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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 After the Civil War; The Difficulties of Reconstruction; Reconstruction: Black and White; Mary Ames: A New England Woman in Dixie; W.E.B. DuBois and the Problem of the Color Line -- Chapter 2 Cowboys and Indians; Buffalo Bill's Wild West; Horses: Flesh and Iron; Buffalo Bill, Black Kettle, and the Wars for the West; Buffalo Bill: Violence and Theater; Annie Oakley; Sherman Alexie's Poem on Buffalo Bill; Chapter 3 A Mosaic of American Life: 1875-1914 |
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Millions of Watts: Thomas Edison and Nikola TeslaMillions of Immigrants; Sadie Frowne: Sweatshop Seamstress; Ida Tarbell: Muckraker; Chapter 4 The U.S. Government: At Home and Abroad; The Scene at Home; Theodore Roosevelt, Part 1: Of Silver Spoons and Police Badges; An International Interlude: Cuba, Hawaii, and the Prelude to War; Theodore Roosevelt, Part 2: Of Rough Riders, Talking Softly, and Carrying a Big Stick; The Spanish-American War and the War Against Filipino Nationalism; Theodore Roosevelt, Part 3: From Lieutenant Colonel to President; Chapter 5 A Palette of Progressives |
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The ""Full Dinner Pail"" and the ""Square Deal"": Theodore Roosevelt as PresidentDefining ""Progressivism"": Roosevelt and Robert La Follette; Different Paths to Progress: Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Frances Willard; Birth Control and Conservation: Margaret Sanger and Gifford Pinchot; Lines in the Water; Chapter 6 World War I; Did Civilization Civilize?; The Causes of World War I in Europe; War, Baseball, Ragtime: From August 1914 to January 1917; The Yanks Are Coming; A Doughboy in the Trenches; Woodrow Wilson and Some Kind of Peace; Chapter 7 The 1920s |
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Introduction to the Twenties: Cars, Commercials, and CrimeAl Capone: The Powers of Money; Zora Neale Hurston: The Harlem Renaissance, American Letters, and the Great Migration; In Cars, on Roads, to Cities; Chapter 8 Into the Great Depression; From Plenty to Plenty of Nothing: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover; The Bonus Expeditionary Force and the Election of Franklin Roosevelt; The Depression: Why?; Plenty of Dust Stories from Inside the Storm; Eleanor Roosevelt Before the Depression; Popularity from the Pulpit Aimee Semple McPherson; Eleanor Roosevelt Progressive Politics in the Depression |
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Chapter 9 Out of the Depression and Into WarWhat They Heard on the Radio; Pearl Harbor; Sacrifice; The Internment of Monica Sone; Sergeant E.B. Sledge and Shakespeare'': What a piece of work is a man -- Chapter 10 World War II; James Doolittle Gives America Hope; The War in Europe: 1941-1943; Dwight D. Eisenhower; The Liberation of North Africa and Italy; Daniel Inouye and the 442nd: D-day and the Fall of the Third Reich; Chapter 11 From World War to Cold War; To the Surrender of Japan; After the War: Give 'em hell, Harry! |
| Summary |
These portraits bring American history to life, complementing the historical narrative with engaging biographies of famous and less-well-known figures. Historical patterns and trends appear as they are seen through individual lives, and the selection of profiled individuals reflects a diverse cultural awareness |
| Notes |
Originally published: M.E. Sharpe, 2008 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
This is the second volume in a two-volume set |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 23, 2015) |
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Education -- United States -- Biographical methods
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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Education -- Biographical methods
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Education
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United States -- History -- 1865- -- Study and teaching
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United States -- Biography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139912
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United States -- Biography -- Study and teaching
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United States
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317477051 |
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1317477057 |
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