Maps and Graphs xix
- Hutchinson Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne
- Other New England Colonies
- Pequot War and King Philip’s War
- Maryland and the Carolinas
- French and Dutch Settlements
- The Middle Colonies
- Cultural Collisions
- ■Re-Viewing the Past Black Robe
- Cultural Fusions
- CHAPTER
- American Society in the Making
- Settlement of New France
- Society in New Mexico, Texas, and California
- The English Prevail on the Atlantic Seaboard
- 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
- Visible Puritan Saints and Others
- Democracies without Democrats
- The Dominion of New England
- Salem Bewitched
- Higher Education in New England
- A Merchant’s World
- The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis
- The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples
- Beginnings PROLOGUE
- First Peoples
- The Demise of the Big Mammals
- The Archaic Period: Surviving without Big Mammals
- The Maize Revolution
- to the Americas ■Mapping the Past Debate over the Earliest Route
- The Diffusion of Corn
- Population Growth After AD
- Cahokia: The Hub of Mississippian Culture
- The Collapse of Urban Centers
- Eurasia and Africa
- Europe in Ferment
- CHAPTER
- Americas Alien Encounters: Europe in the
- Columbus’s Great Triumph—and Error
- Spain’s American Empire
- Extending Spain’s Empire to the North
- Disease and Population Losses
- Ecological Imperialism
- with European Settlement? ■Debating the PastHow Many Indians Perished
- 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
- Confederation National Government under the Articles of
- Financing the War
- State Republican Governments
- Social Reform and Antislavery
- Women and the Revolution
- Growth of a National Spirit
- The Great Land Ordinances
- National Heroes
- A National Culture
- ■Re-Viewing the Past The Patriot
- CHAPTER
- Triumphant The Federalist Era: Nationalism
- Inadequacies of the Articles of Confederation
- Daniel Shays’s “Little Rebellion”
- To Philadelphia, and the Constitution
- The Great Convention
- The Compromises That Produced the Constitution
- Ratifying the Constitution
- Conservative Easterners ■Mapping the Past Radical Frontiersmen vs.
- Washington as President
- Congress Under Way
- Hamilton and Financial Reform
- The Ohio Country: A Dark and Bloody Ground
- Revolution in France
- Parties Federalists and Republicans: The Rise of Political
- 1794: Crisis and Resolution
- Jay’s Treaty
- 1795: All’s Well That Ends Well
- Washington’s Farewell
- The Election of
- The XYZ Affair
- The Alien and Sedition Acts
- The Kentucky and Virginia Resolves
- CHAPTER
- Jeffersonian Democracy
- Jefferson Elected President
- The Federalist Contribution
- Thomas Jefferson: Political Theorist
- Jefferson as President
- Child by His Slave? ■Debating the PastDid Thomas Jefferson Father a
- Jefferson’s Attack on the Judiciary
- The Barbary Pirates
- The Louisiana Purchase
- “The Best Poor Man’s Country”
- The Politics of Diversity
- Becoming Americans
- ■Re-Viewing the Past The Crucible
- CHAPTER
- 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
- Williams/Gannenstenhawi ■American Lives Eunice
- Britain Victorious: The Peace of Paris
- Burdens of an Expanded Empire
- Tightening Imperial Controls
- Subjects Accurately? ■Debating the PastDo Artists Depict Historical
- The Sugar Act
- American Colonists Demand Rights
- The Stamp Act: The Pot Set to Boiling
- Rioters or Rebels?
- The Declaratory Act
- The Townshend Duties
- The Boston Massacre
- The Boiling Pot Spills Over
- The Tea Act Crisis
- From Resistance to Revolution
- CHAPTER
- 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
- The British Take New York City
- Saratoga and the French Alliance
- The War Moves South
- Victory at Yorktown
- Negotiating a Favorable Peace
- Rooted in Class Struggle? ■Debating the PastWas the American Revolution
- Transportation and the Government
- Development of Steamboats
- Revolution” in the Early 1800s? ■Debating the PastWas There a “Market
- The Canal Boom
- New York City: Emporium of the Western World
- The Marshall Court
- CHAPTER
- 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
- The Jacksonians
- Rise of the Whigs
- Fight? ■Debating the Past For Whom Did Jackson
- Martin Van Buren: Jacksonianism without Jackson
- The Log Cabin Campaign
- ■American Lives Davy Crockett
- CHAPTER
- America The Making of Middle-Class
- Tocqueville: Democracy in America
- The Family Recast
- Frontier ■Mapping the Past Family Size: Northeast vs.
- The Second Great Awakening
- The Era of Associations
- Backwoods Utopias
- The Age of Reform
- “Demon Rum”
- The Abolitionist Crusade
- Women’s Rights
- The Romantic View of Life
- Emerson and Thoreau
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Herman Melville
- Walt Whitman
- Rooted in Class Struggle? ■Debating the PastWas the American Revolution
- The Federalists Discredited
- Lewis and Clark
- The Burr Conspiracy
- Pacific? ■Mapping the Past A Water Route to the
- Napoleon and the British
- The Impressment Controversy
- The Embargo Act
- Jeffersonian Democracy
- CHAPTER
- National Growing Pains
- Madison in Power
- Tecumseh and Indian Resistance
- Depression and Land Hunger
- Opponents of War
- The War of
- Britain Assumes the Offensive
- “The Star Spangled Banner”
- The Treaty of Ghent
- The Hartford Convention
- The Battle of New Orleans and the End of the War
- Anglo-American Rapprochement
- The Transcontinental Treaty
- The Monroe Doctrine
- The Era of Good Feelings
- New Sectional Issues
- New Leaders
- The Missouri Compromise
- Intensifies ■Mapping the Past North–South Sectionalism
- The Election of
- John Quincy Adams as President
- Calhoun’sExposition and Protest
- The Meaning of Sectionalism
- CHAPTER
- Toward a National Economy
- Gentility and the Consumer Revolution
- Birth of the Factory
- An Industrial Proletariat?
- Class ■Mapping the Past The Making of the Working
- Workers Lowell’s Waltham System: Women as Factory
- Irish and German Immigrants
- The Persistence of the Household System
- Rise of Corporations
- Cotton Revolutionizes the South
- Revival of Slavery
- Roads to Market
- CHAPTER xii Contents
- The Coming of the Civil War
- Slave-Catchers Come North
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Movement Diversions Abroad: The “Young America”
- Stephen Douglas: “The Little Giant”
- Realities ■Mapping the Past Runaway Slaves: Hard
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Two-Party System Know-Nothings, Republicans, and the Demise of the
- Avoidable? ■Debating the Past Was the Civil War
- “Bleeding Kansas”
- Senator Sumner Becomes a Martyr for Abolitionism
- Buchanan Tries His Hand
- The Dred Scott Decision
- The Proslavery Lecompton Constitution
- The Emergence of Lincoln
- The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- John Brown’s Raid
- The Election of
- The Secession Crisis
- CHAPTER
- 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
- Civil War? ■Debating the PastWhy Did the South Lose the
- To Appomattox Court House
- Reading and the Dissemination of Culture
- Education for Democracy
- The State of the Colleges
- CHAPTER
- Westward Expansion
- Tyler’s Troubles
- The Webster-Ashburton Treaty
- The Texas Question
- Manifest Destiny
- Life on the Trail
- California and Oregon
- Women’s Roles? ■Debating the PastDid the Frontier Change
- The Election of
- Polk as President
- War with Mexico
- To the Halls of Montezuma
- The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- United States The Fruits of Victory: Further Enlargement of the
- Slavery: Storm Clouds Gather
- The Election of
- The Gold Rush
- The Compromise of
- ■Re-Viewing the Past The Alamo
- CHAPTER
- Ways The Sections Go Their Own
- The South
- The Economics of Slavery
- Antebellum Plantation Life
- The Sociology of Slavery
- Psychological Effects of Slavery
- ■American Lives Sojourner Truth
- Manufacturing in the South
- The Northern Industrial Juggernaut
- Emotional Bonds? ■Debating the PastDid Slaves and Masters Form
- 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
- Iron, Oil, and Electricity
- Indispensable? ■Mapping the Past Were the Railroads
- 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
- Regulation The Government Reacts to Big Business: Railroad
- Sherman Antitrust Act The Government Reacts to Big Business: The
- The Labor Union Movement
- The American Federation of Labor
- Labor Militancy Rebuffed
- Whither America, Whither Democracy?
- CHAPTER
- Age American Society in the Industrial
- Middle-Class Life
- Skilled and Unskilled Workers
- Working Women
- Working-Class Family Life
- Working-Class Attitudes
- Working Your Way Up
- The “New” Immigration
- New Immigrants Face New Nativism
- ■Debating the PastDid Immigrants Assimilate?
- The Expanding City and Its Problems
- Teeming Tenements
- Strikes the Nation ■Mapping the Past Cholera: A New Disease
- The Cities Modernize
- Leisure Activities: More Fun and Games
- Christianity’s Conscience and the Social Gospel
- The Settlement Houses
- Civilization and Its Discontents
- CHAPTER
- the Late Nineteenth Century Intellectual and Cultural Trends in
- Colleges and Universities
- Revolution in the Social Sciences
- Progressive Education
- Law and History
- ■American Lives Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Iron, Oil, and Electricity
- ■Re-Viewing the Past Glory
- Winners, Losers, and the Future
- CHAPTER
- Reconstruction and the South
- The Assassination of Lincoln
- Presidential Reconstruction
- Republican Radicals
- Congress Rejects Johnsonian Reconstruction
- The Fourteenth Amendment
- The Reconstruction Acts
- Congress Supreme
- The Fifteenth Amendment
- Governments Corrupt? ■Debating the PastWere Reconstruction
- Carpetbaggers “Black Republican” Reconstruction: Scalawags and
- Reconstruction ■Mapping the Past The Politics of
- The Ravaged Land
- Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System
- The White Backlash
- Grant as President
- The Disputed Election of
- The Compromise of
- ■Re-Viewing the Past Cold Mountain
- CHAPTER
- The Conquest of the West
- 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
- Farmers Struggle to Keep Up
- Individualism and Democracy? ■Debating the PastDid the Frontier Promote
- Farming as Big Business
- Western Railroad Building
- The Cattle Kingdom
- Open-Range Ranching
- ■American Lives Nat Love
- Barbed-Wire Warfare
- CHAPTER
- An Industrial Giant Emerges
- Essentials of Industrial Growth
- Railroads: The First Big Business
- Breakup of the Republican Party xiv Contents
- The Election of
- Wilson: The New Freedom
- The Progressives and Minority Rights
- Black Militancy
- CHAPTER
- 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
- America The United States in the Caribbean and Central
- ■American Lives Frederick Funston
- The Open Door Policy in China
- The Panama Canal
- Imperialism without Colonies
- CHAPTER
- War Woodrow Wilson and the Great
- Wilson’s “Moral” Diplomacy
- Europe Explodes in War
- ■Re-Viewing the Past Titanic
- Freedom of the Seas
- The Election of
- 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
- The Red Scare
- The Election of
- CHAPTER
- Change and Adjustment Postwar Society and Culture:
- Closing the Gates to New Immigrants
- Realism in Literature
- Mark Twain
- William Dean Howells
- Henry James
- Realism in Art
- The Pragmatic Approach
- The Knowledge Revolution
- CHAPTER
- Wildfire: 1877–1896 From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie
- Congress Ascendant
- Recurrent Issues
- Party Politics: Sidestepping the Issues
- Lackluster Presidents: From Hayes to Harrison
- Reconstruction African Americans in the South After
- for African Americans Booker T. Washington: A “Reasonable” Champion
- City Bosses
- Crops and Complaints
- The Populist Movement
- Showdown on Silver
- The Depression of
- The Election of
- or Potent Grass-Roots Protest? ■Debating the PastPopulism—Crusade of Cranks
- The Meaning of the Election
- Populist Challenge ■Mapping the Past Agrarian Discontent and the
- CHAPTER
- 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
- ■American Lives Emma Goldman
- State Social Legislation
- Political Reform: The Woman Suffrage Movement
- Theodore Roosevelt: Cowboy in the White House
- Roosevelt and Big Business
- Looking? ■Debating the PastWere the Progressives Forward-
- Roosevelt and the Coal Strike
- TR’s Triumphs
- Roosevelt Tilts Left
- More Is Less William Howard Taft: The Listless Progressive, or
- Roosevelt Tries to Undermine the Supreme Court
- The New Deal Winds Down
- ■Debating the PastDid the New Deal Succeed?
- 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 Asia and Europe
- A Third Term for FDR
- The Undeclared War
- ■Re-Viewing the Past Cinderella Man
- CHAPTER
- War and Peace: 1941–1945
- The Road to Pearl Harbor
- Mobilizing the Home Front
- The War Economy
- War and Social Change
- Indians Minorities in Time of War: Blacks, Hispanics, and
- The Treatment of German and Italian Americans
- Internment of Japanese Americans
- Women’s Contributions to the War Effort
- Allied Strategy: Europe First
- Germany Overwhelmed
- The Naval War in the Pacific
- ■Re-Viewing the Past Saving Private Ryan
- Island Hopping
- Building the Atom Bomb
- Dropped on Japan? ■Debating the PastShould A-Bombs Have Been
- Wartime Diplomacy
- Allied Suspicion of Stalin
- Yalta and Potsdam
- CHAPTER
- Home: 1946–1960 Collision Courses, Abroad and at
- The Postwar Economy
- Truman Becomes President
- The Containment Policy
- The Atom Bomb: A “Winning” Weapon?
- A Turning Point in Greece
- The Marshall Plan and the Lesson of History
- The Election of
- Containing Communism Abroad
- Hot War in Korea
- The Communist Issue at Home
- More Is Less William Howard Taft: The Listless Progressive, or
- New Urban Social Patterns
- The Younger Generation
- ■Re-Viewing the Past Chicago
- The “New” Woman
- Popular Culture: Movies and Radio
- Absorption? ■Debating the PastThe 1920s: A Decade of Self-
- The Golden Age of Sports
- Urban–Rural Conflicts: Fundamentalism
- Urban–Rural Conflicts: Prohibition
- The Ku Klux Klan
- Literary Trends
- The “New Negro”
- Economic Expansion
- The Age of the Consumer
- Henry Ford
- The Airplane
- CHAPTER
- Collapse: 1921–1933 From “Normalcy” to Economic
- Harding and “Normalcy”
- “The Business of the United States is Business”
- The Harding Scandals
- ■Re-Viewing the Past There Will Be Blood
- Coolidge Prosperity
- Peace Without a Sword
- The Peace Movement
- The Good Neighbor Policy
- The Totalitarian Challenge
- War Debts and Reparations
- The Election of
- Economic Problems
- The Stock Market Crash of
- Hoover and the Depression
- The Economy Hits Bottom
- The Depression and Its Victims
- The Election of
- CHAPTER
- The New Deal: 1933–1941
- The Hundred Days
- The National Recovery Administration (NRA)
- The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
- The Dust Bowl
- The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
- The New Deal Spirit
- The Unemployed
- Literature During the Depression
- Three Extremists: Long, Coughlin, and Townsend
- The Second New Deal
- The Election of
- The Election of xvi Contents
- Reagan as President
- Four More Years
- “The Reagan Revolution”
- The New Merger Movement
- “A Job for Life”: Layoffs Hit Home
- Corporate Restructuring
- Rogue Foreign Policy
- ■American Lives Bill Gates
- Assessing the Reagan Revolution
- The Election of
- George H. W. Bush as President
- The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
- The War in the Persian Gulf
- Deficits
- CHAPTER
- From Boomers to Millennials
- The New Immigration
- ■American Lives Barack Obama
- The Emergence of Modern Feminism
- Roe v. Wade
- Conservative Counterattack
- The Rise of Gay and Lesbian Rights
- AIDS
- Publicly Gay
- Crime and Punishment
- Crack and Urban Gangs
- Violence and Popular Culture
- From Main Street to Mall to Internet
- From Community to Facebook
- Greying of the Boomers
- CHAPTER
- 1992–Present Shocks and Responses:
- A New Face: Bill Clinton
- The Election of
- A New Start: Clinton as President
- Emergence of the Republican Majority
- The Election of
- Clinton Impeached
- Clinton’s Legacy
- The Economic Boom and the Internet
- One Vote The 2000 Election: George W. Bush Wins by
- The New Terrorism
- September 11,
- America Fights Back: War in Afghanistan
- The Second Iraq War
- 2004: Bush Wins a Second Term
- 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
- Fighting the Cold War at Home
- Blacks Challenge Segregation
- Boycott Direct Action Protests: The Montgomery Bus
- The Election of
- ■American Lives Martin Luther King, Jr.
- CHAPTER
- 1961–1975 From Camelot to Watergate:
- Kennedy in Camelot
- The Cuban Crises
- JFK’s Vietnam War
- “We Shall Overcome”: The Civil Rights Movement
- Tragedy in Dallas: JFK Assassinated
- Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Great Society
- BrownDecision ■Mapping the Past School Segregation After the
- New Racial Turmoil
- From the “Beat Movement” to Student Radicalism
- Johnson Escalates the War
- The Election of
- Nixon as President: “Vietnamizing” the War
- The Cambodian “Incursion”
- Détente with Communism
- Nixon in Triumph
- Domestic Policy Under Nixon
- The Watergate Break-in and Cover-up
- The Judgment on Watergate: “Expletive Deleted”
- Nixon Resigns, Ford Becomes President
- CHAPTER
- Running on Empty: 1975–1991
- The Oil Crisis
- Ford as President
- The Fall of South Vietnam
- Ford versus Carter
- The Carter Presidency
- A National Malaise
- Stagflation: The Weird Economy
- “Constant Decency” in Action
- The Iran Crisis: Origins
- The Iran Crisis: Carter’s Dilemma
- Health Care Reform
- Immigration Reform
- Environmental Concerns and Disaster in the Gulf
- Afghanistan, Again
- The Persistent Past and Imponderable Future
- Appendix A
- Glossary G
- Credits C
- Index I
- Right? ■Debating the PastDo Historians Ever Get It
- Crime: Good News and Bad
- Hurricane Katrina
- Iraq Insurgency and Bush’s “Surge”
- ■American Lives Four Heroes
- 2008: McCain v. Obama
- Financial Meltdown
- “Yes We Can”: Obama Elected President
- Obama as President
- Major Indian Cultures, AD 1–1500 Maps
- and Africa, AD Population of Major Civilizations of Europe, Asia,
- European Voyages of Discovery
- Columbian Exchange
- Great English Migration, 1630–1650
- 1584–1650 European Footholds Along the Atlantic,
- Spain’s North American Frontier, c.
- English Colonies on the Atlantic Seaboard
- Atlantic Slave Trade, 1451–1870
- Ethnic Groups of Eastern North America,
- British Successes, 1758–1763
- Victory, European Claims in North America after British
- Proclamation of
- 1776–1777 New York and New Jersey Campaigns,
- Saratoga Campaign, September 19 to October 17,
- Campaign in the South, 1779–1781
- The Yorktown Campaign, April to September
- Confederation, The United States under the Articles of
- The United States and Its Territories, 1787–1802
- The Wild Election of
- Louisiana Purchase
- The War of
- The United States,
- The Missouri Compromise,
- Population Density,
- Population Density,
- Canals and Roads, 1820–1850
- The Rise of the Second American Party System,
- Indian Removals
- Osceola’s Rebellion
- New England Roots of Utopian Communities
- Trails West
- The War with Mexico, 1846–1848
- Missouri Compromise
- Compromise of
- Cotton and Slaves in the South,
- The Potato Famine and Irish Emigration
- Railroads,
- Agriculture,
- Free Blacks in
- “Bleeding Kansas”
- Presidential Election,
- Secession of the South, 1860–1861
- Battles in the West
- War in the East, 1861–1862
- Gettysburg Campaign,
- Vicksburg Campaign
- Toward Lee’s Surrender in Virginia, 1864–1865
- 1864–1865 Sherman Pierces the Heart of the South,
- Sharecroppings,
- South Loses the Union Army, The Republicans Gain the Presidency, the White
- Indian Wars, 1860–1890
- Loss of Indian Lands, 1850-2010
- Squeezing the Indians Economically, 1850–1893
- Firms Incorporated into U.S. Steel
- United States, German and Irish Settlement in the Northeastern
- by Counties, Foreign or Mixed Parentage in Total Population,
- Urban Socialism
- Rural Socialism
- The Advance of Woman Suffrage
- 1912: Divided Republicans, Democratic Victory
- The Course of Empire, 1867–1901
- Spanish-American War: Caribbean Theater,
- Air Relief to Berlin, 1948–1949
- Korean War, 1950–1953
- Election of
- August 11, Violence and Segregation in Watts, Los Angeles,
- The Vietnam War, 1961–1978
- Success of the Republican “Southern Strategy”
- The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
- The Middle East
- (1973) State Laws on Abortion prior to Roe v. Wade
- Abortion Rates by State,
- 1972–1982 Failure of the Equal Rights Amendment,
- The Spread of AIDS in Ohio, 1982–1990
- Racial Shifts in St. Louis During the 1950s
- Growth of Suburban St. Louis, 1950–1960
- War in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2001–Present
- Present-Day United States M
- Present-Day World M
- America The United States in the Caribbean and Central
- The U.S. Panama Canal
- The Western Front,
- Europe before the Great War
- Europe after the Great War
- Ottoman Empire and the Arab World,
- Dismantling the Ottoman Empire, 1919–1920
- Population Losses in the South
- The Advance of Prohibition
- The Making of Black Harlem
- The Roosevelt Political Revolution,
- The Tennessee Valley Authority
- Japanese Expansion, 1920–1941
- German Expansion, 1936–1939
- 1942–1945 Japanese Relocation from the West Coast,
- The Liberation of Europe
- World War II Pacific Theatre
- Recipients of Marshall Plan Aid, 1948–1952
- Colonial Trade with England, 1700–1774 Graphs
- American Foreign Trade, 1790–1812
- 1800–1860 Cotton Production and Slave Population,
- Prices for Cotton and for Slaves, 1802–1860
- Rural versus Urban Population, 1820–1860
- Men Present for Service During the Civil War
- Casualities of the Civil War
- Immigration, 1860–1910
- Urban Socialism
- Rural Socialism
- North and South Carolina, 1870–1940 Black and White Out-Migration from Virginia and
- Unemployment and Federal Action, 1929–1941
- Paid Workforce, 1950–2005, by Gender
- Annual Federal Deficit (and Surplus), 1992–2010
- The Increasing Cost of Health Care, 1960–
- (% increase)