Out of Many A History of the American People, Brief Edition, Volume 2 (Chapters 17-31)

by Faragher, John Mack; Buhle, Mari Jo; Armitage, Susan H.; Czitrom, Daniel H.

• ISBN13: 9780205010622
• ISBN10: 0205010628
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-18
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Out of Manyis a coherent narrative of American history that offers insight into how diverse communities and different regions have shaped America's past. The text reveals the ethnic, geographical and economic diversity of the United States by examining the individual, the community and the state#xA0;and#xA0;placing#xA0;a special focus on the country's regions, particularly the West. #xA0; The updated edition features new and expanded coverage of a wide variety of topics in addition to MyHistoryLab tools that connect the text to interactive online learning tools to bring U.S. history to life.

Author Biography

John Mack Faragher

John Mack Faragher is an Arthur Unobskey professor of American history and the director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University. Born in Arizona and raised in southern California, he received his B.A. at the University of California, Riverside, and his Ph.D. at Yale University. He is the author of Women and Men on the Overland Trail (1979), Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (1986), Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1992), The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000) and A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland (2005).

 

Mari Jo Buhle

Mari Jo Buhle is a William R. Kenan, Jr. University professor emerita of American civilization and history at Brown University specializing in American women’s history. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920 (1981) and Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (1998). She is also the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left (second edition, 1998). Buhle held a fellowship (1991-1996) from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She is currently an honorary fellow of the history department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

 

Daniel Czitrom

Daniel Czitrom is a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College. Born and raised in New York City, he received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan (1982), which won the First Books Award of the American Historical Association and has been translated into Spanish and Chinese. He is the co-author of Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn of the Century New York (2008). He has served as a historical consultant and been featured as an on-camera commentator for several documentary film projects, including the PBS productions New York : A Documentary Film, American Photography: A Century of Images and The Great Transatlantic Cable. He is currently writing New York Exposed: How a Gilded Age Police Scandal Shocked the Nation and Launched the Progressive Era (Oxford).

 

Susan H. Armitage

Susan H. Armitage is a professor of history and women’s studies emerita at Washington State University, where she was a Claudius O. and Mary R. Johnson distinguished professor. She earned her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Among her many publications on western women’s history are three co-edited books, The Women’s West (1987), So Much To Be Done: Women on the Mining and Ranching Frontier (1991) and Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women’s West (1997). She served as editor of the feminist journal Frontiers from 1996 to 2002.  Her most recent publication, co-edited with Laurie Mercier, is Speaking History: Oral Histories of the American Past, 1865-Present (2009).

Table of Contents

IN THIS SECTION:
1.) BRIEF
2.) COMPREHENSIVE

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BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

Chapter 17     Reconstruction 1863–1877
Chapter 18     Conquest and Survival: The Trans-Mississippi West 1860–1900
Chapter 19     Production and Consumption in the Gilded Age 1865–1900
Chapter 20    Democracy and Empire 1870–1900
Chapter 21     Urban America and the Progressive Era 1900–1917
Chapter 22     A Global Power: The United States in the Era of the Great War 1901–1920
Chapter 23     The Twenties 1920–1929
Chapter 24     The Great Depression and the New Deal 1929-1940
Chapter 25     World War II 1941–1945
Chapter 26     The Cold War Begins 1945–1952
Chapter 27     America at Midcentury 1952–1963
Chapter 28     The Civil Rights Movement 1945–1966
Chapter 29    War Abroad, War at Home 1965–1974
Chapter 30     The Conservative Ascendancy 1974–1991
Chapter 31     The United States in a Global Age 1992–2010

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COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS: 

 

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Community and Diversity

 

Chapter 17: Reconstruction 1863–1877

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Hale County, Alabama: From Slavery to Freedom in a Black Belt Community

The Politics of Reconstruction

The Meaning of Freedom

SEEING HISTORY Changing Images of Reconstruction

Southern Politics and Society

Reconstructing the North

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Interpreting the Past:  Realities of Freedom

 

Chapter 18: Conquest and Survival: The Trans-Mississippi West 1860–1900

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Oklahoma Land Rush

Indian Peoples Under Siege

The Internal Empire

The Open Range

SEEING HISTORY The Legendary Cowboy: Nat Love, Deadwood Dick          

Farming Communities on The Plains

The World’s Breadbasket

The Western Landscape

The Transformation of Indian Societies

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

 

Chapter 19: Production and Consumption in the Gilded Age 1865–1900

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Haymarket Square, Chicago, May 4, 1886

The Rise of Industry, the Triumph of Business

SEEING HISTORY The Standard Oil Company

Labor in the Age of Big Business

The New South

The Industrial City

The Rise of Consumer Society

Cultures in Conflict, Culture in Common

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

 

Chapter 20: Democracy and Empire 1870–1900

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES  The Annexation of Hawai’i

Toward a National Governing Class

Farmers and Workers Organize their Communities

The Crisis of the 1890s

Politics of Reform, Politics of Order

The Path to Imperialism

SEEING HISTORY The White Man’s Burden

Onto a Global Stage 

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Interpreting the Past:  Currency Reform

 

Chapter 21: Urban America and the Progressive Era 1900–1917

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES  The Henry Street Settlement House: Women Settlement House Workers Create a Community of Reform

The Origins of Progressivism  

SEEING HISTORY Photographing Poverty in the Slums of New York

Progressive Politics in Cities and States  

Social Control and Its Limits 

Challenges to Progressivism  

Women’s Movements and Black Activism  

National Progressivism  

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

 

Chapter 22: A Global Power: The United States in the Era of the Great War 1901–1920

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The American Expeditionary Force in France

Becoming a World Power 

The Great War 

American Mobilization 

SEEING HISTORY Selling War

Over Here  

Repression and Reaction

An Uneasy Peace  

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

 

Chapter 23: The Twenties 1920–1929

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Movie Audience And Hollywood: Mass Culture Creates A New National Community

Postwar Prosperity and Its Price

The State, the Economy, and Business

The New Mass Culture

SEEING HISTORY Creating Celebrity

Modernity and traditionalism

Promises Postponed

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Interpreting the Past:  The Scopes Monkey Trial as a Harbinger of Change

  

Chapter 24: The Great Depression and the New Deal 1929-1940

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Sit-Down Strike at Flint: Automobile Workers Organize a New Union

Hard Times 

FDR and The First New Deal 

FDR the Man

Left Turn and the Second New Deal 

The New Deal in the South and West 

The Limits of Reform 

Depression-Era Culture 

SEEING HISTORY Documenting Hard Times in Black and White and Color

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

 

Chapter 25: World War II 1941–1945

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES    Los Alamos, New Mexico

The Coming of World War II  

The Great Arsenal of Democracy  

SEEING HISTORY Norman Rockwell’s “Rosie, the Riveter”

The Home Front  

Men and Women in Uniform  

The World at War  

The Last Stages of War  

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

 

Chapter 26: The Cold War Begins 1945–1952

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES   University of Washington, Seattle: Students and Faculty Face the Cold War

Global Insecurities at War’s End 

The Policy Of Containment 

Cold War Liberalism  

The Cold War At Home 

Cold War Culture 

SEEING HISTORY The Hollywood Film Invasion, U.S.A

Stalemate for the Democrats 

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Interpreting the Past:  Cold War Fears and Nuclear Holocaust

 

Chapter 27: America at Midcentury 1952–1963

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Popular Music in Memphis

Under the Cold War’s Shadow  

The Affluent Society  

Youth Culture  

Mass Culture and Its Discontents

The Coming of the New Frontier  

SEEING HISTORY Televising a National Tragedy

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

 

Chapter 28: The Civil Rights Movement 1945–1966

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Montgomery Bus Boycott: An African American Community Challenges Segregation

Origins of the Movement 

SEEING HISTORY Civil Rights on the World Stage

No Easy Road to Freedom, 1957–62 

The Movement at High Tide, 1963–65 

Civil Rights Beyond Black and White 

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Interpreting the Past:  The Quest for African American Equality

 

Chapter 29: War Abroad, War at Home 1965–1974

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Uptown, Chicago, Illinois

Vietnam: America’s Longest War  

A Generation in Conflict  

Wars on Poverty  

1968: Year of Turmoil  

The Politics of Identity  

The Nixon Presidency  

SEEING HISTORY Kim Phuc, Fleeing a Napalm Attack Near Trang Bang

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

 

Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974–1991

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Grassroots Conservatism in Orange County, California

The Overextended Society 

The New Right 

SEEING HISTORY The Inaugurations of Carter and Reagan

The Reagan Revolution 

Best of Times, Worst of Times 

Toward A New World Order 

“A Kinder, Gentler Nation” 

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

 

Chapter 31: The United States in a Global Age 1992–2010

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Transnational Communities in San Diego and Tijuana

The Presidency of Bill Clinton

Changing American Communities

President George W. Bush and the War on Terror

SEEING HISTORY The 9/11 Attacks

Barack Obama and the Audacity of Hope

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Interpreting the Past: The Threat of War to Democratic Institutions

 

Appendix

Glossary

Credits

Index