Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Community and Diversity
CHAPTER 17 RECONSTRUCTION 1863—1877
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Hale County, Alabama: From Slavery to Freedom in a Black Belt Community
The Politics of Reconstruction
The Meaning of Freedom
SEEING HISTORY Changing Images of Reconstruction
Southern Politics and Society
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Ku Klux Klan in Alabama
Reconstructing the North
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 18 CONQUEST AND SURVIVAL: The Trans-Mississippi West 1860—1900
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Oklahoma Land Rush
Indian Peoples Under Siege
The Internal Empire
The Open Range
SEEING HISTORY The Legendary Cowboy: Nat Love, Deadwood Dick
Farming Communities on The Plains
The World’s Breadbasket
The Western Landscape
The Transformation of Indian Societies
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 19 PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION IN THE GILDED AGE 1865—1900
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Haymarket Square, Chicago, May 4, 1886
The Rise of Industry, the Triumph of Business
SEEING HISTORY The Standard Oil Company
Labor in the Age of Big Business
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Regulating the Conditions and Limiting the Hours of Labor in the State of Illinois
The New South
The Industrial City
The Rise of Consumer Society
Cultures in Conflict, Culture in Common
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 20 DEMOCRACY AND EMPIRE 1870—1900
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Annexation of Hawai’i
Toward a National Governing Class
Farmers and Workers Organize their Communities
The Crisis of the 1890s
Politics of Reform, Politics of Order
The Path to Imperialism
SEEING HISTORY The White Man’s Burden
Onto a Global Stage
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Two Sides of Anti-Imperialism
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 21 URBAN AMERICA AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900—1917
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Henry Street Settlement House: Women Settlement House Workers Create a Community of Reform
The Origins of Progressivism
SEEING HISTORY Photographing Poverty in the Slums of New York
Progressive Politics in Cities and States
Social Control and Its Limits
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Debating Prohibition in Progressive-Era Ohio
Challenges to Progressivism
Women’s Movements and Black Activism
National Progressivism
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 22 A GLOBAL POWER: The United States in the Era of the Great War 1901—1920
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The American Expeditionary Force in France
Becoming a World Power
The Great War
American Mobilization
SEEING HISTORY Selling War
Over Here
Repression and Reaction
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Race Riot in Tulsa
An Uneasy Peace
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 23 THE TWENTIES 1920—1929
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Movie Audience And Hollywood: Mass Culture Creates A New National Community
Postwar Prosperity and Its Price
The State, the Economy, and Business
The New Mass Culture
SEEING HISTORY Creating Celebrity
Modernity and traditionalism
Promises Postponed
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 24 THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL 1929-1940
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Sit-Down Strike at Flint: Automobile Workers Organize a New Union
Hard Times
FDR and The First New Deal
FDR the Man
Left Turn and the Second New Deal
The New Deal in the South and West
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Californians Face the Influx of “Dust Bowl” Migrants
The Limits of Reform
Depression-Era Culture
SEEING HISTORY Documenting Hard Times in Black and White and Color
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 25 World War II 1941—1945
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Los Alamos, New Mexico
The Coming of World War II
The Great Arsenal of Democracy
SEEING HISTORY Norman Rockwell’s “Rosie, the Riveter”
The Home Front
Men and Women in Uniform
The World at War
The Last Stages of War
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT On Deploying the Atomic Bomb
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 26 THE COLD WAR BEGINS 1945—1952
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES University of Washington, Seattle: Students and Faculty Face the Cold War
Global Insecurities at War’s End
The Policy Of Containment
Cold War Liberalism
The Cold War At Home
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Congress and the Red Scare
Cold War Culture
SEEING HISTORY The Hollywood Film Invasion, U.S.A
Stalemate for the Democrats
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 27 AMERICA AT MIDCENTURY 1952—1963
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Popular Music in Memphis
Under the Cold War’s Shadow
The Affluent Society
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Integrating Levittown, Pennsylvania
Youth Culture
Mass Culture and Its Discontents
The Coming of the New Frontier
SEEING HISTORY Televising a National Tragedy
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 28 THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 1945—1966
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Montgomery Bus Boycott: An African American Community Challenges Segregation
Origins of the Movement
SEEING HISTORY Visualizing Civil Rights
No Easy Road to Freedom, 1957—62
The Movement at High Tide, 1963—65
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Showdown in Oxford: Integrating Ole Miss
Civil Rights Beyond Black and White
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 29 WAR ABROAD, WAR AT HOME 1965—1974
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Uptown, Chicago, Illinois
Vietnam: America’s Longest War
A Generation in Conflict
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Prospects for Peace in Vietnam, April 1965
Wars on Poverty
1968: Year of Turmoil
The Politics of Identity
The Nixon Presidency
SEEING HISTORY Kim Phuc, Fleeing a Napalm Attack Near Trang Bang
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 30 THE CONSERVATIVE ASCENDANCY 1974—1991
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Grassroots Conservatism in Orange County, California
The Overextended Society
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania
The New Right
SEEING HISTORY The Inaugurations of Carter and Reagan
The Reagan Revolution
Best of Times, Worst of Times
Toward A New World Order
“A Kinder, Gentler Nation”
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 31 THE UNITED STATES IN A GLOBAL AGE 1992—2010
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Transnational Communities in San Diego and Tijuana
The Presidency of Bill Clinton
Changing American Communities
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Illegal Immigrants and the Border Fence
President George W. Bush and the War on Terror
SEEING HISTORY The 9/11 Attacks
Barack Obama and the Audacity of Hope
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Appendix
Bibliography
Credits
Index