Give me liberty! : an American history
Eric Foner (Author)
This specially priced version of the bestselling American History textbook features Eric Foner's clear, concise, and authoritative presentation. The Seagull Fourth Edition includes the text of the full Fourth Edition in a compact, low-price format. This edition also includes chronologies, focus questions, "Voices of Freedom" documents, key terms, and review questions. The StudySpace website gives you rich multimedia materials for review and research. -- Publisher
Print Book, English, ©2014
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W.W. Norton & Co., New York, ©2014
History
xxi, 1,148, A-179 pages : illustrations, maps, plates ; 24 cm
9780393920291, 9780393920307, 9780393920314, 0393920291, 0393920305, 0393920313
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Volume 1. To 1877
Volume 2. From 1865. List of maps, tables, and figures
15. "What is freedom?" : Reconstruction, 1865-1877
The meaning of freedom
Voices of freedom : (from) Petition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson (1865) and (from) a sharecropping contract (1866)
The making of radical reconstruction
Radical reconstruction in the South
The overthrow of reconstruction
16. America's Gilded Age, 1870-1890
The second industrial revolution
The transformation of the West
Voices of freedom : (from "A Second declaration of Independence (1879) / Ira Steward, and (from) "Wealth" (1889) / Andrew Carnegie
Politics in a gilded age
Freedom in the Gilded Age
Labor and the Republic
17. Freedom's boundaries, at home and abroad, 1890-1900
The Populist challenge
The segregated South
Redrawing the boundaries
Becoming a world power
Voices of freedom : (from) Our country (1885) / Josiah Strong, and (from) "Aguinaldo's Case against the United States" (1899)
18. The Progressive Era, 1900-1916
An urban age and a consumer society
Varieties of Progressivism
Voices of freedom : (from) Women and Economics (1898) / Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and (from) "The workingman's conception of industrial liberty" (1910) / John Mitchell
The politics of Progressivism
The Progressive Presidents
19. Safe for democracy : The United States and World War I, 1916-1920
An era of intervention
America and the great war
Who is an American?
Voices of freedom : (from) Speech to the jury before sentencing under the Espionage Act (1918) / Eugene V. Debs, and (from) "Returning soldiers", The Crisis (1919) / W.E.B. Du Bois
1919
20. From business culture to Great Depression : The Twenties, 1920-1932
The business of America
Business and government
Voices of freedom : (from) "The gulf between," Atlantic Monthly (March 1928) / André Siegfried, and (from) Majority opinion, in Meyer v. Nebraska (1923) / Justice James C. McReynolds
The birth of civil liberties
The culture wars
The Great Depression. 21. The New Deal, 1932-1940
The first New Deal
The Grassroots Revolt
The second New Deal
A reckoning with liberty
Voices of freedom : (from) "Fireside chat" (1934) / Franklin D. Roosevelt, and (from) The harvest gypsies : on the road to the Grapes of Wrath(1938) / John Steinbeck
The limits of change
A new conception in America
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
Voices of freedom : (from) The American century (1941) / Henry R. Luce, and (from) "The Negro has always wanted the four freedoms," in What the Negro Wants (1944) / Charles H. Wesley
The end of the War
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
Voices of freedom : (from) Protestant, Catholic, Jew (1955) / Will Herberg, and (from) "Who is loyal to American? Harper's (September 1947) / Henry Steele Commager
24. An affluent society, 1953-1960
The Golden Age
The Eisenhower Era
The Freedom Movement
Voices of freedom : (from) the southern Manifesto (1956), and (from) Speech at Montgomery, Alabama (December 5, 1955) / Martin Luther King, Jr
The election of 1960
25. The Sixties, 1960-1968
The Civil Rights revolution
The Kennedy Years
Lyndon Johnson's Presidency
The changing Black Movement
Vietnam and the New Left
Voices of freedom : (from) Young Americans for Freedom, The Sharon Statement (September 1960), and (from) The Port Huron Statement (June 1962) / Tom Hayden and others
The new movements and the rights revolution
1968
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
Voices of freedom : (from) Redstockings Manifesto (1969), and (from) Listen, America! (1980) / Jerry Falwell
27. Globalization and its discontents, 1989-2000
The post-cold war world
A new economy?
Voices of freedom : (from) Speech on signing of NAFTA (1993) / Bill Clinton, and (from) Global Exchange, Seattle, Declaration for Global Democracy (December 1999)
Culture wars
Impeachment and the election of 2000
Freedom and the new century
28. A new century a new crises
The War on Terrorism
An American empire?
Voices of freedom : (from) The National Security Strategy of the United States (September 2002), and (from) Speech on the Middle East / Barack Obama
The aftermath of September 11 at home
The winds of change
The rise of Obama
Obama's first term
Learning from history
The Declaration of Independence (1776)
The Constitution of the United States (1787)
Glossary