Give me liberty!: an American history

v.1 To 1877.

v.2 From 1865.

V. 1. A new world

Beginnings of English America, 1607-1660

Creating Anglo-America, 1660-1750

Slavery, freedom and the struggle for Empire to 1763

The American Revolution, 1763-1783

The revolution within

Founding a nation, 1783-1791

Securing the republic, 1790-1815

The market revolution, 1800-1840

Democracy in America, 1815-1840

The peculiar Institution

An age of reform, 1820-1840

A house divided, 1840-1861

A new birth of freedom : The Civil War, 1861-1865

"What is freedom?" : reconstruction, 1865-1877.

V. 2. "What is Freedom?" : reconstruction, 1865-1877

America's Gilded Age, 1870-1890

Freedom's boundaries, at home and abroad, 1890-1900

The Progressive Era, 1900-1916

Safe for democracy : the United States and World War I, 1916-1920

From business culture to great depression : The twenties, 1920-1932

The New Deal, 1932-1940

Fighting for the four freedoms : World War II, 1941-1945

The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1953

An affluent society, 1953-1960

The Sixties, 1960-1968

The conservative turn, 1969-1988

From triumph to tragedy, 1989-2004

A divided nation.

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.

V. 1. To 1877

v. 2. From 1865.