Give Me Liberty!: An American History Vol. 2

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 10
Copyright......Page 12
CONTENTS......Page 16
LIST OF MAPS, TABLES, AND FIGURES......Page 29
ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 33
PREFACE......Page 35
15. What Is Freedom?: Reconstruction, 1865-1877......Page 48
Blacks and the Meaning of Freedom......Page 51
Church and School......Page 52
Political Freedom......Page 53
Land, Labor, and Freedom......Page 54
Masters without Slaves......Page 55
The Freedmen's Bureau......Page 56
The Failure of Land Reform......Page 57
Toward a New South......Page 58
The White Farmer......Page 59
VOICES OF FREEDOM: FromPetition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson (1865), and From a Sharecropping Contract (1866)......Page 60
Aftermaths of Slavery......Page 62
The Failure of Presidential Reconstruction......Page 64
The Black Codes......Page 65
The Origins of Civil Rights......Page 66
The Fourteenth Amendment......Page 67
The Reconstruction Act......Page 68
The Fifteenth Amendment......Page 69
The "Great Constitutional Revolution"......Page 70
Boundaries of Freedom......Page 71
The Rights of Women......Page 72
Feminists and Radicals......Page 73
"The Tocsin of Freedom"......Page 74
The Black Officeholder......Page 75
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 77
Southern Republicans in Power......Page 78
The Quest for Prosperity......Page 79
Reconstruction's Opponents......Page 80
A Reign of Terror......Page 81
The Liberal Republicans......Page 82
The North's Retreat......Page 83
The Triumph of the Redeemers......Page 84
The Disputed Election and Bargain of 1877......Page 85
The End of Reconstruction......Page 86
Part 4 Toward a Global Presence, 1870-1920......Page 91
16. AMERICA'S GILDED AGE, 1870-1890......Page 94
THE SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION......Page 97
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE WEST......Page 107
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 114
POLITICS IN A GILDED AGE......Page 120
FREEDOM IN THE GILDED AGE......Page 125
LABOR AND THE REPUBLIC......Page 130
17. FREEDOM'S BOUNDARIES AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1890-1900......Page 140
THE POPULIST CHALLENGE......Page 143
THE SEGREGATED SOUTH......Page 152
REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES......Page 161
BECOMING A WORLD POWER......Page 167
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 173
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 176
18. THE PROGRESSIVE ERA, 1900-1916......Page 186
AN URBAN AGE AND A CONSUMER SOCIETY......Page 190
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 197
VARIETIES OF PROGRESSIVISM......Page 202
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 204
THE POLITICS OF PROGRESSIVISM......Page 213
THE PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENTS......Page 220
19. SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY: THE UNITED STATES AND WORLD WAR I, 1916-1920......Page 230
AN ERA OF INTERVENTION......Page 234
AMERICA AND THE GREAT WAR......Page 239
THE WAR AT HOME......Page 243
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 252
WHO IS AN AMERICAN?......Page 254
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 255
1919......Page 264
Part 5 Depression and Wars, 1920-1953......Page 277
20. FROM BUSINESS CULTURE TO GREAT DEPRESSION: THE TWENTIES, 1920-1932......Page 280
THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA......Page 284
BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT......Page 292
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 294
THE BIRTH OF CIVIL LIBERTIES......Page 297
THE CULTURE WARS......Page 300
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 301
THE GREAT DEPRESSION......Page 311
21. THE NEW DEAL, 1932-1940......Page 322
THE FIRST NEW DEAL......Page 325
THE GRASSROOTS REVOLT......Page 335
THE SECOND NEW DEAL......Page 339
A RECKONING WITH LIBERTY......Page 342
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 344
THE LIMITS OF CHANGE......Page 348
A NEW CONCEPTION OF AMERICA......Page 354
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 357
22. FIGHTING FOR THE FOUR FREEDOMS: WORLD WAR II, 1941-1945......Page 366
FIGHTING WORLD WAR II......Page 370
THE HOME FRONT......Page 379
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 383
VISIONS OF POSTWAR FREEDOM......Page 387
THE AMERICAN DILEMMA......Page 390
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 398
THE END OF THE WAR......Page 404
23. THE UNITED STATES AND THE COLD WAR, 1945-1953......Page 412
ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR......Page 415
THE COLD WAR AND THE IDEA OF FREEDOM......Page 425
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 429
THE TRUMAN PRESIDENCY......Page 430
THE ANTICOMMUNIST CRUSADE......Page 435
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 442
Part 6 What Kind of Nation? 1953-2010......Page 448
24. AN AFFLUENT SOCIETY, 1953-1960......Page 452
THE GOLDEN AGE......Page 455
THE EISENHOWER ERA......Page 470
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 480
THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT......Page 482
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 489
THE ELECTION OF 1960......Page 491
25. THE SIXTIES, 1960-1968......Page 498
THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT......Page 501
THE KENNEDY YEARS......Page 504
LYNDON JOHNSON'S PRESIDENCY......Page 507
THE CHANGING BLACK MOVEMENT......Page 514
VIETNAM AND THE NEW LEFT......Page 517
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 522
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 527
THE NEW MOVEMENT AND THE RIGHTS REVOLUTION......Page 529
1968......Page 537
26. THE TRIUMPH OF CONSERVATISM, 1969-1988......Page 544
PRESIDENT NIXON......Page 546
VIETNAM AND WATERGATE......Page 553
THE END OF THE GOLDEN AGE......Page 557
THE RISING TIDE OF CONSERVATISM......Page 565
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 569
THE REAGAN REVOLUTION......Page 571
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 572
27 GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS, 1989-200......Page 586
THE POST-COLD WAR WORLD......Page 590
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 593
A NEW ECONOMY......Page 600
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 606
CULTURE WARS......Page 609
IMPEACHMENT AND THE ELECTION OF 2000......Page 623
FREEDOM AND THE NEW CENTURY......Page 626
28. SEPTEMBER 11 AND THE NEXT AMERICAN CENTURY......Page 632
THE WAR ON TERRORISM......Page 636
AN AMERICAN EMPIRE?......Page 641
VOICES OF FREEDOM......Page 642
THE AFTERMATH OF SEPTEMBER 11 AT HOME......Page 648
VISIONS OF FREEDOM......Page 651
THE WINDS OF CHANGE......Page 653
THE RISE OF OBAMA......Page 667
LEARNING FROM HISTORY......Page 671
APPENDIX......Page 677
The Declaration of Independence (1776)......Page 678
The Constitution of the United States (1787)......Page 680
From George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)......Page 689
The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848)......Page 693
From Frederick Douglass’s “What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?” Speech (1852)......Page 695
The Gettysburg Address (1863)......Page 698
Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (1865)......Page 699
The Populist Platform of 1892......Page 700
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address (1933)......Page 703
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech (1963)......Page 705
Ronald Reagan’s First Inaugural Address (1981)......Page 707
Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address (2009)......Page 710
Presidential Elections......Page 713
Admission of States......Page 721
Population of the United States......Page 722
Historical Statistics of the United States......Page 723
GLOSSARY......Page 725
CREDITS......Page 744
INDEX......Page 747