HIS272H5: US History, 1877 to the Present

1. Incorporation, 1877–1900
2. Interconnected, 1898–1914
3. War, 1914–1924
4. Vertigo, 1920–1928
5. Depression, 1928–1938
6. Assertion, 1938–1946
7. Containment, 1946–1953
8. At Odds, 1954–1965
9. Riven, 1965–1968
10. Breakdown, 1968–1974
11. Right, 1974–1989
12. Vulnerable, 1989–2001
13. Forward, 2001–2016

National parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier preserve some of this country's most cherished wilderness landscapes. While visions of pristine, uninhabited nature led to the creation of these parks, they also inspired policies of Indian removal.

Examining a range of writings and illustrations, as well as protests, public gatherings, trials, hearings, and urban reform and construction efforts, the author argues that the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Haymarket bombing of 1886, and the making and unmaking of the model town of Pullmannot only informed one another, but collectively shaped how Americans understood, and continue to understand, Chicago and modern urban life.

In this collection, ten men and women of European, Latin American, and Asian backgrounds tell of their immigrant experiences. They range from a Shetland Islander who sailed to Virginia as an indentured servant before the American Revolution to a Vietnamese refugee family living in Chicago in the 1980s.

The first major history of America's oldest civil rights organisation is destined to become a classic in the field. When it was founded in 1909, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was an elite organisation of white reformers. By 1918, it had become a mass organisation with predominantly black members. Sullivan unearths the little-known early decades of NAACP's activism, telling startling stories of personal bravery, legal brilliance and political manoeuvring, before moving on to the critical post-war era.

Chapters include black leaders, such as Booker T. Washington, T. Thomas Fortune, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, W.E.B Dubois, James Weldon Johnson, Marcus Garvey, A. Philip Randolph, Charles C. Spaulding, Mary McLeod Bethune, Charles H. Houston, Mabel K. Staupers, Adams Clayton Powell, Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Whitney M. Young, Jr.