Part 1 SECTION I: RECONSTRUCTION, 1865-18771 Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Death of a President Chapter 3 Chapter 2: Andrew Johnson on Stage Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Grant Takes Command Once Again Part 5 SECTION II: THE BROWN DECADES, 1877-1892 Chapter 6 Chapter 1: Politics as Usual Chapter 7 Chapter 2: The Cleveland Era Part 8 SECTION III: CLOSING THE FRONTIER, 1865-1890 Chapter 9 Chapter 1: What the Frontier Was Chapter 10 Chapter 2: The Indian Frontier Chapter 11 Chapter 3: The Trappers' Frontier Chapter 12 Chapter 4: The Miners' Frontier Chapter 13 Chapter 5: The Cattlemen's Frontier Chapter 14 Chapter 6: The Farmer's Frontier Part 15 SECTION IV: INDUSTRY, WEALTH, AND THE CITY, 1865-1901 Chapter 16 Chapter 1: Industry Grows the City Chapter 17 Chapter 2: The Men Who Made the Era Chapter 18 Chapter 3: The City Part 19 SECTION V: THE POPULIST ERA, 1890-1896 Chapter 20 Chapter 1: The Vicious Cycle Chapter 21 Chapter 2: The Farmers Fight Back Chapter 22 Chapter 3: Populists Unite Chapter 23 Chapter 4: Cleveland Makes a Comeback Part 24 SECTION VI: THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM, 1898-1904 Chapter 25 Chapter 1: The 1896 Election Chapter 26 Chapter 2: McKinley's Road to War Chapter 27 Chapter 3: America in Transition: Progressivism Chapter 28 Chapter 4: Theodore Roosevelt's World Chapter 29 Chapter 5: The World Seeks a Canal Chapter 30 Chapter 6: The United States Digs a Canal
Now Professor Emeritus, James T. Wall, is an American history veteran having taught at the University of Tennessee, Georgetown University, West Point, Edinburgh University in Scotland, and National University of Costa Rica.
James T. Wall's Wall Street and the Fruited Plain offers a
conventional overview of American history in the years 1865-1901,
the Gilded Age . . . Wall Street and the Fruited Plain is filled
with interesting nuggets of facts . . .
*Enterprise & Society, December 2009*
Wall provides a very nice historical overview of the period in a
style that undergraduate students will find extremely
acessible....Recommended. Two-star review.
*CHOICE, March 2009*
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