Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People, Concise Edition Book

1. WHEN OLD WORLDS COLLIDE: CONTACT, CONQUEST, CATASTROPHE. Peoples in Motion. Europe and the World in the 15th Century. Spain, Columbus, and the Americas. The Emergence of Complex Societies in the Americas. Contact and Cultural Misunderstanding. Conquest and Catastrophe. Explanations: Patterns of Conquest, Submission, and Resistance. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 2. THE CHALLENGE TO SPAIN AND THE SETTLEMENT OF NORTH AMERICA. The Protestant Reformation and the Challenge to Spain. New France. History Through Film: Black Robe. The Dutch and Swedish Settlements. The Challenge from Elizabethan England. The Swarming of the English. The Chesapeake and West Indian Colonies. The New England Colonies. The English Civil Wars. The First Restoration Colonies. Brotherly Love: The Quakers and America. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 3. ENGLAND DISCOVERS ITS COLONIES: EMPIRE, LIBERTY, AND EXPANSION. The Spectrum of Settlement. The Beginnings of Empire. Indians, Settlers, Upheaval. Crisis in England and the Redefinition of Empire. The Glorious Revolution. Contrasting Empires: Spain and France in North America. An Empire of Settlement: The British Colonies. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 4. PROVINCIAL AMERICA AND THE STRUGGLE FOR A CONTINENT. Expansion versus Anglicization. Expansion, Immigration, and Regional Differentiation. Anglicizing Provincial America. The Great Awakening. Political Culture in the Colonies. The Renewal of Imperial Conflict. The War for North America. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 5. REFORM, RESISTANCE, REVOLUTION. Imperial Reform. The Stamp Act Crisis. The Townshend Crisis. Internal Cleavages: The Contagion of Liberty. The Last Imperial Crisis. The Improvised War. History Through Film: 1776. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 6. THE REVOLUTIONARY REPUBLIC. Hearts and Minds: The Northern War, 1776-1777. The Campaigns of 1777 and Foreign Intervention. The Reconstitution of Authority. The Crisis of the Revolution, 1779-1783. History Through Film: Mary Silliman's War. The British Offensive in the South. A Revolutionary Society. A More Perfect Union. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 7. THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, 1790-1820. The Farmer's Republic. History Through Film: A Midwife's Tale. From Backcountry to Frontier. The Plantation South, 1790-1820. The Seaport Cities, 1790-1815. The Assault on Authority. Republican Religion. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 8. COMPLETING THE REVOLUTION, 1789-1815. Establishing the Government. The Republic in a World at War, 1793-1800. The Jeffersonians in Power. The Republic and the Napoleonic Wars, 1804-1815. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 9. THE MARKET REVOLUTION, 1815-1860. Government and Markets. The Transportation Revolution. From Yeoman to Businessman: The Rural North and West. The Industrial Revolution. The Market Revolution in the South. History Through Film: Gangs of New York. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 10. TOWARD AN AMERICAN CULTURE. The Northern Middle Class. The Plain People of the North. The Rise of Popular Culture. Family, Church, and Neighborhood: The White South. The Private Lives of Slaves. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 11. SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND POLITICS, 1820S-1840S. Constituencies. The Politics of Economic Development. The Politics of Social Reform. The Politics of Alcohol. The Politics of Race. The Politics of Gender and Sex. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 12. JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY. Prologue: 1819. Republican Revival. Adams versus Jackson. Jacksonian Democracy and the South. History Through Film: Amistad. Jacksonian Democracy and the Market Revolution. The Second American Party System. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 13. MANIFEST DESTINY: AN EMPIRE FOR LIBERTY-OR SLAVERY? Growth as the American Way. History Through Film: The Alamo. The Mexican War. The Election of 1848. The Compromise of 1850. Filibustering.The Gray-Eyed Man of History. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 14. THE GATHERING TEMPEST, 1853-1860. Kansas and the Rise of the Republican Party. Immigration and Nativism. Bleeding Kansas. The Election of 1856. The Economy in the 1850s. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 15. SECESSION AND CIVIL WAR, 1860-1862. The Election of 1860. The Lower South Secedes. Choosing Sides. The Balance Sheet of War. Navies, the Blockade, and Foreign Relations. Campaigns and Battles, 1861-1862. Confederate Counteroffensives. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 16. A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM, 1862-1865. Slavery and the War. A Winter of Discontent. Blueprint for Modern America. The Confederate Tide Crests and Recedes. Black Men in Blue. The Year of Decision. Lincoln's Reelection and the End of the Confederacy. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 17. RECONSTRUCTION, 1863-1877. Wartime Reconstruction. Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction. The Advent of Congressional Reconstruction. The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. The Grant Administration. History Through Film: Birth of a Nation. The Retreat from Reconstruction. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 18. FRONTIERS OF CHANGE, POLITICS OF STALEMATE, 1865-1890. Agencies of Westward Expansion. The Last Indian Frontier. The New South. The Politics of Stalemate. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 19. ECONOMIC CHANGE AND THE CRISIS OF THE 1890s. Economic Growth. The American Middle Class. History Through Film: The Molly Maguires. Labor Strife. Farmers' Movements. The Rise and Fall of the People's Party. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 20. AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY, 1890-1920. Sources of Economic Growth. Robber Barons" No More. Obsession with Physical and Racial Fitness. Immigration. Building Ethnic Communities. African American Labor and Community. Workers and Unions. The Joys of the City. History Through Film: The Great White Hope. The New Sexuality and the New Woman. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 21. PROGRESSIVISM. Progressivism and the Protestant Spirit. Muckrakers, Magazines, and the Turn toward "Realism". Settlement Houses and Women''s Activism. Socialism and Progressivism. Municipal Reform. Political Reform in the States. Economic and Social Reform in the States. A Renewed Campaign for Civil Rights. National Reform. The Taft Presidency. Roosevelt''s Return. The Rise of Woodrow Wilson. The Election of 1912. The Wilson Presidency. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 22. BECOMING A WORLD POWER, 1898-1917. The United States Looks Abroad. The Spanish-American War. The United States Becomes a World Power. Theodore Roosevelt, Geopolitician. History Through Film: Tarzan, The Ape Man. William Howard Taft, Dollar Diplomat. Woodrow Wilson, Struggling Idealist. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 23. WAR AND SOCIETY, 1914-1920. Europe''s Descent into War. American Neutrality. American Intervention. Mobilizing for "Total" War. The Failure of the International Peace. The Postwar Period: A Society in Convulsion. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 24. THE 1920s. Prosperity. The Politics of Business. Farmers, Protestants, and Moral Traditionalists. Ethnic and Racial Communities. The "Lost Generation" and Disillusioned Intellectuals. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 25. THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL, 1929-1939. Causes of the Great Depression. Hoover: The Fall of a Self-Made Man. A Culture in Crisis. The Democratic Roosevelt. The First New Deal, 1933-1935. Political Mobilization, Political Unrest, 1934-1935. The Second New Deal, 1935-1937. History Through Film: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. Labor in Politics and Culture. America''s Minorities and the New Deal. The New Deal Abroad. Stalemate, 1937-1940. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 26. AMERICA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. The Road to War: Aggression and Response. Fighting the War in Europe. The Pacific Theater. A New President, the Atomic Bomb, and Japanese Surrender. The War at Home: The Economy. The War at Home: Social Issues. Shaping the Peace. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 27. THE AGE OF CONTAINMENT, 1946-1954. Creating a National Security State, 1945-1949. The Korean War Era, 1949-1952. Containment at Home. Truman''s Fair Deal. A Changing Culture. From Truman to Eisenhower. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 28. AFFLUENCE AND ITS DISCONTENTS, 1954-1963. Foreign Policy, 1953-1960. America and the Third World. Affluence-A "People of Plenty". Discontents of Affluence. The Fight against Discrimination, 1954-1960. Debating the Role of Government. The Kennedy Years: Foreign Policy. The Kennedy Years: Domestic Policy. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 29. AMERICA DURING ITS LONGEST WAR, 1963-1974. The Great Society. Escalation in Vietnam. The War at Home. The Nixon Years, 1969-1974. Foreign Policy under Nixon and Kissinger. The Wars of Watergate. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 30. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE LATE 20TH CENTURY. A Changing People. Economic Transformations. Media and Culture. History Through Film: Star Wars. Social Activism. Race, Ethnicity, and Social Activism. The New Right. Conclusion. Suggested Readings. 31. POWER AND POLITICS SINCE 1974. The Caretaker Presidency of Gerald Ford (1974-1977). Jimmy Carter''s One-Term Presidency (1977-1981). Ronald Reagan''s "New Morning in America" (1981-1989). The First Bush Presidency (1989-1993) . The Presidency of Bill Clinton (1993-2001). The Presidency of George W. Bush. Conclusion. Suggested Readings."