1. Ancient America, Before 1492
Archaeology and History
The First Americans
African and Asian Origins Paleo-Indian Hunters Archaic Hunters and Gatherers Great Plains Bison Hunters Great Basin Cultures Pacific Coast Cultures Eastern Woodland Cultures
HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Who Were the First Americans?" Agricultural Settlements and Chiefdoms Southwestern Cultures Woodland Burial Mounds and Chiefdoms
VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Daily Life in Chaco Canyon"Native Americans in the 1490s Eastern and Great Plains Peoples Southwestern and Western Peoples Cultural SimilaritiesThe 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 ExplorationA Surprising New World in the Western Atlantic The Explorations of Columbus The Geographic Revolution and the Columbian ExchangeSpanish Exploration and Conquest The Conquest of Mexico The Search for Other Mexicos Spanish Outposts in Florida and New Mexico New Spain in the Sixteenth Century The Toll of Spanish Conquest and Colonization
VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Weapons of Conquest"
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Justifying Conquest"
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Spreading Christianity in New Spain"The New World and Sixteenth-Century Europe The Protestant Reformation and the Spanish Response Europe and The Spanish ExampleConclusion: The promise of the new world for europeans
3. The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601-1700An English Colony on Chesapeake Bay The Fragile Jamestown Settlement Cooperation and Conflict between Natives and Newcomers From Private Company to Royal GovernmentA Tobacco Society Tobacco Agriculture A Servant Labor System The Rigors of Servitude Cultivating Land and Faith
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "American Tobacco and European Consumers"
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Gamble of Indentured Servitude"Hierarchy and Inequality in the Chesapeake Social and Economic Polarization Government Policies and Political Conflict Bacon's Rebellion
HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Why Did English Colonists Consider Themselves Superior to Indians and Africans?"Toward a Slave Labor System Religion and Revolt in the Spanish Borderland The West Indies: Sugar and Slavery Carolina: A West Indian Frontier Slave Labor Emerges in the ChesapeakeConclusion: The Growth of English Colonies Based on Export Crops and Slave Labor
4. The Northern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601-1700Puritans and the Settlement of New England Puritan Origins: The English Reformation The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony The Founding of Massachusetts Bay ColonyThe Evolution of New England Society Church, Covenant, and Conformity Government by Puritans for Puritanism The Splintering of Puritanism Religious Controversies and Economic Changes
VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Seats of Power"
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Hunting Witches in Salem, Massachusetts"The Founding of the Middle Colonies From New Netherland to New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania Toleration and Diversity in PennsylvaniaThe 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 Borderlands"Conclusion: 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 TradeThe Middle Colonies: Immigrants, Wheat, and Work German and Scots-Irish Immigrants "God Gives All Things to Industry": Urban and Rural Labor
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "A Sailor's Life in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World"The Southern Colonies: Land of Slavery The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Growth of Slavery Slave Labor and African American Culture Tobacco, Rice, and ProsperityUnifying Experiences Commerce and Consumption Religion, Enlightenment, and Revival Trade and Conflict in the North American Borderlands Colonial Politics in the British Empire
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Spanish Priests Report on California Missions"Conclusion: 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 The War and Its Consequences Pontiac's Rebellion and the Proclamation of 1763
VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Cultural Cross-Dressing in Eighteenth-Century Portraits"The Sugar and Stamp Acts, 1763-1765 Grenville's Sugar Act The Stamp Act Resistance Strategies and Crowd Politics Liberty and Property
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Pursuing Liberty, Protesting Tyranny"The Townshend Acts and Economic Retaliation, 1767-1770 The Townshend Duties Nonconsumption and the Daughters of Liberty Military Occupation and "Massacre" in BostonThe Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts, 1770-1774 The Calm before the Storm Tea in Boston Harbor The Coercive Acts Beyond Boston: Rural New England The First Continental CongressDomestic Insurrections, 1774-1775 Lexington and Concord Rebelling against SlaveryConclusion: The Long Road to Revolution
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 IndependenceThe First Year of War, 1775-1776 The American Military Forces The British Strategy Quebec, New York, and New JerseyThe Home Front Patriotism at the Local Level The Loyalists Who Is a Traitor? Prisoners of War Financial Instability and Corruption
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Families Divide over the Revolution"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 AllianceThe Southern Strategy and the End of the War Georgia and South Carolina Treason and Guerrilla Warfare Surrender at Yorktown The Losers and the Winners
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "European Nations and the Peace of Paris, 1783"Conclusion: Why the British Lost
8. Building a Republic, 1775-1789The Articles of Confederation Congress and Confederation The Problem of Western Lands Running the New GovernmentThe 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 The War Debt and the Newburgh Conspiracy The Treaty of Fort Stanwix Land Ordinances and the Northwest Territory The Requisition of 1785 and Shays's Rebellion, 1786-1787The United States Constitution From Annapolis to Philadelphia The Virginia and New Jersey Plans Democracy versus RepublicanismRatification of the Constitution The Federalists The Antifederalists The Big Holdouts: Virginia and New York
HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Was the New United States a Christian Country?"Conclusion: 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
HISTORICAL QUESTION: "How Did America's First Congress Address the Question of Slavery?"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 RebellionConflicts on America's Borders and Beyond Creeks in the Southwest Ohio Indians in the Northwest France and Britain The Haitian Revolution
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "France, Britain, and Woman's Rights in the 1790s"Federalists and Republicans The Election of 1796 The XYZ Affair The Alien and Sedition Acts
DOCUMETING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Crisis of 1798: Sedition"Conclusion: Parties Nonetheless
10. Republicans in Power, 1800-1824Jefferson's Presidency Turbulent Times: Election and Rebellion The Jeffersonian Vision of Republican Simplicity Dangers Overseas: The Barbary WarsOpportunities and Challenges in the West The Louisiana Purchase The Lewis and Clark Expedition Osage and Comanche Indians
VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Cultural Exchange on the Lewis and Clark Trail" Jefferson, the Madisons, and the War of 1812 Impressment and Embargo Dolley Madison and Social Politics Tecumseh and Tippecanoe The War of 1812 Washington City Burns: The British OffensiveWomen's Status in the Early Republic Women and the Law Women and Church Governance Female Education
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "One Woman's Quest to Provide Higher Education for Women"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
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Mill Girls Stand Up to Factory Owners, 1834"The Spread of Democracy Popular Politics and Partisan Identity The Election of 1828 and the Character Issue Jackson's Democratic AgendaJackson Defines the Democratic Party Indian Policy and the Trail of Tears The Tariff of Abominations and Nullification The Bank War and Economic BoomCultural 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
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "Transatlantic Abolition"Van Buren's One-Term Presidency The Politics of Slavery Elections and Panics
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "
Going Ahead or
Gone to Smash: An Entrepreneur Struggles in the 1830s"Conclusion: The Age of Jackson or the Era of Reform?
12. The New West and the Free North, 1840-1860Economic and Industrial Evolution Agriculture and Land Policy Manufacturing and Mechanization Railroads: Breaking the Bonds of NatureFree Labor: Promise and Reality The Free-Labor Ideal Economic Inequality Immigrants and the Free-Labor Ladder
VISUALIZING HISTORY: "The Path of Progress"
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "Global Prosperity in the 1850s"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 CaliforniaReforming 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 and Mistresses in the Big House Paternalism and Male Honor The Southern Lady and Feminine Virtues
HISTORICAL QUESTION: "How Often Were Slaves Whipped?"Slaves in the Quarter Work Family and Religion Resistance and RebellionThe Plain Folk Plantation Belt Yeomen Upcountry Yeomen Poor Whites The Culture of the Plain FolkBlack and Free: On the Middle Ground Precarious Freedom Achievement despite Restrictions 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 CompromiseThe Sectional Balance Undone The Fugitive Slave Act
Uncle Tom's Cabin The Kansas-Nebraska ActRealignment of the Party System The Old Parties: Whigs and Democrats The New Parties: Know-Nothings and Republicans The Election of 1856
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "Filibusters: The Underside of Manifest Destiny"Freedom under Siege "Bleeding Kansas" The
Dred Scott Decision Prairie Republican: Abraham Lincoln The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "A Purse of Her Own: Petitioning for the Right to Own Propert"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 SidesThe Combatants How They Expected to Win Lincoln and Davis MobilizeBattling It Out, 1861-1862 Stalemate in the Eastern Theater Union Victories in the Western Theater The Atlantic Theater International DiplomacyUnion
and Freedom From Slaves to Contraband From Contraband to Free People The War of Black Liberation
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Right to Fight: Black Soldiers in the Civil War"The South at War Revolution from Above Hardship Below The Disintegration of SlaveryThe North at War The Government and the Economy Women and Work at Home and at War
Politics and DissentGrinding Out Victory, 1863-1865 Vicksburg and Gettysburg Grant Takes Command The Election of 1864 The Confederacy Collapses
HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Why Did So Many Soldiers Die?"Conclusion: 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 RightsCongressional Reconstruction The Fourteenth Amendment and Escalating Violence Radical Reconstruction and Military Rule Impeaching a President The Fifteenth Amendment and Women's DemandsThe Struggle in the South Freedmen, Yankees, and Yeomen Republican Rule White Landlords, Black Sharecroppers
HISTORICAL QUESTION: "What Did the Ku Klux Klan Really Want?"
VISUALIZING HISTORY: "A Post-Slavery Encounter"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, 1865-1900Conquest and Empire in the West Indian Removal and the Reservation System The Decimation of the Great Bison Herds Indian Wars and the Collapse of Comancher’a The Fight for the Black Hills
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "Imperialism, Colonialism, and the Treatment of the Sioux and the Zulu"Forced Assimilation and Resistance Strategies Indian Schools and the War against Indian Culture The Dawes Act and Indian Land Allotment Indian Resistance and SurvivalGold Fever and the Mining West Mining on the Comstock Lode The Diverse Peoples of the West Territorial GovernmentLand Fever Moving West: Homesteaders and Speculators Ranchers and Cowboys Tenants, Sharecroppers, and Migrants Commercial Farming and Industrial Cowboys
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Young Women Homesteaders and the Promise of the West"Conclusion: The West in the Gilded Age
18. Business and Politics in the Gilded Age, 1865-1900Old 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
VISUALIZING HISTORY: "The Vanderbilts and the Gilded Age"From Competition to Consolidation J. P. Morgan and Finance Capitalism Social Darwinism, Laissez-Faire, and the Supreme Court
HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Social Darwinism: Did Wealthy Industrialists Practice What They Preached?"Politics and Culture Political Participation and Party Loyalty Sectionalism and the New South Gender, Race, and Politics Women's ActivismPresidential Politics Corruption and Party Strife Garfield's Assassination and Civil Service Reform Reform and Scandal: The Campaign of 1884Economic 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
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Seeking Refuge: Russian Jews Escape the Pogroms"At Work in Industrial America America's Diverse Workers The Family Economy: Women and Children White-Collar Workers: Managers, "Typewriters," and SalesclerksWorkers Organize The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor Haymarket and the Specter of Labor RadicalismAt Home and at Play Domesticity and "Domestics" Cheap AmusementsCity 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 Fairs"Conclusion: Who Built the Cities?
20. Dissent, Depression, and War, 1890-1900The Farmers' Revolt The Farmers' Alliance The Populist MovementThe Labor Wars The Homestead Lockout The Cripple Creek Miners' Strike of 1894 Eugene V. Debs and the Pullman Strike
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Press and the Pullman Strike: Framing Class Conflict"Women's Activism Frances Willard and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the Movement for Woman SuffrageDepression Politics Coxey's Army The People's Party and the Election of 1896The United States and the World Markets and Missionaries The Monroe Doctrine and the Open Door Policy "A Splendid Little War" The Debate over American Imperialism
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "Regime Change in Hawai'i"
HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Did Terrorists Sink the
Maine?"Conclusion: 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
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Making the Workplace Safer: Alice Hamilton Explores the Dangerous Trades"Progressivism: Theory and Practice Reform Darwinism and Social Engineering Progressive Government: City and StateProgressivism Finds a President: Theodore Roosevelt The Square Deal Roosevelt the Reformer Roosevelt and Conservation The Big Stick The Troubled Presidency of William Howard Taft
VISUALIZING HISTORY: "The Birth of Photojournalism"
HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Progressives and Conservation: Should Hetch Hetchy Be Dammed or Saved?"Woodrow Wilson and Progressivism at High Tide Progressive Insurgency and the Election of 1912 Wilson's Reforms: Tariff, Banking, and the Trusts Wilson, Reluctant ProgressiveThe Limits of Progressive Reform Radical Alternatives Progressivism for White Men OnlyConclusion: 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 FranceThe Crusade for Democracy at Home The Progressive Stake in the War Women, War, and the Battle for Suffrage Rally around the Flag — or Else
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Seeking to Serve: An American Woman in Wartime France"
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 TreatyDemocracy at Risk Economic Hardship and Labor Upheaval The Red Scare The Great Migrations of African Americans and Mexicans Postwar Politics and the Election of 1920
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "Bolshevism"Conclusion: 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 CultureThe Roaring Twenties Prohibition The New Woman The New Negro Entertainment for the Masses The Lost Generation
VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Advertising in a Consumer Age"
HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Was There a Sexual Revolution in the 1920s?"
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Quest for Home Ownership in Segregated Detroit"Resistance to Change Rejecting the Undesirables The Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan The Scopes Trial Al Smith and the Election of 1928The Great Crash Herbert Hoover: The Great Engineer The Distorted Economy The Crash of 1929 Hoover and the Limits of IndividualismLife 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
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "Fascism: Adolf Hitler and National Socialism"Launching the New Deal The New Dealers Banking and Finance Reform Relief and Conservation Programs Agricultural Initiatives Industrial Recovery
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Textile Workers Strike for Better Wages and Working Conditions"Challenges to the New Deal Resistance to Business Reform Casualties in the Countryside Politics on the FringesToward a Welfare State Relief for the Unemployed Empowering Labor Social Security and Tax Reform Neglected Americans and the New DealThe New Deal from Victory to Deadlock The Election of 1936 Court Packing Reaction and Recession The Last of the New Deal ReformsConclusion: 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 NoninvolvementThe Onset of War Nazi Aggression and War in Europe From Neutrality to the Arsenal of Democracy Japan Attacks AmericaMobilizing for War Home-Front Security Building a Citizen Army Conversion to a War Economy
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Japanese Internment"Fighting Back Turning the Tide in the Pacific The Campaign in EuropeThe Wartime Home Front Women and Families, Guns and Butter The Double V Campaign Wartime Politics and the 1944 Election Reaction to the Holocaust
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: Nazi Anti-Semitism and the Atomic Bomb"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
HISTORICAL QUESTION: "What Happened to Rosie the Riveter?"
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "An Immigrant Scientist Encounters the Anti-Communist Crusade"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 TermLiberation 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 EducationThe Culture of Abundance Consumption Rules the Day The Revival of Domesticity and Religion Television Transforms Culture and Politics CountercurrentsThe Emergence of a Civil Rights Movement African Americans Challenge the Supreme Court and the President Montgomery and Mass Protes
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The
Brown Decision"Conclusion: 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 RevolutionThe Second Reconstruction The Flowering of the Black Freedom Struggle The Response in Washington Black Power and Urban RebellionsA Multitude of Movements Native American Protest Latino Struggles for Justice Student Rebellion, the New Left, and the Counterculture Gay Men and Lesbians Organize
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Student Protest"
VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Anti-Establishment Clothing"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 Environmental Concerns Expanding Social JusticeConclusion: Achievements and Limitations of Liberalism
29. Vietnam and the End of the Cold War Consensus, 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 VietnamLyndon Johnson's War against Communism An All-Out Commitment in Vietnam Preventing Another Castro in Latin America The Americanized War Those Who ServedA Nation Polarized The Widening War at Home The Tet Offensive and Johnson's Move toward Peace The Tumultuous Election of 1968
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "1968: A Year of Protest"Nixon, Deetente, and the Search for Peace in Vietnam Moving toward Detente with the Soviet Union and China Shoring Up U.S. Interests around the World Vietnam Becomes Nixon's War The Peace Accords The Legacy of Defeat
SEEKNG THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "From the Fall of Saigon to the House of Representatives"Conclusion: An Unwinnable War
30. America Moves to the Right, 1969-1989Nixon, Conservatism, and Constitutional Crisis Emergence of a Grassroots Movement Nixon Courts the Right The Election of 1972 Watergate The Ford Presidency and the 1976 Election
SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "A Mother Campaigns for a Say in Her Children's Education"The "Outsider" Presidency of Jimmy Carter Retreat from Liberalism Energy and Environmental Reform Promoting Human Rights Abroad The Cold War IntensifiesRonald Reagan and the Conservative Ascendancy Appealing to the New Right and Beyond Unleashing Free Enterprise Winners and Losers in a Flourishing EconomyContinuing Struggles over Rights Battles in the Courts and Congress Feminism on the Defensive The Gay and Lesbian Rights Movement
HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Why Did the ERA Fail?"Ronald Reagan Confronts an "Evil Empire" Militarization and Interventions Abroad The Iran-Contra Scandal A Thaw in Soviet-American Relations
DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Protecting Gay and Lesbian Rights"Conclusion: Reversing the Course of Government
31. The Promises and Challenges of Globalization, Since 1989Domestic Stalemate and Global Upheaval: The Presidency of George H. W. Bush Gridlock in Government Going to War in Central America and the Persian Gulf The Cold War Ends 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 Reforms Accommodating the Right Impeaching the President The Booming Economy of the 1990sThe United States in a Globalizing World Defining America's Place in a New World Order Debates over Globalization The Internationalization of the United States
BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "Jobs in a Globalizing Era"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 WarThe Obama Presidency: Reform and Backlash
VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Caricaturing the Candidates: Clinton and Obama in 2008"Conclusion: Defining the Government's Role at Home and Abroad