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The Oxford History of the United States book series originated in the 1950s with a plan laid out by historians C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter for a multivolume history of the United States published by Oxford University Press, modeled on the Oxford History of England, that would provide a summary of the political, social, and cultural history of the United States for a general ...
U.S. territorial extent in 1870. 1870 – 15th Amendment; 1870 – First graduate programs (at Yale and Harvard) 1870 – Black Codes; 1870 - Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, and Georgia are readmitted to the union; 1871 – Great Chicago Fire; 1871 – Treaty of Washington with the British Empire regarding Canada
American Colossus narrates United States history in the thirty-five years following the American Civil War. [14] The book highlights the ascent of businessmen like Cornelius Vanderbilt, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie, [5] interpreting the time period through the lens of the "triumph of capitalism". [1]
Gordon considers that the apparent increasing economic growth since 1970 is just a faint echo of a great wave of economic growth between 1920 and 1970. The first half of the book discusses the change in the American standard of living pre-WW2, with the second half dedicated to the remainder of the 'special century' and the years post-1970. [3] [4]
The American economy has always been cyclical, going from boom to bust and back again. However, 2020 saw an entire economic cycle in a matter of months. The economy was in a solid expansion at the...
1919 – United States Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations 1919 – 18th Amendment , establishing Prohibition 1919 – Black Sox Scandal during that year's World Series , with the fallout lasting for decades
Throughout the history of labor in the United States, many workers have gone on strike.The Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the predecessor organizations it cites, have kept track of the number of striking workers per year since 1881.
This period of rapid economic growth and soaring prosperity in the Northern United States and the Western United States saw the U.S. become the world's dominant economic, industrial, and agricultural power. The average annual income (after inflation) of non-farm workers grew by 75% from 1865 to 1900, and then grew another 33% by 1918.