Organized around the theme of American communities, Out of Many is a blend of social and political history that reveals the geographical, racial, and economic diversity of the United States, with a special focus on the country’s regions.
Instead of looking at the country as a homogenous whole, the authors break down the country into more meaningful and manageable building blocks: the individual, the community, the state, and the region. Showing these interplays between the individuals and groups and the groups and the regions, each chapter of the text will help students understand the textured and varied history that has produced the increasing complexity of America.
The Teaching and Learning Classroom Edition provides a variety of extra tools to assist students’ learning, studying, analyzing, and retaining central concepts and themes. Critical thinking questions, maps, and a marginal glossary are a few of the many features that succeed in making Out of Many explore American history more deeply.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 A Continent Of Villages, to 1500
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Cahokia:Thirteenth-Century Life on the Mississippi
THE FIRST AMERICAN SETTLERS
Who Are the Indian People?
Migration from Asia
The Clovis Culture: The First Environmental Adaptation
New Ways of Living on the Land
THE DEVELOPMENT OF FARMING
Origins in Mexico
Increasing Social Complexity
The Resisted Revolution
FARMING IN NORTH AMERICA
Farmers of the Southwest
The Anasazis
Farmers of the Eastern Woodlands
Mississippian Society
The Politics of Warfare and Violence
CULTURAL REGIONS OF NORTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF COLONIZATION
The Population of Indian America
The Southwest
The South
The Northeast
Chapter 2 When Worlds Collide, 1492-1590
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
The English at Roanoke
THE EXPANSION
OF EUROPE
Western Europe before Columbus
The Merchant Class and the Renaissance
The New Monarchies
The Portuguese Voyages
Columbus Reaches the Americas
THE SPANISH
IN THE AMERICAS
The Invasion of America
The Destruction of the Indies
The Virgin Soil Epidemics
The Columbian Exchange
The Spanish in North America
The Spanish New World Empire
NORTHERN EXPLORATIONS
AND ENCOUNTERS
Trade Not Conquest: Fish and Furs
The Protestant Reformation and the First French Colonies
Social Change in Sixteenth-Century England
Early English Efforts in the Americas
Chapter 3 Planting Colonies In North America, 1588-1701
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Communities and Diversity in Seventeenth-Century Santa Fé
THE SPANISH, THE FRENCH, AND THE DUTCH IN NORTH AMERICA
New Mexico
New France
New Netherland
THE CHESAPEAKE: VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND
Jamestown and the Powhatan Confederacy
Tobacco, Expansion, and Warfare
Maryland
Community Life in the Chesapeake
THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
Puritanism
Early Contacts in New England
Plymouth Colony
The Massachusetts Bay Colony
Dissent and New Communities
Indians and Puritans
The Economy: New England Merchants
Community and Family in New England
The Position of Women
The Salem Witch Trials
THE PROPRIETARY COLONIES
The Carolinas
New York and New Jersey
The Founding of Pennsylvania
CONFLICT AND WAR
King Philip’s War
Bacon’s Rebellion and Southern Conflicts
The Glorious Revolution in America
King William’s War
Chapter 4 Slavery And Empire, 1441-1770
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Rebellion in Stono, South Carolina
THE BEGINNINGS OF AFRICAN SLAVERY
Sugar and Slavery
West Africans
THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE
A Global Enterprise
The Shock of Enslavement
The Middle Passage
Political and Economic Effects on Africa
THE DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICAN SLAVE SOCIETIES
Slavery Comes to North America
The Tobacco Colonies
The Lower South
Slavery in the Spanish Colonies
Slavery in French Louisiana
Slavery in the North
AFRICAN TO AFRICAN AMERICAN
The Daily Life of Slaves
Families and Communities
African American Culture
The Africanization of the South
Violence and Resistance
SLAVERY AND THE ECONOMICS OF EMPIRE
Slavery: Foundation of the British Economy
The Politics of Mercantilism
British Colonial Regulation
Wars for Empire
The Colonial Economy
SLAVERY, PROSPERITY, AND FREEDOM
The Social Structure of the Slave Colonies
White Skin Privilege
Chapter 5 The Cultures of Colonial North America, 1700-1780
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
The Revival of Religion and Community in Northampton
NORTH AMERICAN REGIONS
Indian America
The Spanish Borderlands
The French Crescent
New England
The Middle Colonies
The Backcountry
The South
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
PATTERNS
The Persistence of Traditional Culture in the New World
The Frontier Heritage
Population Growth and Immigration
Social Class
Economic Growth and Economic Inequality
Colonial Politics
THE CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
The Enlightenment Challenge
A Decline in Religious Devotion
The Great Awakening
The Politics of Revivalism
Chapter 6 From Empire to Independence, 1750-1776
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
The First Continental Congress Begins to Shape a National Political Community
THE SEVEN YEARS’WAR IN AMERICA
The Albany Conference of 1754
France vs. Britain in America
Frontier Warfare
The Conquest of Canada
The Struggle for the West
THE EMERGENCE OF AMERICAN NATIONALISM
An American Identity
The Press, Politics, and Republicanism
The Sugar and Stamp Acts
The Stamp Act Crisis
“SAVE YOUR MONEY AND SAVE YOUR COUNTRY”
The Townshend Revenue Acts
An Early Political Boycott
The Massachusetts Circular Letter
The Boston Massacre
FROM RESISTANCE TO REBELLION
Committees of Correspondence
The Boston Tea Party
The Intolerable Acts
The First Continental Congress
Lexington and Concord
DECIDING FOR INDEPENDENCE
The Second Continental Congress
Canada and the Spanish Borderlands
Fighting in the North and South
No Turning Back
The Declaration of Independence
Chapter 7 The American Revolution, 1776-1786
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
A National Community Evolves at Valley Forge
THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE
The Patriot Forces
The Toll of War
The Loyalists
Women and the War
The Campaign for New York and New Jersey
The Northern Campaigns of 1777
A Global Conflict
Indian Peoples and the Revolution in the West
The War in the South
The Yorktown Surrender
THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
The Articles of Confederation
Financing the War
Negotiating Independence
The Crisis of Demobilization
The Problem of the West
REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS IN THE STATES
A New Democratic Ideology
The First State Constitutions
Declarations of Rights
The Spirit of Reform
African Americans and the Revolution
Chapter 8 The New Nation, 1786-1800
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
A Rural Massachusetts Community Rises in Defense of Liberty
THE CRISIS OF THE 1780s
The Economic Crisis
State Remedies
Toward a New National Government
THE NEW CONSTITUTION
The Constitutional Convention
Ratifying the New Constitution
The Bill of Rights
THE FIRST FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION
The Washington Presidency
The Federal Judiciary
Hamilton’s Fiscal Program
American Foreign Policy
The United States and the Indian Peoples
Spanish Florida and British Canada
The Crises of 1794
Settling Disputes with Britain and Spain
Washington’s Farewell Address
FEDERALISTS AND DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS
The Rise of Political Parties
The Adams Presidency
The Alien and Sedition Acts
The Revolution of 1800
Democratic Political Culture
“THE RISING GLORY OF AMERICA”
The Liberty of the Press
Books, Books, Books
Women on the Intellectual Scene
Chapter 9 An Empire for Liberty, 1790-1824
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Expansion Touches Mandan Villages on the Upper Missouri
NORTH AMERICAN COMMUNITIES FROM
COAST TO COAST
The New Nation
Northern Neighbors: British North America
and Russian America
The Spanish Empire
Haiti and the Caribbean
Trans-Appalachia
A NATIONAL ECONOMY
Cotton and the Economy of the Young Republic
Shipping and the Economic Boom
THE JEFFERSON PRESIDENCY
Republican Agrarianism
Jefferson’s Government
An Independent Judiciary
Opportunity: The Louisiana Purchase
Incorporating Louisiana
Texas and the Struggle for Mexican Independence
RENEWED IMPERIAL RIVALRY IN NORTH AMERICA
Problems with Neutral Rights
The Embargo Act
Madison and the Failure of “Peaceable Coercion”
A Contradictory Indian Policy
Indian Resistance
THE WAR OF 1812
The War Hawks
The Campaigns against the Northern and Southern Indians
The Hartford Convention
The Treaty of Ghent
DEFINING THE BOUNDARIES
Another Westward Surge
The Election of 1816 and the Era of Good Feelings
The American System
The Diplomacy of John Quincy Adams
The Panic of 1819
The Missouri Compromise
Chapter 10 The South and Slavery, 1790s-1850s
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Cotton Communities in the Old Southwest
KING COTTON AND SOUTHERN EXPANSION
Cotton and Expansion into the Old Southwest
Slavery the Mainspring–Again
A Slave Society in a Changing World
The Internal Slave Trade
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY
The Mature American Slave System
The Growth of the Salve Community
From Cradle to Grave
Field Work and the Gang System
House Servants
Artisans and Skilled Workers
Slave Families
FREEDOM AND RESISTANCE
African American Religion
Other kinds of Resistance
Slave Revolts
Free African Americans
THE WHITE MAJORITY
Poor White People
Southern “Plain Folk”
The Middling Ranks
PLANTERS
Small Slave Owners
The Planter Elite
Plantation Life
The Plantation Mistress
Coercion and Violence
THE DEFENSE OF SLAVERY
Developing Proslavery Arguments
After Nat Turner
Changes in the South
Chapter 11 The Growth of Democracy, 1824-1840
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
A Political Community Replaces Deference with Democracy
THE NEW DEMOCRATIC POLITICS
IN NORTH AMERICA
Struggles over Popular Rights: Mexico, the Caribbean, Canada
The Expansion and Limits of Suffrage
The Election of 1824
The New Popular Democratic Culture
The Election of 1828
THE JACKSON PRESIDENCY
A Popular President
A Strong Executive
The Nation’s Leader versus Sectional Spokesmen
The Nullification Crisis
CHANGING THE COURSE OF GOVERNMENT
Indian Removal
Internal Improvements
Federal and State Support for Private
Enterprise
The Bank War
Whigs, Van Buren, and the Panic of 1837
THE SECOND AMERICAN PARTY SYSTEM
Whigs and Democrats
The Campaign of 1840
The Whig Victory Turns to Loss: The Tyler Presidency
AMERICAN ARTS AND LETTERS
Popular Cultures and the Spread of the Written Word
Creating a National American Culture
Artists and Builders
Chapter 12 Industry and the North, 1790s-1840s
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Women Factory Workers Form a Community in Lowell, Massachusetts
THE TRANSPORTATION
REVOLUTION
Roads
Canals and Steamboats
Railroads
The Effects of the Transportation Revolution
THE MARKET REVOLUTION
The Accumulation of Capital
The Putting-Out System
The Spread of Commercial Markets
THE YANKEE WEST
New Routes West
Commercial Agriculture in the Old Northwest
Transportation Changes Affect the Cities
INDUSTRIALIZATION BEGINS
British Technology and American Industrialization
The Lowell Mills
Family Mills
“The American System of Manufactures”
FROM ARTISAN TO WORKER
Preindustrial Ways of Working
Mechanization and Gender
Time, Work, Pay, and Leisure
Free Labor
Early Strikes
THE NEW MIDDLE CLASS
Wealth and Rank
Religion and Personal Life
The New Middle-Class Family
Middle-Class Children
Sentimentalism and Transcendentalism
Chapter 13 Meeting the Challenges of the New Society, 1820s-1850s
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Women Reformers of Seneca Falls Respond to the Market Revolution
IMMIGRATION AND THE CITY
The Growth of Cities
Patterns of Immigration
Irish Immigration
German Immigration
The Chinese in California
Ethnic Neighborhoods
URBAN PROBLEMS
New Living Patterns in the Cities
Ethnicity in Urban Popular Culture
The Labor Movement and Urban Politics
Civic Order
Free African Americans in the Cities
SOCIAL REFORM MOVEMENTS
Religion, Reform, and Social Control
Education and Women Teachers
Temperance
Moral Reform, Asylums, and Prisons
Utopianism and Mormonism
ANTISLAVERY AND ABOLITIONISM
The American Colonization Society
African Americans against Slavery
Abolitionists
Abolitionism and Politics
THE WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT
The Grimké Sisters
Women’s Rights
Chapter 14 The Territorial Expansion Of The United States, 1830s-1850s
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Texans and Tejanos “Remember the Alamo!”
EXPLORING THE WEST
The Fur Trade
Government-Sponsored Exploration
Expansion and Indian Policy
THE POLITICS OF EXPANSION
Manifest Destiny, an Expansionist Ideology
The Overland Trails
Oregon
The Santa Fé Trade
Mexican Texas
Americans in Texas
The Republic of Texas
THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN
WAR
Origins of the War
Mr. Polk’s War
The Press and Popular War Enthusiasm
CALIFORNIAAND THE GOLD RUSH
Russian—Californios Trade
Early American Settlement
Gold!
Mining Camps
THE POLITICS OF MANIFEST DESTINY
The Wilmot Proviso
The Free-Soil Movement
The Election of 1848
Chapter 15 The Coming Crisis, the 1850s
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Illinois Communities Debate Slavery
AMERICAIN 1850
Expansion and Growth
Politics, Culture, and National Identity
CRACKS IN NATIONAL UNITY
The Compromise of 1850
Political Parties Split Over Slavery
Congressional Divisions
Two Communities, Two Perspectives
The Fugitive Slave Law
The Election of 1852
“Young America”: The Politics of Expansion
THE CRISIS OF THE NATIONAL PARTY SYSTEM
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
“Bleeding Kansas”
The Politics of Nativism
The Republican Party and the Election of 1856
THE DIFFERENCES DEEPEN
The Dred Scott Decision
The Lecompton Constitution
The Panic of 1857
John Brown’s Raid
THE SOUTH SECEDES
The Election of 1860
The South Leaves the Union
The North’s Political Options
Establishment of the Confederacy
Lincoln’s Inauguration
Chapter 16 The Civil War, 1861-1865
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Mother Bickerdyke Connects Northern Communities to Their Boys at War
COMMUNITIES MOBILIZE FOR WAR
Fort Sumter: The War Begins
The Border States
The Battle of Bull Run
The Relative Strengths of North and South
THE GOVERNMENTS ORGANIZE
FOR WAR
Lincoln Takes Charge
Expanding the Power of the Federal Government
Diplomatic Objectives
Jefferson Davis Tries to Unify the Confederacy
Contradictions of Southern Nationalism
THE FIGHTING THROUGH 1862
The War in Northern Virginia
Shiloh and the War for the Mississippi
The War in the Trans—Mississippi West
The Naval War
The Black Response
THE DEATH OF SLAVERY
The Politics of Emancipation
Black Fighting Men
THE FRONT LINES AND THE HOME FRONT
The Toll of War
Army Nurses
The Life of the Common Soldier
Wartime Politics
Economic and Social Strains on the North
The New York City Draft Riots
The Failure of Southern Nationalism
THE TIDE TURNS
The Turning Point of 1863
Grant and Sherman
The 1864 Election
Nearing the End
Appomattox
Death of a President
Chapter 17 Reconstruction, 1863-1877
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Hale County, Alabama: From Slavery to Freedom in a Black Belt Community
THE POLITICS OF RECONSTRUCTION
The Defeated South
Abraham Lincoln’s Plan
Andrew Johnson and Presidential Reconstruction
Free Labor and the Radical Republican Vision
Congressional Reconstruction and the Impeachment Crisis
The Election of 1868
Woman Suffrage and Reconstruction
THE MEANING OF FREEDOM
Moving About
The African American Family
African American Churches and Schools
Land and Labor after Slavery
The Origins of African American Politics
SOUTHERN POLITICS AND SOCIETY
Southern Republicans
Reconstructing the States: A Mixed Record
White Resistance and “Redemption”
King Cotton: Sharecroppers, Tenants, and the Southern Environment
RECONSTRUCTING THE NORTH
The Age of Capital
Liberal Republicans and the Election of 1872
The Depression of 1873
The Electoral Crisis of 1876
Chapter 18 Conquest And Survival: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1860-1900
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
The Oklahoma Land Rush
INDIAN PEOPLES UNDER SIEGE
Autonomous Indian Nations
The Reservation Policy and the Slaughter of the Buffalo
The Indian Wars
The Nez Percé
THE INTERNAL EMPIRE
Mining Towns
Mormon Settlements
Mexican Borderland Communities
THE OPEN RANGE
The Long Drives
The Sporting Life
Frontier Violence and Range Wars
FARMING COMMUNITIES ON THE PLAINS
The Homestead Act
Populating the Plains
Work, Dawn to Dusk
THE WORLD’S BREADBASKET
New Production Technologies
Producing for the Global Market
California Agribusiness
The Toll on the Environment
THE WESTERN LANDSCAPE
Nature’s Majesty
The Legendary Wild West
The “American Primitive”
THE TRANSFORMATION OF
INDIAN SOCIETIES
Reform Policy and Politics
The Ghost Dance
Endurance and Rejuvenation
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
Mechanization Takes Command
Expanding the Market for Goods
Integration, Combination, and Merger
The Gospel of Wealth
LABOR IN THE AGE OF BIG BUSINESS
The Wage System
The Knights of Labor
The American Federation of Labor
THE NEW SOUTH
An Internal Colony
Southern Labor
Mill Towns in the Piedmont
THE INDUSTRIAL CITY
Populating the City
The Urban Landscape
The City and the Environment
THE RISE OF CONSUMER SOCIETY
“Conspicuous Consumption”
Self-Improvement and the Middle Class
Life in the Streets
CULTURES IN CONFLICT, CULTURE IN COMMON
Education
Leisure and Public Space
National Pastimes
Chapter 20 Democracy and Empire, 1870-1900
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
The Annexation of Hawai’i
TOWARD A NATIONAL
GOVERNING CLASS
The Growth of Government
The Machinery of Politics
The Spoils System and Civil Service Reform
FARMERS AND WORKERS ORGANIZE THEIR COMMUNITIES
The Grange
The Farmers’ Alliance
Workers Search for Power
Women Build Alliances
Populism and the People’s Party
THE CRISIS OF THE 1890s
Financial Collapse and Depression
Strikes: Coeur d’Alene, Homestead, and Pullman
The Social Gospel
POLITICS OF REFORM, POLITICS OF ORDER
The Free Silver Issue
Populism’s Last Campaigns
The Republican Triumph
Nativism and Jim Crow
THE PATH TO IMPERIALISM
All the World’s a Fair
The “Imperialism of Righteousness”
The Quest for Empire
ONTO A GLOBAL STAGE
A “Splendid Little War” in Cuba
War in the Philippines
Critics of Empire
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
Unifying Themes
New Journalism: Muckraking
Intellectual Trends Promoting Reform
The Female Dominion
PROGRESSIVE POLITICS IN CITIES AND STATES
The Urban Machine
Progressives and Urban Reform
Statehouse Progressives
SOCIAL CONTROL AND ITS LIMITS
The Prohibition Movement
The Social Evil
The Redemption of Leisure
Standardizing Education
CHALLENGES TO PROGRESSIVISM
The New Global Immigration
Urban Ghettos
Company Towns
The AFL: “Unions, Pure and Simple”
The IWW: “One Big Union”
Rebels in Bohemia
WOMEN’S MOVEMENTS AND BLACK ACTIVISM
The New Woman
Birth Control
Racism and Accommodation
Racial Justice, the NAACP, and Black Women’s Activism
NATIONAL PROGRESSIVISM
Theodore Roosevelt and Presidential Activism
Trust-Busting and Regulation
The Birth of Environmentalism
Republican Split
The Election of 1912: A Four-Way Race
Woodrow Wilson’s First Term
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
Roosevelt: The Big Stick
Taft: Dollar Diplomacy
Wilson: Moralism and Intervention in Mexico
THE GREAT WAR
The Guns of August
American Neutrality
Preparedness and Peace
Safe for Democracy
AMERICAN MOBILIZATION
Selling the War
Fading Opposition to War
“You’re in the Army Now”
Racism in the Military
Americans in Battle
The Russian Revolution, the Fourteen Points, and Allied Victory
OVER HERE
Organizing the Economy
The Government—Business Partnership
Labor and the War
Women at Work
Woman Suffrage
Prohibition
Public Health and the Influenza Pandemic
REPRESSION AND REACTION
Muzzling Dissent: The Espionage and Sedition Acts
The Great Migration and Racial Tensions
Labor Strife
AN UNEASY PEACE
Peacemaking and the Specter of Bolshevism
Wilson in Paris
The Treaty Fight
The Red Scare
The Election of 1920
23 The Twenties, 1920-1929
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
The Movie Audience and Hollywood
POSTWAR PROSPERITY AND ITS PRICE
The Second Industrial Revolution
The Modern Corporation
Welfare Capitalism
The Auto Age
Cities and Suburbs
THE STATE, THE ECONOMY, AND BUSINESS
Harding and Coolidge
Herbert Hoover and the “Associative State”
War Debts, Reparations, Keeping the Peace
Global Commerce and U.S. Foreign Policy
Weakened Agriculture, Ailing Industries
THE NEW MASS CULTURE
Movie-Made America
Radio Broadcasting
New Forms of Journalism
Advertising Modernity
The Phonograph and the Recording Industry
Sports and Celebrity
A New Morality?
MODERNITY AND TRADITIONALISM
Prohibition
Immigration Restriction
The Ku Klux Klan
Fundamentalism in Religion
PROMISES POSTPONED
Feminism in Transition
Mexican Immigration
The “New Negro”
Alienated Intellectuals
The Election of 1928
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
Underlying Weaknesses of the 1920s’ Economy
The Bull Market and the Crash
Mass Unemployment
Hoover’s Failure
A Global Crisis and the Election of 1932
FDR AND THE FIRST NEW DEAL
FDR the Man
“The Only Thing We Have to Fear”:
Restoring Confidence
The Hundred Days
Roosevelt’s Critics, Right and Left
LEFT TURN AND THE SECOND NEW DEAL
The Second Hundred Days
Labor’s Upsurge: Rise of the CIO
The New Deal Coalition at High Tide
THE NEW DEAL IN THE SOUTH AND WEST
Modernizing Southern Farming and Landholding
An Environmental Disaster: The Dust Bowl
Water Policy
A New Deal for Indians
THE LIMITS OF REFORM
Court Packing
The Women’s Network
A New Deal for Minorities?
The Roosevelt Recession and the Ebbing of the New Deal
DEPRESSION-ERA CULTURE
A New Deal for the Arts
The Documentary Impulse
Waiting for Lefty
Raising Spirits: Film, Radio, and the Swing Era
Chapter 25 World War II, 1941-1945
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Los Alamos, New Mexico
THE COMING OF WORLD WAR II
The Shadows of War across the Globe
Isolationism
Roosevelt Readies for War
Pearl Harbor
THE GREAT ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY
Mobilizing for War
Organizing the War Economy
New Workers
THE HOME FRONT
Families in Wartime
The Internment of Japanese Americans
“Double V”: Victory at Home and Abroad
Zoot-Suit Riots
Popular Culture and “The Good War”
MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM
Creating the Armed Forces
Women Enter the Military
Old Practices and New Horizons
The Medical Corps
THE WORLD AT WAR
Soviets Halt Nazi Drive
Planning and Initiating the Allied Offensive
The Allied Invasion of Europe
The High Cost of European Victory
The War in Asia and the Pacific
THE LAST STAGES OF WAR
The Holocaust
The Yalta Conference
The Atomic Bomb
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
Financing the Future
The Division of Europe
The United Nations and Hopes for Collective Security
THE POLICY OF CONTAINMENT
The Truman Doctrine
The Marshall Plan
The Berlin Crisis and the Formation of NATO
Atomic Diplomacy
COLD WAR LIBERALISM
“To Err Is Truman”
The 1948 Election
The Fair Deal
THE COLD WAR AT HOME
The National Security Act of 1947
The Loyalty-Security Program
The Second Red Scare
Spy Cases
McCarthyism
COLD WAR CULTURE
An Anxious Mood
The Family as Bulwark
Military-Industrial Communities in the American West
Zeal for Democracy
STALEMATE FOR THE DEMOCRATS
Democratizing Japan and “Losing” China
The Korean War
The Price of National Security
“I Like Ike”: The Election of 1952
Chapter 27 America at Midcentury, 1952-1963
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Popular Music in Memphis
UNDER THE COLD WAR’S SHADOW
The Eisenhower Presidency
The “New Look” in Foreign Affairs
Covert Action
Global Interventions
THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY
Subsidizing Prosperity
Suburban Life
Organized Labor and the AFL-CIO
Lonely Crowds and Organization Men
The Expansion of Higher Education
Health and Medicine
YOUTH CULTURE
The Youth Market
“Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll!”
Almost Grown
Deviance and Delinquency
MASS CULTURE AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Television: Tube of Plenty
Television and Politics
Culture Critics
THE COMING OF THE NEW FRONTIER
The Election of 1960
Ike’s Warning: The Military-Industrial Complex
New Frontier Liberalism
Kennedy and the Cold War
The Cuban Revolution and the Bay of Pigs
The 1962 Missile Crisis
The Assassination of President Kennedy
Chapter 28 The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1966
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
The Montgomery Bus Boycott: An African American Community Challenges Segregation
ORIGINS OF THE MOVEMENT
Civil Rights after World War II
The Segregated South
Brown v. Board of Education
Crisis in Little Rock
NO EASY ROAD TO FREEDOM, 1957—62
Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC
Sit-Ins: Greensboro, Nashville, Atlanta
SNCC and the “Beloved Community”
The Election of 1960 and Civil Rights
Freedom Rides
The Albany Movement: The Limits of Protest
THE MOVEMENT AT HIGH TIDE, 1963—65
Birmingham
JFK and the March on Washington
LBJ and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Mississippi Freedom Summer
Malcolm X and Black Consciousness
Selma and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
CIVIL RIGHTS BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE
Mexican Americans and Mexican Immigrants
Puerto Ricans
Japanese Americans
Indian Peoples
Remaking the Golden Door: The Immigration
and Nationality Act of 1965
Chapter 29 War Abroad, War at Home, 1965-1974
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Uptown, Chicago, Illinois
VIETNAM: AMERICA’S LONGEST WAR
Johnson’s War
Deeper into the Quagmire
The Credibility Gap
A GENERATION IN CONFLICT
“The Times They Are A-Changin’”
From Campus Protest to Mass Mobilization
Teenage Soldiers
WARS ON POVERTY
The Great Society
Crisis in the Cities
Urban Uprisings
1968:Year of Turmoil
The Tet Offensive
King, the War, and the Assassination
The Democrats in Disarray
“The Whole World Is Watching!”
The Republican Victory
THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY
Black Power
Sisterhood Is Powerful
Gay Liberation
The Chicano Rebellion
Red Power
The Asian American Movement
THE NIXON PRESIDENCY
Domestic Policy
Nixon’s War
Playing the “China Card”
Foreign Policy as Conspiracy
Dirty Tricks and the 1972 Election
Watergate: Nixon’s Downfall
Chapter 30 The Conservative Ascendancy, 1974-1991
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Grassroots Conservatism in Orange County, California
THE OVEREXTENDED SOCIETY
A Troubled Economy
Sunbelt/Snowbelt Communities
The Endangered Environment
“Lean Years Presidents”: Ford and Carter
THE LIMITS OF GLOBAL POWER
Détente
Foreign Policy and “Moral Principles”
(Mis)Handling the Unexpected
The Iran Hostage Crisis
THE NEW RIGHT
Neoconservatism
The Religious Right
The Pro-Family Movement
The 1980 Election
THE REAGAN REVOLUTION
The Great Communicator
Reaganomics
The Election of 1984
Recession, Recovery, and Fiscal Crisis
BEST OF TIMES, WORST OF TIMES
A Two-Tiered Society
The Feminization of Poverty
Epidemics: Drugs, AIDS, Homelessness
TOWARD A NEW WORLD ORDER
The Evil Empire
The Reagan Doctrine and Central America
The Middle East and the Iran-Contra Scandal
The Collapse of Communism
“A KINDER, GENTLER NATION”
Reagan’s Successor: George H.W. Bush
The Persian Gulf War
The Economy and the Election of 1992
Chapter 31 The United States in a Global Age, 1992-2008
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Transnational Communities in San Diego and Tijuana
THE PRESIDENCY OF BILL CLINTON
A “New Democrat” in the White House
The “Globalization” President
Presiding Over the Boom
High Crimes and Misdemeanors
CHANGING AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Silicon Valley
An Electronic Culture
The New Immigrants and Their Communities
A NEW AGE OF ANXIETY
The Racial Divide
The Culture Wars
The Forces of Fear
THE PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE W. BUSH AND THE WAR ON TERROR
The Election of 2000
A Global Community?
Terrorist Attack on America
Reshaping U.S. Foreign Policy
Invasion of Iraq
The Election of 2004
Hurricane Katrina
Divided Government, Divided Nation
About the Author :
John Mack Faragher
John Mack Faragher is Arthur Unobskey Professor of American History and director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University. Born in Arizona and raised in southern California, he received his B.A. at the University of California, Riverside, and his Ph.D. at Yale University. He is the author of Women and Men on the Overland Trail (1979), Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (1986), Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1992), The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000), and A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland (2005).
Mari Jo Buhle
Mari Jo Buhle is William R. Kenan Jr. University Professor and Professor of American Civilization and History at Brown University, specializing in American women’s history. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana—Champaign, and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Women and American Socialism, 1870—1920 (1981) and Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (1998). She is also coeditor of Encyclopedia of the American Left, second edition (1998). Professor Buhle held a fellowship (1991—1996) from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Daniel Czitrom
Daniel Czitrom is Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College. Born and raised in New York City, he received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan (1982), which won the First Books Award of the American Historical Association and has been translated into Spanish and Chinese. He is co-author of Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn of the Century New York (2007). He has served as a historical consultant and featured on-camera commentator for several documentary film projects, including the PBS productions New York: A Documentary Film; American Photography: A Century of Images; and The Great Transatlantic Cable.
He currently serves on the Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians.
Susan H. Armitage
Susan H. Armitage is Claudius O. and Mary R. Johnson Distinguished Professor of History at Washington State University. She earned her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Among her many publications on western women’s history are three coedited books, The Women’s West (1987), So Much To Be Done: Women on the Mining and Ranching Frontier (1991), and Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women’s West (1997). She currently serves as an editor of a series of books on women and American history for the University of Illinois Press.
