Exploring American Histories, Value Edition, Volume 2

The Combined Volume includes all chapters.　
Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-14.　
Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-29.

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Preface
Versions and Supplements
Maps, Figures, and Tables
How to Use This Book 　

 

Chapter 14

Emancipation and Reconstruction, 1863–1877 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Jefferson Long and Andrew Johnson 

Emancipation 

African Americans Embrace Freedom 

Reuniting Families Torn Apart by Slavery 

Freedom to Learn 

Freedom to Worship and the Leadership Role of Black Churches 

National Reconstruction 

Abraham Lincoln Plans for Reunification 

Andrew Johnson and Presidential Reconstruction 

Johnson and Congressional Resistance 

Congressional Reconstruction 

The Struggle for Universal Suffrage 

Remaking the South 

Whites Reconstruct the South 

Black Political Participation and Economic Opportunities 

White Resistance to Congressional Reconstruction 

The Unraveling of Reconstruction 

The Republican Retreat 

Congressional and Judicial Retreat 

The Presidential Compromise of 1876 

Conclusion: The Legacies of Reconstruction 

Chapter Review 

 

Chapter 15

The West, 1865–1896 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Annie Oakley and Geronimo 

Opening the West 

The Great Plains 

Federal Policy and Foreign Investment 

Indians and Resistance to Expansion 

Indian Civilizations 

Federal Policy toward Indians before 1870

Reconstruction and Indians

Indian Defeat 

Reforming Indian Policy 

Indian Assimilation and Resistance 

The Mining and Lumber Industries 

The Business of Mining 

Life in the Mining Towns 

The Lumber Boom 

The Cattle Industry and Commercial Farming 

The Life of the Cowboy 

The Rise of Commercial Ranching 

Commercial Farming 

Women Homesteaders 

Farming on the Great Plains 

Diversity in the Far West 

Mormons 

Californios and Mexican Americans 

The Chinese 

Conclusion: The Ambiguous Legacy of the West 

Chapter Review 

 

Chapter 16

Industrial America, 1877–1900 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Andrew Carnegie and John Sherman 

America Industrializes 

The New Industrial Economy 

Innovation and Inventions 

Building a New South 

Industrial Consolidation

The Growth of Corporations 

Laissez-Faire, Social Darwinism, and Their Critics 

The Doctrines of Success 

Challenges to Laissez-Faire

Society and Culture in the Gilded Age 

Wealthy and Middle-Class Leisure-Time Pursuits 

Changing Gender Roles 

Black America and Jim Crow 

National Politics in the Era of Industrialization 

The Weak Presidency 

Congressional Inefficiency 

The Business of Politics 

An Energized and Entertained Electorate 

Conclusion: Industrial America 

Chapter Review 

 

Chapter 17

Workers and Farmers in the Age of Organization, 1877–1900 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

John McLuckie and Mary Elizabeth Lease 

Working People Organize 

The Industrialization of Labor 

Organizing Unions 

Clashes between Workers and Owners 

Working-Class Leisure in Industrial America 

Farmers Organize 

Farmers Unite 

Populists Rise Up  

The Depression of the 1890s 

Depression Politics 

Political Realignment in the Election of 1896 

The Decline of the Populists  

Conclusion: A Passion for Organization 

Chapter Review

 

Chapter 18

Cities, Immigrants, and the Nation, 1880–1914 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Beryl Lassin and Maria Vik Takacs 

A New Wave of Immigrants 

Immigrants Arrive from Many Lands 

Creating Immigrant Communities 

Hostility toward Recent Immigrants 

The Assimilation Dilemma  

Becoming an Urban Nation 

The New Industrial City 

Expand Upward and Outward 

How the Other Half Lived 

Urban Politics at the Turn of the Century 

Political Machines and City Bosses 

Urban Reformers 

Conclusion: A Nation of Cities 

Chapter Review

 

Chapter 19

Progressivism and the Search for Order, 1900–1917 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Gifford Pinchot and Gene Stratton-Porter 

The Roots of Progressivism 

Progressive Origins  

Muckrakers 

Humanitarian and Social Justice Reform 

Female Progressives and the Poor 

Fighting for Women’s Suffrage 

Progressivism and African Americans  

Progressivism and Indians 

Morality and Social Control 

Prohibition 

Prostitution, Narcotics, and Juvenile Delinquency 

Birth Control 

Immigration Restriction 

Good Government Progressivism  　 　

Municipal and State Reform 

Conservation and Preservation of the Environment 

Presidential Progressivism 

Theodore Roosevelt and the Square Deal 

Taft Retreats from Progressivism 

The Election of 1912 

Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom Agenda 

Conclusion: The Progressive Legacy 

Chapter Review

 

Chapter 20

Empire, Wars, and Pandemic, 1898–1919 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Alfred Thayer Mahan and José Martí 

The Awakening of Imperialism 

The Economics of Expansion 

Cultural Justifications for Imperialism 

Gender and Empire  

The War with Spain 

Revolution in Cuba 

The War of 1898 

The Pacification of Cuba 

The Philippine War 

Extending U.S. Imperialism, 1899–1913 

Theodore Roosevelt and "Big Stick" Diplomacy 

Opening the Door in China 

Wilson and American Foreign Policy, 1912–1917 

Diplomacy and War 

Making the World Safe for Democracy 

Fighting the War at Home 

Government by Commission 

Winning Hearts and Minds 

1918-19 Influenza Pandemic

Waging Peace 

The Failure of Ratification 

Conclusion: A U.S. Empire

Chapter Review

 　

Chapter 21　

The Twenties, 1919–1929 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

D. C. Stephenson and Ossian Sweet 

Social Turmoil 

The Red Scare, 1919–1920  

Racial Violence in the Postwar Era 

Prosperity, Consumption, and Growth 

Government Promotion of the Economy 

Americans Become Consumers 

Urbanization 

Perilous Prosperity 

Challenges to Social Conventions 

Breaking with the Old Morality 

The Harlem Renaissance 

Marcus Garvey and Black Nationalism 

Culture Wars 

Prohibition 

Nativists versus Immigrants 

Resurrection of the Ku Klux Klan 

Fundamentalism versus Modernism 

Politics and the Fading of Prosperity 

The Battle for the Soul of the Democratic Party 

Lingering Progressivism 

Financial Crash 　　　　

Conclusion: The Transitional Twenties 

Chapter Review

 　

Chapter 22　

Depression, Dissent, and the New Deal, 1929–1940 

AMERICAN HISTORIES

Eleanor Roosevelt and Luisa Moreno 

The Great Depression 

Hoover Faces the Depression 

Hoovervilles and Dust Storms 

Challenges for Racial Minorities  

Families under Strain 

Organized Protest 

The New Deal 

Roosevelt Restores Confidence 

Steps toward Recovery 

Direct Assistance and Relief 

New Deal Critics  

The New Deal Moves to the Left 

Expanding Relief Measures 

Establishing Social Security 

Organized Labor Strikes Back

A Half Deal for Racial Minorities　

Decline of the New Deal 

Conclusion: New Deal Liberalism 

Chapter Review

 

Chapter 23

World War II, 1933–1945 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

J. Robert Oppenheimer and Fred Korematsu 

The Road toward War 

The Growing Crisis in Europe 

The Challenge to Isolationism 

The United States Enters the War 

The Home-Front Economy 

Managing the Wartime Economy

New Opportunities for Women 

Everyday Life on the Home Front 

Fighting for Equality at Home 

The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement 

Struggles for Mexican Americans 

American Indians 

The Ordeal of Japanese Americans  

Global War 

War in Europe 

War in the Pacific 

Ending the War 

Evidence of the Holocaust 

Conclusion: The Impact of World War II 

Chapter Review

 

Chapter 24

The Opening of the Cold War, 1945–1961 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

George Kennan and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg 

The Origins of the Cold War, 1945–1947 

Mutual Misunderstandings 

The Truman Doctrine 

The Marshall Plan and Economic Containment 

The Cold War Hardens, 1948–1953 

Military Containment  

The Korean War 

The Korean War and the Imperial Presidency 

Combating Communism at Home, 1945–1954 

Loyalty and the Second Red Scare 

McCarthyism 

The Cold War Expands, 1953 –1961 

Nuclear Weapons and Containment 

Decolonization

Interventions in the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa 

Early Intervention in Vietnam, 1954–1960 

Conclusion: The Cold War and Anticommunism 

Chapter Review

 

Chapter 25

Troubled Innocence, 1945–1961 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Alan Freed and Grace Metalious 

Peacetime Transition and the Boom Years 

Peacetime Challenges, 1945–1948 

Economic Conversion and Labor Discontent 

Truman, the New Deal Coalition, and the Election of 1948 

Economic Boom 

Baby Boom 

Changes in Living Patterns 

The Culture of the 1950s 

The Rise of Television 

Wild Ones on the Big Screen 

The Influence of Teenage Culture

The Lives of Women 

Religious Revival 

Beats and Other Nonconformists 

The Growth of the Civil Rights Movement 

The Rise of the Southern Civil Rights Movement 

School Segregation and the Supreme Court 

The Montgomery Bus Boycott 

White Resistance to Desegregation 

The Sit-Ins 

Civil Rights Struggles in the North

Civil Rights Struggles in the West 

Domestic Politics in the Eisenhower Era 

Modern Republicanism 

The Election of 1960 

Conclusion: Postwar Politics and Culture 

Chapter Review 

　

Chapter 26

Liberalism and Its Challengers, 1960–1973 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Earl Warren and Bayard Rustin 

The Politics of Liberalism 

Kennedy’s New Frontier 

Kennedy, the Cold War, and Cuba 

The Civil Rights Movement Intensifies, 1961–1968 

Freedom Rides 

Kennedy Supports Civil Rights 

Freedom Summer and Voting Rights 

Civil Rights and Black Power 

Federal Efforts toward Social Reform, 1964–1968 

The Great Society 

The Warren Court 　

The Vietnam War, 1961–1969 

Kennedy’s Intervention in South Vietnam 

Johnson Escalates the War in Vietnam 

Challenges to the Liberal Establishment 

The New Left 

The Counterculture 

Liberation Movements 

The Revival of Conservatism

Conclusion: Liberalism and Its Discontents 

Chapter Review 　

　

Chapter 27

The Swing toward Conservatism, 1968–1980 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Pauli Murray and Louise Day Hicks 　 　

Nixon: War and Diplomacy, 1969–1974 

The Election of 1968 

The Failure of Vietnamization  

The Cold War Thaws　 　

Crisis in the Middle East and at Home　

Nixon and Politics, 1969–1974

Pragmatic Conservatism 

The Nixon Landslide and Watergate Scandal, 1972–1974 

The Presidency of Jimmy Carter, 1976–1980 

Jimmy Carter and the Limits of Affluence 

The Perils of Détente

Challenges in the Middle East

The Persistence of Liberalism in the 1970s 

Popular Culture

Women’s Movement　 　

Environmentalism 　 　 　 　

Racial Struggles Continue 

Mexican Americans Challenge Discrimination

The New Right Rises  

Tax Revolt

Neo-Conservatism

Christian Conservatism　

Conclusion: The Swing toward Conservatism 

Chapter Review 

　

Chapter 28

The Triumph of Conservatism, the End of the Cold War, and the Rise of the New World Order, 1980–1992

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

George Shultz and Demetria Martinez 

The Reagan Revolution 

Reagan and Reaganomics 

The Implementation of Social Conservatism 

Reagan and the End of the Cold War, 1981–1988

"The Evil Empire"　 　 　 　

Human Rights and the Fight against Communism 

Fighting International Terrorism 

The Nuclear Freeze Movement 

The Road to Nuclear De-escalation 

The Presidency of George H. W. Bush, 1989–1993 

"Kinder and Gentler" Conservatism 

The Breakup of the Soviet Union　

Globalization and the New World Order 

Managing Conflict after the Cold War 

The 1992 Election 　 　 　 　

Conclusion: Conservative Ascendancy and the End of the Cold War 

Chapter Review 　

　

Chapter 29

The Challenges of a Globalized World, 1993 to the present 

COMPARING AMERICAN HISTORIES

Bill Gates and Alicia Garza

Transforming American Society 

The Computer Revolution 

The Changing American Population 　

Political Polarization and Globalization in the Clinton Years 

Politics during the Clinton Administration  

Global Challenges 

The Presidency of George W. Bush 

Bush and Compassionate Conservatism 

The Iraq War 

Bush’s Second Term 

The Challenges Faced by President Barack Obama 

The Great Recession 

Obama and the Great Recession

The 2010 Revolt Against Obama

Obama’s Second Term

Latinos and Immigration

Asian Americans

African Americans and Institutional Racism

The Native American Struggle Continued

Obama and the World

The Presidency of Donald Trump　 　 　 　 　

The 2016 Election 　 　 　 　

The Trump Presidency

Pandemic, Protests, and Politics　

Conclusion: Technology and Terror in a Global Society 

Chapter Review