FROM RECONSTRUCTION TO THE PRESENT

Sections titled “Rebuilding After the Civil War”; “The Progressive Era”; “Prosperity, Depression, and War”; and “The Cold War Abroad and at Home” feature debates on race relations, poverty, immigration, imperialism, the New Deal, World War II, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, Watergate, 9/11, the war in Iraq, and other pivotal issues in U.S. history.