Out of Many: A History of the American People, Combined Volume, 9th edition

Published by Pearson (January 2, 2019) © 2020

  • John M. Faragher Yale University
  • Mari Jo Buhle Brown University
  • Daniel H. Czitrom Mount Holyoke College
  • Susan H. Armitage Washington State University

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For courses in US History.

Show how diverse communities and different regions shaped America

Out of Many: A History of the American People focuses on particular communities and regions to weave the stories of the people and the nation into a single compelling narrative. The authors approach American history from a truly continental perspective, presenting vignettes that help students see how diverse communities, from New England to the South to the far West, shape America's past, present and future.

The 9th Edition has been updated to emphasize the impact of social and economic inequality on contemporary American life from 1974 to the present.

Hallmark features of this title

  • A Community and Diversity essay introduces the authors' major themes and provides a framework for understanding American history.
  • American Communities features highlight the experiences of diverse communities, yielding insights into the historical forces that shape people's lives.
  • Communities in Conflict features present 2 opposing primary sources on a controversial historical issue, highlighting how Americans have often struggled to resolve their differences.
  • Seeing History features help students use visual culture to make sense of the past.
  • Detailed captions accompanying the text's photos and illustrations help students to treat images as primary source documents from the past.
  • Chapter-ending timelines help students build a framework of key events.

New and updated features of this title

  • UPDATED: The 9th Edition offers the most recent scholarship on the history of America and the United States. The authors have revised each chapter to reflect the latest information available.
  • UPDATED: Coverage of the period from 1974 to the present has been revised and reorganized to emphasize the profound impact of social and economic inequality on contemporary American life.
  • NEW: An engaging new design leads students through the authors' narrative.

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  • NEW: Artifacts as Evidence videos enable students to explore the connections between individual artifacts and historical developments. Created in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, these videos illuminate history through examination of a wide range of items from the historical record.
  • NEW: History 360 Experience simulations allow students to learn about history through the exploration of historical sites. Each immersive experience combines 360-degree photographs and videos with sound, images and text to help bring the past to life.
  • UPDATED: An end-of-chapter Source Collection includes a selection of documents, more than 90 new, that are relevant to the chapter content. Each document includes header notes, questions and audio. Students can highlight and make notes on the documents.
  • The 9th Edition includes a rich, engaging map program with over 120 maps. Many of the maps offer interactive elements, such as toggles to illustrate movement over time, as well as clickable map keys and pan/zoom capability.
  • Social Explorer maps and figures allow students to dig deeper by merging graphics and data in an interactive format.
  • Multiple-choice end-of-module and end-of-chapter quizzes test students' knowledge of the chapter content, including dates, concepts and major events.

1. A Continent of Villages, to 1500
2. When Worlds Collide, 1492-1590
3. Planting Colonies in North America, 1588-1701
4. Slavery and Empire, 1441-1770
5. The Cultures of Colonial North America, 1700-1780
6. From Empire to Independence, 1750-1776
7. The American Revolution, 1776-1786
8. The New Nation, 1786-1800
9. An Empire for Liberty, 1790-1824
10. The South and Slavery, 1790s-1850s
11. The Growth of Democracy, 1824-1840
12. Industry and the North, 1790s-1840s
13. Immigration, Urbanization, and Social Reform, 1820s-1850s
14. The Territorial Expansion of the United States, 1830s-1850s
15. The Coming Crisis, the 1850s
16. The Civil War, 1861-1865
17. Reconstruction, 1863-1877
18. The Trans-Mississippi West, 1860-1900
19. Production and Consumption in the Gilded Age, 1865-1900
20. Democracy and Empire, 1870-1900
21. Urban America and the Progressive Era, 1900-1917
22. The United States in the Era of the Great War, 1901-1920
23. The Twenties, 1920-1929
24. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1940
25. World War II, 1941-1945
26. The Cold War Begins, 1945-1952
27. America at Mid-Century, 1952-1963
28. The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1966
29. War Abroad, War at Home, 1965-1974
30. The Conservative Ascendancy, 1974-1999
31. Inequality in the Global Age, 2000-Present

Volume I includes chapters 1-17; Volume II includes chapters 17-31.

About our authors

John Mack Faragher is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University. Born in Arizona and raised in southern California, he received his B.A. at the University of California, Riverside, and his Ph.D. at Yale University. He is the author of Women and Men on the Overland Trail (1979), Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (1986), Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1992), The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000), A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland (2005) and Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles (2016).

Mari Jo Buhle is William R. Kenan, Jr. University Professor Emerita of American Civilization and History at Brown University, specializing in American women’s history. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Women and American Socialism, 1870–1920 (1981) and Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (1998). She is also coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left (2nd Edition, 1998). Professor Buhle held a fellowship (1991 to 1996) from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She is currently an Honorary Fellow of the History Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Daniel Czitrom is Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College. Born and raised in New York City, he received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal That Launched the Progressive Era (2016), Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan (1982) and co-author of Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn of the Century New York (2008). He served as the historical adviser for the BBC America dramatic series Copper (2011 to 2013), and he has appeared as featured on-camera commentator in numerous documentary film projects, including the PBS productions New York: A Documentary Film; The Rise and Fall of Penn Station; American Photography: A Century of Images; and the forthcoming Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People.

Susan H. Armitage is Professor of History and Women’s Studies, Emerita, at Washington State University, where she was a Claudius O. and Mary R. Johnson Distinguished Professor. She earned her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Among her many publications on western women’s history are 3 co-edited books, The Women’s West (1987), So Much to Be Done: Women on the Mining and Ranching Frontier (1991) and Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women’s West (1997). She served as editor of the feminist journal Frontiers from 1996 to 2002. Her most recent publications are Speaking History: Oral Histories of the American Past, 1865–Present (2009) and Shaping the Public Good: Women Making History in the Pacific Northwest (2015).

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