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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 currently serves as a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. 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).
IN THIS SECTION:
1.) BRIEF
2.) COMPREHENSIVE
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1 A Continent of Villages
Chapter 2 When Worlds Collide 1492—1590
Chapter 3 Planting Colonies in North America 1588-1701
Chapter 4 Slavery and Empire 1441—1770
Chapter 5 The Cultures of Colonial North America 1700—1780
Chapter 6 From Empire to Independence 1750—1776
Chapter 7 The American Revolution 1776—1786
Chapter 8 The New Nation 1786—1800
Chapter 9 An Empire for Liberty 1790—1824
Chapter 10 The South and Slavery 1790s—1850s
Chapter 11 The Growth of Democracy 1824-1840
Chapter 12 Industry and the North 1790s—1840s
Chapter 13 Meeting the Challenges of the New Age: Immigration, Urbanization, and Social Reform 1820s —1850s
Chapter 14 The Territorial Expansion of the United States 1830s—1850s
Chapter 15 The Coming Crisis the 1850s
Chapter 16 The Civil War 1861—1865
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
COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:
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
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
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
The New England Colonies
The Proprietary Colonies
Conflict and War
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Interpreting the Past: Democratic Roots in New England Soil
Chapter 4: Slavery and Empire 1441—1770
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Rebellion In Stono, South Carolina
The Beginnings of African Slavery
The African Slave Trade
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
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
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
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
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
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
SEEING HISTORY “Gordon Under Medical Inspection”
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
SEEING HISTORY “President’s Levee, or all Creation Going to the White House”
The Second American Party System
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Interpreting the Past: Jacksonian Democracy and American Politics
Chapter 12: Industry and the North 1790s—1840s
SEEING HISTORY Industrialization and Rural Life
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Interpreting the Past: The Second Great Awakening and Religious Diversity in America
Chapter 13: Meeting the Challenges of the New Age: Immigration, Urbanization, and Social Reform
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Women Reformers of Seneca Falls Respond to the Market Revolution
SEEING HISTORY P.T. Barnum’s Famous “Curiosity:” General Tom Thumb
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 14: The Territorial Expansion of the United States
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
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 15: The Coming Crisis the 1850s
SEEING HISTORY Brooks Beats Sumner
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 16: The Civil War
SEEING HISTORY Come and Join Us Brothers
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 17: Reconstruction
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
SEEING HISTORY The Legendary Cowboy: Nat Love, Deadwood Dick
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 19: Production and Consumption in the Gilded Age
SEEING HISTORY The Standard Oil Company
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 20: Democracy and Empire
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
SEEING HISTORY Photographing Poverty in the Slums of New York
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 22: A Global Power: The United States in the Era of the Great War
SEEING HISTORY Selling War
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 23: The Twenties
Postwar Prosperity and Its Price
SEEING HISTORY Creating Celebrity
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
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
SEEING HISTORY Norman Rockwell’s “Rosie, the Riveter”
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 26: The Cold War Begins
SEEING HISTORY The Hollywood Film Invasion, U.S.A
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Interpreting the Past: Cold War Fears and Nuclear Holocaust
Chapter 27: America at Midcentury
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
SEEING HISTORY Civil Rights on the World Stage
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
SEEING HISTORY Kim Phuc, Fleeing a Napalm Attack Near Trang Bang
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy
SEEING HISTORY The Inaugurations of Carter and Reagan
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 31: The United States in a Global Age
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
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