Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People

About the Authors
Brief Contents
Contents in Detail
Maps and Features
To the Student
Preface
Supplements
Ch 17: Reconstruction, 1863-1877
	Wartime Reconstruction
	Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction
	The Advent of Congressional Reconstruction
	The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
	The Grant Administration
	The Retreat from Reconstruction
	Conclusion
	Chapter Review
Ch 18: A Transformed Nation: The West and the New South, 1865-1900
	An Industrializing West
	Conquest and Resistance: American Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West
	Industrialization and the New South
	The Politics of Stalemate
	Conclusion
	Chapter Review
Ch 19: The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914
	A Dynamic Corporate Economy
	Corporations and American Culture
	Changes in Middle-Class Women's Lives
	Workers' Resistance to Corporations
	Farmers' Movements
	The Rise and Fall of the People's Party
	"Robber Barons" No More
	Conclusion
	Chapter Review
Ch 20: Cities, Peoples, Cultures, 1890-1920
	The Rise of the City
	Immigration
	Building Ethnic Communities
	African American Labor and Community
	Working-Class and Commercial Culture
	The New Sexuality and the Rise of Feminism
	Reimagining American Nationality
	Conclusion
	Chapter Review
Ch 21: Progressivism, 1900-1917
	Where Reform Incubated
	Reform of City Governments
	Reform in the States
	Scientific Management and the Reform of Work
	A New Campaign for Racial Equality
	The Roosevelt Presidency
	The Taft Presidency: Progressive Disappointment and Resurgence
	The Wilson Presidency
	Conclusion
	Chapter Review
Ch 22: Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917
	The United States Looks Abroad
	The Spanish-American War
	The United States Becomes a World Power
	Theodore Roosevelt, Geopolitician
	William Howard Taft, Dollar Diplomat
	Woodrow Wilson, Struggling Idealist
	Conclusion
	Chapter Review
Ch 23: War and Society, 1914-1920
	Europe's Descent into War
	American Neutrality
	American Intervention
	Mobilizing for "Total" War
	The Failure of the International Peace
	The Postwar Period: A Society in Convulsion
	Conclusion
	Chapter Review
Ch 24: The 1920s
	Prosperity
	The Politics of Business
	Farmers, Small-Town Protestants, and Moral Traditionalists
	Ethnic and Racial Communities
	The "Lost Generation" and Disillusioned Intellectuals
	Conclusion
	Chapter Review
Ch 25: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939
	Causes of the Great Depression
	Crisis and Hope, 1929-1933
	The First New Deal, 1933-1935
	Political Mobilization, Political Unrest, 1934-1935
	The Second New Deal, 1935-1937
	America's Minorities and the New Deal
	The New Deal Abroad
	Stalemate, 1937-1940
	Conclusion
	Chapter Review
Ch 26: America during the Second World War, 1939-1945
	The Road to War: Aggression and Response
	Fighting the War in Europe and the Pacific
	The War at Home: The Economy
	The War at Home: Social Issues
	Shaping the Peace
	Conclusion
	Chapter Review
Ch 27: The Age of Containment, 1946-1953
	Creating a National Security State, 1945-1949
	The Era of the Korean War, 1949-1952
	Pursuing National Security at Home
	Postwar Social and Economic Policy-Making
	Signs of a Changing Culture
	The Election of 1952
	Conclusion
	Chapter Review
Ch 28: America at Midcentury, 1953-1963
	Reorienting Containment, 1953-1960
	Affluence-A "People of Plenty"
	Discontents of Affluence
	Debating the Role of Government
	New Frontiers, 1960-1963
	The Politics of Gender
	The Expanding Civil Rights Movements, 1953-1963
	November 1963
	Conclusion
	Chapter Review
Ch 29: America during a Divisive War, 1963-1974
	The Great Society
	Escalation in Vietnam
	Activism at Home
	1968
	Continued Polarization, 1969-1974
	Foreign Policy in a Time of Turmoil, 1969-1974
	A Crisis of Governance, 1972-1974
	Conclusion
	Chapter Review
Ch 30: Uncertain Times, 1974-1992
	Searching for Direction, 1974-1980
	The Reagan Revolution, 1981-1992
	Renewing and Ending the Cold War
	The Politics of Social Movements
	Conclusion
	Chapter Review
Ch 31: Economic, Social, and Cultural Change in the Late 20th Century
	A Changing People
	Economic Transformations
	Culture and Media
	Conclusion
	Chapter Review
Ch 32: A Time of Hope and Fear, 1993-2014
	The Politics of Polarization, 1993-2008
	Foreign Policies of Hope and Terror: 1993-2008
	An Economy of Bubble and Bust, 1993-2008
	Changing Times, 2009-
	Conclusion
	Chapter Review
Appendix
	The Declaration of Independence
	The Constitution of the United States of America
	Admission of States
	Population of the United States
	Presidential Elections
	Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court
Glossary
Index