Full Description
AMERICAN PASSAGES places a unique emphasis on time as the defining nature of history--how events lead to other events, actions, changes, and often-unexpected outcomes. The authors offer readers a sensible, step-by-step, compelling narrative with balanced coverage of political, economic, social, cultural, military, religious, and intellectual history.
Contents
15. Reconstruction: Its Rise and Fall, 1865-1877.
16. An Economy Transformed: The Rise of Big Business, 1877-1887.
17. Urban Growth and Farm Protest, 1887-1893.
18. A Troubled Nation Expands Outward, 1893-1901.
19. Progressivism: Agendas for Change, 1901-1914.
20. Over There and Over Here: The Impact of World War I, 1914-1920.
21. The Age of Jazz and Mass Culture, 1921-1927.
22. The Great Depression, 1927-1933.
23. The New Deal, 1933-1939.
24. The Second World War, 1939-1945.
25. Postwar America, 1946-1953.
26. The Eisenhower Years, 1953-1960.
27. The Turbulent Years, 1960-1968.
28. Crisis of Confidence, 1969-1980.
29. From Reagan to Clinton, 1981-2000.
30. A Conservative Nation in a Globalizing World, 2000-2010.