The american people --creating a nation and a society
[Book Description]
Providing students with a thought-provoking account of America’s past, The American People examines how American society assumed its present shape and developed its present forms of government. A strong social emphasis underscores the “humanness” of America's history as revealed through the everyday lives of ordinary Americans. In addition, Recovering the Past essays acquaint students with the work that historians do by introducing them to the fascinating variety of materials that historians use to understand and interpret the past. Two new primary source features, “American Voices” and “How Others See Us” enliven the narrative with short passages from both ordinary and extraordinary Americans or from outsiders commenting on the American nation or its people. For anyone interested in a survey of United States History.
[Table of Contents]
PART 1 AN EMERGING PEOPLE , ORIGINS TO 1815
1 Ancient America and Africa
2 Europeans and Africans Reach the Americas
3 Colonizing a Continent in the Seventeenth Century
4 The Maturing of Colonial Society
5 Bursting the Bonds of Empire
6 A People in Revolution
7 Consolidating the Revolution
PART 2 AN EXPANDING PEOPLE ,1815 TO 1877
8 Currents of Change in the Northeast and the Old Northwest
9 Slavery and the Old South
10 Shaping America in the Antebellum Age
11 Moving West
12 The Union in Peril
13 The Union Severed
14 The Union Reconstructed
VOLUME II
14The Union Restructured
PART 3 A MODERNIZING PEOPLE , 1877 TO 1929
15 The Realities of Rural America
16 The Rise of Smokestack America
17 The New Metropolis
18 Becoming a World Power
19The Progressives Confront Industrial Capitalism
20 The Great War
21 Affluence and Anxiety
PART 4 A RESILIENT PEOPLE , 1929 TO PRESENT
22 The Great Depression and the New Deal
23 World War II
24 Chills and Fever During the Cold War, 1945-1960
25 Postwar America at Home, 1945-1960
26 Reform and Rebellion in the Turbulent Sixties, 1960-1969
27 Disorder and Discontent, 1969-1980
28 Conservatism and a Shift in Course, 1980-2010
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