Brief ContentsBrief Contents
viiCHAPTER 19 Intellectual and Cultural Trends in
the Late Nineteenth Century 510
CHAPTER 20 From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie
Wildfire: 1877–1896 528
CHAPTER 21 The Age of Reform 554
CHAPTER 22 From Isolation to Empire 584
CHAPTER 23 Woodrow Wilson and the Great
War 610
CHAPTER 24 Postwar Society and Culture:
Change and Adjustment 638
CHAPTER 25 From “Normalcy” to Economic
Collapse: 1921–1933 664
CHAPTER 26 The New Deal: 1933–1941 684
CHAPTER 27 War and Peace: 1941–1945 712
CHAPTER 28 Collision Courses, Abroad and at
Home: 1946–1960 736
CHAPTER 29 From Camelot to Watergate:
1961–1975 764
CHAPTER 30 Running on Empty:
1975–1991 796
CHAPTER 31 From Boomers to Millennials 820
CHAPTER 32 Shocks and Responses:
1992–Present 848PROLOGUE Beginnings 2
CHAPTER 1 Alien Encounters: Europe in the
Americas 18
CHAPTER 2 American Society in the Making 52
CHAPTER 3 America in the British Empire 80
CHAPTER 4 The American Revolution 112
CHAPTER 5 The Federalist Era: Nationalism
Triumphant 142
CHAPTER 6 Jeffersonian Democracy 170
CHAPTER 7 National Growing Pains 194
CHAPTER 8 Toward a National Economy 222
CHAPTER 9 Jacksonian Democracy 246CHAPTER 10 The Making of Middle-Class
America 268
CHAPTER 11 Westward Expansion 296
CHAPTER 12 The Sections Go Their Own
Ways 320
CHAPTER 13 The Coming of the Civil War 344
CHAPTER 14 The War to Save the Union 370
CHAPTER 15 Reconstruction and the South 402
CHAPTER 16 The Conquest of the West 434
CHAPTER 17 An Industrial Giant Emerges 456CHAPTER 18 American Society in the Industrial
Age 484