2nd Edition
Alan Brinkley
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Preface
CHAPTER 1: The Meeting of Cultures
America Before ColumbusEurope Looks Westward
The Arrival of the English
CHAPTER 2: The English Transplantations
The Early ChesapeakeThe Caribbean Colonies
The Growth of New England
The Restoration Colonies
The Development of Empire
CHAPTER 3: Life in Provincial America
The Colonial PopulationThe Colonial Economy
Patterns of Society
The Colonial Mind
CHAPTER 4: The Empire Under Strain
Origins of ResistanceThe Struggle for the Continent
The New Imperialism
Stirrings of Revolt
Cooperation and War
CHAPTER 5: The American Revolution
The States UnitedThe War for Independence
War and Society
The Creation of State Governments
The Search For A National Government
CHAPTER 6: The Constitution and the New Republic
Toward a New GovernmentAdoption and Adaptation
Federalists and Republicans
Asserting National Sovereignty
The Downfall of the Federalists
CHAPTER 7: The Jeffersonian Era
The Rise of Cultural NationalismStirrings of Industrialism
Jefferson The President
Doubling The National Domain
Expansion and War
The War of 1812
CHAPTER 8: Varieties of American Nationalism
Stabilizing Economic GrowthExpanding Westward
The Era of Good Feelings
Sectionalism and Nationalism
The Revival of Opposition
CHAPTER 9: Jacksonian America
The Rise of Mass PoliticsOur Federal Union
The Removal of the Indians
Jackson and the Bank War
The Emergence of the Second Party System
Politics After Jackson
CHAPTER 10: AmericaÆs Economic Revolution
Foundations of Economic DevelopmentTransportation and Communications Revolutions
Commerce and Industry
Men and Women at Work
Patterns of Society
The Agricultural North
CHAPTER 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South
The Cotton EconomySouthern White Society
The Peculiar Institution
The Culture of Slavery
CHAPTER 12: An Age of Reforms
The Romantic ImpulseRemaking Society
The Crusade Against Slavery
CHAPTER 13: The Impending Crisis
Looking WestwardExpansion and War
The Sectional Debate
The Crises of the 1850s
CHAPTER 14: The Civil War
The Secession CrisisThe Mobilization of the North
The Mobilization of the South
Strategy and Diplomacy
Campaigns and Battles
CHAPTER 15: Reconstruction and the New South
The Problems of PeacemakingRadical Reconstruction
The South in Reconstruction
The Grant Administration
The Abandonment of Reconstruction
The New South
CHAPTER 16: The Conquest of the Far West
The Societies of the Far WestThe Changing Western Economy
The Dispersal of the Tribes
The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer
CHAPTER 17: Industrial Supremacy
Sources of Industrial GrowthCapitalism and its Critics
The Ordeal of the Worker
CHAPTER 18: The Age of the City
The New Urban GrowthSociety and Culture in Urbanizing America
High Culture in the Urban Age
CHAPTER 19: From Stalemate to Crisis
The Politics of EquilibriumThe Agrarian Revolt
The Crisis of the 1890s
CHAPTER 20: The Imperial Republic
Stirrings of ImperialismWar with Spain
The Republic as Empire
CHAPTER 21: The Rise of Progressivism
The Progressive ImpulseWomen and Reform
The Assault on the Parties
Sources of Progressive Reform
Crusades for Order and Reform
CHAPTER 22: The Battle for National Reform
Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive PresidencyThe Troubled Succession
Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom
The Big Stick: America and the World, 1901-1917
CHAPTER 23: America and the Great War
The Road to WarWar Without Stint
The Search for a New Word Order
A Society in Turmoil
CHAPTER 24: The New Era
The New EconomyThe New Culture
A Conflict of Cultures
Republican Government
CHAPTER 25: The Great Depression
The Coming of the DepressionThe American People in Hard Times
The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover
CHAPTER 26: The New Deal
Launching The New DealThe New Deal in Transition
The New Deal in Disarray
Limits and Legacies of The New Deal
CHAPTER 27: The Global Crisis, 1921-1941
The Diplomacy of the New EraIsolationism and Internationalism
From Neutrality to Intervention
CHAPTER 28: America in a World at War
War on Two FrontsThe American People in Wartime
The Defeat of the Axis
CHAPTER 29: America and the Cold War
Origins of the Cold WarThe Collapse of the Peace
America after the War
The Korean War
The Crusade Against Subversion
CHAPTER 30: The Affluent Society
Abundance and SocietyThe Other America
The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement
Eisenhower Republicanism
Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War
CHAPTER 31: The Ordeal of Liberalism
Expanding the Liberal StateFlexible Response and the Cold War
Vietnam
The Traumas of 1968
CHAPTER 32: The Crisis of Authority
The Turbulent SocietyThe Mobilization of Minorities
The New Feminism
Nixon, Kissinger, and the War
Nixon, Kissinger, and the World
Politics and Economics in the Nixon Years
The Watergate Crisis
CHAPTER 33: The Age of Limits
Politics and Diplomacy After WatergateThe Rise of the American Right
The Reagan Revolution
CHAPTER 34: Beyond the Cold War
American and the Waning of the Cold WarModern Times
AMERICAN VOICES:
William Bradford: Safe Arrival of the Pilgrims at Cape CodGottlieb Mittleberger: An Indentured Servant's Voyage from Germany to America
Joseph P. Martin: A SoldierÆs View of the Battle of Long Island
Lewis and Clark: Exploring the Louisiana Territory, 1804-1806
Mary Paul: Letter from the Lowell Mills
James L. Bradley: An African American Describes His Bondage, 1835
J.J. Hill: The 29th Connecticut Colored Infantry Enters Richmond, April 1865
Two Indian Leaders Face Conquest
Anzia Yezierska: A Jewish Immigrant Strains Against the Past
Jane Adams: First Days at Hull House
Langston Hughes: I, Too (1926)
Sarah Killingsworth: An African-American Woman Encounters the Wartime Industrial Boom
Whittaker Chambers: The Hiss Case
Malcolm X: The Angriest Negro in America
Richard Nixon: The China Trip, 1972
A Vietnamese Immigrant Describes Her Life in America, 1984
DEBATING THE PAST:
The Origins of SlaveryThe American Revolution
Jacksonian Democracy
The Nature of Plantation Slavery
The Causes of the Civil War
Reconstruction
Populism
Progressivism
The New Deal
The Cold War
The Vietnam Commitment
APPENDICES:
MapsThe United States in 1990
United States Territorial Expansion, 1783-1898
Documents and Tables
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States of America
Presidential Elections
Population of the United States, 1790-1994
Employment, 1870-1994
Production, Trade, and Federal Spending/Debt, 1790-1994
Suggested Readings
Illustration Credits
Index
