Title: American epoch; a history of the United States since the 1890's,
Authors: Link, Arthur S. 1920-1998
Publisher: Knopf
Year: 1967
Subjects: Universidad Sergio Arboleda; History; United States History
Contents: Part I. The progressive era and the First Word War, 1897-1920. The heritage of the nineteenth century ; The American people during the progressive era ; Aspects of economic development ; The progressive movement ; Politics and problems of the republican era ; Woodrow Wilson and the flowering of the Progressive movement, 1910-1916 ; The growth of the United States as a world power, 1898-1916 ; The road to war, 1914-1917 ; The American democracy at war ; The great crusade ends in a separate peace ; demobilization and the triumph of normalcy, 1918-1920 -- Part II. Prosperity, depression, and the New Deal, 1921-1941. Aspects of economic development, 1920-1940 ; Social and cultural main currents, 1820-1940 ; Tensions of the 1920's ; The survival of progressivism; politics and problems of the Harding-Coolidge era ; Foreign relations of the 1920's ; Hoover and the Great Depression, 1929-1932 ; The First New Deal: experiment in compromise ; The Second New Deal: the culmination of American progressivism ; The New Deal and the American people ; The United States and the collapse of the international structure, 1931-1938 ; The second road to war, 1938-1941 -- Part III. The Second World War and an uncertain peace, 1938-1966. The Second World War: the American home front ; The Second World War: diplomatic and military aspects ; The American economy, 1940-1960 ; Social and cultural trends, 1940-1960 ; Politics and problems of the Truman era ; Vain struggle for a Brave New World, 1945-1949 ; The Korean War and the election of 1952 ; Politics and problems of the Eisenhower era ; Defense policies and nuclear stalemate ; The United States in a turbulent world, 1953-1960 ; New frontiers and The Great Society.