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2. Powerpoints
3. How to Read the Textbook
4. How to Read Primary Sources
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6. Introduction
7. Restoring the Union
8. Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
9. Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
10. The Collapse of Reconstruction
11. Video: Reconstruction and 1876
12. Introduction
13. The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture
14. The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens
15. The Westward Spirit
16. Video: Westward Expansion
17. Homesteading: Dreams and Realities
18. Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
19. Introduction
20. Inventors of the Age
21. From Invention to Industrial Growth
22. Video: The Industrial Economy
23. Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
24. A New American Consumer Culture
25. Introduction
26. Urbanization and Its Challenges
27. The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration
28. Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
29. Video: Growth, Cities, and Immigration
30. Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
31. Introduction
32. Political Corruption in Postbellum America
33. The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
34. Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
35. Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s
36. Video: Gilded Age Politics
37. Introduction
38. The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America
39. Video: The Progressive Era
40. Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
41. New Voices for Women and African Americans
42. Video: Women's Suffrage
43. Progressivism in the White House
44. Video: Progressive Presidents
45. Introduction
46. Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire
47. The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
48. Economic Imperialism in East Asia
49. Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy
50. Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
51. Video: American Imperialism
52. Introduction
53. American Isolationism and the European Origins of War
54. The United States Prepares for War
55. A New Home Front
56. From War to Peace
57. Video: America in World War I
58. Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
59. Introduction
60. Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment
61. Transformation and Backlash
62. A New Generation
63. Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s
64. Video: The Roaring 20s
65. Introduction
66. The Stock Market Crash of 1929
67. President Hoover’s Response
68. The Depths of the Great Depression
69. Video: The Great Depression
70. Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal
71. Introduction
72. The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
73. The First New Deal
74. The Second New Deal
75. Video: The New Deal
76. Introduction
77. The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States
78. The Home Front
79. Victory in the European Theater
80. The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb
81. Videos: World War II
82. Introduction
83. The Challenges of Peacetime
84. The Cold War
85. Video: The Cold War
86. Video: The Cold War in Asia
87. The American Dream
88. Popular Culture and Mass Media
89. The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
90. Video: Civil Rights and the 1950s
91. Introduction
92. The Kennedy Promise
93. Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
94. The Civil Rights Movement Marches On
95. Challenging the Status Quo
96. Introduction
97. Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
98. Video: The 1960s in America
99. Coming Apart, Coming Together
100. Video: The Rise of Conservatism
101. Vietnam: The Downward Spiral
102. Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare
103. Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm
104. Video: Ford, Carter, and the Economic Malaise
105. Introduction
106. The Reagan Revolution
107. Video: The Reagan Revolution
108. Political and Cultural Fusions
109. Video: George HW Bush and the End of the Cold War
110. A New World Order
111. Bill Clinton and the New Economy
112. Video: The Clinton Years, or the 1990s
113. Introduction
114. The War on Terror
115. The Domestic Mission
116. Video: Terrorism, War, and Bush
117. New Century, Old Disputes
118. Hope and Change
119. Video: Obamanation: Crash Course US History #47
120. The Declaration of Independence
121. The Constitution of the United States
122. Presidents of the United States of America
123. U.S. Political Map
124. U.S. Topographical Map
125. United States Population Chart
126. Further Reading
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