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Preface
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What Does Freedom Mean?: Reconstruction, 1865–1877
1.1
Race, Reunion, and the Aftermath of War
1.2
Congressional Reconstruction
1.3
Challenges of Reconstruction
1.4
Reconstruction Reversed
1.5
Conclusion
1.6
Further Reading
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Western Expansion, the New South, and Industrial America, 1870–1890
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Native Americans and the Trans-Mississippi West
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2.2
Winning and Losing the West
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2.3
Growth of Industrial America and the New South
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2.4
Challenging the Gilded Age
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Populism and Imperialism, 1890–1900
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3.1
Urban American and Popular Culture
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3.2
National Politics and the Populist Party
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3.3
Immigration, Ethnicity, and the “Nadir of Race Relations”
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Imperialism at Home and Abroad
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From Populism to the Progressive Era, 1900–1912
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4.1
National Politics during the Progressive Era
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4.2
The Progressives
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4.3
Radicalism and the Limits of Egalitarian Reform
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4.4
Life in “Modern America”
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4.5
Conclusion
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The Late Progressive Era and World War, 1912–1920
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5.1
The Wilson Administration and the Coming War
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The Great War and America
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5.3
Armistice and Aftermath
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Conclusion
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Roaring Twenties to the Great Depression, 1920–1932
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6.1
Prosperity and Its Limits
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6.2
Immigration and Closing the Golden Door
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6.3
Popular Culture and a Renaissance in Harlem
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6.4
The Crash: From Decadence to Depression
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6.5
Conclusion
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The New Deal and Origins of World War II, 1932–1939
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The First New Deal, 1933–1935
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7.2
Last Hired, First Fired: Women and Minorities in the Great Depression
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7.3
Second New Deal and Its Opponents, 1935–1939
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7.4
America’s Entry into World War II
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7.5
Conclusion
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America and World War II, 1941–1945
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8.1
Pearl Harbor and the Arsenal of Democracy
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8.2
Double V: Freedom Abroad, Freedom at Home
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8.3
D-Day to Victory
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Conclusion
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The Cold War at Home and Abroad, 1945–1953
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Postwar Europe, Asia, and the Middle East
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Postwar America
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9.3
Red Scares, Lavender Scares, and the Quest for Equality during the Early Cold War
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Containment and the Korean “Conflict”
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The Cold War and the Affluent Society, 1954–1963
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10.1
The Global Cold War during the Eisenhower Administration
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America during the Eisenhower Years
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America and the World during the Kennedy Years
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Conclusion
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Vietnam and Civil Disobedience, 1963–1969
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11.1
From New Frontier to Great Society
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The Great Society and the Vietnam War
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“More than a Hamburger:” Civil Rights and Social Justice
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1968–1969: Unrest and Upheaval
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The 1970s
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12.1
Vietnam, Détente, and Watergate
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Détente, Decline, and Domestic Politics
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12.3
Equality and Liberation in the New America
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The Middle East and Malaise: America in the Late 1970s
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Conclusion
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The Reagan and Bush Years, 1980–1992
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13.1
Conservatism and the “Reagan Revolution”
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13.2
The End of the Cold War
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13.3
American Life in the 1980s
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The Presidency of George Bush (Sr.)
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Conclusion
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America in Our Time, 1992–Present
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14.1
America during the Clinton Administration
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From the Center to the Edge: America during the George W. Bush Administration
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14.3
Diversity in the New America
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Continuity and Change: The United States and the Transition from Bush to Obama
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Conclusion
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