Bringing the Market to the Frontier
Selling to the World
The World of Work Transformed
The Impact of New Technology
Hard Times for Industrial Workers
Exploitation, Intimidation, and Conflict
COMPETING VISIONS The Legitimacy of Unions
New Roles and Opportunities for Women
Conflicting Visions of Industrial Capitalism
Capitalism Championed
Capitalism Criticized
Power in Numbers: Organized Labor
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES To Strike or Not to Strike?
The Great Upheaval of 1886
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 17 Becoming a Modern Society: America in the Gilded Age, 1877-1900
The Rise of the City
To the Cities: Americans and Immigrants Spur Urban Growth
The Emergence of Ethnic Enclaves
The Troubled City
Boss Rule: The Political Machine
COMPETING VISIONS How Best to Help the Poor?
A Search for Solutions
The Nativist Impulse
A Different View: Urban Reforms
Capturing a New View of Poverty: Jacob Riis and Housing Reform
IMAGES AS HISTORY Seeing the Poor
Living among the Poor: Settlement Houses
The White City
New Habits, Roles and Lifestyles
The New Urban Landscape
New Roles and Expectations for Woman
New Forms of Leisure and Popular Culture
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
The Challenge from Below
Out of Touch Politics
The People's Party
Industrial Conflict and Depression
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES The Pullman Strike
The Election of 1896 and Political Realignment
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 18 The Progressive Era
The Origins of Progressive Reform
Rising Concerns and Common Ideals
Muckrakers
Experts and Professionals
The Social Gospel
Urban and State Reforms
Attacking the Machine
Regulating Transit and Utility Monopolies
Direct Democracy
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Representative or Direct Democracy?
Labor Legislation
The Darker Side of Progressivism
Moral Reform and Social Control
The Eugenics Movement
IMAGES AS HISTORY Promoting Racial Hygiene (Eugenics)
Failure of the Anti-Lynching Crusade
Progressivism in National Politics
Roosevelt the Reformer
Regulating Big Business
The Conservation Movement
COMPETING VISIONS The Battle of Hetch Hetchy
The Radical Challenge
Wilson's New Freedom
Women's Suffrage
Chapter 19 Imperial America: The United States in the World, 1890-1914
Becoming a World Power
The Impulse for Expansion
European Imperialism
The Spanish-American War
The Growing Conflict with Spain
IMAGES AS HISTORY Atrocity Stories
The Decision to Intervene in Cuba
Fighting the War Against Spain
Creating an American Empire
The Debate Over Colonies
COMPETING VISIONS The White Man's Burden
The Philippine-American War
Americaand East Asia
The Open Door in China
Relations with Japan
Angel Island
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES The Legal Construction of Whiteness
In America's Backyard
The Panama Canal
The Roosevelt Corollary
Conclusion
Chapter Review
Chapter 20 The Great War: World War I, 1914-1918
The Decision for War
The War in Europe
The Perils of Neutrality
America Enters the War
Conflicting Views among the Allies on the War's Purpose
The War at Home
Gearing Up for War
Black Migration
Female Suffrage
Rallying the Public
IMAGES AS HISTORY Propaganda Posters
German Spies, Civil Liberties, and Immigrants
Fighting the War
Raising an Army
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Alvin York, Deciding to Serve
You're in the Army Now
On the Western Front
Flu Epidemic
The Final Campaigns
Peace
The Paris Peace Conference
The Treaty Fight at Home
COMPETING VISIONS Joining the League of Nations
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 21 A Turbulent Decade: The Twenties
Cars and Planes: The Promise of the Twenties
The Car Culture
On the Road
Welfare Capitalism and Consumer Culture
The Age of Flight: Charles A. Lindbergh
Cultural Turbulence
The Lost Generation
Prohibition
The First Red Scare and Immigration Restrictions
Fundamentalism
Racial Violence and Civil Rights
Lynching, Racial Rioting, and the Ku Klux Klan
Marcus Garvey
COMPETING VISIONS Debating Garveyism
The Harlem Renaissance
The New Woman
Life for Women in the Twenties
IMAGES AS HISTORY Advertising the New Woman
Margaret Sanger and the Fight for Birth Control
Ensuring Peace: Diplomacy in the Twenties
Disarmament
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Preventing War in Europe
Wartime Debts
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 22 A New Deal for America: The Great Depression, 1929-1940
The Early Days of the Depression
Herbert Hoover
Economic Weaknesses in a Time of Prosperity
The Stock Market Crash of 1929
Hoover's Response to the Depression
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Evicting the Bonus Marchers
A New President and a New Deal
FDR: The Politician
Managing Appearances
The Temper of the Poor: Passivity and Anger
Recovering from the Depression
Revamping Banking and Financial Institution
Father Charles Coughlin
Helping Industry and People
Putting People to Work
A New Deal for Farmers
Handling the Farm Crisis
Hitting the Road
Repatriating Mexican Immigrants
IMAGES AS HISTORY Migrant Mother, an American Icon
Reforms to Ensure Social Justice
The Challenge from Huey Long: Share Our Wealth
Social Security
Supporting Unions
COMPETING VISIONS Sharing the Wealth
The Resurgence of Labor
A New Deal for African Americans
The Supreme Court Weighs In
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 23 World War II: Fighting the Good War, 1939-1945
The Approaching War
Fascism and Appeasement
The Arsenal of Democracy
War with Japan
On the Home Front
Images of the Enemy
Internment Camps
COMPETING VISIONS Civil Liberties and National Security Clash
Prosperity, Scarcity, and Opportunities for Women
Racial Discord
On the Front Lines
Defeat, Then Victory
IMAGES AS HISTORY Combat Photography
The Final Push in Europe
America's Response to the Holocaust
The Holocaust
Ending the Pacific War
Edging Closer to Japan
Dropping the Atomic Bomb
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES How to Use the Atomic Bomb
The Final Surrender
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 24 A Divided World: The Early Cold War, 1945-1963
Origins of the Cold War
Differing Goals in the Postwar World
The American Vision Takes Shape: Kennan's Long Telegram
The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
The Berlin Airlift and NATO
Fighting Communism: Cold and Hot War
Communism Rising: 1949
The Korean War
Nuclear Fallout and Fear
IMAGES AS HISTORY Surviving an Atomic Bomb Blast
Fallout Shelters
Spies in Our Midst
The Second Red Scare
HUAC against Hollywood
COMPETING VISIONS Naming Names in Hollywood
McCarthyism
Averting Nuclear War
Sputnik
The Berlin Wall
Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES The Cuban Missile Crisis
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 25 In a Land of Plenty: Contentment and Discord, 1945-1960
Securing the New Deal Legacy
The Labor Movement Curtailed
Presidential Agendas: Truman and Eisenhower
A Middle Class America
Postwar Prosperity
The Move to the Suburbs
COMPETING VISIONS Suburbs: American Dream or Nightmare?
Popular Culture in the Fifties
The Television Age Arrives
Teen Culture and Rock and Roll
The Beats
Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement
Separate But Equal: Challenging Segregated Schools
Emmett Till
IMAGES AS HISTORY Inspiring a New Generation to Act
Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Rosa Parks Makes History
The Little Rock Nine, 1957
The Sit-ins
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 26 A Nation Divided: The Vietnam War, 1945-1975
The Long Road to War
The Escalating Importance of Vietnam
Taking Over from the French
Debates within the Kennedy Administration
The Kennedy Assassination
The Gulf of Tonkin
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Making Vietnam America's War
Fighting in Vietnam
The Bombing Campaign
On the Ground
The Tet Offensive
IMAGES AS HISTORY The Role of the Press in Vietnam
Controversy of the Home Front
The Antiwar Movement
My Lai
COMPETING VISIONS Who Was Responsible for the My Lai Massacre?
The Long Road to Peace
Seeking Peace with Honor
Vietnam: The War by the Numbers
Cambodia: Invasion and Outrage
Withdrawal
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 27 A Decade of Discord: The Challenge of the Sixties
The Liberal Moment
Kennedy and the New Frontier
A Liberal Court
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Is School Prayer Constitutional?
The 1964 Election
IMAGES AS HISTORY Birmingham, 1963
March on Washington, 1963
Freedom Summer, 1964
Selma and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
THE LIBERAL REVOLUTION
Kennedy and the New Frontier
A Liberal Court
The 1964 Election
The Great Society
Nonviolence Triumphant: The Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1965
Kennedy and the Freedom Riders
Birmingham, 1963
IMAGES AS HISTORY Birmingham, 1963
March on Washington
Freedom Summer
Selma and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Fractured Left
The New Left and the Counterculture
Malcolm X: An Alternative to Nonviolence
Watts and Chicago
Black Power and the Black Panthers
COMPETING VISIONS Defining Black Power
Women's Liberation Movement
The End of an Era
The Faltering Civil Rights Movement
The Great Society Unravels
The Demise of the Counterculture
Keeping Protest Alive: Mexican Americans and Native Americans
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 28 A Nation Adrift: America in the 1970s and 1980s
The Age of Limits
Frustration at Home and Overseas
The Watergate Scandal
IMAGES AS HISTORY Watergate through Political Cartoons
Ford and Carter: A Crisis of Presidential Leadership
A Weakened Presidency and an Ailing Economy
Defining American Foreign Policy After Vietnam
The Leadership Crisis Continues: Carter in the White House
New Paths in Foreign Affairs
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Ending the Iranian Hostage Crisis
The Rights Revolution
The Equal Rights Amendment and Abortion Controversies
COMPETING VISIONS Defining the Ideal Woman
Gay Rights
Environmentalism
The Rise of the Right
The New Conservative Coalition
The Reagan Presidency
Conclusion
Chapter Review
CHAPTER 29: Modern Times: Living a Post-Cold War World
Changing Contours of American Society
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES Coming to America
Persian Gulf War
The Culture Wars
COMPETING VISIONS Liberalism on America's College Campuses
Terrorism
IMAGES AS HISTORY 9/11
Globalization
