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Tables of Contents for Inventing America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Maps
xix
Preface
xxi
Acknowledgments
xxv
About the Authors
xxvii
Reconstruction: 1865--1877
535
28
The Fate of the Union
536
10
Reconstruction in Wartime
536
3
Andrew Johnson and Presidential Reconstruction
539
3
The Fourteenth Amendment
542
1
Radical Reconstruction and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
543
1
The Defeat of Land Reform
544
1
The Election of 1868
545
1
The Recovering South
546
6
The Experience of Freedom
547
3
Land and Labor
550
2
The Road to Redemption
552
6
The Republican Party in the South
553
1
The Grant Administration
554
1
The Election of 1872
555
1
Reconstruction in Retreat
555
2
The Election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877
557
1
Legacies
558
5
The Rise of Big Business and the Triumph of Industry: 1870--1900
563
32
An Industrial Economy
566
14
Agriculture and Industry
566
2
Railroads
568
5
Big Business
573
4
Industry and Technology
577
3
The Center and the Periphery
580
4
The South
580
2
The West
582
2
Classes
584
11
Jobs and Incomes
586
2
Immigrants and Migrants
588
2
Digital History Ellis Island and the Immigrant Experience
590
2
American Journal
592
1
Social Mobility
592
3
An Industrial Society: 1870--1910
595
32
Integration and Segmentation
596
8
The Jim Crow South
597
2
Reforming Native Americans
599
3
Strangers in the Land
602
2
Life on the Farm
604
3
The Rise of the City
607
10
An Urban Society
607
1
Cities and Technology
607
4
The Immigrant City
611
2
American Journal
613
1
The City of Lights
614
1
Public Health and the City of Disease
615
2
Women in Industrial Society
617
2
The World Viewed
619
8
Education
619
1
Science and Society
620
2
Religion
622
2
Law, Philosophy, Art
624
3
Politics and the State: 1876--1900
627
30
Rule and Misrule in the Cities
628
3
Boss Tweed
629
1
Divided Rule
630
1
Statehouses and Legislatures
631
2
The Politics of Insurgency
633
8
Labor Uniting
633
5
Women's Suffrage
638
2
Farmers and Their Discontents
640
1
The Nation State
641
12
Parties and Issues
641
4
Presidential Politics, 1877--1892
645
3
The People's Party and the Election of 1892
648
1
The Crisis of the 1890s
649
1
The Election of 1896
650
3
The Conservative Courts
653
1
The New Political Universe
654
3
A New Place in the World: 1865--1914
657
30
Postbellum Stirrings, 1865--1890
658
3
The Old Army and the New Navy
660
1
Turning Point: The 1890s
661
12
Britain, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Venezuela Crisis
662
2
Cuba and War with Spain
664
3
The United States at War
667
1
Conquering the Philippines
668
2
Suppressing Revolution in the Philippines
670
1
Legacies
671
2
The New Century
673
9
The Open Door to China
673
2
The Panama Canal
675
4
The Roosevelt Corollary
679
1
Dollar Diplomacy and Wilsonian Idealism
680
2
A New Empire
682
5
The Progressive Era: 1900--1916
687
30
A Growing Economy
689
1
Science, Technology, and Industry
690
4
Technological Systems
691
3
Progressive Reform
694
4
Urban Problems
695
1
State Politics
696
2
Class, Ethnicity, and Race
698
5
Unions and the State
698
3
Immigration Reconsidered
701
1
Race and the Nation
702
1
Women and Reform
703
4
Jobs and Rights
703
2
Winning the Right to Vote
705
2
National Politics
707
10
The Roosevelt Era
707
2
The Successor: William H. Taft
709
1
The Election of 1912
710
2
Wilson: The Scholar as President
712
2
The Legacy of Reform
714
3
War, Prosperity, and the Metropolis: 1914--1929
717
34
The Road to War
718
2
The Strains of Neutrality
718
1
Peace and Preparedness
719
1
Entry into the War
720
1
Prosecuting the War
720
8
Financing the War
721
1
War Production
721
1
Science to the Front
722
1
Into Combat
723
2
Wartime Society
725
3
Retreat from Internationalism
728
6
The Versailles Peace Conference
728
1
Battle over the League of Nations
729
1
Unrest and Reaction
730
1
Republican Reign
731
2
Foreign Affairs
733
1
A Prosperous Nation
734
7
Construction
734
1
The Auto Industry
734
1
Appliances and the Radio
735
1
Flaws in the Economy
736
2
American Journal
738
1
Metropolitan Life
739
2
The Jazz Age
741
7
Cultural Ferment
742
1
The Vitality of Science
743
1
Blacks in the Cities
743
1
Women
744
2
Backlash
746
2
The Hoover Peak
748
3
The ``Great Engineer''
748
1
Bright Calm
749
2
The Great Depression and the New Deal: 1929--1940
751
36
The Great Depression
753
6
The Economy in Free-Fall
753
1
The Sources of Disaster
754
2
Portraits in Gray
756
1
The Dust Bowl
757
1
The Middle and Upper Classes
758
1
Herbert Hoover: The Engineer as President
759
2
Franklin D. Roosevelt: The First Term
761
17
The First Hundred Days
762
4
The First Two Years
766
1
Stirrings on the Left
767
3
The Second Hundred Days
770
4
The Election of 1936
774
1
Labor Rising
775
3
Roosevelt's Second Term
778
4
Taking Aim at the Supreme Court
778
1
The Ebbing of Reform
779
3
The Social Fabric
782
2
Muddling Through
784
3
Whirlpool of War: 1932--1941
787
26
Encouraging Peace
789
2
Roosevelt's Brand of Idealism
789
1
Trusting in Trade
790
1
The Good Neighbor Policy
790
1
Avoiding the Disagreeable
791
8
Japanese Belligerence
791
2
Nazi Aggressions
793
1
The Ingredients of Isolationism
794
1
Legislating Neutrality
795
1
The Refugee Question
796
1
Defense for the Americas
797
2
A World at War
799
14
The Outbreak of World War II
800
1
The American Response
801
2
The Election of 1940
803
1
Battle in the Atlantic
804
3
The Searing Japanese Sun
807
6
Fighting for Freedom: 1942--1945
813
34
Opening Gambits
815
4
Strategy in Europe
815
2
Demands in the Pacific
817
2
Mobilizing for War
819
9
Production for War
819
2
Controlling Prices
821
1
Economic Boom
822
1
Regional Changes
823
1
The Enlistment of Science
824
2
The Medical War
826
2
The War in Europe
828
3
Into Italy
828
1
Bombing Europe
828
2
The Invasion of France
830
1
The War in the Pacific
831
2
The Navy's Advance
832
1
MacArthur's Drive
832
1
Frustration in China
832
1
The War and American Society
833
9
Women
834
1
African Americans
835
2
Native Americans and Mexican Americans
837
2
Politics and the Limits of Freedom
839
3
Victory in Europe
842
5
Battle of the Bulge
842
1
The Defeat of Germany
843
4
From Hot War to Cold War: 1945--1950
847
34
Clouded Victory
848
7
Roosevelt's Arrangements
848
2
The War in the Pacific
850
1
The Atomic Bomb
851
1
The End of the War
852
1
The Decision to Use the Bomb
853
2
Entering the Peace
855
3
Worries, Foreign and Domestic
855
1
The New President
856
1
Conservatism, Prices, and Strikes
857
1
Political Earthquake: 1946
858
1
The Emergence of the Cold War
858
9
Division over the Atom
859
1
Digital History Hanford: The Cold War on the Columbia River
860
2
The Doctrine of Containment
862
1
The Marshall Plan
863
1
In Defense of Europe
864
1
The Far East
865
1
The Sinews of National Security
865
2
Prosperity and Tolerance
867
4
A Flourishing Economy
867
1
Faces Against the Window
868
1
A Turn Against Intolerance
868
2
African American Aspirations
870
1
Truman Restored
871
5
Politics and Minority Rights
871
1
The Election of 1948
872
1
The Fair Deal
873
1
Medical Research
874
1
The ``Fall'' of China
874
1
Decision for a Hydrogen Bomb
874
1
American Journal
875
1
Subversion and Security
876
5
The Truman Loyalty Program
876
1
The House Un-American Activities Committee
877
1
The Case of Alger Hiss
877
1
The Effects of Fear
878
3
Korea, Eisenhower, and Affluence: 1950--1956
881
34
Korea and Its Consequences
882
8
A Seesaw War
882
1
The Sacking of MacArthur
883
1
Extending Containment
884
1
A Sea Change in Defense Science
884
2
McCarthyism
886
1
They Liked Ike
887
3
Eisenhower and the World
890
7
Rockets and Missiles
890
1
Staying Ahead of the Soviets
891
1
Arms Control Initiatives
891
1
Demand for a Test Ban
892
1
Superpower Shift
893
4
The Cold War, Technology, and the Economy
897
7
Defense and Technical Competitiveness
897
1
Civilian Spinoffs
898
1
Computers
899
1
Agriculture
899
1
``The Golden Age Is Now''
900
4
Migrations and the Melting Pot
904
6
The Flight from Downtown
905
1
Suburbia and Assimilation
905
1
Asian Americans
906
1
The Revival of Religion
907
1
Outcasts of Affluence
907
3
Stirrings for Civil Rights
910
5
Brown v. Board of Education
910
1
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
911
1
White Resistance
912
3
Renewal of Reform: 1956--1968
915
34
A Transitional Period
916
8
Questions of National Security
916
2
Breaking with Conformity
918
3
Civil Rights: Becoming a Movement
921
1
The Election of 1960
922
2
The Eisenhower Legacy
924
1
Kennedy: Idealism Without Illusions
924
7
Kennedy and the Third World
925
2
Kennedy and the Soviets
927
4
Kennedy at Home
931
8
Science, Technology, and the Economy
932
1
Horizons of Health
932
1
Kennedy and Civil Rights
933
2
The Quality of Life
935
3
The Thousandth Day
938
1
Lyndon Johnson: Taking Charge
939
10
Enacting the Kennedy Program
940
1
Liberty, Equality, and the Supreme Court
940
1
Toward the Great Society
941
4
Domestic Reckoning
945
4
Years of Rage: 1964--1974
949
34
Johnson, a Reluctant Globalist
950
6
Missile Defense
951
1
The Middle East
951
1
Latin America
952
1
Vietnam
952
4
Upheaval at Home
956
11
The Antiwar Movement
956
1
The Countercultural Rebellion
957
2
American Journal
959
1
Militancy and Backlash
960
4
1968: The Politics of Protest
964
3
Nixon: World Strategist
967
6
Exiting Vietnam
968
2
Detente
970
1
The Third World
971
2
Nixon at Home, Bright and Dark
973
5
Struggling with the Economy
973
1
Science, Cancer, and the Environment
974
2
Appeal to the Silent Majority
976
2
Watergate
978
5
Downfall
979
1
Cold, Gray Morning
980
3
Conservative Revival: 1974--1980
983
30
Ford's Stewardship
984
3
The Economy and Energy
985
1
Foreign Affairs
985
2
The Election of 1976
987
1
The Economy and Technology
987
6
A Faltering Economy
987
1
The Environment and Public Health
988
3
Innovation and Renewal
991
2
Carter: A Presidency of Limits
993
6
A Touch of Liberalism
994
1
A Shift to Economic Conservatism
995
1
Energy and Inflation
995
1
Carter and the World
996
3
A Divided Society
999
9
African Americans
999
1
Hispanics
999
1
American Journal
1000
1
Asian Americans
1001
1
Native Americans
1001
1
Majority Resistance
1002
1
Fault Lines: Sexual and Cultural
1003
5
Bid for Power
1008
5
The Christian Right
1008
1
A Conservative Coalition
1009
1
The Election of 1980
1009
4
The Reagan Revolution: 1980--1988
1013
30
Reaganomics
1015
3
Deficits
1016
1
Deregulation
1016
2
Reagan and the World
1018
8
Star Wars
1018
1
Affirmation: The Election of 1984
1019
1
The Third World
1020
4
Doing Business with the Soviets
1024
2
Reagan's America
1026
12
Greed Is Good
1026
2
Stresses in the Workforce
1028
1
Women
1029
1
Peoples of Color
1030
4
Troubles in the Good Life
1034
1
Medicine and Public Health
1035
1
American Journal
1036
1
The Environment, Local and Global
1037
1
Political Reckoning
1038
5
The Election of 1988
1038
1
The Reagan Legacy
1039
4
Triumphant and Troubled Nation: 1989--2000
1043
34
Foreign Affairs
1044
4
The End of the Cold War
1044
1
Ripples of Freedom
1045
2
The Gulf War
1047
1
A Domestic Guardian
1048
5
The Troubled Economy
1048
1
Civil Rights
1049
1
The Supreme Court
1050
1
Health and the Environment
1051
1
The Election of 1992
1052
1
The Clinton Presidency
1053
4
The Economy and Free Trade
1053
1
Setbacks: Health Care and Gay Rights
1054
1
Elections, 1994: A Republican Earthquake
1055
1
The 1996 Election
1056
1
The Post--Cold War World
1057
6
Russia
1057
1
Violence in the Former Yugoslavia
1057
2
China and the Pacific Rim
1059
1
Peacemaking in Haiti and Northern Ireland
1060
1
Failure in Somalia and Rwanda
1061
1
The Middle East and the Spread of Terror
1061
2
The Prosperous Nineties
1063
9
Biotechnology: The Human Genome Project
1064
1
Communications: The Internet
1065
1
American Journal
1065
1
The Bull Market
1066
1
African Americans
1066
2
Immigrants and Native Americans
1068
1
Women
1069
1
Health and Safety
1070
1
Resentments
1071
1
Renewing the Domestic Agenda
1072
5
Gun Control, the Environment, and Tobacco
1072
1
Sex, Lies, and Impeachment
1073
1
The Clinton Record
1074
3
EPILOGUE A STATE OF SHOCK: 2000--2001
1077
Election 2000
1077
2
Disputed Outcome
1077
2
The Bush Presidency: Beginnings
1079
3
Governing from the Right
1079
1
Resistance and Senator Jeffords
1080
1
America First
1080
2
Struck by Terror
1082
Bush Takes Charge
1082
2
State of the Nation
1084
APPENDIX
The Declaration of Independence
1
2
Articles of Confederation
3
4
The Constitution of the United States
7
9
Presidential Elections
16
4
Admission of States
20
1
Population of the United States
21
1
Immigration to the United States (1820--1998)
22
1
Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of State
23
Credits
1
1
Index
1