The Shaping of Modern America: 1877 - 1920, 3rd Edition

Preface to the Third Edition ix

1 The Rise of Industrial America 1

2 The Last West and the New South 19

3 The Politics of Dead Center 39

4 The Agrarian Revolt 60

5 American Culture in the Gilded Age 80

6 American Society in the Industrial Age 96

7 America’s New Manifest Destiny 121

8 The Great Reform Era 148

9 Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism 173

10 Taft and Progressive Insurgency 190

11 Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom 209

12 The United States as a World Power, 1899-1916 228

13 America’s road to War: 1914-1917 252

14 America in World War I 273

15 Wilson and the Versailles Treaty 292

Index 315

Photographs follow page 172