THE AMERICAN STORY: PERSPECTIVES AND ENCOUNTERS FROM 1877 examines the history of the post-Reconstruction United States with an emphasis on socioeconomic and cultural perspectives. The text and integrated multimedia explore key events and figures, and provide crucial insight on how they affected the lives of everyday individuals.
Chapter 1: The Expanding West
Chapter 2: Industrial America and Its Discontents
Chapter 3: Political Realignment in the Gilded Age
Chapter 4: America on the World Stage
Chapter 5: The Progressive Era
Chapter 6: The First World War
Chapter 7: Tradition and Modernity in the 1920s
Chapter 8: The New Deal
Chapter 9: The Second World War
Chapter 10: The Cold War Era
Chapter 11: The Affluent and Anxious Society
Chapter 12: The Turbulent Years
Chapter 13: The Conservative Triumph
Chapter 14: A New Global Age
Chapter 15: The New Millennium
Appendix: The Historian’s Craft
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