Out of Many A History of the American People Volume 2 Book

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Community and Diversity

CHAPTER 17 RECONSTRUCTION 1863—1877

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Hale County, Alabama: From Slavery to Freedom in a Black Belt Community

The Politics of Reconstruction

The Meaning of Freedom

SEEING HISTORY Changing Images of Reconstruction

Southern Politics and Society

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Ku Klux Klan in Alabama

Reconstructing the North

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

CHAPTER 18 CONQUEST AND SURVIVAL: The Trans-Mississippi West 1860—1900

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Oklahoma Land Rush

Indian Peoples Under Siege

The Internal Empire

The Open Range

SEEING HISTORY The Legendary Cowboy: Nat Love, Deadwood Dick

Farming Communities on The Plains

The World’s Breadbasket

The Western Landscape

The Transformation of Indian Societies

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

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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

SEEING HISTORY The Standard Oil Company

Labor in the Age of Big Business

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Regulating the Conditions and Limiting the Hours of Labor in the State of Illinois

The New South

The Industrial City

The Rise of Consumer Society

Cultures in Conflict, Culture in Common

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

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CHAPTER 20 DEMOCRACY AND EMPIRE 1870—1900

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Annexation of Hawai’i

Toward a National Governing Class

Farmers and Workers Organize their Communities

The Crisis of the 1890s

Politics of Reform, Politics of Order

The Path to Imperialism

SEEING HISTORY The White Man’s Burden

Onto a Global Stage

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Two Sides of Anti-Imperialism

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

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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

SEEING HISTORY Photographing Poverty in the Slums of New York

Progressive Politics in Cities and States

Social Control and Its Limits

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Debating Prohibition in Progressive-Era Ohio

Challenges to Progressivism

Women’s Movements and Black Activism

National Progressivism

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

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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

The Great War

American Mobilization

SEEING HISTORY Selling War

Over Here

Repression and Reaction

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Race Riot in Tulsa

An Uneasy Peace

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

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CHAPTER 23 THE TWENTIES 1920—1929

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Movie Audience And Hollywood: Mass Culture Creates A New National Community

Postwar Prosperity and Its Price

The State, the Economy, and Business

The New Mass Culture

SEEING HISTORY Creating Celebrity

Modernity and traditionalism

Promises Postponed

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

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CHAPTER 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

FDR and The First New Deal

FDR the Man

Left Turn and the Second New Deal

The New Deal in the South and West

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Californians Face the Influx of “Dust Bowl” Migrants

The Limits of Reform

Depression-Era Culture

SEEING HISTORY Documenting Hard Times in Black and White and Color

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

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Chapter 25 World War II 1941—1945

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Los Alamos, New Mexico

The Coming of World War II

The Great Arsenal of Democracy

SEEING HISTORY Norman Rockwell’s “Rosie, the Riveter”

The Home Front

Men and Women in Uniform

The World at War

The Last Stages of War

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT On Deploying the Atomic Bomb

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

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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

The Policy Of Containment

Cold War Liberalism

The Cold War At Home

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Congress and the Red Scare

Cold War Culture

SEEING HISTORY The Hollywood Film Invasion, U.S.A

Stalemate for the Democrats

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

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CHAPTER 27 AMERICA AT MIDCENTURY 1952—1963

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Popular Music in Memphis

Under the Cold War’s Shadow

The Affluent Society

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Integrating Levittown, Pennsylvania

Youth Culture

Mass Culture and Its Discontents

The Coming of the New Frontier

SEEING HISTORY Televising a National Tragedy

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

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CHAPTER 28 THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 1945—1966

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Montgomery Bus Boycott: An African American Community Challenges Segregation

Origins of the Movement

SEEING HISTORY Visualizing Civil Rights

No Easy Road to Freedom, 1957—62

The Movement at High Tide, 1963—65

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Showdown in Oxford: Integrating Ole Miss

Civil Rights Beyond Black and White

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

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CHAPTER 29 WAR ABROAD, WAR AT HOME 1965—1974

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Uptown, Chicago, Illinois

Vietnam: America’s Longest War

A Generation in Conflict

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Prospects for Peace in Vietnam, April 1965

Wars on Poverty

1968: Year of Turmoil

The Politics of Identity

The Nixon Presidency

SEEING HISTORY Kim Phuc, Fleeing a Napalm Attack Near Trang Bang

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

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CHAPTER 30 THE CONSERVATIVE ASCENDANCY 1974—1991

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Grassroots Conservatism in Orange County, California

The Overextended Society

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania

The New Right

SEEING HISTORY The Inaugurations of Carter and Reagan

The Reagan Revolution

Best of Times, Worst of Times

Toward A New World Order

“A Kinder, Gentler Nation”

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

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CHAPTER 31 THE UNITED STATES IN A GLOBAL AGE 1992—2010

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Transnational Communities in San Diego and Tijuana

The Presidency of Bill Clinton

Changing American Communities

COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Illegal Immigrants and the Border Fence

President George W. Bush and the War on Terror

SEEING HISTORY The 9/11 Attacks

Barack Obama and the Audacity of Hope

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Appendix

Bibliography

Credits

Index