Maps Features Preface New to the Fourth Edition Hallmark Features Supplements Acknowledgments About the Authors Chapter 15: Reconstructing a Nation, 1865-1877 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: John Dennett Visits a Freedmen's Bureau Court Wartime Reconstruction Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan Versus the Wade-Davis Bill The Meaning of Freedom Experiments with Free Labor Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-1867 The Political Economy of Contract Labor Resistance to Presidential Reconstruction Congress Clashes with the President Origins of the Fourteenth Amendment Congressional Reconstruction The South Remade The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson Radical Reconstruction in the South Achievements and Failures of Radical Government The Political Economy of Sharecropping The Gospel of Prosperity A Counterrevolution of Terrorism and Economic Pressure AMERICA AND THE WORLD: Reconstructing America's Foreign Policy A Reconstructed West The Overland Trail The Origins of Indian Reservations The Destruction of Indian Subsistence The Retreat from Republican Radicalism Republicans Become the Party of Moderation Reconstructing the North The Fifteenth Amendment and Nationwide African American Suffrage Women and Suffrage The End of Reconstruction Corruption Is the Fashion Liberal Republicans Revolt Redeeming the South STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: An Incident at Coushatta, August 1874 The Twice-Stolen Election of 1876 Sharecropping Becomes Wage Labor Conclusion Chapter 16: The Triumph of Industrial Capitalism, 1850-1890 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Rosa Cassettari The Political Economy of Global Capitalism The Great Depression of the Late Nineteenth Century AMERICA AND THE WORLD: The Global Migration of Labor The Economic Transformation of the West AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Mining Camps in the West Cattlemen: From Drovers to Ranchers Commercial Farmers Remake the Plains Changes in the Land America Moves to the City The Rise of Big Business The Rise of Andrew Carnegie Carnegie Dominates the Steel Industry Big Business Consolidates A New Social Order Lifestyles of the Very Rich The Consolidation of the New Middle Class The Industrial Working Class Comes of Age Social Darwinism and the Growth of Scientific Racism STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Chinese Must Go The Knights of Labor and the Haymarket Disaster Conclusion Chapter 17: The Culture and Politics of Industrial America, 1870-1892 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Luna Kellie and the Farmers' Alliance The Elusive Boundaries of Male and Female The Victorian Construction of Male and Female The Victorian Crusade for Morality Urban Culture A New Cultural Order: New Americans Stir Old Fears Josiah Strong Attacks Immigration From Immigrants to Ethnic Americans The Catholic Church and Its Limits in Immigrant Culture Immigrant Cultures The Enemy at the Gates Two Political Styles The Triumph of Party Politics Masculine Partisanship and Feminine Voluntarism The Women's Christian Temperance Union STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Crusade Against Alcohol The Critics of Popular Politics Economic Issues Dominate National Politics Greenbacks and Greenbackers Weak Presidents Oversee a Stronger Federal Government AMERICA AND THE WORLD: Foreign Policy: The Limited Significance of Commercial Expansion Government Activism and Its Limits States Discover Activism Cities: Boss Rule and New Responsibilities CHALLENGING THE NEW INDUSTRIAL ORDER Henry George and the Limits of Producers' Ideology Edward Bellamy and the Nationalist Clubs Agrarian Revolt The Rise of the Populists Conclusion Chapter 18: Industry and Empire, 1890-1900 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: J. P. Morgan The Crisis of the 1890s Hard Times and Demands for Help The Overseas Frontier The Drive for Efficiency The Struggle Between Management and Labor Corporate Consolidation A Modern Economy Currency: Gold versus Silver The Cross of Gold The Battle of the Standards The Retreat from Politics The Lure of the Cities AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Galveston, Texas, 1900 Inventing Jim Crow The Atlanta Compromise Disfranchisement and the Decline of Popular Politics STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Wilmington Race Riot Organized Labor Retreats from Politics American Diplomacy Enters the Modern World Sea Power and the Imperial Urge The Scramble for Empire War with Spain The Anti-Imperialists The Philippine-American War The Open Door Conclusion Chapter 19: A United Body of Action, 1900-1916 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Helen Keller Toward a New Politics The Insecurity of Modern Life The Decline of Partisan Politics Social Housekeeping Evolution or Revolution? The Progressives Social Workers and Muckrakers STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: Public Response to The Jungle Dictatorship of the Experts Progressives on the Color Line Progressives in State and Local Politics Redesigning the City Reform Mayors and City Services Progressives and the States A Push for Genuine Democracy and a Moral Awakening The Executive Branch Against the Trusts The Square Deal Conserving Water, Land, and Forests AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: The Hetch Hetchy Valley TR and Big Stick Diplomacy Taft and Dollar Diplomacy Rival Visions of the Industrial Future The New Nationalism The 1912 Election The New Freedom Conclusion Chapter 20: A Global Power, 1914-1919 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Walter Lippmann The Challenge of Revolution The Mexican Revolution Bringing Order to the Caribbean A One-Sided Neutrality The Lusitania's Last Voyage The Drift to War The Election of 1916 The Last Attempts at Peace War Aims The Fight in Congress Mobilizing the Nation and the Economy Enforcing Patriotism STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: Eugene Debs Speaks Out Against the War Regimenting the Economy The Great Migration Reforms Become War Measures Over There Citizens into Soldiers The Fourteen Points The Final Offensive Revolutionary Anxieties Wilson in Paris AMERICA AND THE WORLD: The American Red Cross and Wartime Civilian Aid The Senate Rejects the League Red Scare Conclusion Chapter 21: The Modern Nation, 1919-1928 AMERICA PORTRAIT: America's Sweetheart A Dynamic Economy The Development of Industry The Trend Toward Large-Scale Organization The Transformation of Work and the Workforce The Defeat of Organized Labor The Decline of Agriculture The Urban Nation A Modern Culture The Spread of Consumerism New Pleasures for a Mass Audience A Sexual Revolution Changing Gender Ideals STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: Flappers and Feminists The Family and Youth AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Flaming Youth on Campus The Celebration of the Individual The Limits of the Modern Culture The Limits of Prosperity The Lost Generation of Intellectuals Fundamentalist Christians and Old-Time Religion Nativists and Immigration Restriction The Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan Mexican Americans African Americans and the New Negro A New Era in Politics and Government The Modern Political System The Republican Ascendancy The Politics of Individualism Republican Foreign Policy AMERICA AND THE WORLD: J. Walter Thompson and International Markets Extending the New Era Conclusion Chapter 22: A Great Depression and a New Deal, 1929-1940 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Dorothea Lange The Great Depression Causes Descending into Depression Hoover Responds The First New Deal The Election of 1932 FDR Takes Command Federal Relief STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Civilian Conservation Corps and a New Brand of Environmentalism The Farm Crisis The Blue Eagle The Second New Deal Critics Attack from All Sides The Second Hundred Days Social Security for Some Labor and the New Deal The New Deal Coalition Crisis of the New Deal Conservatives Counterattack The Liberal Crisis of Confidence AMERICA AND THE WORLD: The 1936 Olympics Conclusion Chapter 23: The Second World War, 1941-1945 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: A. Philip Randolph Island in a Totalitarian Sea A World of Hostile Blocs The Good Neighbor America First? Means Short of War Turning the Tide Midway and Coral Sea AMERICA AND THE WORLD: Carrier Gone with the Draft The Winning Weapons The Second Front Organizing for Production A Mixed Economy Industry Moves South and West New Jobs in New Places Women in Industry Between Idealism and Fear Japanese Internment STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Zoot Suit Riots No Shelter from the Holocaust Closing with the Enemy Taking the War to Europe Island Hopping in the Pacific Building a New World The Fruits of Victory Conclusion Chapter 24: The Cold War, 1945-1954 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: John Turchinetz Origins of the Cold War Ideological Competition Uneasy Allies From Allies to Enemies National Security The Truman Doctrine Containment AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: The Nevada Test Site Taking Risks Global Revolutions Korea NSC-68 The Reconversion of American Society The Postwar Economy The Challenge of Organized Labor Opportunities for Women Civil Rights for African Americans The Frustrations of Liberalism The Democrats' Troubles Truman's Comeback Fighting the Cold War at Home Doubts and Fears in the Atomic Age The Anti-Communist Crusade STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Hollywood Ten The Hunt for Spies The Rise of McCarthyism Conclusion Chapter 25: The Consumer Society, 1945-1961 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: The Ricardos Living the Good Life Economic Prosperity The Suburban Dream AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System The Pursuit of Pleasure A Homogeneous Society? The Discovery of Conformity The Decline of Class and Ethnicity The Resurgence of Religion and Family Maintaining Gender Roles Persisting Racial Differences The Survival of Diversity The Eisenhower Era at Home and Abroad Ike and 1950s America Modern Republicanism STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Fantastic, Real-Life, Dream-Come-True Adventure of the Barstow Family of Wethersfield, Connecticut An Aggressive Cold War Strategy Avoiding War with the Communist Powers Crises in the Third World AMERICA AND THE WORLD: American Tourists in Cold War Europe Challenges to the Consumer Society Rebellious Youth The Beat Movement The Rebirth of Environmentalism The Struggle for Civil Rights The Crisis of Misplaced Power Conclusion Chapter 26: The Table of Democracy, 1960-1968 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: The A&T Four New Approaches to Power Grassroots Activism for Civil Rights The New Liberalism The New Conservatism The New Left The Presidential Election of 1960 The New Frontier Style and Substance AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Spaceport USA Civil Rights Flexible Response and the Third World Two Confrontations with the Soviets Kennedy and Vietnam The Great Society Lyndon Johnson's Mandate Success Without Squalor Preserving Personal Freedom The Death of Jim Crow The American War in Vietnam Johnson's Decision for War Fighting a Limited War The War at Home The Great Society Comes Apart The Emergence of Black Power The Youth Rebellion STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: Protest in the Schools The Rebirth of the Women's Movement Conservative Backlash 1968: A Tumultuous Year Conclusion Chapter 27: Living with Less, 1968-1980 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Fighting Shirley Chisholm A New Crisis: Economic Decline Weakness at Home The Energy Crisis Competition Abroad The Multinationals The Impact of Decline AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: The South Bronx Confronting Decline: Nixon's Strategy A New Foreign Policy Ending the Vietnam War Chile and the Middle East Taming Big Government An Uncertain Economic Policy Refusing to Settle for Less: Struggles for Rights African Americans' Struggle for Racial Justice STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: ROAR! Women's Liberation Mexican Americans and Brown Power Asian American Activism The Struggle for Native American Rights Gay Power Backlash: From Radical Action to Conservative Reaction The Movement and the Me Decade The Plight of the White Ethnics The Republican Counterattack Political Crisis: Three Troubled Presidencies Watergate: The Fall of Richard Nixon Gerald Ford and a Skeptical Nation Why Not the Best?: Jimmy Carter Conclusion Chapter 28: The Triumph of Conservatism, 1980-1991 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Linda Chavez Creating a Conservative Majority The New Economy AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Silicon Valley The Rehabilitation of Business The Rise of the Religious Right The 1980 Presidential Election The Reagan Revolution at Home The Reagan Style Shrinking Government Reaganomics The 1984 Presidential Election The Reagan Revolution Abroad Restoring American Power Confronting the Evil Empire The Reagan Doctrine in the Third World AMERICA AND THE WORLD: The Ethiopian Famine The Middle East and Terrorism The United States and the World Economy The Battle over Conservative Social Values Attacking the Legacy of the 1960s Women's Rights and Abortion Gays and the AIDS Crisis African Americans and Racial Inequality The Decade of the Hispanic From Scandal to Triumph Business and Religious Scandals Political Scandals Setbacks for the Conservative Agenda A Vulnerable Economy Reagan's Comeback STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: Reagan at the Berlin Wall Conclusion Chapter 29: The Globalized Nation, 1989-2001 AMERICAN PORTRAIT: James Sharlow The Age of Globalization The Cold War and Globalization New Communications Technologies Multinationals and NGOs Expanding Trade Moving People AMERICA AND THE WORLD: Titanic and the Globalization of Hollywood Contesting Globalization A New Economy From Industry to Information A Second Economic Revolution? Downsizing America Boom and Insecurity Democratic Deadlock George H. W. Bush and the End of the Reagan Revolution The Rebellion Against Politics as Usual Clinton's Compromise with Conservatism STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: Temporarily Closed, 1995-1996 Domestic Dissent and Terrorism Scandal The Presidential Election of 2000 Culture Wars African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era Family Values Multiculturalism Women in the Postfeminist Era Contesting Gay and Lesbian Rights Redefining Foreign Policy in the Global Age The New World Order The Persian Gulf War Retreating from the New World Order A New Threat Conclusion Chapter 30: A Nation Transformed, The Twenty-First Century AMERICAN PORTRAIT: Lt. Craig Mullaney Twin Crises Bush 43 9/11 The Global War on Terror The Iraq War Iraq and Afghanistan in Turmoil AMERICAN LANDSCAPE: Gitmo Financial Crisis Obama and the Promise of Change The Presidential Election of 2008 Confronting Economic Crisis Ending the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq The Politics of Frustration A Second Term Climate Change Unending War? Diversity and Division A Diverse Society of Color Tolerance and Intolerance LGBTQ Rights Shifting Religious Beliefs and Practices Economic Change and a Divided Nation Jobs and Growth The Rich, the Poor, and the Middle Class Women and Men Baby Boomers and Millennials Urban and Rural Democracy Under Stress Money and Politics Polarized Politics Four Political Approaches The Presidential Election of 2016 STRUGGLES FOR DEMOCRACY: The Russian Attack on Democracy Make America Great Again Conclusion APPENDICES Appendix A: Historical Documents The Declaration of Independence The Constitution of the United States of America Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Appendix B: Historical Facts and Data US Presidents and Vice Presidents Admission of States into the Union Glossary Photo Credits Index
