Chapter Reading Guides
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Note: Each guide opens in a new browser tab. Guides are designed to accompany Give Me Liberty! An American History, Vol. 2 Brief Edition (Foner). Consult your syllabus for assigned reading dates.
⚠️ Before You Take the Quiz: You must complete the reading guide before attempting the chapter quiz. The quizzes are designed to be taken with your completed reading guide in front of you — students who attempt the quiz without a finished guide are very unlikely to succeed.
Chapters 15 – 26 · Give Me Liberty! Vol. 2 Brief Edition
12 Guides- Ch. 15 Chapter 15 Reading Guide Reconstructing America, 1865–1877 →
- Ch. 16 Chapter 16 Reading Guide America's Gilded Age, 1870–1890 →
- Ch. 17 Chapter 17 Reading Guide Freedom's Boundaries, at Home and Abroad, 1890–1900 →
- Ch. 18 Chapter 18 Reading Guide The Progressive Era, 1900–1916 →
- Ch. 19 Chapter 19 Reading Guide Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I, 1916–1920 →
- Ch. 20 Chapter 20 Reading Guide From Business Culture to the Great Depression, 1920–1932 →
- Ch. 21 Chapter 21 Reading Guide The New Deal, 1932–1940 →
- Ch. 22 Chapter 22 Reading Guide Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941–1945 →
- Ch. 23 Chapter 23 Reading Guide The United States and the Cold War, 1945–1953 →
- Ch. 24 Chapter 24 Reading Guide An Affluent Society, 1953–1960 →
- Ch. 25 Chapter 25 Reading Guide The Sixties, 1960–1968 →
- Ch. 26 Chapter 26 Reading Guide The Triumph of Conservatism, 1969–1988 →