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By The People, Combined Volume, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (June 12, 2015) © 2016

  • James W. Fraser

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For courses in US History.

Develop historical thinkers through the stories that defined history

By the People tells resonant stories of the people who have shaped the United States, from everyday women and men to the most important leaders of their day. Throughout this engaging text, author Jim Fraser empowers students to focus on historical analysis and interpretation rather than to simply memorize information.

Examining both the relatable and remarkable people in US history, the text helps students see themselves in history, maybe even inspiring them to join the list of those who have helped build a better, more hopeful country.

Hallmark features of this title

  • American Voices features bring history alive through the words, thoughts and ideas of people who experienced the events of the time.
  • Thinking Historically features show how historians cite historical evidence to explain why certain decisions were made, providing models of how to think historically.
  • An Explorer activity in each part prompts students to analyze maps and topics related to key events.
  • An exceptional art and illustration program enhances the discussions presented throughout the text.
  • An outline at the beginning of each part helps students view each chapter in context of the larger narrative.
  • Review questions at the end of each section and chapter enable students to review what they’ve learned before moving on.

Part 1: Contact and Exploration, 1491 to 1607

  1. The World Before 1492
  2. First Encounters, First Conquests, 1492 to 1607

Part 2: Settlements Old and New, 1607 to 1754

  1. Settlements, Alliances and Resistance, 1607 to 1718
  2. Creating the Culture of British North America, 1689 to 1754

Part 3: A New Birth of Freedom: Creating the United States of America, 1754 to 1800

  1. The Making of a Revolution, 1754 to 1783
  2. Creating a Nation, 1783 to 1788
  3. Practicing Democracy, 1789 to 1800

Part 4: Crafting a Nation, People, Land and a National Identity, 1800 to 1848

  1. Creating a New People, Expanding the Country, 1801 to 1823
  2. New Industries, New Politics, 1815 to 1828
  3. Democracy in the Age of Andrew Jackson, 1828 to 1844
  4. Manifest Destiny: Expanding the Nation, 1830 to 1853

Part 5: Expansion, Separation and a New Union, 1844 to 1877

  1. Living in a Nation of Changing Lands, Changing Faces, Changing
    2. Expectations, 1831 to 1854
  2. The Politics of Separation, 1850 to 1861
  3. And the War Came: The Civil War, 1861 to 1865
  4. Reconstruction, 1865 to 1877

Part 6: Becoming an Industrial World Power: Costs, Benefits and Responses, 1865 to 1914

  1. Conflict in the West, 1865 to 1912
  2. The Gilded Age: Building a Technological and Industrial Giant and a New Social Order, 1876 to 1913
  3. Responses to Industrialism, Responses to Change, 1877 to 1914
  4. Progressive Movements, Progressive Politics, 1879 to 1917

Part 7: War, Prosperity and Depression, 1890 to 1945

  1. Foreign Policy and War in a Progressive Era, 1890 to 1919
  2. A Unique, Prosperous and Discontented Time, 1919 to 1929
  3. Living in Hard Times, 1929 to 1939
  4. Living in a World at War, 1939 to 1945

Part 8: Fears, Joys and Limits, 1945 to 1980

  1. The World the War Created, 1945 to 1952
  2. Complacency and Change, 1952to 1965
  3. Lives Changed, 1961 to 1968
  4. Rights, Reaction and Limits, 1968 to 1980

Part 9: Certainty, Uncertainty and New Beginnings, 1980 to the Present

  1. The Reagan Revolution, 1980 to 1989
  2. A New World Order, 1989 to 2001
  3. Entering a New Time, 2001 to the Present

About our authors

James W. Fraser is Professor of History and Education at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York University. His teaching includes a survey course in US History for future Social Studies teachers and courses in the History of American Education, Religion and Public Education, and Inquiries into Teaching and Learning. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Dr. Fraser is the President of the History of Education Society and a former member of the Editorial Board of the History of Education Quarterly. He served as Senior Vice President for Programs at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey, from 2008 to 2012. He has also served as NYU liaison to the New Design High School, a public high school in New York’s Lower East Side, and to Facing History and Ourselves.

Before coming to New York University, Dr. Fraser taught in the Department of History and the program in education at Northeastern University in Boston, where he was the founding dean of Northeastern’s School of Education. He was also a member and chair of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Education Deans Council, the Boston School Committee Nominating Committee, and other boards. He was a lecturer in the Program in Religion and Secondary Education at the Harvard University Divinity School from 1997 to 2004. He has taught at Lesley University; University of Massachusetts, Boston; Boston University; and Public School 76 Manhattan. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and was pastor of Grace Church in East Boston, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2006.

In addition to By the People, Dr. Fraser is the author or editor of 12 books including The School in the United States: A Documentary History; Preparing America’s Teachers: A History; and A History of Hope: When Americans Have Dared to Dream of a Better Future. He lives in New York City with his wife Katherine Hanson and their dog, Pebble.

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