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Tables of Contents for The Essential America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Maps
xi
Preface
xiii
Reconstruction: North and South
287
20
On-Line Tutor: The Radical Reconstruction Plan (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch17/topic.htm)
288
19
The War's Aftermath
289
2
The Battle Over Reconstruction
291
4
Reconstructing the South
295
3
The Reconstructed South
298
4
The Grant Years
302
5
PART 5 Growing Pains
New Frontiers: South and West
307
17
On-Line Tutor: Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch18/topic.htm)
308
16
The New South
309
6
The New West
315
9
Big Business and Organized Labor
324
16
On-Line Tutor: Andrew Carnegie's ``Gospel of Wealth'' (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch19/topic.htm)
325
15
The Rise of Big Business
326
3
Entrepreneurs
329
4
Labor Conditions and Organization
333
6
A Nation Transformed
339
1
The Emergence of Urban America
340
21
On-Line Tutor: Baseball's Early Years (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch20/topic.htm)
341
20
America's Move to Town
342
2
The New Immigration
344
3
Popular Culture
347
5
Education and the Professions
352
1
Realism in Thought, Culture, and Literature
353
4
The Social Gospel
357
1
Early Efforts at Urban Reform
358
3
Gilded-Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt
361
18
On-Line Tutor: The Populist Movement (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch21/topic.htm)
362
17
Paradoxical Politics
363
2
Corruption and Reform
365
6
The Farm Problem and Agrarian Protest Movements
371
4
The Economy and the Silver Solution
375
3
A New Era
378
1
PART 6 Modern America
An American Empire
379
15
On-Line Tutor: The Spanish-American War (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch22/topic.htm)
380
14
Toward the New Imperialism
381
1
Expansion in the Pacific
382
1
The Spanish-American War
383
6
Imperial Rivalries in East Asia
389
1
Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy
389
5
The Progressive Era
394
16
On-Line Tutor: Theodore Roosevelt (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch23/topic.htm)
395
15
Elements of Reform
396
1
The Main Features of Progressivism
397
2
Roosevelt's Progressivism
399
2
Roosevelt's Second Term
401
1
From Roosevelt to Taft
402
2
Wilson's Progressivism
404
5
The Limits of Progressivism
409
1
America and the Great War
410
19
On-Line Tutor: Mobilizing Public Opinion During World War I (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch24/topic.htm)
411
18
Wilson and Foreign Affairs
412
2
An Uneasy Neutrality
414
4
America's Entry into the War
418
3
``The Decisive Power''
421
3
The Fight for Peace at Home and Abroad
424
2
Lurching from War to Peace
426
3
The Modern Temper
429
11
On-Line Tutor: The Jazz Age (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch25/topic.htm)
430
10
Reaction in the Twenties
431
3
The Roaring Twenties
434
3
The Culture of Modernism
437
3
Republican Resurgence and Decline
440
15
On-Line Tutor: The Stock Market Crash (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch26/topic.htm)
441
14
``Normalcy''
442
4
The New Era
446
3
President Hoover, the Engineer
449
6
New Deal America
455
19
On-Line Tutor: The TVA and the New Deal (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch27/topic.htm)
456
18
From Hooverism to the New Deal
457
3
Recovery Through Regulation
460
3
The Human Cost of Depression
463
2
Culture in the Thirties
465
1
The Second New Deal
466
4
Roosevelt's Second Term
470
2
The Legacy of the New Deal
472
2
From Isolation to Global War
474
13
On-Line Tutor: Pearl Harbor (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch28/topic.htm)
475
12
Postwar Isolationism
476
2
War Clouds
478
4
The Storm in Europe
482
2
The Storm in the Pacific
484
3
The Second World War
487
22
On-Line Tutor: The Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch29/topic.htm)
488
21
America's Early Battles
489
1
Mobilization at Home
489
2
Social Effects of the War
491
3
The Allied Drive Toward Berlin
494
5
Leapfrogging to Tokyo
499
2
A New Age is Born
501
7
The Final Ledger
508
1
PART 7 The American Age
The Fair Deal and Containment
509
19
On-Line Tutor: The House Un-American Activities Committee (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch30/topic.htm)
510
18
Demobilization Under Truman
511
2
The Cold War
513
4
Harry Gives 'Em Hell
517
3
The Gold War Heats Up
520
8
Through the Picture Window: Society and Culture, 1945--1960
528
12
On-Line Tutor: Conformity in the 1950s (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch31/topic.htm)
529
11
People of Plenty
530
3
A Conforming Culture
533
2
Cracks in the Picture Window
535
4
A Paradoxical Era
539
1
Conflict and Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years
540
15
On-Line Tutor: Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch32/topic.htm)
541
14
``Time for A Change''
542
1
Eisenhower's ``Hidden-Hand'' Presidency
543
2
Foreign Intervention
545
3
Reelection and Foreign Crises
548
2
Festering Problems Abroad
550
1
The Early Civil Rights Movement
551
2
Assessing the Eisenhower Years
553
2
New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s
555
18
On-Line Tutor: The Cuban Missile Crisis (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch33/topic.htm)
556
17
The New Frontier
557
2
Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement
559
2
Foreign Frontiers
561
2
Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
563
3
From Civil Rights to Black Power
566
2
The Tragedy of Vietnam
568
3
Sixties Crescendo
571
2
Rebellion and Reaction in the 1960s and 1970s
573
19
On-Line Tutor: Student Protest and Lethal Response in the Vietnam War Era (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch34/topic.htm)
574
18
The Roots of Rebellion
575
5
Nixon and Vietnam
580
3
Nixon and Middle America
583
2
Nixon Triumphant
585
1
Watergate
586
2
An Unelected President
588
1
The Carter Interregnum
589
3
Conservative Insurgency
592
17
On-Line Tutor: The Collapse of Communism (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch35/topic.htm)
593
16
The Reagan Revolution
594
1
Reagan's First Term
595
4
Reagan's Second Term
599
4
The Bush Years
603
6
Cultural Politics
609
1
On-Line Tutor: The Internet (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch36/topic.htm)
610
1
America's Changing Face
611
3
Cultural Conservatism
614
1
Bush to Clinton
615
2
Domestic Issues
617
2
Republican Insurgency
619
2
Economic and Social Trends
621
2
Foreign Policy Challenges
623
3
Fin-De-Siecle America
626
Further Reading
1
14
Appendix
15
36
The Declaration of Independence
15
3
Articles of Confederation
18
5
The Constitution of the United States
23
12
Presidential Elections
35
4
Admission of States
39
1
Population of the United States
40
1
Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820--1998
41
1
Immigration by Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820--1998
42
4
Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of State
46
5
Credits
51
2
Index
53