America: A Narrative History

America: A Narrative History 11e Brief, Vol2
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
About the Author
Contents
List of Maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Norton Story
16. The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877
The War’s Aftermath in the South
Debates over Political Reconstruction
Black Society under Reconstruction
The Grant Administration
Reconstruction’s Significance
PART FIVE: GROWING PAINS
17. Business and Labor in the Industrial Era, 1860–1900
Industrial and Agricultural Growth
The Rise of Big Business
The Alliance of Business and Politics
An Industrial Society
18. The New South and the New West, 1865–1900
The Myth of the New South
The Failings of the New South
Race Relations during the 1890s
The Settling of the New West
Life in the New West
The Fate of Western Indians
The End of the Frontier
19. Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865–1900
Urban America
The New Immigration
Cultural Life
Gilded Age Politics
Hayes and Civil Service Reform
Farmers and the “Money Problem”
PART SIX: MODERN AMERICA
20. Seizing an American Empire, 1865–1913
Toward the New Imperialism
Expansion in the Pacific
The Spanish-American War (The War of 1898)
Consequences of Victory
Roosevelt’s “Big-Stick” Diplomacy
21. The Progressive Era, (1890–1920)
The Progressive Impulse
The Sources of Progressivism
Progressives’ Aims and Achievements
Progressivism under Roosevelt and Taft
Woodrow Wilson: A Progressive Southerner
22. America and the Great War, 1914–1920
An Uneasy Neutrality
Mobilizing a Nation
The American Role in the War
The Politics of Peace
Stumbling from War to Peace
23. A Clash of Cultures, 1920–1929
The Nation in 1920
The “Jazz Age”
The Modernist Revolt
24. The Reactionary Twenties
Reactionary Conservatism and Immigration Restriction
A Republican Resurgence
The Rise of Herbert Hoover
1929—A Turning Point
The Onset of the Great Depression
The Human Toll of the Depression
From Hooverism to the New Deal
25. The New Deal, (1933–1939)
Roosevelt’s New Deal
The New Deal under Fire
The Second New Deal
26. The Second World War, 1933–1945
The Rise of Fascism in Europe
From Isolationism to Intervention
Arsenal of Democracy
The Allied Drive toward Berlin
The Pacific War
A New Age Is Born
PART SEVEN: THE AMERICAN AGE
27. The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945–1952
Truman and the Cold War
The Containment Policy
Expanding the New Deal
The Cold War Heats Up
Another Red Scare
28. America in the Fifties
Moderate Republicanism
A People of Plenty
Cracks in the Picture Window
The Civil Rights Movement
Foreign Policy in the Fifties
29. A New Frontier and a Great Society, 1960–1968
The New Frontier
Civil Rights Triumphant
The Great Society
The Tragedy of Vietnam
The Turmoil of the Sixties
30. Rebellion and Reaction, 1960s and 1970s
“Forever Young”: The Youth Revolt
Social Activism Spreads
Nixon and the Revival of Conservatism
“Peace with Honor”: Ending the Vietnam War
The Nixon Doctrine and a Thawing Cold War
Watergate
31. Conservative Revival, 1977–1990
The Carter Presidency
The Rise of Ronald Reagan
The Reagan Revolution
An Anti-Soviet Foreign Policy
The Changing Economic and Social Landscape
The Presidency of George H. W. Bush
32. Twenty-First-Century America, 1993–Present
America’s Changing Population
The Clinton Presidency (1993–2001)
A Chaotic Start to a New Century
Second-Term Blues
A Historic New Presidency
A Populist President
The 100-Day Mark
Glossary
Appendix
Further Readings
Credits
Index