Passage to Alaska.
The Demise of the Big Mammals.
The Archaic Period: A World Without Big Mammals, 9,000 B.C.E - 1,000 B.C.E.
The First Sedentary Communities, 1,000 B.C.E.
Corn Transforms the Southwest.
The Diffusion of Corn.
Population Growth After 800.
Cahokia: The Hub of Mississippian Culture.
The Collapse of Urban Centers.
American Beginnings in Eurasia and Africa.
Europe in Ferment.
Debating the Past.
Who–or what–killed the big mammals?
1. Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas.
Columbus.
Spain’s American Empire.
Indians and Europeans.
Relativity of Cultural Values.
Disease and Population Losses.
Spain’s European Rivals.
The Protestant Reformation.
English Beginnings in America.
The Settlement of Virginia.
“Purifying” the Church of England.
Bradford and Plymouth Colony.
Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson.
Other New England Colonies.
French and Dutch Settlements.
Maryland and the Carolinas.
The Middle Colonies.
Indians and Europeans as “Americanizers.”
American Lives.
Tisquantum.
Debating The Past.
How many Indians perished with European settlement?
2. American Society in the Making.
What Is an American?
Spanish Settlement.
The Chesapeake Colonies.
The Lure of Land.
“Solving” the Labor Shortage: Slavery.
Prosperity in a Pipe: Tobacco.
Bacon’s Rebellion.
The Carolinas.
Home and Family in the South.
Georgia and the Back Country.
Puritan New England.
The Puritan Family.
Puritan Women and Children.
Visible Puritan Saints and Others.
Democracies Without Democrats.
The Dominion of New England.
Salem Bewitched.
Higher Education in New England.
Prosperity Undermines Puritanism.
A Merchant’s World.
The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis.
The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples.
“The Best Poor Man’s Country.”
The Politics of Diversity.
Rebellious Women.
Re-Viewing The Past.
The Crucible.
Debating The Past.
Were Puritan communities peaceable?
3. America in the British Empire.
The British Colonial System.
Mercantilism.
The Navigation Acts.
The Effects of Mercantilism.
The Great Awakening.
The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Edwards.
The Enlightenment in America.
Colonial Scientific Achievements.
Repercussions of Distant Wars.
The Great War for the Empire.
The Peace of Paris.
Putting the Empire Right.
Tightening Imperial Controls.
The Sugar Act.
American Colonists Demand Rights.
The Stamp Act: The Pot Set to Boiling.
Rioters or Rebels?
Taxation or Tyranny?
The Declaratory Act.
The Townshend Duties.
The Boston Massacre.
The Pot Spills Over.
The Tea Act Crisis.
From Resistance to Revolution.
American Lives.
Eunice Williams/Gannenstenhawi.
Debating The Past.
Was economic gain the Colonists’ main motivation?
4. The American Revolution.
“The Shot Heard Round the World.”
The Second Continental Congress.
The Battle of Bunker Hill.
The Great Declaration.
1776: The Balance of Forces.
Loyalists.
Early British Victories.
Saratoga and the French Alliance.
The War Moves South.
Victory at Yorktown.
The Peace of Paris.
Forming a National Government.
Financing the War.
State Republican Governments.
Social Reform.
Effects of the Revolution on Women.
Growth of a National Spirit.
The Great Land Ordinances.
National Heroes.
A National Culture.
Re-Viewing The Past.
The Patriot.
Debating The Past.
Was the American Revolution rooted In class struggle?
5. The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant.
Border Problems.
Foreign Trade.
The Specter of Inflation.
Daniel Shays’s “Little Rebellion.”
To Philadelphia, and the Constitution.
The Great Convention.
The Compromises That Produced the Constitution.
Ratifying the Constitution.
Washington as President.
Congress Under Way.
Hamilton and Financial Reform.
The Ohio Country: A Dark and Bloody Ground.
Revolution in France.
Federalists and Republicans: The Rise of Political Parties.
1794: Crisis and Resolution.
Jay’s Treaty.
1795: All’s Well That Ends Well.
Washington’s Farewell.
The Election of 1796.
The XYZ Affair.
The Alien and Sedition Acts.
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolves.
Mapping The Past.
Depicting History with Maps.
Debating The Past.
What ideas shaped the Constitution?
6. Jeffersonian Democracy.
The Federalist Contribution.
Thomas Jefferson: Political Theorist.
Jefferson as President.
Jefferson’s Attack on the Judiciary.
The Barbary Pirates.
The Louisiana Purchase.
The Federalists Discredited.
Lewis and Clark.
Jeffersonian Democracy.
The Burr Conspiracy.
Napoleon and the British.
The Impressment Controversy.
The Embargo Act.
Mapping The Past.
A Water Route to the Pacific?
Debating The Past.
Did Thomas Jefferson father a child by his slave?
7. National Growing Pains.
Madison in Power.
Tecumseh and Indian Resistance.
Depression and Land Hunger.
Opponents of War.
The War of 1812.
Britain Assumes the Offensive.
“The Star Spangled Banner.”
The Treaty of Ghent.
The Hartford Convention.
The Battle of New Orleans.
Victory Weakens the Federalists.
Anglo-American Rapprochement.
The Transcontinental Treaty.
The Monroe Doctrine.
The Era of Good Feelings.
New Sectional Issues.
Northern Leaders.
Southern Leaders.
Western Leaders.
The Missouri Compromise
The Election of 1824.
John Quincy Adams as President.
Calhoun’s Exposition and Protest.
The Meaning Of Sectionalism.
Mapping The Past.
North-South Sectionalism Intensifies.
Debating The Past.
How did Indians and settlers interact?
8. Toward a National Economy.
Gentility and the Consumer Revolution.
Birth of the Factory.
An Industrial Proletariat?
Lowell’s Waltham System: Women as Factory Workers.
Irish and German Immigrants.
The Persistence of the Household System.
Rise of Corporations.
Cotton Revolutionizes the South.
Revival of Slavery.
Roads to Market.
Transportation and the Government.
Development of Steamboats.
The Canal Boom.
New York City: Emporium of the Western World.
The Marshall Court.
Mapping The Past.
The Making of the Working Class
Debating The Past.
Was early nineteenth-century America transformed by a market revolution?
9. Jacksonian Democracy.
“Democratizing” Politics.
1828: The New Party System in Embryo.
The Jacksonian Appeal.
The Spoils System.
President of All the People.
Sectional Tensions Revived.
Jackson: “The Bank . . . I Will Kill It!”
Jackson’s Bank Veto.
Jackson Versus Calhoun.
Indian Removals.
The Nullification Crisis.
Boom and Bust.
Jacksonianism Abroad.
The Jacksonians.
Rise of the Whigs.
Martin Van Buren: Jacksonianism Without Jackson.
The Log Cabin Campaign.
American Lives.
Horace Greeley.
Debating The Past.
For whom did Jackson fight?
10. The Making of Middle-Class America.
Tocqueville and Beaumont in America.
Tocqueville in Judgment.
A Restless People.
The Family Recast.
The Second Great Awakening.
The Era of Associations.
Backwoods Utopias.
The Age of Reform.
“Demon Rum”.
The Abolitionist Crusade.
Women’s Rights.
American Lives.
Sojourner Truth.
Debating The Past.
Did the antebellum reform movement improve society?
11. An American Culture.
In Search of Native Grounds.
The Romantic View of Life.
Emerson and Thoreau.
Edgar Allan Poe.
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Herman Melville.
Walt Whitman.
The Wider Literary Renaissance.
Domestic Tastes.
Education for Democracy.
Reading and the Dissemination of Culture.
The State of the Colleges.
Civic Cultures.
American Humor.
Mapping America’s Past.
Nature as a Civilizing Force.
Debating The Past.
Was there an “American Renaissance”?
12. Westward Expansion.
Tyler’s Troubles.
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
The Texas Question.
Manifest Destiny.
Life on the Trail.
California and Oregon.
The Election of 1844.
Polk as President.
War with Mexico.
To the Halls of Montezuma.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
The Fruits of Victory: Further Enlargement of the United States.
Slavery: The Fire Bell in the Night Rings Again.
The Election of 1848.
The Gold Rush.
The Compromise of 1850.
Mapping the Past.
Fertility on the Frontier.
Debating The Past.
Did the frontier change women’s roles?
13. The Sections Go Their Ways.
The South.
The Economics of Slavery.
Antebellum Plantation Life.
The Sociology of Slavery.
Psychological Effects of Slavery.
Manufacturing in the South.
The Northern Industrial Juggernaut.
A Nation of Immigrants.
How Wage Earners Lived.
Progress and Poverty.
Foreign Commerce.
Steam Conquers the Atlantic.
Canals and Railroads.
Financing the Railroads.
Railroads and the Economy.
Railroads and the Sectional Conflict.
The Economy on the Eve of Civil War.
Mapping the Past.
Irish and German Immigration.
Debating The Past.
Did slaves and masters form emotional bonds?
14. The Coming of the Civil War.
The Slave Power Comes North.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Diversions Abroad: The “Young America” Movement.
Stephen Douglas: “The Little Giant.”
The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Know-Nothings, Republicans, and the Demise of the Two-Party System.
“Bleeding Kansas.”
Senator Sumner Becomes a Martyr for Abolitionism.
Buchanan Tries His Hand.
The Dred Scott Decision.
The Lecompton Constitution.
The Emergence of Lincoln.
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates.
John Brown’s Raid.
The Election of 1860.
The Secession Crisis.
Mapping the Past.
Runaway Slaves: Hard Realities.
Debating The Past.
Was the Civil War avoidable?
15. The War to Save the Union.
Lincoln’s Cabinet.
Fort Sumter: The First Shot.
The Blue and the Gray.
The Test of Battle: Bull Run.
Paying for the War.
Politics as Usual.
Behind Confederate Lines.
War in the West: Shiloh.
McClellan: The Reluctant Warrior.
Lee Counterattacks: Antietam.
The Emancipation Proclamation.
The Draft Riots.
The Emancipated People.
African American Soldiers.
Antietam to Gettysburg.
Lincoln Finds His General: Grant at Vicksburg.
Economic and Social Effects, North and South.
Women in Wartime.
Grant in the Wilderness.
Sherman in Georgia.
To Appomattox Court House.
Winners, Losers, and the Future.
Re-Viewing the Past.
Glory.
Re-Viewing the Past.
Cold Mountain.
Debating The Past.
Why did the South lose the Civil War?
Presidential Reconstruction.
Republican Radicals.
Congress Rejects Johnsonian Reconstruction.
The Fourteenth Amendment.
The Reconstruction Acts.
Congress Supreme.
The Fifteenth Amendment.
“Black Republican” Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers.
The Ravaged Land.
Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System.
The White Backlash.
Grant as President.
The Disputed Election of 1876.
The Compromise of 1877.
Mapping the Past.
The Politics of Reconstruction.
Debating The Past.
Were Reconstruction governments corrupt?
17. In the Wake of War.
Congress Ascendant.
The Political Aftermath of War.
Blacks After Reconstruction.
Booker T. Washington: A “Reasonable” Champion for Blacks.
White Violence and Vengeance.
The West After the Civil War.
The Plains Indians.
Indian Wars.
The Destruction of Tribal Life.
The Lure of Gold and Silver in the West.
Big Business and the Land Bonanza.
Western Railroad Building.
The Cattle Kingdom.
Open-Range Ranching.
Barbed-Wire Warfare.
American Lives.
Nat Love.
Debating The Past.
Was the frontier exceptionally violent?
18. An Industrial Giant.
Essentials of Industrial Growth.
Railroads: The First Big Business.
Iron, Oil, and Electricity.
Competition and Monopoly: The Railroads.
Competition and Monopoly: Steel.
Competition and Monopoly: Oil.
Competition and Monopoly: Retailing and Utilities.
American Ambivalence to Big Business.
Reformers: George, Bellamy, Lloyd.
Reformers: The Marxists.
The Government Reacts to Big Business: Railroad Regulation.
The Government Reacts to Big Business: The Sherman Antitrust Act.
The Labor Union Movement.
The American Federation of Labor.
Labor Militancy Rebuffed.
Whither America, Whither Democracy?
Mapping the Past.
Were the Railroads Indispensable to Economic Growth?
Debating the Past.
Were the industrialists “robber barons” or savvy entrepreneurs?
19. American Society in the Industrial Age.
Middle-Class Life.
Skilled and Unskilled Workers.
Working Women.
Farmers.
Working-Class Family Life.
Working-Class Attitudes.
Working Your Way Up.
The “New” Immigration.
New Immigrants Face New Nativism.
The Expanding City and Its Problems.
Teeming Tenements.
The Cities Modernize.
Leisure Activities: More Fun and Games.
Christianity’s Conscience and the Social Gospel.
The Settlement Houses.
Civilization and Its Discontents.
Mapping The Past.
Cholera: A New Disease Strikes the Nation.
Debating The Past.
Did immigrants assimilate?
20. Intellectual and Cultural Trends.
The Knowledge Revolution.
Magazine Journalism.
Colleges and Universities.
Revolution in the Social Sciences.
Progressive Education.
Law and History.
Realism in Literature.
Mark Twain.
William Dean Howells.
Henry James.
Realism in Art.
The Pragmatic Approach.
Re-Viewing the Past.
Titanic.
Debating The Past.
Did the frontier engender individualism and democracy?
21. Politics: Local, State, and National.
Political Strategy and Tactics.
Voting Along Ethnic and Religious Lines.
City Bosses.
Party Politics: Sidestepping the Issue.
Lackluster Leaders.
Crops and Complaints.
The Populist Movement.
Showdown on Silver.
The Depression of 1893.
The Election of 1896.
The Meaning of the Election.
Mapping the Past.
The Election of 1896.
Debating The Past.
Were city governments corrupt and incompetent?
22. The Age of Reform.
Roots of Progressivism.
The Muckrakers.
The Progressive Mind.
“Radical” Progressives: The Wave of the Future.
Political Reform: Cities First.
Political Reform: The States.
State Social Legislation.
Political Reform: The Woman Suffrage Movement.
Political Reform: Income Taxes and Popular Election of Senators.
Theodore Roosevelt: Cowboy in the White House.
Roosevelt and Big Business.
Roosevelt and the Coal Strike.
TR’s Triumphs.
Roosevelt Tilts Left.
William Howard Taft: The Listless Progressive, or More Is Less.
Breakup of the Republican Party.
The Election of 1912.
Wilson: The New Freedom.
The Progressives and Minority Rights.
Black Militancy.
American Lives.
Emma Goldman.
Debating The Past.
Were the Progressives forward-looking?
23. From Isolation to Empire.
Isolation or Imperialism?
Origins of the Large Policy: Coveting Colonies.
Toward an Empire in the Pacific.
Toward an Empire in Latin America.
The Cuban Revolution.
The “Splendid Little” Spanish-American War.
Developing a Colonial Policy.
The Anti-Imperialists.
The Philippine Insurrection.
Cuba and the United States.
The United States in the Caribbean and Central America.
The Open Door Policy.
The Panama Canal.
Imperialism Without Colonies.
American Lives.
Frederick Funston.
Debating The Past.
Did the United States acquire an overseas empire for economic reasons?
24. Woodrow Wilson and the Great War.
Wilson’s “Moral” Diplomacy.
Europe Explodes in War.
Freedom of the Seas.
The Election of 1916.
The Road to War.
Mobilizing the Economy.
Workers in Wartime.
Paying for the War.
Propaganda and Civil Liberties.
Wartime Reforms.
Women and Blacks in Wartime.
Americans: To the Trenches and Over the Top.
Preparing for Peace.
The Paris Peace Conference and the Versailles Treaty.
The Senate Rejects the League of Nations.
Demobilization.
The Red Scare.
The Election of 1920.
American Lives.
Harry S. Truman.
Debating The Past.
Did a stroke sway Wilson's judgment?
25. Postwar Society and Culture: Change and Adjustment.
Closing the Gates to New Immigrants.
New Urban Social Patterns.
The Younger Generation.
The “New” Woman.
Popular Culture: Movies and Radio.
The Golden Age of Sports.
Urban-Rural Conflicts: Fundamentalism.
Urban-Rural Conflicts: Prohibition.
The Ku Klux Klan.
Sacco and Vanzetti.
Literary Trends.
The “New Negro.”
Economic Expansion.
The Age of the Consumer.
Henry Ford.
The Airplane.
Re-Viewing The Past.
Chicago.
Debating The Past.
Was the decade of the 1920s one of self-absorption?
26. The New Era: 1921–1933.
Harding and “Normalcy.”
“The Business of the United States Is Business.”
The Harding Scandals.
Coolidge Prosperity.
Peace Without a Sword.
The Peace Movement.
The Good Neighbor Policy.
The Totalitarian Challenge.
War Debts and Reparations.
The Election of 1928.
Economic Problems.
The Stock Market Crash of 1929.
Hoover and the Depression.
The Economy Hits Bottom.
The Depression and Its Victims.
The Election of 1932.
Mapping the Past.
FDR’s Political Revolution.
Debating The Past.
What caused the Great Depression?
27. The New Deal: 1933–1941.
The Hundred Days.
The National Recovery Administration (NRA).
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA).
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
The New Deal Spirit.
The Unemployed.
Literature in the Depression.
Three Extremists: Long, Coughlin, and Townsend.
The Second New Deal.
The Election of 1936.
Roosevelt Tries to Undermine the Supreme Court.
The New Deal Winds Down.
Significance of the New Deal.
Women as New Dealers: The Network.
Blacks During the New Deal.
A New Deal for Indians.
The Role of Roosevelt.
The Triumph of Isolationism.
War Again in Europe.
A Third Term for FDR.
The Undeclared War.
Mapping the Past.
Isolationism of the 1930s.
Debating The Past.
Did the New Deal succeed?
28. War and Peace.
The Road to Pearl Harbor.
Mobilizing the Home Front.
The War Economy.
War and Social Change.
Minorities in Time of War: Blacks, Hispanics, and Indians.
The Treatment of German and Italian Americans.
Internment of the Japanese.
Women’s Contribution to the War Effort.
Allied Strategy: Europe First.
Germany Overwhelmed.
The Naval War in the Pacific.
Island Hopping.
Building the Atom Bomb.
Wartime Diplomacy.
Allied Suspicion of Stalin.
Yalta and Potsdam.
Re-Viewing the Past.
Saving Private Ryan.
Debating The Past.
Should the United States have used atomic bombs against Japan?
29. The American Century.
The Postwar Economy.
The Containment Policy.
The Atom Bomb: A “Winning” Weapon?
A Turning Point in Greece.
The Marshall Plan and the Lesson of History.
Dealing with Japan and China.
The Election of 1948.
Containing Communism Abroad.
Hot War in Korea.
The Communist Issue at Home.
McCarthyism.
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The Eisenhower-Dulles Foreign Policy.
McCarthy Self-Destructs.
Asian Policy After Korea.
Israel and the Middle East
Eisenhower and Khrushchev.
Latin America Aroused.
The Politics of Civil Rights.
The Election of 1960.
Mapping the Past.
Planning Nuclear War.
Debating The Past.
Did Truman needlessly exacerbate relations with the Soviet Union?
30. From Camelot to Watergate.
The Cuban Crises.
The Vietnam War.
“We Shall Overcome”: The Civil Rights Movement.
Tragedy in Dallas: JFK Assassinated.
Lyndon Baines Johnson.
The Great Society.
Johnson Escalates the War.
Opposition to the War.
The Election of 1968.
Nixon as President: “Vietnamizing” the War.
The Cambodian “Incursion.”
Détente with Communism.
Nixon in Triumph.
Domestic Policy Under Nixon.
The Watergate Break-in.
More Troubles for Nixon.
The Judgment on Watergate: “Expletive Deleted.”
The Meaning of Watergate.
Mapping The Past.
School Segregation After the Brown Decision.
Debating The Past.
Would JFK have sent a half-million American troops to Vietnam?
31. Society in Flux.
A Society on the Move.
The Advent of Television.
At Home and Work.
The Growing Middle Class.
Religion in Changing Times.
Literature and Art.
The Perils of Progress.
The Costs of Prosperity.
New Racial Turmoil.
Native-Born Ethnics.
Rethinking Public Education.
Students in Revolt.
The Counterculture.
The Sexual Revolution.
Women’s Liberation.
Mapping the Past.
Roe v. Wade and the Abortion Controversy.
Debating The Past.
Did mass culture make life shallow?
32. Running on Empty: The Nation Transformed.
The Oil Crisis.
Ford as President.
The Fall of South Vietnam.
Ford Versus Carter.
The Carter Presidency.
A National Malaise.
Stagflation: The Weird Economy.
Families Under Stress.
Cold War or Détente?
The Iran Crisis: Origins.
The Iran Crisis: Carter’s Dilemma.
The Election of 1980.
Reagan as President.
Four More Years.
“The Reagan Revolution.”
Change and Uncertainty.
AIDS.
The New Merger Movement.
“A Job for Life”: Layoffs Hit Home.
A “Bipolar” Economy, a Fractured Society.
The Iran-Contra Arms Deal.
American Lives.
Bill Gates.
Debating The Past.
Did Reagan end the Cold War?
33. Misdemeanors and High Crimes.
The Election of 1988.
Crime and Punishment.
“Crack” and Urban Gangs.
George H. W. Bush as President.
The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.
The War in the Persian Gulf.
The Deficit Worsens.
Looting the Savings and Loans.
Whitewater and the Clintons.
The Election of 1992.
A New Start: Clinton.
Emergence of the Republican Majority.
The Election of 1996.
A Racial Divide.
Violence and Popular Culture.
Clinton Impeached.
Clinton’s Legacy.
The Economic Boom and the Internet.
The 2000 Election: George W. Bush Wins by One Vote.
Terrorism Intensifies.
September 11, 2001.
America Fights Back: War in Afghanistan.
The Second War in Iraq.
The Election of 2004.
The Imponderable Future.
Mapping The Past.
Twenty Years of Terrorism.
Debating The Past.
Do historians ever get it right?
Endpapers.
Ancient Asian Migrations to North America.
Ancient Native American Communities.
Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian Mounds.
European Voyages of Discovery.
The Great English Migration.
European Footholds Along the Atlantic, 1584–1650.
Spain’s North American Frontier, c. 1800.
English Colonies on the Atlantic Seaboard.
African Slave Trade, 1451–1870.
Ethnic Groups in Eastern North America, 1750.
British Successes, 1758–1763.
European Claims in All of North America, 1763.
Proclamation of 1763.
The Battle of Bunker Hill.
New York and New Jersey Campaigns.
Saratoga Campaign.
Campaign in the South.
Yorktown Campaign, April - September 1781.
The United States Under the Articles of Confederation, 1787.
The United States, 1787–1802.
The War of 1812.
The United States, 1819.
Population Density, 1790.
Population Density, 1820.
The Missouri Compromise, 1820.
Canals and Roads, 1820–1850.
Indian Removals.
Trails West.
The War with Mexico, 1846–1848.
Compromise of 1850.
Cotton and Slaves in the South, 1860.
Railroads, 1860.
Agriculture, 1860.
“Bleeding Kansas.”
Presidential Election, 1860.
Secession of the South, 1860–1861.
War in the West, 1862.
War in the East, 1861–1862.
Gettysburg Campaign, 1863.
Vicksburg Campaign, 1863.
The Final Campaigns, 1864–1865.
The Compromise of 1877.
Indian Wars, 1860–1890.
Loss of Indian Lands, 1850–2000.
The West: Cattle, Railroads, and Mining, 1850–1893.
The Forging of U.S. Steel.
Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century New York.
The Advance Women's Suffrage.
The Advance of Prohibition.
Election of 1912.
The Course of Empire, 1867–1901.
Spanish-American War, Caribbean Theater.
Spanish Debacle at Santiago, July 3, 1898.
The United States in the Caribbean and Central America.
The U.S. Panama Canal.
The Western Front.
Europe Before World War I.
Europe After World War I.
The Making of Black Harlem: 1911, 1925, and 1930.
The Tennessee Valley Authority.
Japanese Relocation from the West Coast, 1942–1945.
The Liberation of Europe.
Nazi Concentration Camps.
World War II, Pacific Theater.
European Recipients of Marshall Plan, 1948–1952.
Air Relief to Berlin.
U.S. Defensive Perimeter in the Pacific, January 1950.
North Korean Offensive, June–August 1950.
Southeast Asia, 1954–1975.
Failure of the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972–1982.
The Middle East.
Success of Republican "Southern Strategy."
The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.
The Middle East.
Additional maps, listed by topic, appear in the “Mapping the Past” features, listed on page xxx.
Maps for every presidential election from 1789 to 2004 appear in the Appendix, pages A00–A00.
American Lives.
Tisquantum.
Eunice Williams/Gannenstenhawi.
Horace Greeley.
Sojourner Truth.
Nat Love.
Emma Goldman.
Frederick Funston.
Harry S. Truman.
Bill Gates.
Re-Viewing the Past.
The Crucible.
The Patriot.
Glory.
Cold Mountain.
Titanic.
Chicago.
Saving Private Ryan.
Mapping the Past.
Depicting History with Maps.
A Water Route to the Pacific?
North-South Sectionalism Intensifies.
The Making of the Working Class.
Nature as a Civilizing Force.
Fertility on the Frontier.
Irish and German Immigration.
Runaway Slaves: Hard Realities.
The Politics of Reconstruction.
Were the Railroads Indispensable to Economic Growth?
Cholera: A New Disease Strikes the Nation.
The Election of 1896.
FDR’s Political Revolution.
Isolationism of the 1930s.
Planning Nuclear War.
School Segregation After the Brown Decision.
Roe v. Wade and the Abortion Controversy.
Twenty Years of Terrorism.
Debating the Past.
Who—or what—killed the big mammals?
How many Indians perished with European settlement?
Were Puritan communities peaceable?
Was economic gain the colonists’ main motivation?
Was the American Revolution rooted in class struggle?
What ideas shaped the Constitution?
Did Thomas Jefferson father a child by his slave?
How did Indians and settlers interact?
Was early Nineteenth-Century America transformed by a market revolution?
For whom did Jackson fight?
Did the antebellum reform movement improve society?
Was there an “American Renaissance”?
Did the frontier change women’s roles?
Did slaves and masters form emotional bonds?
Was the Civil War avoidable?
Why did the South lose the Civil War?
Were Reconstruction governments corrupt?
Was the frontier exceptionally violent?
Were the industrialists “robber barons” or savvy entrepreneurs?
Did immigrants assimilate?
Did the frontier engender individualism and democracy?
Were city governments corrupt and incompetent?
Were the Progressives forward-looking?
Did the United States acquire an overseas empire for moral or economic reasons?
Did a stroke sway Wilson's judgement?
Was the decade of the 1920s one of self-absorption?
What caused the Great Depression?
Did the New Deal succeed?
Should the United States have used atomic bombs against Japan?
Did Truman needlessly exacerbate relations with the Soviet Union?
Would JFK have sent a half-million American troops to Vietnam?
Did mass culture make life shallow?
Did Reagan end the Cold War?
Do historians ever get it right?