1865: "Bind up the nation's wounds" -- The Reconstruction revolution -- Buffalo Bill Cody and the myth of the West -- Smokestack Nation: the industrial titans -- Andrew Carnegie: the self-made ideal -- Big business: democracy for sale?
The new immigrants: a new America -- Big cities: the underbelly revealed -- Popular culture: jazz, modern art, movies -- New technology: cars, electricity, records -- The 1892 Homestead Strike -- Morals and manners: middle-class society.
Mrs. Vanderbilt's gala ball -- Populist revolt: the Grangers and Coxey -- Rough Riders and the imperial dream -- No more corsets: the new woman -- Trust-busting in the Progressive Era -- The 1911 triangle fire and reform.
Theodore Roosevelt, conservationist -- Urban reform: how the other half lives -- The 17th Amendment: democracy restored -- Early civil rights: Washington or Du Bois? -- Over there: a world safe for democracy -- Upheaval and the end of an era.
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