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