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American Stories: A History of the United States, Combined Volume, 4th edition

  • H W. Brands, 
  • Timothy H. Breen, 
  • R H. Williams, 
  • Ariela J. Gross

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Overview

American Stories: A History of the United States presents an accessible exploration of America's rich, complex past. Authors H. W. Brands, T. H. Breen, Ariela Gross and R. Hal Williams look beyond the assortment of facts that make up US history to help you truly understand the story of our nation. This streamlined, powerful narrative explores the dilemmas, choices and decisions made by the American people, as well as by their leaders, that helped shape America.

The 4th Edition better connects these American people and their decisions with time and place. This approach enables you to learn how to think both critically and historically.

Published by Pearson (July 14th 2021) - Copyright © 2018

ISBN-13: 9780137497430

Subject: History

Category: United States History Survey

Overview

1. New World Encounters: Preconquest - 1608
2. England's New World Experiments, 1607 - 1732
3. Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society, 1619 - 1692
4. Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America, 1680 - 1763
5. The American Revolution: From Elite Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763 - 1783
6. The Republican Experiment, 1783 - 1788
7. Democracy and Dissent: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788 - 1800
8. Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision, 1800 - 1814
9. Nation Building and Nationalism, 1815 - 1825
10. The Triumph of White Men's Democracy, 1824 - 1840
11. Slaves and Masters, 1793 - 1861
12. The Pursuit of Perfection, 1800 - 1861
13. An Age of Expansionism, 1830 - 1861
14. The Sectional Crisis, 1846 - 1861
15. Secession and the Civil War, 1860 - 1865
16. The Agony of Reconstruction, 1865 - 1877
17. The West: Exploiting an Empire, 1849 - 1902
18. The Industrial Society, 1850 - 1901
19. Toward an Urban Society, 1877 - 1900
20. Political Realignments, 1876 - 1901
21. Toward Empire, 1865 - 1902
22. The Progressive Era, 1895 - 1917
23. From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism, 1900 - 1920
24. The Nation at War, 1901 - 1920
25. Transition to Modern America, 1919 - 1928
26. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1929 - 1939
27. America and the World, 1921 - 1945
28. The Onset of the Cold War, 1945 - 1960
29. Affluence and Anxiety, 1945 - 1960
30. The Turbulent Sixties, 1960 - 1968
31. To a New Conservatism, 1969 - 1988
32. Into the Twenty-First Century, 1989 - 2016

Volume I includes chapters 1 - 16; Volume II includes chapters 16 - 32.

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