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