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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART ONE - COLOMBUS to THE AMERICAN EMPIRE
CHAPTER ONE - COLUMBUS AND THE INDIANS
The Arawaks’ Impossible Task
Telling Columbus’s Story
More Meetings, More Fighting
CHAPTER TWO - BLACK AND WHITE
Why Turn to Slavery?
Fear and Racism
CHAPTER THREE - WHO WERE THE COLONISTS?
Nathaniel Bacon and the Rebellion
The Underclass
Rich and Poor
How to Rule
CHAPTER FOUR - TYRANNY IS TYRANNY
Anger and Violence
Revolution in the Air
Whose Independence?
CHAPTER FIVE - REVOLUTIONS
War and Mutiny
Indians and Blacks in the Revolution
Farmers in Revolt
The Constitution—Business as Usual
CHAPTER SIX - THE WOMEN OF EARLY AMERICA
How Women Were Treated
Independent Women
Women at Work
Rights for Women?
CHAPTER SEVEN - AS LONG AS GRASS GROWS OR WATER RUNS
From Indian Fighter to President
The Terrible Choice
Fighting for Freedom
CHAPTER EIGHT - WAR WITH MEXICO
Manifest Destiny
For and Against the War
The Conquest of California
Victory over Mexico
CHAPTER NINE - SLAVERY AND EMANCIPATION
Slavery in the American South
The Abolition Movement
The Civil War and Slavery
Emancipation without Freedom
CHAPTER TEN - THE OTHER CIVIL WAR
The Myth of “Jacksonian Democracy”
Big Business
Workers Unite
Rule and Rebellion
CHAPTER ELEVEN - ROBBER BARONS AND REBELS
The Rich Get Richer
Voices of Protest
The Haymarket Affair
The Rise and Fall of Populism
CHAPTER TWELVE - THE AMERICAN EMPIRE
The Taste of Empire
The Spanish-American War
Revolt and Racism in the Philippines
PART TWO - CLASS STRUGGLE to THE WAR ON TERROR
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - CLASS STRUGGLE
Sweatshops and Wobblies
Socialism, Sex, and Race
The Progressive Movement and the Colorado Coal Strike
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - WORLD WAR I
Blood and Money
The Radical Response
After the Fighting
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - HARD TIMES
The Truth about the Twenties
The Great Depression
Struggling to Survive
CHAPTER SIXTEEN - WORLD WAR II AND THE COLD WAR
America at War
The War at Home
New Wars
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - BLACK REVOLT AND CIVIL RIGHTS
Fighting Back
Toward Civil Rights
Martin Luther King Preaches Nonviolence
Freedom Riders and the Mississippi Summer
Black Power
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - VIETNAM
Communism and Combat
“This Madness Must Cease”
CHAPTER NINETEEN - SURPRISES
Women’s Liberation
An Indian Uprising
CHAPTER TWENTY - NDER CONTROL?
Watergate
America Overseas
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - POLITICS AS USUAL
A Little Bit to the Left
Wealth and Poverty in America
Desert Storm
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - RESISTANCE
No More Nukes!
Social Issues
War and Antiwar
Remembering Columbus
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE - THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Moving Toward the Middle
Choices
Visions of Change
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR - THE “WAR ON TERRORISM”
A Close Election
The Terrorist Attack and the Response
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE - WAR IN IRAQ, CONFLICT AT HOME
Afghanistan after the U.S. Invasion
Weapons of Mass Destruction?
The Iraq War Begins
The Anti-War Movement
Two Storms
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX - “RISE LIKE LIONS”
Glossary
Index
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