American Passages: A History of the United States, Comprehensive Volume With Infotrac

by AYERS ET AL

• ISBN13: 9780534607418
• ISBN10: 0534607411
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-04
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

AMERICAN PASSAGES, SECOND EDITION examines U.S. history the way people live--in the flow of time. Rather than pursuing one topic (such as politics, culture, society, reform, the military, or economics) at a time, each chapter of the text interweaves important themes and issues into one interrelated narrative. Through this method of presentation, students can observe the many ways that events, movements, and groups of people have served to shape history and can learn to make connections between these themes and issues. References to the book's fully integrated Web site and to AMERICAN JOURNEY ONLINE DATABASE--a cross-referenced, hyperlinked library of primary sources that are organized by topic--allow students to experience history from the vantage of those who lived it.AMERICAN PASSAGES: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, SECOND EDITION is available in the following split options: American Passages, Comprehensive, Second Edition (Chapters 1â?"32) ISBN: 0534607411; American Passages, Volume I: To 1877, Second Edition (Chapters 1â?"16) ISBN: 053460742X; American Passages, Volume II: Since 1863, Second Edition (Chapters 15â?"32) ISBN: 0534607438.

Table of Contents

PASSAGES: PREHISTORY TO 1763. 1

Contact, Conflict, and Exchange in the Atlantic World to 1590. 2

Colonization of North America, 1590-1675. 3

Crisis and Change, 1675-1720. 4

The Expansion of Colonial British America, 1720-1763. PASSAGES: 1764 TO 1814

5. Wars for Independence, 1764-1783

6. Toward a More Perfect Union, 1783-1788

7. The Federalist Republic

8. The New Republic Faces a New Century, 1800-1814

PASSAGES: 1815 TO 1855. 9

Exploded Boundaries, 1815-1826. 10

The Years of Andrew Jackson, 1827-1836. 11

Panic and Boom, 1837-1845. 12

Expansion and Reaction, 1846-1854. PASSAGES: 1855-1877

13. Broken Bonds, 1855-1861

14. Descent into War, 1861-1862

15. Blood and Freedom, 1863-1867

16. Reconstruction Abandoned, 1867-1877

PASSAGES: 1877-1909. 17

The Economic Transformation of America, 1877-1887. 18

Urban Growth and Farm Protest, 1887-1893. 19

Domestic Turmoil and Overseas Expansion, 1893-1901. 20

Theodore Roosevelt and Progressive Reform, 1901-1909. PASSAGES: 1909-1933

21. Progressivism at its Height, 1909-1914

22. Over There and Over Here: The Impact of World War I, 1914-1921

23. The Age of Jazz and Mass Culture, 1921-1927

24. The Great Depression, 1927-1933

PASSAGES: 1933-1960. 25

The New Deal, 1933-1939. 26

The Second World War, 1939-1945. 27

Postwar America, 1946-1952. 28

The Eisenhower Years, 1953-1960. PASSAGES: 1960-2003

29. Turbulent Years, 1960-1968

30. Crisis of Confidence, 1969-1980

31. The Reagan-Bush Years, 1981-1992

32. From Prosperity to the Challenge of Terrorism, 1993-2003