The American People Creating a Nation and a Society, Concise Edition, Volume 2

by Nash, Gary B.; Jeffrey, Julie Roy; Howe, John R.; Frederick, Peter J.; Davis, Allen F.; Winkler, Allan M.; Mires, Charlene; Pestana, Carla Gardina

• ISBN13: 9780205805389
• ISBN10: 0205805388
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-02
• Publisher: Pearson

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Author Biography

Gary B. Nash received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is currently Director of the National Center for History in the Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he teaches colonial and revolutionary American history. A former president of the Organization of American Historians, his scholarship is especially concerned with the role of common people in the making of history.

 

Julie Roy Jeffrey earned her Ph.D. in history from Rice University. Since then she has taught at Goucher College. Honored as an outstanding teacher, Jeffrey has been involved in faculty development activities and curriculum evaluation. She was Fullbright Chair in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, 1999-2000 and John Adams Chair of American History at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2006. She is the author of many articles on the lives and perceptions of nineteenth-century women. Her research continues to focus on abolitionism as well as on history and film.

 

John R. Howe received his Ph.D. from Yale University. At the University of Minnesota, he has taught the U.S. history survey and courses on the American revolutionary era and the early republic. His present research deals with the social politics of verbal discourse in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Boston. He has received a Woodrow Wilson Graduate Fellowship, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Research Fellowship from the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.

 

Peter J. Frederick received his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley. His career of innovative teaching began at California State University, Hayward, in the 1960s and continued at Wabash College (1970-2004) and Carleton College (1992-1994) He also served as distinguished Professor of American History and Culture at Heritage University on the Yakama Nation reservation in Washington between 2004 and 2006. Recognized nationally as a distinguished teacher and for his many articles and workshops on teaching and learning, Frederick was awarded the Eugene Asher Award for Excellence in Teaching by the AHA in 2000.

 

Allen F. Davis earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. A former president of the American Studies Association, he is a professor emeritus at Temple University and editor of Conflict and Consensus in American History (9^th ed., 1997).

 

Allan M. Winkler received his Ph.D. from Yale University. He has taught at Yale and the University of Oregon, and he is now Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University of Ohio. An award-winning teacher, he has also published extensively about the recent past. His research centers on the connections between public policy and popular mood in modern history.

 

Charlene Mires earned her Ph.D. in history at Temple University. At Villanova University, she teaches courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. history, public history, and material culture. She is the author of Independence Hall in American Memory (2002) and serves as editor of the Pennsylvania History Studies Series for the Pennsylvania Historical Association. A former journalist, she was a co-recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for general local news reporting with other staff members at the Fort Wayne (Indiana) News-Sentinel.

 

Carla Gardina Pestana received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. She taught at Ohio State University, where she served as a Lilly Teaching Fellow and launched an innovative on-demand publishing project. Currently she holds the W.E. Smith Professorship in History at Miami University. At present, she is completing a book on religion in the British Atlantic world to 1830 for classroom use.

 

Table of Contents

Recovering the Past	p. xii
Maps	p. xii
Preface	p. xiii
Supplements	p. xxi
About the Authors	p. xxiii
The Union Reconstructed	p. 457
The Bittersweet Aftermath of War	p. 459
National Reconstruction Politics	p. 464
RECOVERING the PAST: Novels	p. 468
The Lives of Freedpeople	p. 471
Reconstruction in the Southern States	p. 478
Conclusion: A Mixed Legacy	p. 486
A Modernizing People, 1877 to 1929	p. 489
The Realities of Rural America	p. 489
Modernizing Agriculture	p. 491
The West	p. 494
Resolving the Native American Question	p. 501
The New South	p. 505
RECOVERING the PAST: Magazines	p. 506
Farm Protest	p. 514
Conclusion: Farming in the Industrial Age	p. 518
The Rise of Smokestack America	p. 520
The Texture of Industrial Progress	p. 522
Industrial Work and the Laboring Class	p. 528
Capital Versus Labor	p. 535
Strive and Succeed	p. 539
The Politics of the Gilded Age	p. 542
RECOVERING the PAST: Congressional Hearings	p. 550
Conclusion: The Complexity of Industrial Capitalism	p. 552
The New Metropolis	p. 554
The Industrial City	p. 556
The New Urban Geography	p. 564
Reforming the City	p. 572
RECOVERING the PAST: World's Fairs	p. 576
Conclusion: Cities Transformed	p. 579
Becoming a World Power	p. 582
Steps Toward Empire	p. 584
Expansionism in the 1890s	p. 588
War in Cuba and the Philippines	p. 591
Theodore Roosevelt's Energetic Diplomacy	p. 598
RECOVERING the PAST: Political Cartoons	p. 600
Conclusion: The Responsibilities of Power	p. 608
The Progressives Confront Industrial Capitalism	p. 611
The Social Justice Movement	p. 613
RECOVERING the PAST: Documentary Photographs	p. 618
The Worker in the Progressive Era	p. 624
Reform in the Cities and States	p. 629
Theodore Roosevelt and the Square Deal	p. 631
Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom	p. 640
Conclusion: The Limits of Progressivism	p. 643
The Great War	p. 646
The Early War Years	p. 647
The United States Enters the War	p. 654
The Military Experience	p. 658
RECOVERING the PAST: Government Propaganda	p. 660
Domestic Impact of the War	p. 665
Planning for Peace	p. 670
Conclusion: The Divided Legacy of the Great War	p. 673
Affluence and Anxiety	p. 676
Postwar Problems	p. 678
A Prospering Economy	p. 681
Clashing Values	p. 688
Hopes Raised, Promises Deferred	p. 691
The Business of Politics	p. 696
RECOVERING the PAST: Advertising	p. 702
Conclusion: A New Era of Prosperity and Problems	p. 704
A Resilient People, 1929 to Present	p. 707
The Great Depression and the New Deal	p. 707
The Great Depression	p. 709
Economic Decline	p. 711
Roosevelt and the First New Deal	p. 714
One Hundred Days	p. 717
The Second New Deal	p. 723
The Last Years of the New Deal	p. 730
The Other Side of the 1930s	p. 733
RECOVERING the PAST: The Movies	p. 736
Conclusion: The Mixed Legacy of the Great Depression and the New Deal	p. 738
World War II	p. 741
The Twisting Road to War	p. 743
Battles and Bullets	p. 749
The Impact of War	p. 758
Insiders and Outsiders	p. 763
RECOVERING the PAST: History, Memory, and Monuments	p. 770
Conclusion: Peace, Prosperity, and International Responsibility	p. 772
Chills and Fever During the Cold War, 1945-1960	p. 775
Origins of the Cold War	p. 777
Containing the Soviet Union	p. 781
Containment in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America	p. 786
Atomic Weapons and the Cold War	p. 794
The Cold War at Home	p. 798
RECOVERING the PAST: Public Opinion Polls	p. 802
Conclusion: Tire Cold War in Perspective	p. 805
Postwar America at Home, 1945-1960	p. 808
Economic Boom	p. 810
Demographic and Technological Shifts	p. 818
Consensus and Conformity	p. 822
Origins of the Welfare State	p. 826
The Other America	p. 832
RECOVERING the PAST: Clothing	p. 838
Conclusion: Qualms amid Affluence	p. 841
Reform and Rebellion in the Turbulent Sixties, 1960-1969	p. 844
John F. Kennedy: The Camelot Years	p. 846
RECOVERING the PAST: Television	p. 850
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society	p. 855
Continuing Confrontations with Communists	p. 865
War in Vietnam and Turmoil at Home	p. 868
Conclusion: Political and Social Upheaval	p. 876
Disorder and Discontent, 1969-1980	p. 878
The Decline of Liberalism	p. 880
The Ongoing Effort in Vietnam	p. 888
Constitutional Conflict and Its Consequences	p. 891
The Continuing Quest for Social Reform	p. 898
RECOVERING the PAST: Popular Music	p. 902
Conclusion: Sorting Out the Pieces	p. 910
Conservatism and a Shift in Course, 1980-2010	p. 913
New Politics in a Conservative Age	p. 915
An End to Social Reform	p. 925
Economic and Demographic Change	p. 930
RECOVERING the PAST: Autobiography	p. 936
Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War	p. 938
Conclusion: The Recent PAST in Perspective	p. 948
Appendix	p. A-1
Glossary	p. G-1
Index	p. I-1
Credits	p. C-1
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