Visions of America A History of the United States, Combined Volume

by Keene, Jennifer D.; Cornell, Saul T; O'Donnell, Edward T.

• ISBN13: 9780321066879
• ISBN10: 0321066871
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-25
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Using images as primary historical evidence,Visions of Americabrings history alive for a generation of visual learners-and shows how conflicting visions of America have shaped our nationrs"s past. Visions of Americarecognizes the value of using images to engage students in serious inquiry about the historical development of the United States. Visual images are critical primary sources, and using them effectively requires the development of key analytic skills. This new textbook revolutionizes the role of images in the history survey by integrating them into the narrative. The visual legacy of the nationrs"s past also provides insight into the competing visions of America that have shaped American political culture.Visions of Americaexplores the tensions and conflicts that have marked virtually every chapter of American history. It presents history as a dynamic, unpredictable, and dramatic process shaped by the choices made by people of all classes

Author Biography

Jennifer D. Keene is a professor of history and chair of the History Department at Chapman University in Orange, California. Dr. Keene has published three books on the American involvement in the First World War: Doughboys, the Great War and the Remaking of America (2001); The United States and the First World War (2000); and World War I (2006).  She has received numerous fellowships for her research, including a Mellon Fellowship and Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards to Australia and France.  She works closely with the Gilder-Lehrman Institute offering Teaching American History workshops for secondary school teachers throughout the country.

 

Edward T. O’Donnell is an Associate Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.  He is the author of many scholarly articles for journals such as The Journal of Urban History, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and The Public Historian, as well as several books, including Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (Random House, 2003) and the forthcoming Talisman of a Lost Hope: Henry George and Gilded Age America (Columbia University Press). Since 2002, he has worked with more than ten Teaching American History grant programs.

 

Saul Cornell is a professor of History at Ohio State University and one of the nation’s leading legal and constitutional historians. His studies A Well Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control  and The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 were both nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.  He has  published  articles in the Journal of American History,  the William and Mary Quarterly, American Studies, and the Law and History Review, among other journals. 

Table of Contents

Peoples in Motion: The Atlantic World to 1590

The First Americans

Migration and Earliest Settlement

The Archaic Era: The Rise of Agriculture and Complex Societies

Ancient American Civilizations

Early Mesoamerican Civilizations

Mound Builders

Pueblo Dwellers

Eastern Woodland Indian

Societies

American Indian Societies on the Eve of European Contact

European Civilization in Ferment

European Civilization

The Allure of the East and the Challenge of Islam

Urbanization, Trade, and the Commercial Revolution

The Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation

Images as History: Calvinist Iconoclasm

New Monarchs and the Rise of the Nation State

West African Worlds

West African Societies, Islam, and Trade

The Portuguese-African Connection

African Slavery

Expansion and Encounter

Columbus and the Columbian Exchange

Spanish Conquest and Colonization

Competing Visions: Native Americans: Barbarians or Innocents?

Fishing and Furs: Francersquo;s Northern Adventure

Conquerors, Traders, and Planters in a New World

Elizabethan Expansionism

The Lost Colony of Roanoke

New Spain

New France

From Pirates to Planters

Conclusion

Colonial Societies, 1590-1700

The Chesapeake Colonies

The Founding of Jamestown

Life and Death in Early Virginia

Choices and Consequences: The Ordeal of Pocahontas

Lord Baltimorersquo;s Refuge: Maryland

Life in Maryland

New England

Plymouth Plantation

Images as History: Corruption v. Piety: Dutch Art in the 17 th Century

Thanksgiving Myths and Realities

The Puritan City Upon a Hill

Competing Visions

Conflicting Views of Religious Liberty

Expansion and Conflict

The Caribbean Colonies

Providence Island

The Caribbean City Upon a Hill

Barbados: Sugar and Slaves

Filling Out the Eastern Seaboard: The Restoration Colonies

From New Netherland to New York

A Peaceable Kingdom: Quakers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania

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