Give Me Liberty!

Give Me Liberty!

Second Edition

Eric Foner, Columbia University

Contents

  • Preface
  • List of Maps, Tables, and Figures
  • About the Author
  • Preface
  • Part 1 American Colonies to 1763
  • Chapter 1: A New World
  • The First Americans
  • Indian Freedom, European Freedom
  • The Expansion of Europe
  • Contact
  • The Spanish Empire
  • The French and Dutch Empires
  • Chapter 2: Beginnings of English America, 1607–1660
  • England and the New World
  • The Coming of the English
  • Settling the Chesapeake
  • The New England Way
  • New Englanders Divided
  • Religion, Politics, and Freedom
  • Chapter 3: Creating Anglo-America, 1660–1750
  • The Expansion of England's Empire
  • Origins of American Slavery
  • Colonies in Crisis
  • The Growth of Colonial America
  • Social Classes in the Colonies
  • Chapter 4: Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire, to 1763
  • Slavery and the Empire
  • Slave Cultures and Slave Resistance
  • An Empire of Freedom
  • The Great Awakening
  • Imperial Rivalries
  • Battle for the Continent
  • Part 2: A New Nation, 1763–1840
  • Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1763–1783
  • The Crisis Begins
  • The Road to Revolution
  • The Coming of Independence
  • Securing Independence
  • Chapter 6: The Revolution Within
  • Democratizing Freedom
  • Toward Religious Toleration
  • Defining Economic Freedom
  • The Limits of Liberty
  • Slavery and the Revolution
  • Daughters of Liberty
  • Chapter 7: Founding a Nation, 1783–1789
  • America under Confederation
  • A New Constitution
  • The Ratification Debate and the Origin of the Bill of Rights
  • "We the People"
  • Chapter 8: Securing the Republic, 1790–1815
  • Politics in an Age of Passion
  • The Adams Presidency
  • Jefferson in Power
  • The "Second War of Independence"
  • Chapter 9: The Market Revolution, 1800–1840
  • A New Economy
  • Market Society
  • The Free Individual
  • The Limits of Prosperity
  • Chapter 10: Democracy in America, 1815–1840
  • The Triumph of Democracy
  • Nationalism and Its Discontents
  • Nation, Section, and Party
  • The Age of Jackson
  • The Bank War and After
  • Part 3: Slavery, Freedom, and the Crisis of the Union, 1840–1877
  • Chapter 11: The Peculiar Institution
  • The Old South
  • Life under Slavery
  • Slave Culture
  • Resistance to Slavery
  • Chapter 12: An Age of Reform, 1820–1840
  • The Reform Impulse
  • The Crusade against Slavery
  • Black and White Abolitionism
  • The Origins of Feminism
  • Chapter 13: A House Divided, 1840–1861
  • Fruits of Manifest Destiny
  • A Dose of Arsenic
  • The Rise of the Republican Party
  • The Emergence of Lincoln
  • The Impending Crisis
  • Chapter 14: A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861–1865
  • The First Modern War
  • The Coming of Emancipation
  • The Second American Revolution
  • The Confederate Nation
  • Turning Points
  • Rehearsals for Reconstruction and the End of the War
  • Chapter 15: "What Is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865–1877
  • The Meaning of Freedom
  • The Making of Radical Reconstruction
  • Radical Reconstruction in the South
  • The Overthrow of Reconstruction
  • Part 4: Toward a Global Presence, 1870–1920
  • Chapter 16: America's Gilded Age, 1870–1890
  • The Second Industrial Revolution
  • The Transformation of the West
  • Politics in a Gilded Age
  • Freedom in the Gilded Age
  • Labor and the Republic
  • Chapter 17: Freedom's Boundaries, at Home and Abroad, 1890–1900
  • The Populist Challenge
  • The Segregated South
  • Redrawing the Boundaries
  • Becoming a World Power
  • Chapter 18: The Progressive Era, 1900–1916
  • An Urban Age and a Consumer Society
  • Varieties of Progressivism
  • The Politics of Progressivism
  • The Progressive Presidents
  • Chapter 19: Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I, 1916–1920
  • An Era of Intervention
  • America and the Great War
  • The War at Home
  • Who Is an American?
  • 1919
  • Part 5: Depression and Wars, 1920–1953
  • Chapter 20: From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920–1932
  • The Business of America
  • Business and Government
  • The Birth of Civil Liberties
  • The Culture Wars
  • The Great Depression
  • Chapter 21: The New Deal, 1932–1940
  • The First New Deal
  • The Grassroots Revolt
  • The Second New Deal
  • A Reckoning with Liberty
  • The Limits of Change
  • A New Conception of America
  • Chapter 22: Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941–1945
  • Fighting World War II
  • The Home Front
  • Visions of Postwar Freedom
  • The American Dilemma
  • The End of the War
  • Chapter 23: The United States and the Cold War, 1945–1953
  • Origins of the Cold War
  • The Cold War and the Idea of Freedom
  • The Truman Presidency
  • The Anticommunist Crusade
  • Part 6: What Kind of Nation? 1953–2007
  • Chapter 24: An Affluent Society, 1953–1960
  • The Golden Age
  • The Eisenhower Era
  • The Freedom Movement
  • The Election of 1960
  • Chapter 25: The Sixties, 1960–1968
  • The Freedom Movement
  • The Kennedy Years
  • Lyndon Johnson's Presidency
  • The Changing Black Movement
  • Vietnam and the New Left
  • The New Movements and the Rights Revolution
  • 1968
  • Chapter 26: The Triumph of Conservatism, 1969–1988
  • President Nixon
  • Vietnam and Watergate
  • The End of the Golden Age
  • The Rising Tide of Conservatism
  • The Reagan Revolution
  • Chapter 27: Globalization and Its Discontents, 1989–2000
  • The Post–Cold War World
  • A New Economy?
  • Culture Wars
  • Impeachment and the Election of 2000
  • Freedom and the New Century
  • Chapter 28: September 11 and the Next American Century
  • The War on Terrorism
  • An American Empire?
  • The Aftermath of September 11 at Home
  • The Winds of Change
  • Learning from History