The American Pageant, Volume II

You may not think that a history book could make you laugh, but THE AMERICAN PAGEANT just might. It's known for being one of the most popular, effective and entertaining texts on American history. Colorful anecdotes, first-person quotations and the authors' trademark wit bring history to life. Learning aids make the book as accessible as it is enjoyable: part openers and chapter-ending chronologies provide a context for the major periods in American history, while primary sources and introductions to key historical figures give you a front row seat to the nation's past.

Table of Contents:
21. The Ordeal of Reconstruction 1865 – 1877. PART VI: FORGING AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY 1865 – 1900. 22. The Industrial Era Dawns 1865 – 1900. 23. Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age 1869 – 1896. 24. America Moves to the City 1865 – 1900. 25. The Conquest of the West 1865 – 1896. 26. Rumbles of Discontent 1865 – 1900. PART VII: STRUGGLING FOR JUSTICE AT HOME AND ABROAD 1890 – 1945. 27. Empire and Expansion 1890 – 1909. 28. Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt 1901 – 1912. 29. Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War 1913 – 1920. 30. American Life in the "Roaring Twenties" 1920 – 1932. 31. The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933 – 1939. 32. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933 – 1941. 33. America in World War II 1941 – 1945. PART VIII: MAKING AN AMERICAN SUPERPOWER 1945 – 1980. 34. The Cold War Begins 1945 – 1952. 35. American Zenith 1952 – 1963. 36. The Stormy Sixties 1963 – 1973. 37. A Sea of Troubles 1973 – 1980. PART IX: SUSTAINING DEMOCRACY IN A GLOBAL AGE 1980 to the present. 38. The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980 – 1992. 39. America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992 – 2000. 40. The American People Face a New Century, 2001 – 2018.

About the Author :
David M. Kennedy is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus and founding Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. He also serves as General Editor of the OXFORD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES series. His volume in the series, FREEDOM FROM FEAR: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN DEPRESSION AND WAR, 1929–1945, won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Ambassador's Prize and the California Gold Medal for Literature. He is also the author of OVER HERE: THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND AMERICAN SOCIETY, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and BIRTH CONTROL IN AMERICA: THE CAREER OF MARGARET SANGER, which won the Bancroft and John Gilmary Shea Prizes. He is also editor of THE MODERN AMERICAN MILITARY, and co-editor of WORLD WAR II AND THE WEST IT WROUGHT. He lives in Stanford, California. Lizabeth Cohen is an historian of the United States in the 20th century in the Harvard History Department, where she is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and a Harvard University Distinguished Professor. She is the author most recently of Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History. Previous books include A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America and Making A New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939, which also won the Bancroft and was a finalist for the Pulitzer in History. She was Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2011-2018.