VOLUME 2: BUILDING THE
AMERICAN REPUBLIC – A
NARRATIVE HISTORY FROM 1877
Inhoud
Chapter 1: Incorporation, 1877-1900.......................................................................................................................8
Race and equality in the turn-of-the-century South.............................................................................................8
wrestling with the fourteenth amendment......................................................................................................8
the politics of white supremacy........................................................................................................................8
making jim crow................................................................................................................................................8
the new south...................................................................................................................................................9
chapter 2: Interconnected, 1898-1914.....................................................................................................................9
into the open arena of the world..........................................................................................................................9
the spanish-american war.................................................................................................................................9
American empire.............................................................................................................................................10
the civilization trust.........................................................................................................................................10
america in the world.......................................................................................................................................10
america in the world, 1901-1912........................................................................................................................10
duty, dollars, and destiny................................................................................................................................11
the best herder of emperors since napoleon.................................................................................................11
dollar diplomacy..............................................................................................................................................11
americans abroad............................................................................................................................................11
new freedoms.....................................................................................................................................................11
the Revolution of 1913, Part 3: Jim Crow Comes to Washington...................................................................12
Chapter 3: War, 1914-1924.....................................................................................................................................12
The war to end all wars.......................................................................................................................................12
a less-than-principled neutrality.....................................................................................................................12
be prepared.....................................................................................................................................................12
America enters the war...................................................................................................................................13
a war of ideals................................................................................................................................................13
perilous times: the United States at war............................................................................................................13
the espionage act of 1917...............................................................................................................................13
forging cosensus at home...............................................................................................................................14
america’s moment..........................................................................................................................................14
, meester veelson..............................................................................................................................................15
Progressives at high tide.....................................................................................................................................15
the wartime state............................................................................................................................................15
mobility and mobs, law and lawlessness........................................................................................................16
operation occupy the white house: militant woman suffrage.......................................................................16
prohibition.......................................................................................................................................................16
reconstruction.....................................................................................................................................................17
rival utopias.....................................................................................................................................................17
we return fighting............................................................................................................................................18
red scare..........................................................................................................................................................18
discovering the first amendment....................................................................................................................18
Illegal activities................................................................................................................................................19
chapter 4: Vertigo, 1920-1928................................................................................................................................19
Division................................................................................................................................................................19
the jim crow north...........................................................................................................................................19
the shame of America.....................................................................................................................................19
“we stand defeated America”.........................................................................................................................20
the 1928 presidential election........................................................................................................................20
Chapter 5: Depression, 1928-1938.........................................................................................................................21
Meltdown, 1928-1933.........................................................................................................................................21
the premier bureaucrat of the decade...........................................................................................................21
international economic complications............................................................................................................21
smash-up.........................................................................................................................................................21
Coping with crisis.............................................................................................................................................22
from bad to worse...........................................................................................................................................22
“Strong medicine,” 1933-1935............................................................................................................................23
roosevelt redux...............................................................................................................................................23
do we need a dictator?...................................................................................................................................23
nothing TO FEAR..............................................................................................................................................23
100 days: money and crops.............................................................................................................................23
100 days: Market and Workers.......................................................................................................................24
a government of humanity..................................................................................................................................24
forging an economic constitutional order.......................................................................................................24
chasing security...............................................................................................................................................25
social security..................................................................................................................................................25
labor rising.......................................................................................................................................................25
triumph of the will...........................................................................................................................................26
, Balance................................................................................................................................................................26
the supreme court and the new deal..............................................................................................................26
judocracy.........................................................................................................................................................26
vindicated........................................................................................................................................................26
defending dixie................................................................................................................................................27
Isolationist-in-chief..........................................................................................................................................27
chapter 6: Assertion, 1938-1946.............................................................................................................................28
entangling alliances.............................................................................................................................................28
not our problem..............................................................................................................................................28
Blitszkrieg, sitzkrieg, and sitting on hands......................................................................................................29
self-preservation.............................................................................................................................................29
rising sun.........................................................................................................................................................29
Mobilizing for war...............................................................................................................................................30
the gross national product war.......................................................................................................................30
why we fight....................................................................................................................................................30
domestic violence............................................................................................................................................31
“ILl-advised, unnecessary, and cruel”: japanese american internment.........................................................31
war without mercy..............................................................................................................................................31
the war in Europe............................................................................................................................................31
the war in the pacific.......................................................................................................................................32
endgame in europe.........................................................................................................................................32
race war...........................................................................................................................................................33
victory in asia...................................................................................................................................................33
at the summit of the world.................................................................................................................................33
beyond belief: the holocaust..........................................................................................................................34
the united nations...........................................................................................................................................34
a new world at home......................................................................................................................................34
civil rights and human rights...........................................................................................................................35
chapter 7 containment, 1946-1953........................................................................................................................36
Postwar/Cold War...............................................................................................................................................36
new divisions...................................................................................................................................................36
the marshall plan.............................................................................................................................................37
new alliances and new states..........................................................................................................................37
Korea...............................................................................................................................................................37
to secure these rights..........................................................................................................................................38
creating the permanent war state..................................................................................................................38
postwar civil rights..........................................................................................................................................38
, challenges from the right and the left............................................................................................................38
the 1948 presidential election........................................................................................................................39
anti-communist crusades at home.....................................................................................................................39
seeing red........................................................................................................................................................39
scared..............................................................................................................................................................39
assaults on liberty...........................................................................................................................................40
fightin’ joe.......................................................................................................................................................40
the american way of life......................................................................................................................................40
the consumers’ republic..................................................................................................................................40
flushing together.............................................................................................................................................41
“horror in the nursery”...................................................................................................................................41
Good rockin’ tonight.......................................................................................................................................41
Chapter 8: At odds, 1954-1965...............................................................................................................................42
a nation of men or of laws? responses to brown...............................................................................................42
massive resistance...........................................................................................................................................42
violence...........................................................................................................................................................42
the montgomery bus boycott.........................................................................................................................43
trouble in little rock.........................................................................................................................................43
A divided america in the cold war years.............................................................................................................43
the dangers of a bipolar world........................................................................................................................43
Brinksmanship.................................................................................................................................................44
Superpower confrontations in europe and the middle east..........................................................................44
the new frontier..................................................................................................................................................45
JFK....................................................................................................................................................................45
Berlin and cuba................................................................................................................................................45
economic growth and economic equity..........................................................................................................46
the woman question.......................................................................................................................................46
Civil Rights: The Next Generation.......................................................................................................................46
the sit-ins.........................................................................................................................................................46
freedom riders and other disturbers of the peace.........................................................................................47
Birmingham and the march on washington....................................................................................................47
civil rights and voting rights laws....................................................................................................................47
the warren court and civil liberties.................................................................................................................47
chapter 9: riven, 1965-1968....................................................................................................................................48
Lyndon Johnson’s America..................................................................................................................................48
The great society.............................................................................................................................................48
the war on poverty..........................................................................................................................................48
AMERICAN REPUBLIC – A
NARRATIVE HISTORY FROM 1877
Inhoud
Chapter 1: Incorporation, 1877-1900.......................................................................................................................8
Race and equality in the turn-of-the-century South.............................................................................................8
wrestling with the fourteenth amendment......................................................................................................8
the politics of white supremacy........................................................................................................................8
making jim crow................................................................................................................................................8
the new south...................................................................................................................................................9
chapter 2: Interconnected, 1898-1914.....................................................................................................................9
into the open arena of the world..........................................................................................................................9
the spanish-american war.................................................................................................................................9
American empire.............................................................................................................................................10
the civilization trust.........................................................................................................................................10
america in the world.......................................................................................................................................10
america in the world, 1901-1912........................................................................................................................10
duty, dollars, and destiny................................................................................................................................11
the best herder of emperors since napoleon.................................................................................................11
dollar diplomacy..............................................................................................................................................11
americans abroad............................................................................................................................................11
new freedoms.....................................................................................................................................................11
the Revolution of 1913, Part 3: Jim Crow Comes to Washington...................................................................12
Chapter 3: War, 1914-1924.....................................................................................................................................12
The war to end all wars.......................................................................................................................................12
a less-than-principled neutrality.....................................................................................................................12
be prepared.....................................................................................................................................................12
America enters the war...................................................................................................................................13
a war of ideals................................................................................................................................................13
perilous times: the United States at war............................................................................................................13
the espionage act of 1917...............................................................................................................................13
forging cosensus at home...............................................................................................................................14
america’s moment..........................................................................................................................................14
, meester veelson..............................................................................................................................................15
Progressives at high tide.....................................................................................................................................15
the wartime state............................................................................................................................................15
mobility and mobs, law and lawlessness........................................................................................................16
operation occupy the white house: militant woman suffrage.......................................................................16
prohibition.......................................................................................................................................................16
reconstruction.....................................................................................................................................................17
rival utopias.....................................................................................................................................................17
we return fighting............................................................................................................................................18
red scare..........................................................................................................................................................18
discovering the first amendment....................................................................................................................18
Illegal activities................................................................................................................................................19
chapter 4: Vertigo, 1920-1928................................................................................................................................19
Division................................................................................................................................................................19
the jim crow north...........................................................................................................................................19
the shame of America.....................................................................................................................................19
“we stand defeated America”.........................................................................................................................20
the 1928 presidential election........................................................................................................................20
Chapter 5: Depression, 1928-1938.........................................................................................................................21
Meltdown, 1928-1933.........................................................................................................................................21
the premier bureaucrat of the decade...........................................................................................................21
international economic complications............................................................................................................21
smash-up.........................................................................................................................................................21
Coping with crisis.............................................................................................................................................22
from bad to worse...........................................................................................................................................22
“Strong medicine,” 1933-1935............................................................................................................................23
roosevelt redux...............................................................................................................................................23
do we need a dictator?...................................................................................................................................23
nothing TO FEAR..............................................................................................................................................23
100 days: money and crops.............................................................................................................................23
100 days: Market and Workers.......................................................................................................................24
a government of humanity..................................................................................................................................24
forging an economic constitutional order.......................................................................................................24
chasing security...............................................................................................................................................25
social security..................................................................................................................................................25
labor rising.......................................................................................................................................................25
triumph of the will...........................................................................................................................................26
, Balance................................................................................................................................................................26
the supreme court and the new deal..............................................................................................................26
judocracy.........................................................................................................................................................26
vindicated........................................................................................................................................................26
defending dixie................................................................................................................................................27
Isolationist-in-chief..........................................................................................................................................27
chapter 6: Assertion, 1938-1946.............................................................................................................................28
entangling alliances.............................................................................................................................................28
not our problem..............................................................................................................................................28
Blitszkrieg, sitzkrieg, and sitting on hands......................................................................................................29
self-preservation.............................................................................................................................................29
rising sun.........................................................................................................................................................29
Mobilizing for war...............................................................................................................................................30
the gross national product war.......................................................................................................................30
why we fight....................................................................................................................................................30
domestic violence............................................................................................................................................31
“ILl-advised, unnecessary, and cruel”: japanese american internment.........................................................31
war without mercy..............................................................................................................................................31
the war in Europe............................................................................................................................................31
the war in the pacific.......................................................................................................................................32
endgame in europe.........................................................................................................................................32
race war...........................................................................................................................................................33
victory in asia...................................................................................................................................................33
at the summit of the world.................................................................................................................................33
beyond belief: the holocaust..........................................................................................................................34
the united nations...........................................................................................................................................34
a new world at home......................................................................................................................................34
civil rights and human rights...........................................................................................................................35
chapter 7 containment, 1946-1953........................................................................................................................36
Postwar/Cold War...............................................................................................................................................36
new divisions...................................................................................................................................................36
the marshall plan.............................................................................................................................................37
new alliances and new states..........................................................................................................................37
Korea...............................................................................................................................................................37
to secure these rights..........................................................................................................................................38
creating the permanent war state..................................................................................................................38
postwar civil rights..........................................................................................................................................38
, challenges from the right and the left............................................................................................................38
the 1948 presidential election........................................................................................................................39
anti-communist crusades at home.....................................................................................................................39
seeing red........................................................................................................................................................39
scared..............................................................................................................................................................39
assaults on liberty...........................................................................................................................................40
fightin’ joe.......................................................................................................................................................40
the american way of life......................................................................................................................................40
the consumers’ republic..................................................................................................................................40
flushing together.............................................................................................................................................41
“horror in the nursery”...................................................................................................................................41
Good rockin’ tonight.......................................................................................................................................41
Chapter 8: At odds, 1954-1965...............................................................................................................................42
a nation of men or of laws? responses to brown...............................................................................................42
massive resistance...........................................................................................................................................42
violence...........................................................................................................................................................42
the montgomery bus boycott.........................................................................................................................43
trouble in little rock.........................................................................................................................................43
A divided america in the cold war years.............................................................................................................43
the dangers of a bipolar world........................................................................................................................43
Brinksmanship.................................................................................................................................................44
Superpower confrontations in europe and the middle east..........................................................................44
the new frontier..................................................................................................................................................45
JFK....................................................................................................................................................................45
Berlin and cuba................................................................................................................................................45
economic growth and economic equity..........................................................................................................46
the woman question.......................................................................................................................................46
Civil Rights: The Next Generation.......................................................................................................................46
the sit-ins.........................................................................................................................................................46
freedom riders and other disturbers of the peace.........................................................................................47
Birmingham and the march on washington....................................................................................................47
civil rights and voting rights laws....................................................................................................................47
the warren court and civil liberties.................................................................................................................47
chapter 9: riven, 1965-1968....................................................................................................................................48
Lyndon Johnson’s America..................................................................................................................................48
The great society.............................................................................................................................................48
the war on poverty..........................................................................................................................................48
