Visions of America A History of the United States, Volume Two
by Keene, Jennifer D.; Cornell, Saul T.; O'Donnell, Edward T.Edition: 2nd
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Pub. Date: 2011-12-27
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Summary
See history. Understand history. Praised by instructors and students alike, the first edition of Visions of Americahas brought history to life for a generation of visual learnersand has shown how competing visions of America have shaped our nation's past. We've made the second edition of this program even better by adding engaging new features and even easier access to new teaching resources. And, thorough integration with the new MyHistoryLab enables instructors to personalize learning for each student. A better teaching and learning experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experiencefor you and your students. Here's how: Personalize Learning -The new MyHistoryLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. Improve Critical Thinking -Chapter openers and end-of-chapter study materials that are tied to MyHistoryLab combine visual sources, narrative, and questions to help students study effectively. Engage Students -Features focusing on visions that have shaped America and images are integrated with the new MyHistoryLab for a comprehensive learning program. Support Instructors -MyHistoryLab, Annotated Instructor's eText, MyHistoryLab Instructor's Guide, ClassPrep, Instructor's Manual, MyTest, and PowerPoints are available. For volume one of this text, search ISBN-10: 0205092675 For the combined volume of this test, search ISBN-10: 0205092667 Note:MyHistoryLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyHistoryLab, please visit:www.myhistorylab.comor you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MyHistorylab (at no additional cost): ValuePack ISBN-10: 1256463590 / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9781256463597.
Author Biography
Jennifer D. Keene is a Professor of History and chair of the History Department at Chapman University in Orange, California. Dr. Keene has published three books on the American involvement in the First World War: Doughboys, the Great War and the Remaking of America (2001); The United States and the First World War (2000); and World War I: The American Soldier Experience (2011). She has received numerous fellowships for her research, including a Mellon Fellowship, a National Research Council Postdoctoral Award, and Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards to Australia and France. Her articles have appeared in the Annales de Démographie Historique, Peace & Change, Intelligence and National Security, and Military Psychology. Dr. Keene served as an associate editor for the Encyclopedia of War and American Society (2005), which won the Society of Military History’s prize for best reference book. She works closely with the Gilder-Lehrman Institute, offering Teaching American History workshops for secondary school teachers throughout the country.
Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at Fordham University in New York. Professor Cornell has also taught at the Ohio State University, the College of William and Mary, Leiden University in the Netherlands, and has been a visiting scholar at Yale Law School. He is the author of A Well Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control (Langum Prize in Legal History) and The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788—1828 (Society of the Cincinnati Book Prize), both of which were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His articles have appeared in the Journal of American History, the William and Mary Quarterly, American Studies, Law and History Review, and dozens of leading law reviews. His work has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and several state Supreme Courts. He lectures widely on topics in legal and constitutional history and the use of visual materials to teach American history.
Edward T. O’Donnell is an Associate Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He taught previously at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General
Slocum (Random House, 2003) and the forthcoming Talisman of a Lost Hope: Henry George and Gilded Age America (Columbia University Press). His articles have appeared in The Journal of Urban History, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and The Public Historian. He is also very active in the field of public history, curating exhibits and consulting at institutions such as the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and the New York Historical Society. Since 2002, he has worked with more than fifty Teaching American History grant programs across the country, offering lectures and workshops for middle and high school teachers.
Table of Contents
Found in this section:
1. Brief Table of Contents
2. Full Table of Contents
1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 14 Now That We Are Free: Reconstruction and the New South, 1863–1890
Chapter 15 Conflict and Conquest: The Transformation of the West, 1860–1900
Chapter 16 Wonder and Woe: The Rise of Industrial America, 1865–1900
Chapter 17 Becoming a Modern Society: America in the Gilded Age, 1877–1900
Chapter 18 Creating a Democratic Paradise: The Progressive Era, 1895 –1915
Chapter 19 Imperial America: The United States in the World, 1890–1914
Chapter 20 The Great War: World War I, 1914–1918
Chapter 21 A Turbulent Decade: The Twenties
Chapter 22 A New Deal for America: The Great Depression, 1929–1940
Chapter 23 World War II: Fighting the Good War, 1939–1945
Chapter 24 A Divided World: The Early Cold World, 1945–1963
Chapter 25 In a Land of Plenty: Contentment and Discord, 1945–1960
Chapter 26 A Nation Divided: The Vietnam War, 1945–1975
Chapter 27 A Decade of Discord: The Challenge of the Sixties
Chapter 28 Righting a Nation Adrift: America in the 1970s and 1980s
Chapter 29 Building a New World Order: The United States, 1989–2009
2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
Maps
Charts, Graphs, and Tables
Envisioning Evidence
Images as History
Competing Visions
Choices and Consequences
About the Authors
Supplements for Instructors and Students
Chapter 14: Now That We Are Free: Reconstruction and the New South, 1863–1890
Preparing for Reconstruction
The Fruits of Freedom
The Struggle to Define Reconstruction
Competing Visions
Demanding Rights, Protecting Privilege
Implementing Reconstruction
Reconstruction Abandoned
Images as History
Political Cartoons Reflect the Shift in Public Opinion
The New South
Choices and Consequences
Sanctioning Separation
Chapter Review
Chapter 15: Conflict and Conquest: The Transformation of the West, 1860–1900
Natives and Newcomers
The Economic Transformation of the West
Native Americans Under Siege
Competing Visions
Inevitable Progress or Unjust Invasion?
Choices and Consequences
Forced Assimilation versus Cultural Preservation
Persecution and Romanticism
Images as History
Annie Oakley
Chapter Review
Chapter 16: Wonder and Woe: The Rise of Industrial America, 1865–1900
The Emergence of Big Business
Creating a Mass Market
The World of Work Transformed
Competing Visions
The Legitimacy of Unions
Conflicting Visions of Industrial Capitalism
Images as History
Why Fear Big Business?
Choices and Consequences
To Strike or Not to Strike?
Chapter Review
Chapter 17: Becoming a Modern Society: America in the Gilded Age, 1877–1900
The Rise of the City
A Search for Solutions
Images as History
Seeing the Poor
New Habits, Roles, and Lifestyles
The Challenge from Below
Competing Visions
Progress or Peril?
Choices and Consequences
The Pullman Strike
Chapter Review
Chapter 18: Creating a Democratic Paradise: The Progressive Era, 1895 –1915
The Progressive Impulse
Reining in Big Business
Competing Views on Transforming the Workplace
Choices and Consequences
Regulating Workers’ Hours
Protecting Women and Children
Images as History
Exposing the Evils of Child Labor
Reforming the Government
Envisioning Evidence
The Family Economy
Competing Visions
Seeking Racial Uplift
Chapter Review
Chapter 19: Imperial America: The United States in the World, 1890–1914
Becoming a World Power
The Spanish-American War
Images as History
Atrocity Stories and Public Opinion
Creating an American Empire
Competing Visions
Annexing the Philippines
America and East Asia
Choices and Consequences
The Legal Construction of “Whiteness”
In America’s Backyard
Chapter Review
Chapter 20: The Great War: World War I, 1914–1918
The Decision for War
The War at Home
Images as History
Propaganda Posters
Fighting the War
Choices and Consequences
Alvin York, Deciding to Serve
Envisioning Evidence
Understanding the Battlefield
Peace
Competing Visions
Joining the League of Nations
Chapter Review
Chapter 21: A Turbulent Decade: The Twenties
Cars and Planes: The Promise of the Twenties
Envisioning Evidence
Scientific Management in Action
Cultural Unrest
Racial Violence and Civil Rights
Competing Visions
Debating Garveyism
The New Woman
Images as History
Advertising the New Woman
Ensuring Peace: Diplomacy in the Twenties
Choices and Consequences
Preventing War in Europe
Chapter Review
Chapter 22: A New Deal for America: The Great Depression, 1929–1940
The Early Days of the Depression
Choices and Consequences
Evicting the Bonus Marchers
A New President and a New Deal
Recovering from the Depression
A New Deal for Farmers
Images as History
“Migrant Mother” —An American Icon
Reforms to Ensure Social Justice
Competing Visions
Sharing the Wealth
Envisioning Evidence
Interpreting Public Opinion Polls
Chapter Review
Chapter 23: World War II: Fighting the Good War, 1939–1945
The Approaching War
On the Home Front
Competing Visions
Civil Liberties and National Security Clash
On the Front Lines
Chapter 24: A Divided World: The Early Cold War, 1945—1963
Origins of the Cold War
Fighting Communism: Cold and Hot War
Images as History
Surviving an Atomic Bomb Blast
Spies in Our Midst
Competing Visions
Naming Names in Hollywood
Averting Nuclear War
Envisioning Evidence
The Berlin Wall
Choices and Consequences
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Chapter Review
Chapter 25: In a Land of Plenty: Contentment and Discord, 1945—1960
Securing the New Deal Legacy
A Middle-Class America
Competing Visions
Suburbs–American Dream or Nightmare?
Popular Culture in the Fifties
Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement
Images as History
Inspiring a New Generation to Act
Choices and Consequences
Rosa Parks Makes History
Envisioning Evidence
A National Snapshot of Racial Discrimination
Chapter Review
Chapter 26: A Nation Divided: The Vietnam War, 1945—1975
The Long Road to War
Choices and Consequences
Making Vietnam America’s War
Fighting in Vietnam
Images as History
The Role of the Press in Vietnam
Controversy on the Home Front
Competing Visions
Who was Responsible for the My Lai Massacre?
The Long Road to Peace
Envisioning Evidence
Vietnam: The Wary by the Numbers
Chapter Review
Chapter 27: A Decade of Discord: The Challenge of the Sixties
The Liberal Moment
Choices and Consequences
Is School Prayer Constitutional?
Nonviolence Triumphant: The Civil Rights Movement, 1960—1965
Images as History
Birmingham, 1963
The Fractured Left
Competing Visions
Defining “Black Power”
The End of an Era
Chapter Review
Chapter 28: Righting a Nation Adrift: America in the 1970s and 1980s
Downturn and Scandal
Images as History
Watergate Through Political Cartoons
A Crisis of Presidential Leadership
Choices and Consequences
Ending the Iranian Hostage Crisis
The Rights Revolution
Competing Visions
Defining the Ideal Woman
The Rise of the Right
Chapter Review
Chapter 29: Building a New World Order: The United States, 1989—20011
“A Moment Rich with Promise”
Images as History
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Contested Visions of Government
Transforming Daily Life
Competing Visions
The Economic Cost of Immigration
New Threats in the Post-Cold War World
Choices and Consequences
Launching a Preemptive War
Chapter Review
Appendix
Glossary
Credits
Index
Maps
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