The Random House Readers in American History: Volume II - Essays on the National Past, 1860 to the Present

659 pp. The second in a two volume set, this volume beginning immediately before the American Civil War and continuing through the time of publication. CONTENTS: Origins of Modern America, 1860-1900 - Introduction; Part I: Civil War and Its Aftermath; Part II: The New Society; Part III: The Approach of Empire; Reform, Crisis and Confusion, 1900-1929 - Part I. Progressivism: The Politics of Reform; Part Two: The World and the War; Part III: A Confused Culture; The Dissonance of Change, 1929 to the Present - Part I: Years of the Locust: Visions and Realities; Part II: An Age of Anxiety: America and the World; Part III: A Time of Transition: Configurations of Change and Control.