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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).
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Community and Diversity
CHAPTER 1 A CONTINENT OF VILLAGES
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Cahokia: Thirteenth-Century Life on the Mississippi
The First American Settlers
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Origins of Foodways
The Development of Farming
Farming in Early North America
SEEING HISTORY An Early European Image of Native Americans
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 2 WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE 1492—1590
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The English at Roanoke
The Expansion of Europe
The Spanish in the Americas
Northern Explorations and Encounters
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Debate over the Justice of the Conquest
SEEING HISTORY A Watercolor from the First Algonquian-English Encounter
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 3 PLANTING COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA 1588-1701
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Communities and Diversity in Seventeenth Century Santa Fe
The Spanish, The French, and the Dutch in North America
The Chesapeake: Virginia and Maryland
SEEING HISTORY John Smith’s Cartoon History of His Adventures in Virginia
The New England Colonies
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Maypole at Merrymount
The Proprietary Colonies
Conflict and War
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 4 SLAVERY AND EMPIRE 1441—1770
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Rebellion In Stono, South Carolina
The Beginnings of African Slavery
The African Slave Trade
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Two Views of The Middle Passage
The Development of North American Slave Societies
African to African American
SEEING HISTORY A Musical Celebration In The Slave Quarters
Slavery and the Economics of Empire
Slavery, Prosperity, and Freedom
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 5 THE CULTURES OF COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA 1700—1780
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Revival of Religion and Community in Northampton
North American Regions
SEEING HISTORY A Plan of an American New Cleared Farm
Social and Political Patterns
The Cultural Transformation of British North America
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Inoculation Controversy in Boston, 1721
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 6 FROM EMPIRE TO INDEPENDENCE 1750—1776
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The First Continental Congress Begins to Shape a National Political Community
The Seven Years’ War in America
The Emergence of American Nationalism
“Save Your Money and Save Your Country”
From Resistance to Rebellion
SEEING HISTORY The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring and Feathering
Deciding for Independence
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Debate over Independence
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 7 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1776—1786
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES A National Community Evolves at Valley Forge
The War for Independence
The United Sates in Congress Assembled
SEEING HISTORY The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy
Revolutionary Politics in the States
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 8 THE NEW NATION 1786—1800
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES A Rural Massachusetts Community Rises in Defense of Liberty
The Crisis of the 1780s
The New Constitution
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Controversy over Ratification
The First Federal Administration
SEEING HISTORY The Columbian Tragedy
Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
“The Rising Glory of America”
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 9 AN EMPIRE FOR LIBERTY 1790—1824
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Expansion Touches Mandan Villages on the Upper Missouri
North American Communities From Coast To Coast
A National Economy
The Jefferson Presidency
Renewed Imperial Rivalry In North America
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Christianizing the Indian
The War of 1812
SEEING HISTORY “A Scene on the Frontiers as Practiced by the ‘Humane’ British and their ‘Worthy’ Allies”
Defining the Boundaries
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 10 THE SOUTH AND SLAVERY 1790s—1850s
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Cotton Communities in the Old Southwest
King Cotton and Southern Expansion
The African American Community
Freedom and Resistance
The White Majority
Planters
SEEING HISTORY “Gordon Under Medical Inspection”
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Who Benefits from Slavery?
The Defense of Slavery
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 11 THE GROWTH OF DEMOCRACY 1824-1840
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES A Political Community Abandons Deference for Democracy
The New Democratic Politics in North America
The Jackson Presidency
SEEING HISTORY “President’s Levee, or all Creation Going to the White House”
Changing the Course of Government
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Andrew Jackson’s Bank Veto and Senator Daniel Webster’s Response
The Second American Party System
American Arts and Letters
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 12 INDUSTRY AND THE NORTH 1790s—1840s
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Women Factory Workers Form a Community in Lowell, Massachusetts
The Transportation Revolution
The Market Revolution
SEEING HISTORY Industrialization and Rural Life
The Yankee West
Industrialization Begins
From Artisan to Worker
The New Middle Class
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Two Mill Girls Disagree About Conditions at Lowell
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 13 MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF THE NEW AGE: IMMIGRATION, URBANIZATION, AND SOCIAL REFORM 1820S—1850S
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Women Reformers of Seneca Falls Respond to the Market Revolution
Immigration and the City
Urban Problems
SEEING HISTORY P.T. Barnum’s Famous “Curiosity:” General Tom Thumb
Social Reform Movements
Antislavery and Abolitionism
The Women’s Rights Movement
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT When Women Speak Up
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 14 THE TERRITORIAL EXPANSION OF THE UNITED STATES 1830s—1850s
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Texans and Tejanos “Remember the Alamo!”
Exploring the West
The Politics of Expansion
The Mexican-American War
California and the Gold Rush
SEEING HISTORY War News from Mexico
The Politics of Manifest Destiny
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Sectional Split over the Expansion Of Slavery
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 15 THE COMING CRISIS THE 1850s
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Illinois Communities Debate Slavery
America in 1850
Cracks in National Unity
The Crisis of The National Party System
SEEING HISTORY Brooks Beats Sumner
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Debate over Immigration
The Differences Deepen
The South Secedes
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 16 THE CIVIL WAR 1861—1865
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Mother Bickerdyke Connects Northern Communities to Their Boys at War
Communities Mobilize for War
The Governments Organize for War
The Fighting through 1862
The Death of Slavery
The Front Lines and The Home Front
SEEING HISTORY Come and Join Us Brothers
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Limits of Civil Liberties In Wartime
The Tide Turns
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
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
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Ku Klux Klan in Alabama
Reconstructing the North
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
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
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Carlisle Indian Industrial School
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
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Regulating the Conditions and Limiting the Hours of Labor in the State of Illinois
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
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Two Sides of Anti-Imperialism
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
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
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Debating Prohibition in Progressive-Era Ohio
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
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Race Riot in Tulsa
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
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Scopes Trial in Dayton,Tennessee
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
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
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Californians Face the Influx of “Dust Bowl” Migrants
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
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT On Deploying the Atomic Bomb
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
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Congress and the Red Scare
Cold War Culture
SEEING HISTORY The Hollywood Film Invasion, U.S.A
Stalemate for the Democrats
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 27 AMERICA AT MIDCENTURY 1952—1963
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Popular Music in Memphis
Under the Cold War’s Shadow
The Affluent Society
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Integrating Levittown, Pennsylvania
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 Visualizing Civil Rights
No Easy Road to Freedom, 1957—62
The Movement at High Tide, 1963—65
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Showdown in Oxford: Integrating Ole Miss
Civil Rights Beyond Black and White
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 29 WAR ABROAD, WAR AT HOME 1965—1974
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Uptown, Chicago, Illinois
Vietnam: America’s Longest War
A Generation in Conflict
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Prospects for Peace in Vietnam, April 1965
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
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania
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
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Illegal Immigrants and the Border Fence
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
Appendix
Bibliography
Credits
Index
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