Chapter III. The shortcomings of the book fall to me, but I shall be

recompensed for my indiscretions, if this volume is speedily followed by a number of texts, large and small, dealing with American history since the Civil War. It is showing no disrespect to our ancestors to be as much interested in our age as they were in theirs; and the doctrine that we can know more about Andrew Jackson whom we have not seen than about Theodore Roosevelt whom we have seen is a pernicious psychological error.

CHARLES A. BEARD.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, November, 1913.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE RESTORATION OF WHITE DOMINION IN THE SOUTH 1

II. THE ECONOMIC REVOLUTION 27

III. THE REVOLUTION IN POLITICS AND LAW 50

IV. PARTIES AND PARTY ISSUES, 1877-1896 90

V. TWO DECADES OF FEDERAL LEGISLATION, 1877-1896 117

VI. THE GROWTH OF DISSENT 143

VII. THE CAMPAIGN OF 1896 164

VIII. IMPERIALISM 199

IX. THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALISM 229

X. THE ADMINISTRATIONS OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT 254

XI. THE REVIVAL OF DISSENT 283

XII. MR. TAFT AND REPUBLICAN DISINTEGRATION 317

XIII. THE CAMPAIGN OF 1912 344

APPENDIX 382

BIBLIOGRAPHY 383

INDEX 391

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN HISTORY