American Stories: Living American History: v. 1: To 1877

by Ripper,Jason

• ISBN13: 9780765619181
• ISBN10: 0765619180
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-04-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book is ideal for any introductory American history instructor who wants to make the subject more appealing. It's designed to supplement a main text, and focuses on personalized history presented through engaging biographies of famous and less-well-known figures from the colonial period to 1877. Historical patterns and trends appear as they are seen through individual lives, and the selection of the profiled individuals reflects a cultural awareness and a multicultural perspective.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Prologue: Native Americans and Europeans up to 1600

Colonial New England

"The Country is Not So As We Did Expect It."

Roger Williams, the Narragansetts, and the Pequots

Anne Hutchinson and the Tradition of Dissent

And the World Kept On Changing

The Colonial South

Jamestown: Pocahontas and John Smith

Jamestown: Tobacco and Slaves

Colonial Virginia: 1622, 1676, and 1705

From Barbados to South Carolina: Trade, War, and Slavery

An American Mosaic

Colonial Society

William Byrd: Colonizing Nature

Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, the Great Awakening (and Benjamin Franklin, Too)

Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney

Changing Identities

The Coming of the Revolution

On the Road to Revolutions

Abigail Adams

The Declaration of Independence

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

The American Revolution

An Overview

George Washington: Man of Contradictions

Mary Jemison: Seneca and Loyalist

Joseph Plumb Martin: A Common Soldier in the Continental Army

Anthony Allaire: A New York Loyalist in the Carolinas

Perceptions: African-Americans and the War of Independence

The Constitutional Period

Washington and Madison: At the Constitutional Convention

The Constitution: Debating the Future

Mary Dewees: Heading West

Benjamin Banneker

The Constitution: Intentions and Consequences

Politics and Society in the Early Republic

Of Midwives and Monarchs

Alexander Hamilton

Nancy Shippen

John Marshall's Supreme Court

The United States on the World Stage

Money, War, and Power

Citizen Genet: French Diplomacy with a Twist

The Barbary Wars: 1784-1805

Sacagawea and the Corps of Discovery

Foreign Policy: Transatlantic and Transcontinental

The War of 1812

Irritations, Aggravations, and Failed Diplomacies

Dolley Madison

Tecumseh: Independence Lost

The Star-Spangled Banner

Andrew Jackson and America

The Story of Jackson

The Democratic Age

Presidential Turmoil

Love and Politics: A Jacksonian Postscript

The Republic of Texas

The United States and the Antebellum West

Narcissa Whitman: On a Mission to the Oregon Country

All That Glitters: The West Through Mark Twain's Eyes

The Mexican-American War and California

The West: An Environmental Perspective

Nineteenth-Century Slavery

Perspectives

Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Rebecca Felton: The Mind of a White Southerner

Nat Turner and Slave Resistance

Solomon Northup: Slave Migrations and the West

"The Love of Freedom"

The Coming of the Civil War

A Slow-Building Fire

North and South Go Their Separate Ways

Abolitionists in Society: William Lloyd Garrison

The Grimke Sisters and The Seneca Falls Convention

Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth

The Southern Response to Abolition

The Civil War

Strategies and Realities

Abraham Lincoln: Part 1

Rose O'Neale Greenhow: Confederate Spy

Mathew Brady and War Photography

Emma LeConte and William Tecumseh Sherman: The Coming of the End Through Southern Eyes

Abraham Lincoln: Part 2

After the Civil War

The Difficulties of Reconstruction

Reconstruction: Black and White

Mary Ames: A New England Woman in Dixie

W.E.B. DuBois and the "Problem of the Color Line"

About the Author

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