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America's History: Concise Edition, Volume 2

Ninth Edition ©2018 Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert O. Self; James A. Henretta

Known for its clear, insightful analytical narrative and balanced approach, America’s History, Concise Edition is a brief, affordable text that brings America’s diverse past to life. The Concise Edition features the full narrative of the parent text, select images and maps, built-in...

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A brief text that helps your students understand why history matters

Known for its clear, insightful analytical narrative and balanced approach, America’s History, Concise Edition is a brief, affordable text that brings America’s diverse past to life. The Concise Edition features the full narrative of the parent text, select images and maps, built-in primary sources and skills-based pedagogy that gives students practice in thinking historically. Enhanced with a wealth of digital content in LaunchPad, the ninth edition provides easily assignable options for instructors and novel ways for students to master the content. Integrated with LearningCurve's, an adaptive online resource that helps students retain the material and come to class prepared.

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A big picture, analytical focus helps students understand not just what happened, but why. With its hallmark interpretive voice and thoughtful analysis, America's History helps students make sense of the past so they're never left wondering what's important. A variety of learning tools from the beginning to the end of each chapter support this "Big Idea" focus, while fostering critical thinking and guiding students in their reading.

A unique nine-part framework highlights key developments. America's History's periodizes history into nine distinct eras, each characterized by major developments and an overarching theme. Each part features a Thematic Timeline with a "Thematic Understanding" question that helps students identify the important forces shaping each period, to make connections between chapters, and to understand continuity and change over time.

A comprehensive document program offers students practice in document analysis. Two types of primary source features in every chapter offer many opportunities for assignment and discussion: "America in Global Context" gives students practice in comparison and data analysis using primary sources and data to situate U.S. history in a global context; and "Thinking Like a Historian" asks students to analyze a group of documents and use the evidence to create an argument. Free when packaged, the new edition of the companion reader, Sources of America’s History, offers a wealth of additional primary documents.

An author team of leading scholars and veteran teachers make the best of the new scholarship accessible and relevant. Rebecca Edwards, and Robert Self, and Eric Hinderaker bring fresh perspectives, new scholarship, and in particular, an increased attention to native peoples and emphasis on global context.

Emphasis on developing historical thinking skills. Students will gain proficiency in historical thinking skills via marginal review questions that ask students to "Identify Causes," "Trace Change over Time," and "Understand Points of View." "Making Connections" and "Turning Point" questions in the chapter review section ask students to consider broader historical issues, developments, and periodization.

LaunchPad helps you do more than you can with print alone. Free when packaged with the book,　LaunchPad’s course space and interactive e-book is ready to use as is, or can be edited and customized with your own material and assigned right away. Developed with extensive feedback from history instructors and students, LaunchPad includes the complete narrative e-book, as well as abundant primary documents, maps, images, assignments and activities. The aims of key learning outcomes are addressed via formative and summative assessment, short answer and essay questions, multiple choice quizzing, and LearningCurve, an adaptive learning tool designed to get students to read before they come to class. Available with training and support, LaunchPad can help you take your teaching into a new era.

LearningCurve ensures students come to class prepared. Tired of your students not reading the textbook? Would you like to know what they read and how much they understood—BEFORE they come to class? Assign LearningCurve, the adaptive learning tool created for your survey textbook in LaunchPad , and the system’s analytics will show how your students are doing with the reading so that you can adapt your class as needed. Each chapter-based LearningCurve activity gives students multiple chances to understand key concepts, return to the narrative textbook if they need to reread, and answer questions correctly. Over 90% of students report satisfaction with LearningCurve fun and accessible game-like interface. LearningCurve appeals to students so that they engage with the textbook, and it helps you to know what they know before class begins.　

A range of options offers convenience and value. In addition to the standard bound textbook, this edition is also available in convenient, discount-priced loose-leaf and e-book formats and in an interactive e-book format in the text’s dedicated version of LaunchPad, with all accompanying study resources fully integrated. LaunchPad is a complete course’s worth of material in a course space that makes everything assignable and assessable—and all for free when packaged with the textbook. 　

New to This Edition

New secondary sources feature "Interpretations" brings historical argumentation into each chapter. Students read two short passages from scholarly works that offer different interpretations of the same event or period. By examining the passages side-by-side and responding to the questions, students learn how historians interpret evidence, weigh facts, and arrive at their conclusions.

Thoroughly revised chapters on the early republic and antebellum America (Part 4) draws on the most recent scholarship in the field and incorporates five chapters into four.

Revised chapters on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Part 6) provide greater focus on cultural change in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

New section-review questions "In Your Own Words" help students articulate the main points of the section.　

New on-page glossary defines key terms to aid student understanding.

Revised and expanded chapter review sections help students grasp the chapter contents and make connections to other chapters, themes, and events in the textbook

New source-based questions in the test bank and in the LearningCurve adaptive learning tool in LaunchPad give instructors easier ways to test students on their understanding of sources in the book.

Questions in the online test bank can now be sorted by chapter learning objectives. This ability to sort allows instructors to test portions of the chapters, making it easier to see what major concepts students need to work on. The test bank is also tagged to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's Student Learning Outcomes for History 1301 (U.S. History to ​1877​) and History ​1302 (U.S. History ​Since 1865).　　

This is a well-structured book that addresses important events and offers the viewpoints of the ordinary people who shaped history. The combination of text, images, timelines, primary documents, as well as a good selection of "small picture" and "big picture" questions appeals to various learning styles of students.
―Petra DeWitt, Missouri University of Science and Technology

America’s History is both informative and engaging. With its myriad attributes, ranging from digital interaction to theme analysis, America’s History is sure to please.
―Whitney Snow, Midwestern State University

This is an excellent textbook that is distinguished mostly by its sensitivity toward new perspectives on early American history. I like the way that it is organized and written so that debates and discussions within our fields and discipline are relatively transparent compared to the panoptic voices offered by competing U.S. textbooks. The special features are useful and well-edited, and I appreciate how they do not interrupt the main textual narrative.
―Michael Wise, University of North Texas

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Table of Contents

Please note:
Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-15
Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-30

NOTE: LaunchPad material that does not appear in the print book – including guided reading exercises, source feature quizzes, LearningCurve adaptive quizzes, summative quizzes, all of the documents from the companion reader – has been labeled on this table of contents as shown. Each chapter in LaunchPad also comes with a wealth of additional documents, videos, key terms flashcards, map quizzes, and much more, all of which can be easily integrated and assigned.

Preface

Versions and Supplements

Brief Contents

Contents

Maps, Figures, and Tables

14. Reconstruction, 1865–1877

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

The Struggle for National Reconstruction

Presidential Approaches: From Lincoln to Johnson

Congress Versus the President

Radical Reconstruction

Women’s Rights Denied

The Meaning of Freedom

The Quest for Land

Republican Governments in the South

Building Black Communities

The Undoing of Reconstruction

The Republicans Unravel

Counterrevolution in the South

Reconstruction Rolled Back

The Political Crisis of 1877

Lasting Legacies

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context Labor Laws After Emancipation: Haiti and the United States

Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian The South’s "Lost Cause"

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Interpretations How Free Were Freedwomen in Reconstruction?

Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad

Analyzing Voices The Impact of Terror LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

　

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 14 LaunchPad

Document 14-1: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Last Public Address (1865)

Quiz for Document 14-1 LaunchPad

Document 14-2: BETTY POWERS, Federal Writers’ Project Interview (c. 1936)

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Document 14-3: FRANCES BUTLER LEIGH, Letter to a Friend in England (1867)

Quiz for Document 14-3 LaunchPad

Document 14-4: CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS JR., The Protection of the Ballot in National Elections (1869)

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Document 14-5: THOMAS NAST, Colored Rule in a Reconstructed State (1874)

Quiz for Document 14-5 LaunchPad

Document 14-6: ROBERT BROWNE ELLIOTT, Speech to Congress (1874)

Quiz for Document 14-6 LaunchPad

15. Conquering a Continent, 1860–1890

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

The Republican Vision

The New Union and the World

Integrating the National Economy

Incorporating the West

Mining Empires

Cattlemen on the Plains

Homesteaders

The First National Park

A Harvest of Blood: Native Peoples Dispossessed

The Civil War and Indians on the Plains

Grant’s Peace Policy

The End of Armed Resistance

Strategies of Survival

Western Myths and Realities

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context The Santa Fe Railroad in Mexico and the United States

Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian Representing Indians

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Interpretations What Factors Motivated America’s Indian Policies?

Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad

Analyzing Voices Women’s Rights in the West LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

　

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 15 LaunchPad

Document 15-1: Indian Territory, That Garden of the World (c. 1880)

Quiz for Document 15-1 LaunchPad

Document 15-2: CURRIER & IVES, Across the Continent (1868)

Quiz for Document 15-2 LaunchPad

Document 15-3: J. WRIGHT MOOAR, Buffalo Days (1933)

Quiz for Document 15-3 LaunchPad

Document 15-4: FRANCIS A. WALKER, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1872)

Quiz for Document 15-4 LaunchPad

Document 15-5: MOURNING DOVE, A Salishan Autobiography (1990)

Quiz for Document 15-5 LaunchPad

Part 6: 　Industrializing America: Upheavals and Experiments, 1877–1917

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Part 6 LaunchPad

Document P6-1: William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883)

Quiz for Document P6-1 LaunchPad

Document P6-2: WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH , Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)

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Document P6-3: Caroline Ticknor, The Steel-Engraving Lady and the Gibson Girl (1901)

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Document P6-4: Franz Boas, The Mind of Primitive Man (1911)

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Document P6-5: MARCEL DUCHAMP, Nude Descending a Staircase (1912) and J. F. GRISWOLD, "The Rude Descending a Staircase (Rush Hour at the Subway) (1913)

Quiz for Document P6-5 LaunchPad

Document P6-6: Carlos Montezuma, What Indians Must Do (1914)

Quiz for Document P6-6 LaunchPad

16. Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877–1910

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

The Rise of Big Business

Innovators in Enterprise

The Corporate Workplace

On the Shop Floor

Immigrants, East and West

Newcomers from Europe

Asian Americans and Exclusion

Labor Gets Organized

The Emergence of a Labor Movement

The Knights of Labor

Farmers and Workers: The Cooperative Alliance

Another Path: The American Federation of Labor

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context Emigrants and Destinations, 1881–1915

Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian Poverty and Food

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Interpretations How Modern Were Late-Nineteenth-Century Corporations?

Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad

Analyzing Voices Jewish Immigrants in the Industrial Economy LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

　

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 16 LaunchPad

Document 16-1: Andrew Carnegie, Wealth (1889)

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Document 16-2: Terence Powderly, Thirty Years of Labor (1889)

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Document 16-3: Antanas Kaztauskis, Life Story of a Lithuanian (c. 1906)

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Document 16-4: Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

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Document 16-5: Joseph Keppler, Looking Backward (1893)

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Document 16-6: Arthur Twining Hadley, The Good and the Evil of Industrial Combination (1897)

Quiz for Document 16-6 LaunchPad

Chapter 17

Making Modern American Culture, 1880–1917

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

Science and Faith

Darwinism and Its Critics

Religion: Diversity and Innovation

Realism in the Arts

Commerce and Culture

Consumer Spaces

Masculinity and the Rise of Sports

The Great Outdoors

Women, Men, and the Solitude of Self

Changing Families

Education

Toward Women’s Emancipation

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context Christianity in the United States and Japan

Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian WCTU Women "Do Everything"

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Interpretations Was Professional Baseball a National Pastime or a Business Monopoly?

Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad

Analyzing Voices William Graham Sumner and W. E. B. Du Bois on Heredity and Success LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

　

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 17 LaunchPad

Document 17-1: Theodore Roosevelt, Professionalism in Sports (1890)

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Document 17-2: FRANCES BENJAMIN JOHNSTON, Children Doing Calisthenics While Sitting at their Desks (c. 1890s)

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Document 17-3: Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, Educated for What? (1916)

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Document 17-4: THEODORE DREISER, Sister Carrie (1900)

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Document 17-5: Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition Speech (1895)

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Document 17-6: Mary White Ovington, Black and White Sat Down Together: The Reminiscences of an NAACP Founder (1932–1933)

Quiz for Document 17-6 LaunchPad


Chapter 18: "Civilization’s Inferno": The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880–1917

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

The New Metropolis

The Shape of the Industrial City

Newcomers and Neighborhoods

City Cultures

Governing the Great City

Urban Machines

The Limits of Machine Government

Crucibles of Progressive Reform

Fighting Dirt and Vice

The Movement for Social Settlements

Cities and National Politics

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context The World’s Biggest Cities, 1800–2000

Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian Making Mass Media: Newspaper Empires

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Interpretations How Did Urban Progressive Reformers Approach Environmentalism?

Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad

Analyzing Voices "These Dead Bodies Were the Answer": The Triangle Fire LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

　

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 18 LaunchPad

Document 18-1: Luna Park at Night (c. 1913)

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Document 18-2: Jane Addams, Why the Ward Boss Rules (1898)

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Document 18-3: Marie Ganz and Nat J. Ferber, Rebels: Into Anarchy, and Out Again (1920)

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Document 18-4: NEW YORK WORLD, New York Negroes Stage Silent Parade of Protest (1916)

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Document 18-5: CHARLES E. HUGHES, Address to the Second Annual Congress of the Playground Association of America (1908)

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Document 18-6: Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906)

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19. Whose Government? Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880–1917

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

Reform Visions, 1880–1892

Electoral Politics After Reconstruction

The Populist Program

The Political Earthquakes of the 1890s

Depression and Reaction

Democrats and the "Solid South"

New National Realities

Reform Reshaped, 1901–1912

Theodore Roosevelt as President

Diverse Progressive Goals

The Election of 1912

Wilson and the New Freedom, 1913–1917

Economic Reforms

Progressive Legacies

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context Economic Output and Government Social Spending, 1913

Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian Making Modern Presidents

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Interpretations Were the "Gilded Age" and "Progressive Era" Separate Eras?

Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad

Analyzing Voices The Omaha Platform, 1892 LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

　

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 19 LaunchPad

Document 19-1: Omaha Platform (1892)

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Document 19-2: Frederic Howe, The City: The Hope of Democracy (1909)

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Document 19-3: Josephine Conger-Kaneko, What a Socialist Alderman Would Do (1914)

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Document 19-4: U. S. SUPREME COURT, Muller v. Oregon (1908)

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Document 19-5: Theodore Roosevelt, Annual Message to Congress (1907)

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Document 19-6: W. E. B. Du Bois, The Talented Tenth (1903)

Quiz for Document 19-6 LaunchPad

Part 7: 　Domestic and Global Challenges, 1890–1945

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Part 7 LaunchPad

Document P7-1: Citizens Committee of Orchard, Rivington, and East Houston Streets, New York City to William Howard Taft (1912)

Quiz for Document P7-1 LaunchPad

Document P7-2: Horace Kallen, Democracy Versus the Melting Pot (1915)

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Document P7-3: Woman Suffrage in Washington, District of Columbia (c. 1917–1918)

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Document P7-4: W. B. Riley, The Faith of the Fundamentalists (1927)

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Document P7-5: Private Charles F. Wilson to Franklin D. Roosevelt (1944)

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Document P7-6: Luisa Moreno, Caravans of Sorrow (1940)

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20. An Emerging World Power, 1890–1918

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

From Expansion to Imperialism

Foundations of Empire

The War of 1898

Spoils of War

A Power Among Powers

The Open Door in Asia

The United States and Latin America

The United States in World War I

From Neutrality to War

"Over There"

War on the Home Front

Catastrophe at Versailles

The Fate of Wilson’s Ideas

Congress Rejects the Treaty

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context The Human Cost of World War I

Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian German Americans in World War I

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Interpretations Was Wilson’s Internationalism Successful?

Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad

Analyzing Voices Debating the Philippines LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

　

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 20 LaunchPad

Document 20-1: Albert Beveridge, "The March of the Flag" Speech (1898)

Quiz for Document 20-1 LaunchPad

Document 20-2: Liliuokalani, Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen (1898)

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Document 20-3: PUCK, "US President Theodore Roosevelt’s New Diplomacy, ‘Speak Softy and Carry a Big Stick’" (1901)

Quiz for Document 20-3 LaunchPad

Document 20-4: Alfred Bryan and Al Piantadosi, "I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" (1915)

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Document 20-5: The Liberator, Tulsa, November 9th (1918)

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Document 20-6: Woodrow Wilson, War Aims and Peace Terms (1918)

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21. Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919–1932

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

Resurgent Conservatism

The Red Scare

Racial Backlash

The Business of America

The Politics of Normalcy

Making a Modern Consumer Economy

Postwar Abundance

Consumer Culture

The Automobile and Suburbanization

The Politics and Culture of a Diversifying Nation

Women in a New Age

Culture Wars

The Harlem Renaissance

The Coming of the Great Depression

From Boom to Bust

Early Depression Years

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context Hollywood in Europe

Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian Who Joined the Ku Klux Klan?

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Interpretations How Did Immigrants Experience America at the Turn of the Century?

Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad

Analyzing Voices Urban Writers Describe Small-Town America LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

　

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 21 LaunchPad

Document 21-1: BARTOLOMEO VANZETTI, Last Statement to the Court of Massachusetts (1927)

Quiz for Document 21-1 LaunchPad

Document 21-2: CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, Passing the Federal Suffrage Amendment (1918)

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Document 21-3: Platform of the Conference for Progressive Political Action (1924)

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Document 21-4: Billy Sunday, Get on the Water Wagon (1915)

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Document 21-5: LANGSTON HUGHES, "The Weary Blues" (1926)

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Document 21-6 | Advertising the American Dream

Quiz for Document 21-6 LaunchPad

22. Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929–1938

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

Early Responses to the Depression, 1929–1932

Enter Herbert Hoover

Rising Discontent

The 1932 Election

The New Deal Arrives, 1933–1935

Roosevelt and the First Hundred Days

The New Deal Under Attack

The Second New Deal and the Redefining of Liberalism, 1935–1938

The Welfare State Comes into Being

From Reform to Stalemate

The New Deal and American Society

A People’s Democracy

Reshaping the Environment

The New Deal and the Arts

The Legacies of the New Deal

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context Economic Nationalism in the United States and Mexico

Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian The New Deal and Public Works

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Interpretations Was the New Deal a Reform or a Revolution?

Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad

Analyzing Voices Ordinary People Respond to the New Deal LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

　

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 22 LaunchPad

Document 22-1: Herbert Hoover, Letter to Simeon Fess (1933)

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Document 22-2: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address (1933)

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Document 22-3: Huey Long, "Every Man a King" (1934)

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Document 22-4: Michigan Artist Alfred Castagne Sketching WPA Construction Workers (1939)

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Document 22-5: CLIFFORD K. BERRYMAN, "The Spirit of the New Deal" (1933) and

"It’s So Hard to Find a Place for You" (1935)

Quiz for Document 22-5 LaunchPad

Document 22-6: martha gellhorn, Field Report to Harry Hopkins (1934)

Quiz for Document 22-6 LaunchPad

23. The World at War, 1937–1945

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

The Road to War

The Rise of Fascism

War Approaches

The Attack on Pearl Harbor

Organizing for a Global War

Financing the War

Mobilizing the American Fighting Force

Workers and the War Effort

Politics in Wartime

Life on the Home Front

"For the Duration"

Migration and the Wartime City

Japanese Removal

Fighting and Winning the War

Wartime Aims and Tensions

The War in Europe

The War in the Pacific

The Atomic Bomb and the End of the War

The Toll of the War

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context The Scales of War: Losses and Gains During World War II

Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian Mobilizing the Home Front

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Interpretations Why Did the United States Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan?

Quiz for Interpretation LaunchPad

Analyzing Voices Women in the Wartime Workplace LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

　

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 23 LaunchPad

Document 23-1: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Annual Message to Congress on the State of the Union (1941)

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Document 23-2: Interviews with the Library of Congress Veterans History Project (2001, 2003)

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Document 23-3: Gordon Hirabayashi, Why I Refused to Register for Evacuation (1942)

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Document 23-4: LULAC NEWS, Editorial (1945)

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Document 23-5: Women’s Safety Garments (1943)

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Document 23-6: Harry Truman, Statement by the President Announcing the Use of the A-Bomb at Hiroshima (1945)

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Part 8: 　The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1945–1980

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Part 8 LaunchPad

Document P8-1: NSC-68 (1950)

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Document P8-2: John D. Peurifoy, Letter to John M. Cabot, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (1953)

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Document P8-3: John F. Kennedy, Address to the United Nations General Assembly (1961)

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Document P8-4: Letters Between Lyndon Johnson and Ho Chi Minh (1967)

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Document P8-5: charles sanders, Kissinger in Africa (1976)

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Document P8-6: Iranian Demonstrators Burn an Effigy of Uncle Sam (1979)

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24. Cold War America, 1945–1963

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

Containment in a Divided Global Order

Origins of the Cold War

The Containment Strategy

Containment in Asia

Cold War Liberalism

Truman and the End of Reform

Red Scare: The Hunt for Communists

The Politics of Cold War Liberalism

Containment in the Postcolonial World

The Cold War and Colonial Independence

John F. Kennedy and the Cold War

Making a Commitment in Vietnam

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context Arming for the Cold War

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Thinking Like a Historian The Global Cold War

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Interpretations Why Was There a Cold War?

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Analyzing Voices Hunting Communists: The Case of Paul Robeson LaunchPad

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Summative Quiz LaunchPad

　

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 24 LaunchPad

Document 24-1: George Kennan, "Long Telegram" to James Byrnes (1946)

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Document 24-2: Walter Lippmann, Cold War: A Study in U.S. Foreign Policy (1947)

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Document 24-3: FELIX BELAIR, JR., "United States Has Secret Sonic Weapon- Jazz" (1955)

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Document 24-4: Charlotte Oram, Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Investigations (1954)

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Document 24-5: John Foster Dulles, The Evolution of Foreign Policy (1954)

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Document 24-6: "Get the Feel of a Fallout Shelter" (c. 1950s)

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25. Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945–1963

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

Postwar Prosperity and the Affluent Society

Economy: From Recovery to Dominance

A Nation of Consumers

Youth Culture

Religion and the Middle Class

The American Family in the Era of Containment

The Baby Boom

Women, Work, and Family

Challenging Middle-Class Morality

A Suburban Nation

The Postwar Housing Boom

Rise of the Sunbelt

Two Nations: Urban and Suburban

Chapter Review

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America in Global Context Hanoch Bartov: Everyone Has a Car

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Thinking Like a Historian The Suburban Landscape of Cold War America

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Interpretations Was Rock ’n’ Roll an Agent of Social Change?

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Analyzing Voices Coming of Age in the Postwar Years LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 25 LaunchPad

Document 25-1: Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (1944)

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Document 25-2: 1950s Rock and Roll Dancers (c. 1950)

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Document 25-3: Billy Graham, Our Right to Require Belief (1956)

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Document 25-4: Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care (1946)

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Document 25-5: Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency: Interim Report of the Committee on the Judiciary (1955)

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Document 25-6: J. R. EYERMAN, Photograph of Los Angeles Development Boom (1952) and

MALVINA REYNOLDS, Little Boxes (1962)

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26. Walking into Freedom Land: The Civil Rights Movement, 1941–1973

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The Emerging Civil Rights Struggle, 1941–1957

Life Under Jim Crow

Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

World War II: The Beginnings

Cold War Civil Rights

Mexican Americans and Japanese Americans

Fighting for Equality Before the Law

Forging a Protest Movement, 1955–1965

Nonviolent Direct Action

Legislating Civil Rights, 1963–1965

Beyond Civil Rights, 1966–1973

Black Nationalism

Urban Disorder

Rise of the Chicano Movement

The American Indian Movement

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America in Global Context Freedom in the United States and Africa

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Thinking Like a Historian Civil Rights and Black Power: Strategy and Ideology

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Interpretations Was Martin Luther King Jr. a Radical or a Reformer?

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Analyzing Voices Race and Geography in the Civil Rights Era LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 26 LaunchPad

Document 26-1: Lillian Smith, Killers of the Dream (1949)

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Document 26-2: Declaration of Constitutional Principles (1956)

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Document 26-3: FANNIE LOU HAMER, Testimony Before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention (1964)

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Document 26-4: Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet (1964)

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Document 26-5: Indians of All Tribes, Proclamation: To the Great White Father and All His People (1970)

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Document 26-6: LA RAZA PEACE MORATORIUM FLYER, (1970)

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27. Uncivil Wars: 　Liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961–1972

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Liberalism at High Tide

John F. Kennedy’s Promise

Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society

Rebirth of the Women’s Movement

The Vietnam War Begins

Escalation Under Johnson

Public Opinion and the War

The Student Movement

Days of Rage, 1968–1972

War Abroad, Tragedy at Home

The Antiwar Movement and the 1968 Election

The Nationalist Turn

Women’s Liberation and Black and Chicana Feminism

Stonewall and Gay Liberation

Rise of the Silent Majority

Nixon in Vietnam

The Silent Majority Speaks Out

The 1972 Election

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America in Global Context The Global Protests of 1968

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Thinking Like a Historian Debating the War in Vietnam

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Interpretations What Are the Origins of 1960s Feminism?

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Analyzing Voices The Toll of War LaunchPad

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Document 27-1: Lyndon Baines Johnson, The Great Society (1964)

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Document 27-2: John Kerry, Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1971)

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Document 27-3: JOHN OLSON, Women’s Rights March (1970)

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Document 27-4: Cesar Chavez, Letter from Delano (1969)

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Document 27-5: Barry Goldwater, Acceptance Speech at the Republican National Convention (1964)

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28. The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973–1980

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An Era of Limits

Energy Crisis

Environmentalism

Economic Transformation

Urban Crisis and Suburban Revolt

Politics in Flux, 1973–1980

Watergate and the Fall of a President

Jimmy Carter: The Outsider as President

Reform and Reaction in the 1970s

Civil Rights in a New Era

The Women’s Movement and Gay Rights

After the Warren Court

The American Family on Trial

Working Families in the Age of Deindustrialization

Navigating the Sexual Revolution

Religion in the 1970s: The Fourth Great Awakening

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America in Global Context Economic Malaise in the Seventies

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Thinking Like a Historian The Environmental Movement: Reimagining the Human-Earth Relationship

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Interpretations Why Did the Postwar Boom Bust in the 1970s?

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Analyzing Voices Debating the Equal Rights Amendment LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 28 LaunchPad

Document 28-1: JOSEPH FARRIS, "Let OPEC Tighten the Screws. The Larned A. Corys are Ready." (1979)

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Document 28-2: Robert Howard, Youngstown Fights Back (1979)

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Document 28-3: Supreme Court Decision in Roe v. Wade (1973)

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Document 28-4: Phyllis Schlafly, Statement Opposing the ERA (1977)

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Document 28-5: Jimmy Carter, The Crisis of Confidence (1979)

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Document 28-6: CHRISTIANITY TODAY, An Interview with the Lone Ranger of American Fundamentalism (1981)

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Part 9: 　Globalization and the End of the American Century, 1980 to the Present

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Document P9-1: Irving Kristol, Two Cheers for Capitalism (1978)

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Document P9-2: LeRoy Mcclelland Sr., Interview with Bill Barry (2006)

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Document P9-3: Bill Clinton, Remarks on Signing the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (1993)

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Document P9-4: Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart You Don’t Know (2003)

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Document P9-5: Kevin Clarke, Outsourcing Around (2004)

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Document P9-6: SHANNON STAPLETON, Fast Food Workers Rally for Higher Wages (2015)

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29. Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980–1991

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The Rise of the New Right

Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan: Champions of the Right

Free-Market Economics and Religious Conservatism

The Carter Presidency

The Dawning of the Conservative Age

The Reagan Coalition

Conservatives in Power

Morning in America

The End of the Cold War

U.S.-Soviet Relations in a New Era

A New Political Order at Home and Abroad

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America in Global Context Yoichi Funabashi: "Japan and America: Global Partners"

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Thinking Like a Historian Personal Computing: A Technological Revolution

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Interpretations How Conservative Was the Reagan Presidency?

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Analyzing Voices Christianity and Public Life LaunchPad

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Document 29-1: Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference Dinner (1981)

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Document 29-2: David Stockman, The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed (1986)

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Document 29-3: Wall Street (1987)

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Document 29-4: Robert J. Henle, The Great Deception: What We Are Told About Central America (1986)

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Document 29-5: Jesse Jackson, Common Ground and Common Sense (1988)

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Document 29-6: DON EMMERT, A Navy A-7 Corsair Jet is Pulled Down Broadway (1991)

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Chapter 30

Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present

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America in the Global Economy

The Rise of the European Union and China

An New Era of Globalization

Revolutions in Technology

Politics and Partisanship in a Contentious Era

An Increasingly Plural Society

Clashes over "Family Values"

Bill Clinton and the New Democrats

Post–Cold War Foreign Policy

Into a New Century

The Ascendance of George W. Bush

Violence Abroad and Economic Collapse at Home

Reform and Stalemate in the Obama Years

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America in Global Context Global Trade, 1960–2009

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Thinking Like a Historian Globalization: Its Proponents and Its Discontents

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Interpretations Can Historians Write the History of Current Events?

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Analyzing Voices Immigration after 1965: Its Defenders and Critics LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 30 LaunchPad

Document 30-1: Alesha Daughtrey, Interview by April Eaton (2000)

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Document 30-2: California Proposition 187 (1994)

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Document 30-3: Madeleine Albright, Realism and Idealism in American Foreign Policy Today (1994)

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Document 30-4: George W. Bush, Address to Congress (2001)

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Document 30-5: Barack Obama, A More Perfect Union (2008)

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Document 30-6: JAKE GREEN, Trump Protests-Michigan (2017)

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Rebecca Edwards

Rebecca Edwards is Eloise Ellery Professor of History at Vassar College, where she teaches courses on the Civil War era, the West, environmental history, and the history of women and gender roles. She is the author of, among other publications, Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era; New Spirits: Americans in the "Gilded Age," 1865-1905; and the essay "Women's and Gender History" in The New American History. She is currently researching the connections between westward expansion, high frontier fertility, and nineteenth-century political ideologies.

Eric Hinderaker

Eric Hinderaker is Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Utah.  His research explores early modern imperialism, relations between Europeans and Native Americans, and comparative colonization.  His publications include The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery, which won the Dixon Ryan Fox Prize; Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800; and, with Peter C. Mancall, At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America.  He is currently working on two books, one about the Boston Massacre and another, with Rebecca Horn, on patterns of European colonization in the Americas.

Robert O. Self

Robert O. Self is Professor of History at Brown University. His research focuses on urban history, American politics, and the post-1945 United States. He is the author of American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, which won four professional prizes, including the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s. He is currently at work on a book about the centrality of houses, cars, and children to family consumption in the twentieth-century United States.

James A. Henretta

James A. Henretta is a Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Maryland, College Park. His publications include "Salutary Neglect": Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle; The Origins of American Capitalism; and an edited volume, Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750-1850. His most recent publication is a long article, "Charles Evans Hughes and the Strange Death of Liberal America," in Law and History Review, derived from his ongoing research on the liberal state in America, and in particular, New York, 1820-1975.

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