3 Introduction to Reconstruction
6 Reconstruction and Women
9 The End of Reconstruction
10 Video: Reconstruction and 1876
11 Conclusion
16 Industrialization and Technological Innovation
17 Video: The Industrial Economy
19 Video: Growth, Cities, and Immigration
21 Gender, Religion, Culture
25 Post–Civil War Westward Migration
27 The Indian Wars and Federal Peace Policies
29 The Allotment Era and Resistance in the Native West
30 Rodeos, Wild West Shows, and the Mythic American West
31 The West as History: The Turner Thesis
33 The March of Capital
37 William Jennings Bryan and the Politics of Gold
40 Conclusion
42 Introduction
45 Video: Progressive Presidents
46 Theodore Roosevelt and American Imperialism
47 Women and Imperialism
48 Immigration
49 Patterns of American Interventions
50 Conclusion
55 Women’s Movements
56 Video: Women’s Suffrage
57 Targeting the Trusts
59 Jim Crow and African American Life
72 Aftermath of World War I
73 Conclusion
74 Introduction
77 Culture of Consumption
79 “The New Woman”
80 “The New Negro”
81 Culture War
82 Fundamentalist Christianity
87 Introduction
90 Herbert Hoover and the Politics of the Depression
91 The Bonus Army
92 The Lived Experience of the Great Depression
93 Migration and Immigration during the Great Depression
94 Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the “First” New Deal
95 The New Deal in the South
96 Video: The New Deal
97 The New Deal of Appalachia
98 Voices of Protest
99 The “Second” New Deal (1935–1936)
100 Equal Rights and the New Deal
102 The Legacy of the New Deal
105 Introduction
106 Videos: World War II
108 The Origins of the European War
110 The United States and the Japanese War
112 The Wartime Economy
114 Race and World War II
122 Videos: The Cold War
123 Political, Economic, and Military Dimensions
124 The Arms Buildup, the Space Race, and Technological Advancement
130 Race and Education
131 Civil Rights in an Affluent Society
133 Gender and Culture in the Affluent Society
138 The Civil Rights Movement Continues
140 Culture and Activism
142 Foreign Affairs
143 Conclusion
144 Introduction
145 Vietnam
147 Race and Social and Cultural Anxieties
148 Deindustrialization and the Rise of the Sunbelt
149 Video: The Rise of Conservatism
151 Carter
153 Conclusion
155 Introduction
157 The Conservatism of Carter Years
158 The Election of 1980
160 Morning in America
162 Bad Times and Good Times
163 Culture Wars of the 1980s
166 Conclusion
168 Introduction
170 Video: The Clinton Years, or the 1990s
174 The End of the Bush Years
176 The Obama Presidency
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Time marches forever on. The present becomes the past and the past becomes history. But, as William Faulkner wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” The last several decades of American history have culminated in the present, an era of innovation and advancement but also of stark partisan division, sluggish economic growth, widening inequalities, widespread military interventions, and pervasive anxieties about the present and future of the United States. Through boom and bust, national tragedy, foreign wars, and the maturation of a new generation, a new chapter of American history awaits.