Table of Contents

1. A New History for a New Century

2. History in the News

3. Myth Versus Reality

4. Hollywood’s History

5. History Through…

6. Overview: Reconstruction

7. Hollywood’s Depictions of Reconstruction

8. Emancipation

9. The Politics of Reconstruction

10. The End of Reconstruction

1. Overview: Closing the Western Frontier

2. The Transcontinental Railroad

3. The Mining Frontier

4. The Ranching and Farming Frontier

5. The Oil Frontier

6. Closing the American Frontier

7. The West of the Imagination

8. Tragedy of the Plains Indians

9. The Battle of Little Big Horn

10. Wounded Knee

11. Conclusion

1. Overview: The Gilded Age

2. Politics during the Gilded Age

3. The Making of Modern America

4. The Rise of Mass Communication and Culture

5. The Huddled Masses

6. Migration as a Theme in U.S. History

7. The Creation of the Modern American Economy

8. The Rise of the Industrial City

9. The Political Crisis of the 1890s

10. Labor in the Age of Industrialization

11. Political Alternatives

12. The Plight of Farmers and the Rise of Populism

1. Overview: The U.S. Becomes a World Power

2. A Shift in U.S. Foreign Policy

3. Hawaii

4. Spanish American War

5. The Philippines

6. Central America and the Caribbean

7. Expositions and Fairs as History

8. The Rise of Modern America

1. Overview: The Progressive Era

2. Progressivism

3. Hidden History of Drugs

4. A New Era

5. The Roots of Progressivism

6. Progressivism in Government

7. Theodore Roosevelt

8. Woodrow Wilson

9. Race and Progressivism

10. The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage

1. Overview: WWI

2. The Significance of World War I

3. The Road to War

4. The U.S. Enters the War

5. WWI on the Home Front

6. WWI in Film

7. The League of Nations

1. Overview: The 1920s

2. Prohibition

3. Race

4. Anxiety about Immigrants

5. Traditionalism and Modernism

6. Leopold and Loeb

7. Politics During the 1920s

8. The Consumer Economy

9. The Formation of Modern American Mass Culture

10. The New Woman

1. Overview: The 1930s

2. The Stock Market Crashes

3. The Toll of the Great Depression

4. President Hoover & The Great Depression

5. Franklin D. Roosevelt

6. The New Deal

7. New Deal Opposition

8. Exclusion and Political Realignment

9. The Decline of the New Deal

10. Popular Culture and the Great Depression

1. Overview: WWII

2. The Holocaust

3. U.S. Policy of Isolationism

4. The Coming of World War II

5. War Begins

6. U.S. Responds to War in Europe

7. Mobilizing for War

8. Social Changes during the War

9. Internment

10. The Military Conflict

11. The War in the Pacific

12. The United Nations

1. Overview: The Post WWII Era

2. The Cold War

3. Korean War

4. The Cold War in Developing Countries

5. Domestic Communism

6. A Struggle for Hearts and Minds

7. The Space Race

8. Levittown

9. Music

10. Film

1. Overview: The 1960s

2. Legal Battle to End of Segregation

3. The State of Black America in 1960

4. Civil Rights Movement

5. The Struggle Continues

6. The Youth Revolt and New Left

7. Women’s Liberation

8. Viva La Raza!

9. The Native American Power Movement

10. Gay and Lesbian Liberation

11. Earth and Consumer Movements

12. Music

1. Overview: Vietnam War

2. The Meaning of the Vietnam War

3. Into the Quagmire

4. Why Vietnam?

5. The Vietnam War and American Culture

6. Vietnam’s Costs and Consequences

7. Legacies of the Vietnam War

8. Conspiracy Theories

1. Overview: The 1970s

2. Nixon and Watergate

3. New Style Presidents in the Age of Inflation

4. A New American Role in the World

5. The Reagan Revolution

6. The First Bush Presidency

7. The Clinton Presidency

8. Popular Culture 1970-2000

9. Entering a New Century

1. Overview: The Twenty-First Century

2. The Disputed Election of 2000

3. September 11, 2001

4. George W. Bush

5. Terrorism in Historical Perspective

6. Why The U.S. Does Not Win Wars Anymore

7. The Obama Presidency

8. The Election of 2016 and the Fate of the White Working Class

9. How Far Have Women Come?

10. Revolutions in American Life

11. Emerging Threats

12. Geographic Literacy