American History: A Survey : To 1877

, by Brinkley, Alan

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Preface

Reconstruction and the New South

507

(48)

The Problems of Peacemaking

507

(6)

The Aftermath of War and Emancipation

508

(1)

Competing Notions of Freedom

509

(1)

Issues of Reconstruction

510

(1)

Plans for Reconstruction

511

(1)

The Death of Lincoln

511

(1)

Johnson and ``Restoration''

512

(1)

Radical Reconstruction

513

(4)

The Black Codes

513

(1)

The Fourteenth Amendment

513

(1)

The Congressional Plan

514

(1)

The Fifteenth Amendment

515

(2)

Impeaching the President, Assaulting the Courts

517

(1)

The South in Reconstruction

517

(6)

The Reconstruction Governments

517

(2)

Education

519

(1)

Landownership and Tenancy

520

(1)

Incomes and Credit

520

(2)

The African-American Family in Freedom

522

(1)

The Grant Administration

523

(3)

The Solider President

523

(1)

The Liberal Republicans

524

(1)

The Grant Scandals

525

(1)

The Greenback Question

525

(1)

Republican Diplomacy

526

(1)

The Abandonment of Reconstruction

526

(7)

The Southern States ``Redeemed''

527

(1)

The Ku Klux Klan Acts

527

(1)

Waning Northern Commitment

528

(1)

The Compromise of 1877

528

(5)

The Legacy of Reconstruction

533

(1)

The New South

533

(22)

The ``Redeemers''

533

(1)

Industrialization and the ``New South''

534

(5)

Tenants and Sharecroppers

539

(1)

African Americans and the New South

540

(2)

The Birth of Jim Crow

542

Where Historians Disagree: Reconstruction

530

(6)

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Minstrel Show

536

(7)

Where Historians Disagree: The Origins of Segregation

543

(5)

Significant Events

548

(1)

Conclusion

549

(1)

For Further Reference

549

(1)

Bibliography

550

(5)

The Conquest of the Far West

555

(40)

The Societies of the Far West

556

(9)

The Western Tribes

556

(2)

Hispanic New Mexico

558

(1)

Hispanic California and Texas

559

(1)

The Chinese Migration

560

(2)

Anti-Chinese Sentiments

562

(1)

Migration from the East

563

(2)

The Changing Western Economy

565

(6)

Labor in the West

565

(1)

The Arrival of the Miners

566

(2)

The Cattle Kingdom

568

(3)

The Romance of the West

571

(5)

The Western Landscape

571

(1)

The Cowboy Culture

572

(1)

The Idea of the Frontier

572

(1)

Frederick Jackson Turner

573

(3)

The Loss of Utopia

576

(1)

The Dispersal of the Tribes

576

(10)

White Tribal Policies

576

(5)

The Indian Wars

581

(3)

The Dawes Act

584

(2)

The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer

586

(9)

Farming on the Plains

586

(1)

Commercial Agriculture

587

(1)

The Farmers' Grievances

587

(1)

The Agrarian Malaise

588

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Wild West Show

574

(3)

Where Historians Disagree: The ``Frontier'' and the West

577

(12)

Significant Events

589

(1)

Conclusion

590

(1)

For Further Reference

590

(1)

Bibliography

591

(4)

Industrial Supremacy

595

(30)

Sources of Industrial Growth

595

(9)

New Technologies

596

(1)

New Industries

596

(1)

The Science of Production

597

(1)

Railroad Expansion

598

(1)

The Corporation

599

(4)

Consolidating Corporate America

603

(1)

The Trust and the Holding Company

604

(1)

Capitalism and Its Critics

604

(7)

The ``Self-Made Man''

605

(1)

Survival of the Fittest

606

(1)

The Gospel of Wealth

607

(1)

Alternative Visions

607

(3)

The Problems of Monopoly

610

(1)

Industrial Workers in the New Economy

611

(14)

The Immigrant Work Force

611

(1)

Wages and Working Conditions

612

(1)

Women and Children at Work

613

(1)

The Struggle to Unionize

614

(1)

The Great Railroad Strike

615

(1)

The Knights of Labor

616

(1)

The AFL

616

(1)

The Homestead Strike

617

(1)

The Pullman Strike

618

(1)

Sources of Labor Weakness

619

The American Environment: The Locomotive's Magic Wand

600

(8)

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Novels of Horatio Alger

608

(12)

Significant Events

620

(1)

Conclusion

621

(1)

For Further Reference

621

(1)

Bibliography

622

(3)

The Age of the City

625

(38)

The Urbanization of America

625

(7)

The Lure of the City

625

(1)

Migrations

626

(2)

The Ethnic City

628

(2)

Assimilation

630

(1)

Exclusion

631

(1)

The Urban Landscape

632

(5)

The Creation of Public Space

632

(1)

Housing the Well-to-Do

633

(1)

Housing Workers and the Poor

634

(2)

Urban Transportation

636

(1)

The ``Skyscraper''

636

(1)

Strains of Urban Life

637

(3)

Fire and Disease

637

(1)

Urban Poverty

638

(1)

Crime and Violence

638

(1)

Fear of the City

639

(1)

The Machine and the Boss

639

(1)

The Rise of Mass Consumption

640

(3)

Patterns of Income and Consumption

640

(1)

Chain Stores and Mail-Order Houses

641

(1)

Department Stores

642

(1)

Women as Consumers

642

(1)

Leisure in the Consumer Society

643

(9)

Redefining Leisure

643

(4)

Spectator Sports

647

(1)

Music and Theater

648

(1)

The Movies

649

(1)

Working-Class Leisure

650

(1)

The Fourth of July

651

(1)

Private Pursuits

651

(1)

Mass Communications

651

(1)

High Culture in the Age of the City

652

(11)

The Literature of Urban America

652

(1)

Art in the Age of the City

653

(1)

The Impact of Darwinism

653

(3)

Toward Universal Schooling

656

(1)

Education for Women

656

Patterns of Popular Culture: Coney Island

644

(13)

Significant Events

657

(1)

Conclusion

658

(1)

For Further Reference

658

(1)

Bibliography

659

(4)

From Stalemate to Crisis

663

(28)

The Politics of Equilibrium

663

(7)

The Party System

663

(1)

The National Government

664

(1)

Presidents and Patronage

665

(1)

The Return of the Democrats

666

(1)

Tariffs, Trusts, and Railroads

667

(3)

The Agrarian Revolt

670

(8)

The Grangers

670

(2)

The Farmers' Alliances

672

(1)

The Populist Constituency

673

(4)

Populist Ideas

677

(1)

The Crisis of the 1890s

678

(5)

The Panic of 1893

678

(1)

The Silver Question

679

(4)

A ``Cross of Gold''

683

(8)

The Emergence of Bryan

683

(1)

The Conservative Victory

684

(1)

McKinley and Recovery

685

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Chautaquas

674

(6)

Where Historians Disagree: Populism

680

(6)

Significant Events

686

(1)

Conclusion

686

(1)

For Further Reference

687

(1)

Bibliography

687

(4)

The Imperial Republic

691

(26)

Stirrings of Imperialism

691

(5)

The New Manifest Destiny

691

(3)

Hemispheric Hegemony

694

(1)

Hawaii and Samoa

694

(2)

War with Spain

696

(11)

Controversy over Cuba

696

(5)

``A Splendid Little War''

701

(1)

Seizing the Philippines

702

(1)

The Battle for Cuba

703

(1)

Puerto Rico and the United States

704

(1)

The Debate over the Philippines

705

(2)

The Republic as Empire

707

(10)

Governing the Colonies

707

(1)

The Philippine War

707

(3)

The Open Door

710

(1)

A Modern Military System

711

Patterns of Popular Culture: Yellow Journalism

698

(13)

Conclusion

711

(1)

Significant Events

712

(1)

For Further Reference

712

(1)

Bibliography

713

(4)

The Rise of Progressivism

717

(32)

The Progressive Impulse

717

(9)

Varieties of Progressivism

717

(1)

The Muckrakers

718

(1)

The Social Gospel

718

(4)

The Settlement House Movement

722

(1)

The Allure of Expertise

723

(1)

The Professions

724

(1)

Women and the Professions

725

(1)

Women and Reform

726

(5)

The ``New Woman''

727

(1)

The Clubwomen

727

(1)

Woman Suffrage

728

(3)

The Assault on the Parties

731

(4)

Early Attacks

732

(1)

Municipal Reform

732

(1)

New Forms of Governance

732

(1)

Statehouse Progressivism

733

(1)

Parties and Interest Groups

734

(1)

Sources of Progressive Reform

735

(3)

Labor, the Machine, and Reform

736

(1)

Western Progressives

737

(1)

African Americans and Reform

737

(1)

Crusades for Order and Reform

738

(11)

The Temperance Crusade

739

(1)

Immigration Restriction

740

(1)

The Dream of Socialism

740

(2)

Decentralization and Regulation

742

Where Historians Disagree: Progressive Reform

720

(24)

Significant Events

744

(1)

Conclusion

744

(1)

For Further Reference

745

(1)

Bibliography

745

(4)

The Battle for National Reform

749

(26)

Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency

749

(8)

The Accidental President

749

(1)

Government, Capital, and Labor

750

(1)

The Square Deal

751

(1)

Conservation

751

(6)

The Panic of 1907

757

(1)

The Troubled Succession

757

(4)

Taft and the Progressives

758

(1)

The Return of Roosevelt

759

(1)

Spreading Insurgency

760

(1)

The Republican Schism

760

(1)

Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom

761

(3)

The Rise of Wilson

761

(1)

The Scholar as President

762

(1)

The Problem of the Trusts

763

(1)

Retreat and Advance

763

(1)

``The Big Stick'': America and the World, 1901-1917

764

(11)

Roosevelt and ``Civilization''

764

(1)

Protecting the Open Door in Asia

765

(1)

The Iron-Fisted Neighbor

766

(1)

The Panama Canal

766

(2)

Taft and ``Dollar Diplomacy''

768

(1)

Diplomacy and Morality

769

The American Environment: Saving the Forests

754

(17)

Significant Events

771

(1)

Conclusion

772

(1)

For Further Reference

772

(1)

Bibliography

773

(2)

America and the Great War

775

(34)

The Road to War

776

(3)

The Collapse of the European Peace

776

(1)

Wilson's Neutrality

777

(1)

Preparedness Versus Pacifism

777

(1)

A War for Democracy

778

(1)

``War Without Stint''

779

(4)

Entering the War

779

(1)

The American Expeditionary Force

779

(2)

The Military Struggle

781

(2)

The War and American Society

783

(3)

Organizing the Economy for War

783

(1)

Labor and the War

784

(1)

Economic and Social Results of the War

785

(1)

The Search for Social Unity

786

(6)

The Peace Movement

786

(1)

Selling the War and Suppressing Dissent

787

(5)

The Search for a New World Order

792

(4)

The Fourteen Points

792

(1)

Early Obstacles

792

(1)

The Paris Peace Conference

793

(2)

The Ratification Battle

795

(1)

Wilson's Ordeal

795

(1)

A Society in Turmoil

796

(13)

Industry and Labor

796

(1)

The Demands of African Americans

797

(3)

The Red Scare

800

(2)

The Retreat from Idealism

802

Patterns of Popular Culture: Billy Sunday and Modern Revivalism

788

(15)

Significant Events

803

(1)

Conclusion

804

(1)

For Further Reference

804

(1)

Bibliography

805

(4)

The New Era

809

(32)

The New Economy

809

(5)

Economic Growth

809

(1)

Economic Organization

810

(1)

Labor in the New Era

811

(1)

Women and Minorities in the Work Force

812

(1)

The ``American Plan''

813

(1)

The Plight of the Farmer

813

(1)

The New Culture

814

(13)

Consumerism

815

(1)

Advertising

816

(1)

The Movies and Broadcasting

816

(1)

Modernist Religion

817

(1)

Professional Women

818

(1)

Changing Ideas of Motherhood

818

(1)

The ``Flapper'': Image and Reality

819

(1)

Pressing for Women's Rights

819

(4)

Education and Youth

823

(1)

The Decline of the ``Self-Made Man''

824

(1)

The Disenchanted

824

(1)

The Harlem Renaissance

825

(1)

The Southern Agrarians

826

(1)

A Conflict of Cultures

827

(5)

Prohibition

827

(1)

Nativism and the Klan

827

(3)

Religious Fundamentalism

830

(1)

The Democrats' Ordeal

831

(1)

Republican Government

832

(9)

Harding and Coolidge

832

(2)

Government and Business

834

Patterns of Popular Culture: Dance Halls

820

(16)

Significant Events

836

(1)

Conclusion

836

(1)

For Further Reference

837

(1)

Bibliography

837

(4)

The Great Depression

841

(34)

The Coming of the Great Depression

841

(5)

The Great Crash

841

(1)

Causes of the Depression

842

(4)

Progress of the Depression

846

(1)

The American People in Hard Times

846

(9)

Unemployment and Relief

846

(5)

African Americans and the Depression

851

(1)

Mexican Americans in Depression America

852

(1)

Asian Americans in Hard Times

853

(1)

Women and the Workplace in the Great Depression

854

(1)

Depression Families

855

(1)

The Depression and American Culture

855

(9)

Depression Values

855

(1)

Artists and Intellectuals in the Great Depression

856

(1)

Radio

856

(2)

The Movies

858

(4)

Popular Literature and Journalism

862

(1)

The Popular Front and the Left

863

(1)

The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover

864

(11)

The Hoover Program

865

(1)

A Deepening Crisis

866

(1)

Popular Protest

867

(2)

The Election of 1932

869

(1)

The Interregnum

869

Where Historians Disagree: Causes of the Great Depression

844

(4)

The American Environment: Dust Bowl

848

(11)

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Films of Frank Capra

859

(12)

Significant Events

871

(1)

Conclusion

871

(1)

For Further Reference

872

(1)

Bibliography

872

(3)

The New Deal

875

(32)

Launching the New Deal

875

(7)

Restoring Confidence

875

(1)

Agricultural Adjustment

876

(1)

Industrial Recovery

877

(1)

The Troubled NRA

878

(1)

The Schechter Decision

879

(1)

The TVA

879

(1)

Currency, Banks, and the Stock Market

880

(1)

The Growth of Federal Relief

881

(1)

The New Deal in Transition

882

(10)

Attacks from the Right and the Left

882

(1)

Popular Protest

883

(2)

The ``Second New Deal''

885

(1)

The Wagner Act

885

(1)

Labor Militancy

886

(1)

The Labor Schism

886

(1)

Organizing Battles

887

(1)

Social Security

888

(1)

New Directions in Relief

889

(2)

The 936 ``Referendum''

891

(1)

The New Deal in Disarray

892

(2)

The Court Fight

892

(1)

Other Setbacks

892

(1)

Retrenchment and Recession

893

(1)

Limits and Legacies of the New Deal

894

(13)

The Idea of the ``Broker State''

894

(1)

African Americans and the New Deal

895

(3)

The New Deal and the ``Indian Problem''

898

(1)

Women and the New Deal

899

(1)

The New Deal in the West and the South

900

(1)

The New Deal and the National Economy

900

(1)

The New Deal and American Politics

901

Where Historians Disagree: The New Deal

896

(5)

Conclusion

901

(1)

Significant Events

902

(1)

For Further Reference

902

(1)

Bibliography

903

(4)

The Global Crisis, 1921--1941

907

(24)

The Diplomacy of the New Era

908

(4)

Replacing the League

908

(1)

Debts and Diplomacy

908

(2)

Hoover and the World Crisis

910

(2)

Isolationism and Internationalism

912

(6)

Depression Diplomacy

912

(1)

America and the Soviet Union

913

(1)

The Good Neighbor Policy

913

(1)

The Rise of Isolationism

913

(2)

The Failure of Munich

915

(3)

From Neutrality to Intervention

918

(13)

Neutrality Tested

918

(2)

The Third-Term Campaign

920

(1)

Neutrality Abandoned

921

(3)

The Road to Pearl Harbor

924

Patterns of Popular Culture: Orson Welles and the War of the Worlds

916

(16)

Where Historians Disagree: The Question of Pearl Harbor

932

Conclusion

925

(1)

Significant Events

926

(1)

For Further Reference

927

(1)

Bibliography

927

(4)

America in a World at War

931

(32)

War on Two Fronts

931

(5)

Containing the Japanese

932

(1)

Holding Off the Germans

932

(3)

America and the Holocaust

935

(1)

The American People in Wartime

936

(12)

Prosperity

936

(1)

The War and the West

937

(1)

Labor and the War

937

(1)

Stabilizing the Boom

938

(1)

Mobilizing Production

938

(1)

African Americans and the War

938

(1)

Native Americans and the War

939

(1)

Mexican-American War Workers

940

(1)

Women and Children at War

941

(1)

Wartime Life and Culture

942

(4)

The Internment of Japanese Americans

946

(1)

Chinese Americans and the War

947

(1)

The Retreat from Reform

948

(1)

The Defeat of the Axis

948

(15)

The Liberation of France

948

(3)

The Pacific Offensive

951

(2)

The Manhattan Project

953

(1)

Atomic Warfare

953

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Age of Swing

944

(10)

Where Historians Disagree: The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb

954

(3)

Significant Events

957

(1)

Conclusion

958

(1)

For Further Reference

958

(1)

Bibliography

959

(4)

The Cold War

963

(30)

Origins of the Cold War

963

(6)

Soviet-American Tensions

963

(2)

Wartime Diplomacy

965

(1)

Yalta

965

(4)

The Souring of the Peace

969

(6)

The Failure of Potsdam

969

(1)

The China Problem

970

(1)

The Containment Doctrine

970

(1)

The Marshall Plan

971

(1)

Mobilization at Home

972

(1)

The Road to NATO

973

(1)

The Open-Ended Crisis

973

(2)

American Politics and Society After the War

975

(4)

The Problems of Reconversion

975

(1)

The Fair Deal Rejected

976

(1)

The Election of 1948

977

(1)

The Fair Deal Revived

978

(1)

The Korean War

979

(3)

The Divided Peninsula

979

(1)

From Invasion to Stalemate

980

(1)

Limited Mobilization

981

(1)

The Crusade Against Subversion

982

(11)

HUAC and Alger Hiss

982

(1)

The Federal Loyalty Program and the Rosenberg Case

982

(1)

McCarthyism

983

(3)

The Republican Revival

986

Where Historians Disagree: Origins of the Cold War

966

(18)

Where Historians Disagree: Mccarthyism

984

(3)

Significant Events

987

(1)

Conclusion

988

(1)

For Further Reference

988

(1)

Bibliography

989

(4)

The Affluent Society

993

(38)

The Economic ``Miracle''

993

(5)

Sources of Economic Growth

994

(1)

The Rise of the Modern West

995

(1)

The New Economics

995

(1)

Capital and Labor

996

(2)

People of Plenty

998

(14)

The Consumer Culture

998

(1)

The Suburban Nation

999

(5)

The Suburban Family

1004

(1)

The Birth of Television

1004

(1)

Science and Space

1005

(4)

Organized Society and Its Detractors

1009

(1)

The Beats and the Restless Culture of Youth

1010

(1)

Rock 'n' Roll

1011

(1)

The ``Other America''

1012

(3)

On the Margins of the Affluent Society

1012

(1)

Rural Poverty

1013

(1)

The Inner Cities

1013

(2)

The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement

1015

(3)

The Brown Decision and ``Massive Resistance''

1015

(1)

The Expanding Movement

1016

(1)

Causes of the Civil Rights Movement

1017

(1)

Eisenhower Republicanism

1018

(2)

``What's Good for...General Motors''

1018

(1)

The Survival of the Welfare State

1019

(1)

The Decline of McCarthyism

1019

(1)

Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War

1020

(11)

Dulles and ``Massive Retaliation''

1020

(1)

Korea and Vietnam

1021

(1)

Israel and the Crisis of the Middle East

1022

(1)

Latin America and ``Yankee Imperialism''

1023

(1)

Europe and the Soviet Union

1024

(1)

The U-2 Crisis

1025

The American Environment: The Landscape and the Automobile

1000

(6)

Patterns of Popular Culture: Lucy and Desi

1006

(19)

Conclusion

1025

(1)

Significant Events

1026

(1)

For Further Reference

1027

(1)

Bibliography

1027

(4)

The Ordeal of Liberalism

1031

(36)

Expanding the Liberal State

1031

(7)

The Rise of John Kennedy

1031

(1)

Kennedy in the White House

1032

(2)

The Johnson Succession

1034

(1)

The Assault on Poverty

1035

(2)

Cities, Schools, and Immigration

1037

(1)

Legacies of the Great Society

1037

(1)

The Battle for Racial Equality

1038

(6)

Expanding Protests

1038

(2)

A National Commitment

1040

(1)

The Battle for Voting Rights

1040

(1)

The Changing Movement

1040

(2)

Urban Violence

1042

(1)

Black Power

1043

(1)

``Flexible Response'' and the Cold War

1044

(3)

Diversifying Foreign Policy

1044

(1)

The Bay of Pigs Fiasco

1045

(1)

Confrontations with the Soviet Union

1046

(1)

Johnson and the World

1047

(1)

Vietnam

1047

(11)

The First Indochina War

1048

(1)

Geneva and the Two Vietnams

1048

(1)

America and Diem

1049

(1)

From Aid to Intervention

1050

(4)

The Quagmire

1054

(1)

The War at Home

1055

(3)

The Traumas of 1968

1058

(9)

The Tet Offensive

1059

(1)

The Political Challenge

1059

(1)

The King and Kennedy Assassinations

1059

(1)

The Conservative Response

1060

Where Historians Disagree: The Vietnam Commitment

1052

(4)

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Folk-Music Revival

1056

(6)

Significant Events

1062

(1)

Conclusion

1062

(1)

For Further Reference

1063

(1)

Bibliography

1064

(3)

The Crisis of Authority

1067

(38)

The Youth Culture

1067

(8)

The New Left

1068

(2)

The Counterculture

1070

(5)

The Mobilization of Minorities

1075

(7)

Seeds of Indian Militancy

1075

(2)

The Indian Civil Rights Movement

1077

(2)

Latino Activism

1079

(1)

Challenging the ``Melting Pot'' Ideal

1080

(1)

Gay Liberation

1081

(1)

The New Feminism

1082

(3)

The Rebirth

1082

(1)

Women's Liberation

1083

(1)

Expanding Achievements

1084

(1)

The Abortion Controversy

1085

(1)

Nixon, Kissinger, and the War

1085

(4)

Vietnamization

1086

(1)

Escalation

1086

(2)

``Peace with Honor''

1088

(1)

Defeat in Indochina

1088

(1)

Nixon, Kissinger, and the World

1089

(3)

China and the Soviet Union

1089

(1)

The Problems of Multipolarity

1090

(2)

Politics and Economics Under Nixon

1092

(5)

Domestic Initiatives

1092

(1)

From the Warren Court to the Nixon Court

1092

(1)

The Election of 1972

1093

(1)

The Troubled Economy

1094

(1)

The Nixon Response

1095

(2)

The Watergate Crisis

1097

(8)

The Scandals

1098

(1)

The Fall of Richard Nixon

1098

Patterns of Popular Culture: Rock Music in the Sixties

1072

(24)

Where Historians Disagree: Watergate

1096

(4)

Significant Events

1100

(1)

Conclusion

1100

(2)

For Further Reference

1102

(1)

Bibliography

1102

(3)

The ``Age of Limits''

1105

(22)

Politics and Diplomacy After Watergate

1105

(5)

The Ford Custodianship

1105

(1)

The Trials of Jimmy Carter

1106

(1)

Human Rights and National Interests

1107

(2)

The Year of the Hostages

1109

(1)

The Rise of the New American Right

1110

(6)

The Sunbelt and Its Politics

1110

(1)

Religious Revivalism

1111

(3)

The Emergence of the New Right

1114

(1)

The Tax Revolt

1115

(1)

The Campaign of 1980

1116

(1)

The ``Reagan Revolution''

1116

(11)

The Reagan Coalition

1117

(1)

Reagan in the White House

1117

(1)

``Supply-Side'' Economics

1118

(1)

The Fiscal Crisis

1119

(1)

Reagan and the World

1120

(2)

The Election of 1984

1122

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Mall

1112

(11)

Conclusion

1123

(1)

For Further Reference

1123

(1)

Significant Events

1124

(1)

Bibliography

1125

(2)

Modern Times

1127

(1)

America and the Waning of the Cold War

1127

(1)

The Fall of the Soviet Union

1128

(1)

The Fading of the Reagan Revolution

1129

(1)

The Election of 1988

1129

(1)

The Bush Presidency

1130

(1)

The Gulf War

1131

(1)

The Election of 1992

1132

(1)

Partisan Struggles

1133

(1)

Launching the Clinton Presidency

1133

(1)

The Republican Resurgence

1134

(1)

The Election of 1996

1135

(1)

Clinton Triumphant and Embattled

1136

(1)

The Global Economy

1137

(1)

Revolutions in Technology

1137

(1)

The Two-Tiered Economy

1138

(1)

Globalization

1139

(2)

A Changing Society

1141

(1)

The Graying of America

1141

(1)

New Patterns of Immigration and Ethnicity

1141

(2)

The Black Middle Class

1143

(1)

Poor and Working-Class African Americans

1144

(1)

Modern Plagues: Drugs, AIDS, and Homelessness

1145

(4)

A Contested Culture

1149

(1)

Battles Against Feminism and Abortion

1149

(3)

The Changing Left and the New Environmentalism

1152

(4)

The Fragmentation of Mass Culture

1156

(1)

The ``Culture Wars''

1157

Patterns of Popular Culture: RAP

1146

Where Historians Disagree: Women's History

1150

(4)

The American Environment: Silent Spring

1154

(4)

Significant Events

1158

(1)

Conclusion

1158

(1)

For Further Reference

1159

(1)

Bibliography

1159

Appendices

A-1

List of Illustrations, Maps, and Charts

L-1

Index

I-1

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