A Short History of the United States

by Remini, Robert Vincent

• ISBN13: 9780060831455
• ISBN10: 0060831456
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Robert V. Remini's A Short History of the United States is an abbreviated, accessible, lively, and erudite narrative history that contains the essential facts about the discovery, settlement, growth, and development of the American nation and its institutions. Racing across the centuries-from the arrival and migration of Native Americans and the discovery of the New World by Europeans, the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Depression, up to the global conflicts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries-it is a fascinating overview of a great nation's epochs and missteps, and a celebration of its achievements, its unique and enduring strengths, and its abiding commitment to individual freedoms. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Robert V. Remini is professor of history emeritus and research professor of humanities emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and historian of the United States House of Representatives. He is the winner of the National Book Award for the third volume of his study of Andrew Jackson, and he lives in Wilmette, Illinois.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xv
Discovery and Settlement of the New World	p. 1
Independence and Nation Building	p. 31
An Emerging Identity	p. 63
The Jacksonian Era	p. 95
The Dispute over Slavery, Secession, and the Civil War	p. 127
Reconstruction and the Gilded Age	p. 155
Manifest Destiny, Progressivism, War, and the Roaring Twenties	p. 187
The Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II	p. 215
The Cold War and Civil Rights	p. 245
Violence, Scandal, and the End of the Cold War	p. 277
The Conservative Revolution	p. 305
Reading List	p. 337
Index	p. 343
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