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1 Men Prone to Wonder: America Before 1600
2 The European Settlement of North America: The Atlantic Coast to 1660
3 Empires (1660-1702)
4 Benjamin Franklin's World: Colonial North America (1702-1763)
5 Toward Independence (1764-1783)
6 Inventing the American Republic: The States (1776-1790)
7 Inventing the American Republic: The Nation (1776-1788)
8 Establishing the New Nation (1789-1800)
9 The Fabric of Change (1800-1815)
10 A New Epoch (1815-1828)
11 Political Innovation in a Mechanical Age (1828-1840)
12 Worker Worlds in Antebellum America
13 The Age of Improvement: Religion and Reform (1825-1846)
14 National Expansion, Sectional Division (1839-1850)
15 A House Dividing (1851-1860)
16 Civil War (1861-1865)
17 Reconstruction (1865-1877)
18 The Rise of Big Business and the Triumph of Industry (1870-1900)
19 An Industrial Society (1870-1910)
20 Politics and the State (1876-1900)
21 A New Place in the World (1865-1914)
22 The Progressive Era (1900-1916)
23 The Great War (1914-1919)
24 A Conservative Interlude: The 1920s
25 The Great Depression and the New Deal (1929-1940)
26 Whirlpool of War (1932-1941)
27 Fighting for Freedom (1942-1945)
28 A Troubled Peace (1945-1953)
29 Eisenhower, Affluence, and Civil Rights (1954-1960)
30 Reform, Rage, and Vietnam (1960-1968)
31 Revival of Conservativism (1969-1980)
32 "The Cold War is Over" (1981-1992)
33 Innovations and Divisions in a Globalizing Society (1970-2000)
34 The Politics of Division (1993-2001)
35 At War Against Terror

  1. The Clinton Presidency
    1. Bill Clinton
      1. Biography
      2. Political style
      3. Agenda
    2. The Economy and Free Trade
      1. Clinton's tax-and-spending package
      2. Battle over NAFTA
      3. A reviving economy
      4. The World Trade Organization
    3. Setbacks: Health Care and Gay Rights
      1. Battle over universal health care
      2. Homosexuals and women in the military
    4. Anger on the Right
      1. Sources of conservative resentment
      2. Violence on the right
        1. siege at Ruby Ridge
        2. battle at Waco
        3. the Oklahoma City bombing
    5. Elections, 1994: A Republican Earthquake
      1. Anti-crime and welfare reform bills
      2. The "Contract with America"
        1. Newt Gingrich and the "Contract with America"
        2. Republican landslide in the 1994 midterm elections
      3. The 104th Congress
      4. Face-off
        1. federal government shutdowns
        2. emphasizing budget balancing and debt reduction
        3. welfare reform
    6. The 1996 Election
      1. Bob Dole and the Republican campaign
      2. Evidence of economic abundance
      3. Clinton's victory
  2. The Best and Worst of Times
    1. The Prosperity of the 1990s
      1. Measures
      2. Widespread disparities
      3. Concern over marketplace practices
      4. Reasons for prosperity
    2. The Bull Market
    3. A Restrained Domestic Agenda
      1. Campaign finance reform
      2. Budget surplus
    4. Sex, Lies, and Impeachment
      1. The Lewinsky scandal
      2. Tightening the noose
      3. Slipping through
  3. The Post-Cold War World
    1. Clinton's Foreign Policy: "Democratic Enlargement"
    2. Russia
      1. Financial assistance
      2. Nuclear stockpiles and missiles
    3. Violence in the Former Yugoslavia
      1. Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia
      2. Kosovo
    4. China and the Pacific Rim
      1. Trade issues
      2. Recognizing Vietnam
      3. China
      4. North Korea
    5. Peacemaking in Haiti and Northern Ireland
      1. Haiti
      2. Northern Ireland
    6. Failure in Somalia and Rwanda
      1. Somalia
      2. Rwanda
    7. The Middle East and the Spread of Terror
      1. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict
        1. Oslo Accords
        2. peace treaty between Israel and Jordan
        3. Wye Memorandum
        4. resistance
      2. Iraq
      3. Terrorism
        1. Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda
        2. Operation "Infinite Reach"
        3. the Taliban
    8. The Clinton Record
  4. Election 2000
    1. The Campaign
      1. Major-party candidates
        1. Gore
        2. Bush and Cheney
      2. Strategies and platforms
        1. Gore: ambivalence toward Clinton
        2. Bush: "compassionate conservatism"
      3. Third-party candidates
        1. Patrick Buchanan
        2. Ralph Nader
    2. Disputed Outcome
      1. Florida: the pivotal state
      2. Charges of voting irregularities
      3. Court rulings
        1. Florida State Supreme Court
        2. U.S. Supreme Court
      4. Popular outrage
        1. criticism of the Supreme Court
        2. criticism of the electoral college
        3. disparities in quality of vote-counting machines
      5. Analysis of the vote
  5. The Bush Presidency: Beginnings
    1. Early Steps
      1. Conciliatory tone
      2. Cabinet appointments
    2. Governing from the Right
      1. Conservative domestic agenda
      2. Signs of recession
      3. Tax cut
    3. Divisions in Congress
      1. Energy and the environmental policies
      2. Growing popular and congressional resistance
      3. Senator's defection from Republican Party
      4. Congressional standoff
    4. Human Cloning and Stem-Cell Research
      1. Cloning Dolly
      2. Ethical concerns
      3. Divisions among Republicans
      4. Bush's stance
    5. America First
      1. Bush's isolationist tendencies
      2. National Missile Defense
      3. Global warming
        1. rejection of the Kyoto Protocol
        2. European reaction
    6. Summer 2001

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