| Introduction: Alive from Root to Core |
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1 Progress Backward, 1876 |
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1 | (11) |
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1 | (1) |
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2 | (2) |
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4 | (1) |
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5 | (3) |
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8 | (2) |
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10 | (2) |
| Part One: The War Never Ends, 1865-1880 |
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12 | (44) |
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2 A New Stillbirth of Freedom? |
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12 | (16) |
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12 | (2) |
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Civil Rights: A Catalyst for Change |
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14 | (1) |
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Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction |
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15 | (2) |
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The Failure of Self-Reconstruction |
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17 | (2) |
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19 | (1) |
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19 | (2) |
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21 | (1) |
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"Let Us Have Peace": The Passing of the Radicals |
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22 | (1) |
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A Loss of Faith in Government |
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23 | (1) |
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A Less Manifest Destiny, 1865-1877 |
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24 | (2) |
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26 | (2) |
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3 "Gentlemen, We Are Not Yet Over": Reconstruction |
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28 | (15) |
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The Self-Emanicipation of the South |
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28 | (1) |
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29 | (3) |
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32 | (3) |
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35 | (2) |
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"Bulldozing" a Solid South |
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37 | (2) |
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The Color Line Goes National |
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39 | (1) |
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40 | (3) |
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4 Redeeming the Past, 1875-1898 |
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43 | (13) |
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43 | (1) |
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44 | (2) |
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"The Mortgage Worked the Hardest...." |
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46 | (3) |
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Bloody Shirts and Empty Sleeves |
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49 | (2) |
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"The Old Flag and an Appropriation!" |
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51 | (2) |
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The Power of the Past over the Present |
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53 | (1) |
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From These Honored Dead We Take Increased Devotion |
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54 | (2) |
| Part Two: The New World: America Transformed |
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56 | (62) |
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56 | (19) |
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show |
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56 | (1) |
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57 | (2) |
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The Unsettling of the West |
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59 | (2) |
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The Frustration of Military Power |
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61 | (1) |
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Victory over the Tribes Exacts a High Price |
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62 | (1) |
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Killing Them "Decently": From Nations to Wards of the State |
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63 | (1) |
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Civilization's Great Plow: The Railway Locomotive |
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64 | (2) |
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66 | (1) |
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The Growth of the Cattle Industry |
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67 | (3) |
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70 | (1) |
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The Killing Fields: The Road to Wounded Knee |
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71 | (4) |
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6 Main Line to E Pluribus Unum |
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75 | (15) |
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Railroads Lead Everywhere |
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75 | (2) |
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77 | (2) |
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79 | (1) |
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The Railroad Precipitates Regional Changes |
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80 | (1) |
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Making a Mail-Order America |
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81 | (1) |
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Big Business Comes to the Heartland |
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82 | (1) |
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Financial Changes Lead to a Modern Stock Exchange |
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83 | (2) |
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Consolidation and Cooperation |
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85 | (3) |
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88 | (2) |
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7 Industrialism Unleashed |
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90 | (15) |
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The Origins of Industrialization |
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90 | (3) |
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Innovative Production Techniques Lead to Profits |
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93 | (1) |
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94 | (1) |
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Creating and Supplying National Markets |
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95 | (1) |
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Advertising a National Market |
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95 | (2) |
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The Persistent Problem of Competition |
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97 | (1) |
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Vertical and Horizontal Integration |
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98 | (1) |
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John D. Rockefeller and the "Oil Trust" |
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99 | (3) |
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A Revolution in Buying Habits Ushers in a New Era in Retail |
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102 | (3) |
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105 | (13) |
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106 | (2) |
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108 | (1) |
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"My Disappointment Was Unspeakable": Harsh Realities |
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109 | (2) |
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A New World on Old World Terms |
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111 | (1) |
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112 | (3) |
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Enemies Within the Gates? |
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115 | (1) |
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"Kearneyfornia": The Sandlotters' Revolt |
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116 | (2) |
| Part Three: Tiger Passions: The Crisis of Capitalism |
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118 | (61) |
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118 | (15) |
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119 | (1) |
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Work and Win: The Success Myth |
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120 | (2) |
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122 | (2) |
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Racial Prejudice Presents Overwhelming Obstacles |
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124 | (1) |
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Gender Inequality in the Workplace |
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125 | (3) |
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Itinerants as a Fixture of the American Landscape |
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128 | (1) |
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129 | (2) |
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Challenges to Social Darwinism |
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131 | (2) |
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10 More? Labor's Revolutionary Tradition |
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133 | (16) |
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133 | (5) |
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The Rebirth of American Trade Unions |
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138 | (1) |
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The Cause of One Is the Cause of All: Knight of Labor |
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139 | (4) |
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Business Unionism: The AFL |
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143 | (1) |
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From Brotherhood to Business: Growth and Change in the Labor Unions |
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144 | (2) |
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The Lessons of Homestead, 1892 |
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146 | (1) |
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A Clash of Movement Cultures |
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147 | (2) |
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149 | (15) |
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149 | (2) |
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151 | (1) |
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Indigents as Society's Scapegoats |
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152 | (3) |
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The Conservative Chill Touches Women's Rights Crusaders |
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155 | (1) |
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The Perpetuation of Racial Inequality from 1887-1900 |
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156 | (3) |
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159 | (2) |
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161 | (1) |
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Law at the End of a Nightstick |
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162 | (2) |
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12 Salvation Armies: Self-Help and Virtue's Legions |
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164 | (15) |
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Americans Express Their Faith |
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165 | (3) |
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168 | (2) |
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The City as a Social Threat |
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170 | (2) |
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172 | (2) |
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Frances Willard and the Temperance Movement |
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174 | (2) |
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176 | (3) |
| Part Four: Pure (and Not So Pure) Politics |
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179 | (40) |
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13 "What Are We Here For?" |
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179 | (15) |
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"The Palmy Days of Politics" |
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179 | (2) |
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Big-City Machines Dominate Political Power |
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181 | (4) |
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Liberal Reform and the Case for Civil Service Reform |
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185 | (2) |
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To the Pendleton Act, 1871-1883 |
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187 | (5) |
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The More toward Bureaucracy |
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192 | (2) |
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14 The Myth of Laissez-Unfaire |
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194 | (11) |
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194 | (2) |
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The Many Constituencies for Active Government |
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196 | (2) |
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The Selective Nature of Government Action |
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198 | (1) |
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What Cities Did--And Didn't |
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198 | (2) |
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200 | (1) |
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Whose Jurisdiction? The Blurred Boundaries of City and State Regulations |
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201 | (2) |
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The Supreme Court and Regulation |
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203 | (2) |
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15 Tariff Wars in the Billion-Dollar Country, 1884-1890 |
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205 | (14) |
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Tariff Issues Help Define Party Affiliation |
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207 | (2) |
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The Presidential Election of 1884 |
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209 | (2) |
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Cleveland Tries So Hard to Do Right |
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211 | (1) |
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The 1888 "Campaign of Education" |
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212 | (1) |
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213 | (3) |
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The Party of Moral Ideals |
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216 | (3) |
| Part Five: Armageddon? |
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219 | (74) |
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219 | (15) |
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219 | (2) |
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The Farmers' Alliance Aroused |
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221 | (1) |
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Populists: "The Ash-Heap of Failure?" |
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222 | (1) |
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Populism: "The Robbers and the Robbed" |
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223 | (2) |
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Shortcomings of the Populist Party |
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225 | (2) |
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227 | (1) |
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Currency Issues as Political Rallying Points |
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227 | (4) |
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The Democrats Tack to a Populist Gale |
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231 | (3) |
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17 The Second Cleveland's Administration |
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234 | (16) |
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The Economic Boom Goes Bust |
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235 | (2) |
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237 | (2) |
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239 | (2) |
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241 | (4) |
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"Morganizing" the Railroads |
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245 | (1) |
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The Rediscovery of Poverty |
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246 | (1) |
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A New Breed of Urban Reformers |
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247 | (2) |
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Social Reform Movements Proliferate |
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249 | (1) |
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250 | (13) |
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William Jennings Bryan and the "Cross of Gold" |
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251 | (2) |
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The Battle of the Standards, 1896 |
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253 | (3) |
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256 | (2) |
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A Jim Crow Electorate: Making a More Solid South |
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258 | (1) |
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Anti-Fusion Laws and the Australian Ballot |
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259 | (2) |
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261 | (2) |
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19 The Ceremony of Innocence Is Drowned: Empire |
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263 | (17) |
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263 | (3) |
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The New Colossus: Toward a More Assertive Foreign Policy, 1880-1895 |
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266 | (1) |
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Hawaii Knocks at the Gate |
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267 | (1) |
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"A Splendid Little War" with Spain |
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268 | (2) |
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270 | (2) |
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Guerrilla War in the Philippines, 1899-1902 |
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272 | (3) |
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"Stumbled and Sinned in the Dark": Anti-Imperialism |
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275 | (1) |
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276 | (2) |
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Gunboat Diplomacy: The American Presence in the Caribbean |
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278 | (1) |
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Epilogue: "The Right Is More Precious Than Peace," 1917 |
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279 | (1) |
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280 | (13) |
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The Advent of the Automobile: Americans Take to the Open Road |
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280 | (1) |
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Scientific and Artistic Achievements Punctuate the Era |
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281 | (2) |
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The U. S. Economy Matures: Export Exceed Imports |
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283 | (2) |
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285 | (4) |
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The Pattern of Racism Persist in the Twentieth Century |
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289 | (1) |
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President Theodore Roosevelt Ushers In a New Era |
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289 | (2) |
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291 | (2) |
| Endnotes |
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293 | (32) |
| Index |
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