A History of the United States Vol. 2

Table of Contents

• Licensing Information

• Preface

• Chapter 1: What Does Freedom Mean?: Reconstruction, 1865–1877

  • Race, Reunion, and the Aftermath of War
  • Congressional Reconstruction
  • Challenges of Reconstruction
  • Reconstruction Reversed
  • Conclusion
  • Further Reading

• Chapter 2: Western Expansion, the New South, and Industrial America, 1870–1890

  • Native Americans and the Trans-Mississippi West
  • Winning and Losing the West
  • Growth of Industrial America and the New South
  • Challenging the Gilded Age
  • Further Reading

• Chapter 3: Populism and Imperialism, 1890–1900

  • Urban American and Popular Culture
  • National Politics and the Populist Party
  • Immigration, Ethnicity, and the “Nadir of Race Relations”
  • Imperialism at Home and Abroad
  • Further Reading

• Chapter 4: From Populism to the Progressive Era, 1900–1912

  • National Politics during the Progressive Era
  • The Progressives
  • Radicalism and the Limits of Egalitarian Reform
  • Life in “Modern America”
  • Conclusion
  • Further Reading

• Chapter 5: The Late Progressive Era and World War, 1912–1920

  • The Wilson Administration and the Coming War
  • The Great War and America
  • Armistice and Aftermath
  • Conclusion
  • Further Reading

• Chapter 6: Roaring Twenties to the Great Depression, 1920–1932

  • Prosperity and Its Limits
  • Immigration and Closing the Golden Door
  • Popular Culture and a Renaissance in Harlem
  • The Crash: From Decadence to Depression
  • Conclusion
  • Further Reading

• Chapter 7: The New Deal and Origins of World War II, 1932–1939

  • Chapter Introduction
  • The First New Deal, 1933–1935
  • Last Hired, First Fired: Women and Minorities in the Great Depression
  • Second New Deal and Its Opponents, 1935–1939
  • America’s Entry into World War II
  • Conclusion
  • Further Reading

• Chapter 8: America and World War II, 1941–1945

  • Pearl Harbor and the Arsenal of Democracy
  • Double V: Freedom Abroad, Freedom at Home
  • D-Day to Victory
  • Conclusion
  • Further Reading

• Chapter 9: The Cold War at Home and Abroad, 1945–1953

  • Postwar Europe, Asia, and the Middle East
  • Postwar America
  • Red Scares, Lavender Scares, and the Quest for Equality during the Early Cold War
  • Containment and the Korean “Conflict”
  • Further Reading

• Chapter 10: The Cold War and the Affluent Society, 1954–1963

  • The Global Cold War during the Eisenhower Administration
  • America during the Eisenhower Years
  • America and the World during the Kennedy Years
  • Conclusion
  • Further Reading

• Chapter 11: Vietnam and Civil Disobedience, 1963–1969

  • From New Frontier to Great Society
  • The Great Society and the Vietnam War
  • “More than a Hamburger:” Civil Rights and Social Justice
  • 1968–1969: Unrest and Upheaval
  • Further Reading

• Chapter 12: The 1970s

  • Vietnam, Détente, and Watergate
  • Détente, Decline, and Domestic Politics
  • Equality and Liberation in the New America
  • The Middle East and Malaise: America in the Late 1970s
  • Conclusion
  • Further Reading

• Chapter 13: The Reagan and Bush Years, 1980–1992

  • Conservatism and the “Reagan Revolution”
  • The End of the Cold War
  • American Life in the 1980s
  • Technology and Globalization
  • The Presidency of George Bush (Sr.)
  • Conclusion
  • Further Reading

• Chapter 14: America in Our Time, 1992–Present

  • America during the Clinton Administration
  • From the Center to the Edge: America during the George W. Bush Administration
  • Diversity in the New America
  • Continuity and Change: The United States and the Transition from Bush to Obama
  • Conclusion
  • Further Reading