Synopses & Reviews
This collection of primary sources includes both classic and lesser-known documents describing the rich mosaic of American life from the pre-contact era to the present day. The sources, both public and private documents–ranging from letters, diary excerpts, stories, novels, to speeches, court cases, and government reports–tell the story of American history in the words of those who lived it.
Table of Contents
Chapter 16–The Agony of Reconstruction 1
Chapter 17–The West: Exploiting an Empire 23
Chapter 18–The Industrial Society 33
Chapter 19–Toward an Urban Society, 1877—1900 47
Chapter 20–Political Realignments in the 1890s 67
Chapter 21–Toward Empire 79
Chapter 22–The Progressive Era 91
Chapter 23–From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age
of Progressivism 107
Chapter 24–The Nation at War 117
Chapter 25–Transition to Modern America 137
Chapter 26–Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal 153
Chapter 27–America and the World, 1921—1945 165
Chapter 28–The Onset of the Cold War 185
Chapter 29–Affluence and Anxiety 201
Chapter 30–The Turbulent Sixties 213
Chapter 31 — To a New Conservatism, 1969-1988 233
Chapter 32 — To the Twenty-first Century, 1989-2006 254