Give Me Liberty!: An American History

Publisher’s Notice
Title Page
Frontispiece
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Maps, Tables, and Figures
About the Author
Preface
Acknowledgments
Give Me Liberty! Digital Resources for Students and Instructors
Chapter 15: “What Is Freedom?”: Reconstruction, 1865–1877
The Meaning of Freedom
The Making of Radical Reconstruction
Radical Reconstruction in the South
The Overthrow of Reconstruction
Chapter Review
Chapter 16: America’s Gilded Age, 1870–1890
The Second Industrial Revolution
Freedom in the Gilded Age
Labor and the Republic
The Transformation of the West
Politics in a Gilded Age
Chapter Review
Chapter 17: Freedom’s Boundaries, at Home and Abroad, 1890–1900
The Populist Challenge
The Segregated South
Redrawing the Boundaries
Becoming a World Power
Chapter Review
Chapter 18: The Progressive Era, 1900–1916
An Urban Age and a Consumer Society
Varieties of Progressivism
The Politics of Progressivism
The Progressive Presidents
Chapter Review
Chapter 19: Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I, 1916–1920
An Era of Intervention
America and the Great War
The War at Home
Who Is an American?
1919
Chapter Review
Chapter 20: From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920–1932
The Business of America
Business and Government
The Birth of Civil Liberties
The Culture Wars
The Great Depression
Chapter Review
Chapter 21: The New Deal, 1932–1940
The First New Deal
The Grassroots Revolt
The Second New Deal
A Reckoning with Liberty
The Limits of Change
A New Conception of America
Chapter Review
Chapter 22: Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War ⅠI, 1941–1945
Fighting World War â… I
The Home Front
Visions of Postwar Freedom
The American Dilemma
The End of the War
Chapter Review
Chapter 23: The United States and the Cold War, 1945–1953
Origins of the Cold War
The Cold War and the Idea of Freedom
The Truman Presidency
The Anticommunist Crusade
Chapter Review
Chapter 24: An Affluent Society, 1953–1960
The Golden Age
The Eisenhower Era
The Freedom Movement
The Election of 1960
Chapter Review
Chapter 25: The Sixties, 1960–1968
The Civil Rights Revolution
The Kennedy Years
Lyndon Johnson’s Presidency
The Changing Black Movement
Vietnam and the New Left
The New Movements and the Rights Revolution
1968
Chapter Review
Chapter 26: The Conservative Turn, 1969–1988
President Nixon
Vietnam and Watergate
The End of the Golden Age
The Rising Tide of Conservatism
The Reagan Revolution
Chapter Review
Chapter 27: From Triumph to Tragedy, 1989–2004
The Post–Cold War World
Globalization and its Discontents
Culture Wars
Impeachment and the Election of 2000
The Attacks of September 11
The War on Terrorism
An American Empire?
The Aftermath of September 11 at Home
Chapter Review
Chapter 28: A Divided Nation
The Winds of Change
The Great Recession
Obama in Office
The Obama Presidency
President Trump
Freedom in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter Review
Suggested Reading
The Declaration of Independence (1776)
The Constitution of the United States (1787)
Glossary
Credits
Index