Sources for America's History, Volume 2: Since 1865

by Edwards, Rebecca; Hinderaker, Eric; Self, Robert O.; Henretta, James A.; Sheets, Kevin B.

• ISBN13: 9781319274849
• ISBN10: 1319274846
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-09-17
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Sources for America’s History is a balanced American history documents reader that features both visual and textual sources meant to bring U.S. history to life for students.

Table of Contents

PART 1: TRANSFORMATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA (1491–1700)

CHAPTER 1: Colliding Worlds, 1491–1600

CHAPTER 2: American Experiments, 1521–1700

PART 1 DOCUMENT SET: Developing Patterns of Atlantic World Exchange, 1491–1700

PART 2: BRITISH NORTH AMERICA AND THE ATLANTIC WORLD (1607–1763)

CHAPTER 3: The British Atlantic World, 1607–1750

CHAPTER 4: Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720–1763

PART 2 DOCUMENT SET: The Causes and Consequences of the Peopling of North America, 1607–1763

PART 3: REVOLUTION AND REPUBLICAN CULTURE (1754–1820)

CHAPTER 5: The Problem of Empire, 1754–1776

CHAPTER 6: Making War and Republican Governments, 1776–1789

CHAPTER 7: Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787–1820

PART 3 DOCUMENT SET: The Emergence of Democratic Ideals and a New National Identity, 1754–1820

PART 4: OVERLAPPING REVOLUTIONS (1800–1848)

CHAPTER 8: Economic Transformations, 1800–1848

CHAPTER 9: A Democratic Revolution, 1800–1848

CHAPTER 10: Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820–1848

CHAPTER 11: Imperial Ambitions, 1820–1848

PART 4 DOCUMENT SET: Environment and Identity in an Age of Revolutions, 1800–1848

PART 5: CONSOLIDATING A CONTINENTAL UNION (1844–1877)

CHAPTER 12: Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844–1860

CHAPTER 13: Bloody Ground: The Civil War, 1861–1865

CHAPTER 14: Reconstruction, 1865–1877

CHAPTER 15: Conquering a Continent, 1860–1890

PART 5 DOCUMENT SET: AMERICANS DEBATE THE MEANING OF THE CONSTITUTION, 1844–1877

PART 6: INDUSTRIALIZING AMERICA: UPHEAVALS AND EXPERIMENTS (1877–1917)
CHAPTER 16: Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877–1911

CHAPTER 17: Making Modern American Culture, 1880–1917

CHAPTER 18: "Civilization’s Inferno": The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880–1917

CHAPTER 19: Whose Government? Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880–1917

PART 6 DOCUMENT SET: The Clash of Cultural Values and Ideas in an Industrializing Era, 1877–1917

PART 7: DOMESTIC AND GLOBAL CHALLENGES (1890–1945)

CHAPTER 20: An Emerging World Power, 1890–1918

CHAPTER 21: Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919–1932

CHAPTER 22: Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929–1938

CHAPTER 23: The World at War, 1937–1945

PART 7 DOCUMENT SET: Defining American Identities in a Globalizing Age, 1890–1945

PART 8: THE MODERN STATE AND THE AGE OF LIBERALISM (1945–1980)

CHAPTER 24: Cold War America, 1945–1963

CHAPTER 25: Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945–1963

CHAPTER 26: Walking into Freedom Land: The Civil Rights Movement, 1941–1973

CHAPTER 27: Uncivil Wars: Liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961–1972

CHAPTER 28: The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973–1980

PART 8 DOCUMENT SET: America’s Economic and Military Engagement with the World, 1945–1980

PART 9: GLOBALIZATION AND THE END OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY (1980–TO THE PRESENT)

CHAPTER 29: Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980–1991

CHAPTER 30: Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present

PART 9 DOCUMENT SET: Work, Exchange, and Technology in America’s Global Economy, 1980 to the Present