1. Ancient America, Before 1492
Archaeology and History
The First Americans African and Asian Origins Paleo-Indian Hunters
HISTORICAL QUESTION: Who Were the First Americans?
Archaic Hunters and Gatherers Great Plains Bison Hunters Great Basin Cultures Pacific Coast Cultures Eastern Woodland Cultures
Agricultural Settlements and Chiefdoms Southwestern Cultures Woodland Burial Mounds and Chiefdoms
Native Americans in the 1490sThe Mexica: A Mesoamerican CultureConclusion: The World of Ancient Americans
2. Europeans Encounter the New World, 1492-1600Europe in the Age of Exploration Mediterranean Trade and European Expansion A Century of Portuguese Exploration
A Surprising New World in the Western Atlantic The Explorations of Columbus The Geographic Revolution and the Columbian Exchange
Spanish Exploration and Conquest The Conquest of Mexico The Search for Other Mexicos New Spain in the Sixteenth Century The Toll of Spanish Conquest and Colonization Spanish Outposts in Florida and New Mexico
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: Justifying Conquest
The New World and Sixteenth-Century Europe The Protestant Reformation and the European Order New World Treasure and Spanish Ambitions
Europe and the Spanish Example
Conclusion: The Promise of the New World for Europeans
3. The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601-1700An English Colony on the Chesapeake The Fragile Jamestown Settlement Cooperation and Conflict between Natives and Newcomers From Private Company to Royal Government
A Tobacco Society Tobacco Agriculture A Servant Labor System Cultivating Land and Faith
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: Virginia Laws Governing Servants and Slaves
The Evolution of Chesapeake Society Social and Economic Polarization Government Policies and Political Conflict Bacon's Rebellion
Religion and Revolt in the Spanish BorderlandToward a Slave Labor System The West Indies: Sugar and Slavery Carolina: A West Indian Frontier Slave Labor Emerges in the Chesapeake
GLOBAL COMPARISON: Migration to the New World from Europe and Africa, 1492-1700Conclusion: The Growth of English Colonies Based on Export Crops and Slave Labor
4. The Northern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601-1700Puritan Origins: The English ReformationPuritans and the Settlement of New England The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony The Founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Evolution of New England Society Church, Covenant, and Conformity Government by Puritans for Puritanism The Splintering of Puritanism Religious Controversies and Economic Changes
The Founding of the Middle Colonies From New Netherland to New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania Toleration and Diversity in Pennsylvania
The Colonies and the English Empire Royal Regulation of Colonial Trade King Philip's War and the Consolidation of Royal Authority
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: New France and the Indians: The English Colonies' Northern BorderlandsConclusion: An English Model of Colonization in North America
5. Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century, 1701-1770A Growing Population and Expanding Economy in British North AmericaNew England: From Puritan Settlers to Yankee Traders Natural Increase and Land Distribution Farms, Fish, and Atlantic Trade
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: A Sailor's Life in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
The Middle Colonies: Immigrants, Wheat, and Work German and Scots-Irish Immigrants Pennsylvania: "The Best Poor [White] Man's Country"
The Southern Colonies: Land of Slavery The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Growth of Slavery Slave Labor and African American Culture Tobacco, Rice, and Prosperity
Unifying Experiences Commerce and Consumption Religion, Enlightenment, and Revival Borderlands and Colonial Politics in the British Empire
GLOBAL COMPARISON: Large Warships in European Navies, 1660-1760Conclusion: The Dual Identity of British North American Colonists
6. The British Empire and the Colonial Crisis, 1754-1775The Seven Years' War, 1754-1763 French-British Rivalry in the Ohio Country The Albany Congress and Intercolonial Defense The War and Its Consequences British Leadership, Pontiac's Uprising, and the Proclamation of 1763
HISTORICAL QUESTION: How Long Did the Seven Years' War Last in Indian Country?
The Sugar and Stamp Acts, 1763-1765 Grenville's Sugar Act The Stamp Act Resistance Strategies and Crowd Politics Liberty and Property
The Townshend Acts and Economic Retaliation, 1767-1770 The Townshend Duties Nonconsumption and the Daughters of Liberty Military Occupation and "Massacre" in Boston
The Tea Party and the Coercive Acts, 1770-1774 The Calm before the Storm Tea in Boston Harbor The Coercive Acts Beyond Boston: Rural Massachusetts The First Continental Congress
Domestic Insurrections, 1774-1775 Lexington and Concord Rebelling against SlaveryConclusion: How Far Does Liberty Go?
7. The War for America, 1775-1783The Second Continental Congress Assuming Political and Military Authority Pursuing Both War and Peace Thomas Paine, Abigail Adams, and the Case for Independence The Declaration of Independence
The First Year of War, 1775-1776 The American Military Forces The British Strategy Quebec, New York, and New Jersey
GLOBAL COMPARISON: How Tall Were Eighteenth-Century Men on Average?
The Home Front Patriotism at the Local Level The Loyalists Who Is a Traitor? Financial Instability and Corruption
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: Prisoners of War in the Eighteenth Century
The Campaigns of 1777-1779: The North and West Burgoyne's Army and the Battle of Saratoga The War in the West: Indian Country The French Alliance
The Southern Strategy and the End of the War Georgia and South Carolina The Other Southern War: Guerrillas Surrender at Yorktown The Losers and the WinnersConclusion: Why the British Lost
8. Building a Republic, 1775-1789The Articles of Confederation Congress, Confederation, and the Problem of Western Lands Running the New Government
The Sovereign States The State Constitutions Who Are "the People"? Equality and Slavery
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: A Slave Sues for Her Freedom
The Confederation's Problems Financial Chaos and Paper Money The Treaty of Fort Stanwix Land Ordinances and the Northwest Territory Shays's Rebellion, 1786-1787
The United States Constitution From Annapolis to Philadelphia The Virginia and New Jersey Plans Democracy versus Republicanism
Ratification of the Constitution The Federalists The Antifederalists The Big Holdouts: Virginia and New YorkConclusion: The "Republican Remedy"
9. The New Nation Takes Form, 1789-1800The Search for Stability Washington Inaugurates the Government The Bill of Rights The Republican Wife and Mother
Hamilton's Economic Policies Agriculture, Transportation, and Banking The Public Debt and Taxes The First Bank of the United States and the
Report on Manufactures The Whiskey Rebellion
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: France, Britain, and Woman's Rights in the 1790s
Conflicts West, East, and South To the West: The Indians Across the Atlantic: France and Britain To the South: The Haitian Revolution
Federalists and Republicans The Election of 1796 The XYZ Affair The Alien and Sedition ActsConclusion: Parties Nonetheless
10. Republicans in Power, 1800-1824Jefferson's Presidency Turbulent Times: Election and Rebellion The Jeffersonian Vision of Republican Simplicity The Promise of the West: The Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition Challenges Overseas: The Barbary Wars More Transatlantic Troubles: Impressment and Embargo
HISTORICAL QUESTION: How Could a Vice President Get Away with Murder?
The Madisons in the White House Women in Washington City Indian Troubles in the West The War of 1812 Washington City Burns: The British Offensive
Women's Status in the Early Republic Women and the Law Women and Church Governance Female Education
Monroe and Adams From Property to Democracy The Missouri Compromise The Monroe Doctrine The Election of 1824 The Adams AdministrationConclusion: Republican Simplicity Becomes Complex
11. The Expanding Republic, 1815-1840The Market Revolution Improvements in Transportation Factories, Workingwomen, and Wage Labor Bankers and Lawyers Booms and Busts
The Spread of Democracy Popular Politics and Partisan Identity The Election of 1828 and the Character Issue Jackson's Democratic Agenda
Jackson Defines the Democratic Party Indian Policy and the Trail of Tears The Tariff of Abominations and Nullification The Bank War and Economic Boom
Cultural Shifts, Religion, and Reform The Family and Separate Spheres The Education and Training of Youths The Second Great Awakening The Temperance Movement and the Campaign for Moral Reform Organizing against Slavery
GLOBAL COMPARISON: Changing Trends in Age at First Marriage for Women
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: Transatlantic Abolition
Van Buren's One-Term Presidency The Politics of Slavery Elections and PanicsConclusion: The Age of Jackson or the Era of Reform?
12. The New West and Free North, 1840-1860Economic and Industrial Evolution Agriculture and Land Policy Manufacturing and Mechanization Railroads: Breaking the Bonds of Nature
Free Labor: Promise and Reality The Free-Labor Ideal: Freedom plus Labor Economic Inequality Immigrants and the Free-Labor Ladder
GLOBAL COMPARISON: Nineteenth-Century School Enrollment and Literacy Rates
The Westward Movement Manifest Destiny Oregon and the Overland Trail The Mormon Exodus The Mexican Borderlands
Expansion and the Mexican-American War The Politics of Expansion The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 Victory in Mexico Golden California
HISTORICAL QUESTION:
Who Rushed for California Gold?Reforming Self and Society The Pursuit of Perfection: Transcendentalists and Utopians Woman's Rights Activists Abolitionists and the American IdealConclusion: Free Labor, Free Men
13. The Slave South, 1820-1860The Growing Distinctiveness of the South Cotton Kingdom, Slave Empire The South in Black and White The Plantation Economy
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: Defending Slavery
Masters, Mistresses, and the Big House Plantation Masters Plantation Mistresses
Slaves and the Quarter Work Family, Religion, and Community Resistance and Rebellion
Black and Free: On the Middle Ground Precarious Freedom Achievement despite Restrictions
The Plain Folk Plantation Belt Yeomen Upcountry Yeomen Poor Whites The Culture of the Plain Folk
The Politics of Slavery The Democratization of the Political Arena Planter PowerConclusion: A Slave Society
14. The House Divided, 1846-1861The Bitter Fruits of War The Wilmot Proviso and the Expansion of Slavery The Election of 1848 Debate and Compromise
The Sectional Balance Undone The Fugitive Slave Act
Uncle Tom's Cabin The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Realignment of the Party System The Old Parties: Whigs and Democrats The New Parties: Know-Nothings and Republicans The Election of 1856
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "A Purse of Her Own":
Petitioning for the Right to Own Property
Freedom under Siege "Bleeding Kansas" The
Dred Scott Decision Prairie Republican: Abraham Lincoln The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Union Collapses The Aftermath of John Brown's Raid Republican Victory in 1860 Secession WinterConclusion: Slavery, Free Labor, and the Failure of Political Compromise
15. The Crucible of War, 1861-1865"And the War Came" Attack on Fort Sumter The Upper South Chooses Sides
The Combatants How They Expected to Win Lincoln and Davis Mobilize
Battling It Out, 1861-1862 Stalemate in the Eastern Theater Union Victories in the Western Theater The Atlantic Theater International Diplomacy
GLOBAL COMPARISON: European Cotton Imports, 1860-1870
Union and Freedom From Slaves to Contraband From Contraband to Free People War of Black Liberation
The South at War Revolution from Above Hardship Below The Disintegration of Slavery
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: The Right to Fight: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
The North at War The Government and the Economy Women and Work on the Home Front Politics and Dissent
Grinding Out Victory, 1863-1865 Vicksburg and Gettysburg Grant Takes Command The Election of 1864 The Confederacy CollapsesConclusion: The Second American Revolution
16. Reconstruction, 1863-1877Wartime Reconstruction "To Bind Up the Nation's Wounds" Land and Labor The African American Quest for Autonomy
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: The Meaning of Freedom
Presidential Reconstruction Johnson's Program of Reconciliation White Southern Resistance and Black Codes Expansion of Federal Authority and Black Rights
Congressional Reconstruction The Fourteenth Amendment and Escalating Violence Radical Reconstruction and Military Rule Impeaching a President The Fifteenth Amendment and Women's Demands
The Struggle in the South Freedmen, Yankees, and Yeomen Republican Rule White Landlords, Black Sharecroppers
Reconstruction Collapses Grant's Troubled Presidency Northern Resolve Withers White Supremacy Triumphs An Election and a CompromiseConclusion: "A Revolution But Half Accomplished"
17. The Contested West, 1870-1900Conquest and Empire in the West Indian Removal and the Reservation System The Decimation of the Great Bison Herds and the Fight for the Black Hills The Dawes Act and Indian Land Allotment Indian Resistance and Survival
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: Imperialism, Colonialism, and the Treatment of the Sioux and the Zulu
Gold Fever and the Mining West Mining on the Comstock Lode Territorial Government The Diverse Peoples of the West
Land Fever Moving West: Homesteaders and Speculators Ranchers and Cowboys Tenants, Sharecroppers, and Migrants Commercial Farming and Industrial CowboysConclusion: The Mythic West
18. Business and Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1895Old Industries Transformed, New Industries Born Railroads: America's First Big Business Andrew Carnegie, Steel, and Vertical Integration John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil, and the Trust New Inventions: The Telephone and Electricity
GLOBAL COMPARISON: Railroad Track Mileage, 1890
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: Rockefeller and His Critics
From Competition to Consolidation J. P. Morgan and Finance Capitalism Social Darwinism, Laissez-Faire, and the Supreme Court
Politics and Culture Political Participation and Party Loyalty Sectionalism and the New South Gender, Race, and Politics Women's Activism
Presidential Politics Corruption and Party Strife Garfield's Assassination and Civil Service Reform Reform and Scandal: The Campaign of 1884
Economic Issues and Party Realignment The Tariff and the Politics of Protection Railroads, Trusts, and the Federal Government The Fight for Free Silver Panic and DepressionConclusion: Business Dominates an Era
19. The City and Its Workers, 1870-1900The Rise of the City The Urban Explosion, a Global Migration Racism and the Cry for Immigration Restriction The Social Geography of the City
GLOBAL COMPARISON: European Emigration, 1870-1890
At Work in Industrial America America's Diverse Workers The Family Economy: Women and Children White-Collar Workers: Managers, "Typewriters," and Salesclerks
Workers Organize The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor Haymarket and the Specter of Labor Radicalism
At Home and at Play Domesticity and "Domestics" Cheap Amusements
City Growth and City Government Building Cities of Stone and Steel City Government and the "Bosses" White City or City of Sin?
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: The World's Columbian Exposition and Nineteenth-Century World's FairsConclusion: Who Built the Cities?
20. Dissent, Depression, and War, 1890-1900The Farmers' Revolt The Farmers' Alliance The Populist Movement
The Labor Wars The Homestead Lockout The Cripple Creek Miners' Strike of 1894 Eugene V. Debs and the Pullman Strike
Women's Politics Frances Willard and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the Movement for Woman Suffrage
Depression Politics Coxey's Army The People's Party and the Election of 1896
The United States and the World Markets and Missionaries The Monroe Doctrine and the Open Door Policy
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: Regime Change in Hawaii
War and Empire "A Splendid Little War" The Debate over American ImperialismConclusion: Rallying around the Flag
21. Progressivism from the Grass Roots to the White House, 1890-1916Grassroots Progressivism Civilizing the City Progressives and the Working Class
Progressivism: Theory and Practice Reform Darwinism and Social Engineering Progressive Government: City and State
Progressivism Finds a President: Theodore Roosevelt The Square Deal Roosevelt the Reformer Roosevelt and Conservation The Big Stick
HISTORICAL QUESTION: Progressives and Conservation: Should Hetch Hetchy Be Dammed or Saved?
Progressivism Stalled The Troubled Presidency of William Howard Taft Progressive Insurgency and the Election of 1912
Woodrow Wilson and Progressivism at High Tide Wilson's Reforms: Tariff, Banking, and the Trusts Wilson, Reluctant Progressive
The Limits of Progressive Reform Radical Alternatives Progressivism for White Men Only Conclusion: The Transformation of the Liberal State
22. World War I: The Progressive Crusade at Home and Abroad, 1914-1920Woodrow Wilson and the World Taming the Americas The European Crisis The Ordeal of American Neutrality The United States Enters the War
"Over There" The Call to Arms The War in France
GLOBAL COMPARISON: Casualties of the First World War
The Crusade for Democracy at Home The Progressive Stake in the War Women, War, and the Battle for Suffrage Rally around the Flag — or Else
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: The Final Push for Woman Suffrage
A Compromised Peace Wilson's Fourteen Points The Paris Peace Conference The Fight for the Treaty
Democracy at Risk Economic Hardship and Labor Upheaval The Red Scare The Great Migrations of African Americans and Mexicans Postwar Politics and the Election of 1920Conclusion: Troubled Crusade
23. From New Era to Great Depression, 1920-1932The New Era A Business Government Promoting Prosperity and Peace Abroad Automobiles, Mass Production, and Assembly-Line Progress Consumer Culture
The Roaring Twenties Prohibition The New Woman The New Negro Mass Culture The Lost Generation
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: A Place of One's Own: The Quest for Home Ownership
Resistance to Change Rejecting the Undesirables The Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan The Scopes Trial Al Smith and the Election of 1928
The Great Crash Herbert Hoover: The Great Engineer The Distorted Economy The Crash of 1929 Hoover and the Limits of Individualism
Life in the Depression The Human Toll Denial and Escape Working-Class MilitancyConclusion: Dazzle and Despair
24. The New Deal Experiment, 1932-1939Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Patrician in Government The Making of a Politician The Election of 1932
Launching the New Deal The New Dealers Banking and Finance Reform Relief and Conservation Programs Agricultural Initiatives Industrial Recovery
Challenges to the New Deal Resistance to Business Reform Casualties in the Countryside Politics on the Fringes
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: Textile Workers Strike for Better Wages and Working Conditions
Toward a Welfare State Relief for the Unemployed Empowering Labor Social Security and Tax Reform Neglected Americans and the New Deal
The New Deal from Victory to Deadlock The Election of 1936 Court Packing Reaction and Recession The Last of the New Deal Reforms
GLOBAL COMPARISON: National Populations and Economies, ca. 1938Conclusion: Achievements and Limitations of the New Deal
25. The United States and the Second World War, 1939-1945Peacetime Dilemmas Roosevelt and Reluctant Isolation The Good Neighbor Policy The Price of Noninvolvement
The Onset of War Nazi Aggression and War in Europe From Neutrality to the Arsenal of Democracy Japan Attacks America
Mobilizing for War Home-Front Security Building a Citizen Army Conversion to a War Economy
GLOBAL COMPARISON: Weapons Production by the Axis and Allied Powers during World War II
Fighting Back Turning the Tide in the Pacific The Campaign in Europe
The Wartime Home Front Women and Families, Guns and Butter The Double V Campaign Wartime Politics and the 1944 Election Reaction to the Holocaust
Toward Unconditional Surrender From Bombing Raids to Berlin The Defeat of Japan Atomic Warfare
HISTORICAL QUESTION: Why Did the Allies Win World War II?Conclusion: Allied Victory and America's Emergence as a Superpower
26. Cold War Politics in the Truman Years, 1945-1953From the Grand Alliance to Containment The Cold War Begins The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan Building a National Security State Superpower Rivalry around the Globe
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: The Emerging Cold War
Truman and the Fair Deal at Home Reconverting to a Peacetime Economy Blacks and Mexican Americans Push for Their Civil Rights The Fair Deal Flounders The Domestic Chill: McCarthyism
The Cold War Becomes Hot: Korea Korea and the Military Implementation of Containment From Containment to Rollback to Containment Korea, Communism, and the 1952 Election An Armistice and the War's CostsConclusion: The Cold War's Costs and Consequences
27. The Politics and Culture of Abundance, 1952-1960Eisenhower and the Politics of the "Middle Way" Modern Republicanism Termination and Relocation of Native Americans The 1956 Election and the Second Term
Liberation Rhetoric and the Practice of Containment The "New Look" in Foreign Policy Applying Containment to Vietnam Interventions in Latin America and the Middle East The Nuclear Arms Race
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: Operation Pedro Pan: Young Political Refugees Take Flight
New Work and Living Patterns in an Economy of Abundance Technology Transforms Agriculture and Industry Burgeoning Suburbs and Declining Cities The Rise of the Sun Belt The Democratization of Higher Education
The Culture of Abundance Consumption Rules the Day The Revival of Domesticity and Religion Television Transforms Culture and Politics Countercurrents
GLOBAL COMPARISON: The Baby Boom in International Perspective
Emergence of a Civil Rights Movement African Americans Challenge the Supreme Court and the President Montgomery and Mass ProtestConclusion: Peace and Prosperity Mask Unmet Challenges
28. Reform, Rebellion, and Reaction, 1960-1974Liberalism at High Tide The Unrealized Promise of Kennedy's New Frontier Johnson Fulfills the Kennedy Promise Policymaking for a Great Society Assessing the Great Society The Judicial Revolution
The Second Reconstruction The Flowering of the Black Freedom Struggle The Response in Washington Black Power and Urban Rebellions
A Multitude of Movements Native American Protest Latino Struggles for Justice Student Rebellion, the New Left, and the Counterculture Gay Men and Lesbians Organize A New Movement to Save the Environment
The New Wave of Feminism A Multifaceted Movement Emerges Feminist Gains Spark a Countermovement
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: Transnational Feminisms
Liberal Reform in the Nixon Administration Extending the Welfare State and Regulating the Economy Responding to Demands for Social JusticeConclusion: Achievements and Limitations of Liberalism
29. Vietnam and the Limits of Power, 1961-1975New Frontiers in Foreign Policy Meeting the "Hour of Maximum Danger" New Approaches to the Third World The Arms Race and the Nuclear Brink A Growing War in Vietnam
Lyndon Johnson's War against Communism An All-Out Commitment in Vietnam Preventing Another Castro in Latin America The Americanized War
HISTORICAL QUESTION: Why Couldn't the United States Bomb Its Way to Victory in Vietnam?
A Nation Polarized The Widening War at Home 1968: Year of Upheaval
Nixon, Detente, and the Search for Peace in Vietnam Moving toward Detente with the Soviet Union and China Shoring Up Anticommunism in the Third World Vietnam Becomes Nixon's War The Peace Accords and the Legacy of DefeatConclusion: An Unwinnable War
30. America Moves to the Right, 1969-1989Nixon and the Rise of Postwar Conservatism Emergence of a Grassroots Movement Nixon Courts the Right
Constitutional Crisis and Restoration The Election of 1972 Watergate The Ford Presidency and the 1976 Election
The "Outsider" Presidency of Jimmy Carter Retreat from Liberalism Energy and Environmental Reform Promoting Human Rights Abroad The Cold War Intensifies
GLOBAL COMPARISON: Energy Consumption per Capita, 1980
Ronald Reagan and the Conservative Ascendancy Appealing to the New Right and Beyond Unleashing Free Enterprise Winners and Losers in a Flourishing Economy
HISTORICAL QUESTION: Why Did the ERA Fail?
Continuing Struggles over Rights Battles in the Courts and Congress Feminism on the Defensive The Gay and Lesbian Rights Movement
Ronald Reagan Confronts an "Evil Empire" Militarization and Interventions Abroad The Iran-Contra Scandal A Thaw in Soviet-American RelationsConclusion: Reversing the Course of Government
31. The End of the Cold War and the Challenges of Globalization Since 1989The Presidency of George H. W. Bush Gridlock in Government Going to War in Central America and the Persian Gulf The End of the Cold War The 1992 Election
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: Suing for Access: Disability and the Courts
The Clinton Administration's Search for the Middle Ground Clinton's Promise of Change The Clinton Administration Moves Right Impeaching the President The Booming Economy of the 1990s
The United States in a Globalizing World Defining America's Place in a New World Order Debates over Globalization The Internationalization of the United States
GLOBAL COMPARISON: Countries with the Highest Military Expenditures, 2005
President George W. Bush: Conservatism at Home and Radical Initiatives Abroad The Disputed Election of 2000 The Domestic Policies of a "Compassionate Conservative" The Globalization of Terrorism Unilateralism, Preemption, and the Iraq War Barack Obama and the Promise of ChangeConclusion: Defining the Government's Role at Home and Abroad