Maps
Preface
About the Authors
Chapter 15: Reconstructing America, 1865-1877
The Year of Jubilee, 1865
- African American Families
- Southern Whites and the Problem of Defeat
- Emancipation in Comparative Perspective
Shaping Reconstruction, 1865-1868
- Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction
- The Fight over Reconstruction
- The Civil War Amendments and American Citizenship
- Global Passages: Irish Americans and the Fenian Struggle
- Congressional Reconstruction
Reconstruction in the South, 1866-1877
- African American Life in the Postwar South
- Republican Governments in the Postwar South
- Cotton, Merchants, and the Lien
The End of Reconstruction, 1877
- The Ku Klux Klan and Reconstruction Violence
- Northern Weariness and Northern Conservatism
- Legacies of Reconstruction
Chapter 16: Forging a Transcontinental Nation, 1877-1900
Meeting Ground of Many Peoples
- Changing Patterns of Migration
- Mexican Borders
- Chinese Exclusion
Mapping the West
- The Federal Frontier
- Promotion and Memory
- The Culture of Collective Violence
Extractive Economics and Global Commodities
- Mining and Labor
- Business Travelers
- Railroads, Time, and Space
- Industrial Ranching
- Corporate Cowboys
Clearing the Land and Cleansing the Wilderness
- Conflict and Resistance
- Education for Assimilation
- The Destruction of the Buffalo
- Global Passages: Settler Societies and Indigenous Peoples
- The Dawes Act and Survival
- Tourism, Parks, and Forests
Chapter 17: A New Industrial and Labor Order, 1877-1900
Global Webs of Industrial Capitalism
- The New Industrial Capitalism
- U.S. Industrial Growth in Global Context
- Combinations and Concentrations of Wealth
- Markets and Consumerism
- Global Passsages: A Revolution in Food
Work and Workplace
- Global Migrations
- Blue Collar and White Collar Workers
- Regimentation and Scientific Management
- Working Conditions and Wages
- Economic Convulsions and Hard Times
- Women and Children in the Workplace
Workers Fight Back
- The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
- Organizing Strategies and Labor Violence
- The Farmers Organize
- The Labor Movement in Global Context
The New Industrial Order: Defense and Dissent
- Defending the New Order
- Critiquing the New Order
Chapter 18: Cities, Immigrants, Culture, and Politics, 1877-1900
Urbanization
- The Growth of Cities
- The Peopling of American Cities
- Types of Cities
- Cities Transformed and "Sorted Out"
Global Migrations
- A Worldwide Migration
- "America Fever" and the "New" Immigration
- The "Immigration Problem"
- The Round-Trip to America
- Global Passages: Immigrants Who Returned
Streets Paved with Gold?
- Surviving in "The Land of Bosses and Clocks"
- Creating Commuting
- Becoming American
The Promise and Peril of City Life
- A World of Opportunity
- A World of Crises
Tackling Urban Problems
- Saving Souls in Urban America
- The Social Purity Movement
- Creating Healthy Urban Environments
Challenges to the Politics of Stalement
- Key Issues
- Ethnicity, Gender, and Political Culture
- Th Populist Challenge
- The Election of 1896
Chapter 19: The United States Expands Its Reach, 1892-1912
The New Imperialism
- A Global Grab for Colonies
- Race, Empire, Bibles, and Businessmen
- Precendent for American Empire
- The Crises of the 1890s
The United States Flexes its Muscles
- Latin America
- Hawaii
- The Cuban Crisis
- "A Splendid Little War"
The Complications of Empire
- Cuba and Puerto Rico
- The Philippines
- The Debate over Empire
- Global Passages: African Americans and International Affairs
- The American-Philippine War
- China
The United States on the World Stage: Roosevelt and Taft
- Roosevelt's "Big Stick"
- Taft's Dollar Diplomacy
Chapter 20: An Age of Progressive Reform, 1890-1920
Progressivism as a Global Movement
- Nodes of Progressivism
- The Global Exchange of Progressive Ideas
Urban Reform
- The "Good Government" Movement
- The Housing Dilemma
- Municipal Housekeeping
- Segregation and the Racial Limits of Reform
Progressivism at the State and National Levels
- Electoral Reforms
- Mediating the Labor Problem
- Regulating Business: Trust-Busting and Consumer Protection
- Conservation versus Preservation of Nature
Progressivism and World War I
- A Progressive War?
- Uniting and Disuniting the Nation
- Votes for Women
- Global Passages: Helen Keller: "I do not like this World as it is."
- Progressivism in International Context
Chapter 21: America and the Great Wall, 1914-1920
The Shock of War
- The Colonial Origins of the Conflict
- A War of Attrition
- America's Response to War
The U.S. Path to War, 1914-1917
- National Security and the Push Toward Americanization
- Social Reform, the Election of 1916, and Challenges to Neutrality
- Intervention in Latin America
- Decision for War
America at War
- Mobilizing People and Ideas
- Controlling Dissent
- Mobilizing the Economy
- Women Suffragists
- The Great Migration
Over There
- Building an Army
- Joining the Fight
- Political and Military Complications
- Influenza Pandemic
Making Peace Abroad and at Home
- Global Passages: Postwar Colonialism
- Making Peace and Fighting Communism
- Red Scare
- The Fight for the Treaty
Chapter 22: A New Era, 1920-1930
A New Economy for A New Era
- Wireless America
- Car Culture
- Advertising for Mass Consumption
Sexual, Racial, and Ethnic Divides
- Challenging Sexual Conventions
- African American Renaissance and Repression
- Black International Movements
- Immigration Restriction
- The Ku Klux Klan
A National Culture: At Home and Abroad
- Popular Entertainment: Movies, Sports, and Celebrity
- Global Passages: Hollywood Sells America to the World
- The New Skepticism
- Religion and Society
- Prohibition
Post-World War I Politics and Foreign Policy
- Government and Business in the 1920s
- Coolidge Prosperity
- The Election of 1928
- Independent Internationalism in the 1920s
- The United States and Instability in the Western Hemisphere
The Crash
- The End of the Boom
- The Great Depression
Chapter 23: A New Deal for Americans, 1931-1939
The New Deal
- From Prosperity to Global Depression
- Spiral of Decline, 1931-1933
- Suffering in the Land
- The Failure of the Old Deal
- The Coming of the New Deal
Reconstructing Capitalism
- The Hundred Days
- Voices of Protest
The Second New Deal
- Social Security
- Labor Activism
- The 1936 Election
Society, Law, and Culture in the 1930s
- Popular Entertainment
- Women and the New Deal
- A New Deal for Blacks
- Global Passages: European Refugees
- Hispanics and the New Deal
- The Indian New Deal
- Nature's New Deal
The Twilight of Reform
- The New Deal and Judicial Change
- Recession
- Political Setbacks
Chapter 24: Arsenal of Democracy: The World at War, 1931-1945
The Long Fuse
- Isolationist Impulse
- Disengagement from Europe
- Disengagement in Asia
- Appeasement
- America at the Brink of War, 1939-1941
- Day of Infamy
A Grand Alliance
- War in the Pacific
- The War in Europe
- The Holocaust
Battle for Production
- War Economy
- Global Passages: A Battle of Books and Ideas
- A Government-Sponsored Technology Revolution
- The Draft
On the Move: Wartime Mobility
- Wartime Women
- Mexican Migrants, Mexican Americans, and American Indians in Wartime
- African Americans in Wartime
- Japanese American Internment
Wartime Politics and Postwar Issues
- Right Turn
- The 1944 Election and the Threshold of Victory
- Victory in Europe
- Victory in the Pacific
Chapter 25: Prosperity and Liberty Under the Shadow of the Bomb, 1945-1952
The Cold War
- The Roots of Conflict
- Managing Postwar Europe in Potsdam
- The Defeat of Japan
- Dividing the Postwar Globe
- A Policy for Containment
- Global Passages: Rebuilding the World
The Red Scare
- War in Korea
- NSC-68 - A Cold War Containment Policy
- The Color of Difference is Red
- Hollywood and the Pumpkin Papers
A New Affluence
- The Fair Deal
- The GI Bill
- Working Women
Postwar Migrations
- Military-Industrial West and South
- Hispanics Move North
- Mobile Leisure
Laying the Foundation for Civil Rights
- First Steps
- Jack Roosevelt Robinson
- The Influence of African American Veterans
- Black Migration and the Nationalization of Race
Chapter 26: The Dynamic 1950s, 1950-1959
The Eisenhower Era
- The End of the Korean War
- The New Look
- The Rise of the Developing World
- Hungary and the Suez, 1956
- France's Vietnam War
- McCarthyism and the Red Scare
A Dynamic Decade
- The Baby Boom
- Suburban Migrations - Urban Decline
- Consumer Nation
- Corporate Order and Industrial Labor
The Future is Now
- Global Passages: The International Geophysical Year
- Auto Mania
- Oil Culture
- Television
Conformity and Rebellion
- Old Time Religion
- Women in the 1950s
- Organization Men
- Teens, Rebels, and Beats
Laying the Foundation for Civil Rights
- Brown and the Legal Assault
- Showdown in Little Rock
- Boots on the Ground
- MLK and the Philosophy of Nonviolence
Chapter 27: The Optimism and the Anguish of the 1960s, 1960-1969
The New Frontier
- JFK's New Frontier
- The Challenge of Racial Justice
- Cold War Tensions
- Kennedy Assassination
The Great Society
- Civil Rights Laws
- Great Society Programs
- The Supreme Court and Rights and Liberties
- The United States and the World beyond Vietnam
A Robust Economy
- Technological Change, Science, and Space Exploration
- The Rise of the Sunbelt
Race, Gender, Youth, and the Challenge to the Establishment
- Urban Uprisings and Black Power
- Latinos and Indians Struggle for Rights
- The New Feminism
- Environmentalism
- Global Passages: the Republic of Rock
- Countercultures
Chapter 28: The Vietnam Era, 1961-1975
Background to a War, 1945-1963
- Vietnam and the Cold War
- American Commitments to South Vietnam
- The 1963 Turning Point
An American War, 1964-1967
- Decisions for Escalation, 1964-1965
- Ground and Air War, 1966-1967
- Global Passages: Global Disruption
- The War at Home
1968: Turmoil and Turning Points
- The Tet Offensive
- The Agony of 1968
Nixon and the World
- From Vietnamization to Paris
- The End of the Vietnam War
- Reduction of Cold War Tensions
Domestic Policy and the Abuse of Power
- Curtailing the Great Society
- Watergate
Chapter 29: Conservatism Resurgent, 1973-1988
Backlash
- An Accidental President
- The Politics of Limits and Malaise
- A Dangerous World, 1974-1980
- America Held Hostage
Democratic Decline and the Rising Tide on the Right
- The Crisis of the Democrats
- Rising Tide on the Right
- The Religious Right and Neoconservatism
It's Morning Again in America
- The Rise of Reagan
- Economic Realities
- Conservative Justice
Social Transformation and the Technology Revolution
- The Rise of the "Nontraditional Family"
- Gay Rights and the AIDS Epidemic
- A Health Conscious America
- High Technology
Challenging the "Evil Empire"
- A New Arms Race
- Global Passages: Bombs Away: The B-52 and America's Global Mility Footprint
- Interventions
- Cold War Thaw
Chapter 30: After the Cold War, 1988-2001
George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War
- The Election of 1988
- The Bush Presidency at Home
- The New World Order
- The Election of 1992
The Good Times
- Innovation and New Technology
- Global Passages: The 1965 Immigration Act and Its Consequences
Bill Clinton and the New Democrats
- An Awkward Start
- Clinton's Recovery
- Clinton's Second Term
A Post-Cold War Foreign Policy
- Intervention and Mediation
- International Terrorism
The Disputed Election of 2000
- Bush versus Core
- The Election in Florida and a Supreme Court Decision
Chapter 31: 21st-Century Dangers and Promises, 2001-Present
The Age of Sacred Terror
- The United States and Terrorism before September 11, 2001
- September 11 and Al Qaeda
- The War in Afghanistan
- The Iraq War
- Policing Terrorism
Conservatism in the Bush Years
- Culture Wars
- Compassionate Conservatism
- The Election of 2004
- Privatizing Social Security
- Hurricane Katrina
- The Election of 2006
Economic Turmoil
- The Dot-Com Bust, Financial Scandals, and the Middle-Class Squeeze
- Collapse
The Obama Years
- The Election of 2008
- Economic Recovery
- Iraqi Withdrawal and the Afghan War
- Global Passages: Reefer Madness: Cycles of Repression and Reform in the Long War on Drugs
- Battles in the Legislature
- Protests on teh Right and Left
- The 2012 Election
- Going Over the Fiscal Cliff
- Justice in the 21st Century
- Immigration
- Civil Rights for Gay Americans
- A Turbulent World
- Addendum: The Unexpected Election of President Donald J. Trump
Appendix A: Historical Documents
Appendix B: Historical Facts and Data
Glossary
Credits
Index
