V. II. Since 1865: Historians and textbooks: the "Story" of reconstruction -- Using primary sources: industrialization and the condition of labor -- Evaluating primary sources: "Saving" the Indians in the late nineteenth century -- Evaluating a historical argument: American manhood and Philippine annexation -- The problem of historical motivation: the bungalow as the "Progressive" house -- Ideology and history: advertising in the 1920s -- History "From the Top Down": Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady -- History "From the Bottom Up": The Detroit race Riot and Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 -- Popular culture as history: The Cold War comes home -- History and popular memory: The Civil Rights Movement -- Causation and the lessons of history: explaining America's longest war -- Gender, ideology, and historical change: explaining the Women's Movement -- Why historical interpretation matters: the battle over immigration.
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V.I. To 1877: The truth about textbooks: Indians and the settlement of America -- The primary materials of history: childhood in Puritan New England -- Evaluating primary sources: was Pennsylvania "The Best Poor Man's Country?" -- Evaluating one historian's argument: the "Hidden Side" of the American Revolution -- Motivation in history: the Founding Fathers and the Constitution -- Ideas in history: race in Jefferson's Republic -- The problem of historical causation: the second great awakening -- Grand theory and history: democracy and the frontier -- History as biography: historians and old history -- History "From the Bottom Up": historians and slavery -- Ideology and society: the bounds of womanhood in the North and South -- Grand theory, Great battles, and Historical causes: why secession failed -- The importance of historical interpretation: the meaning of reconstruction.