Visions of America: A History of the United States, Combined Volume, 3rd edition

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

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ISBN-13: 9780137499076

Subject: History

Category: United States History Survey

1. People in Motion: The Atlantic World to 1590
2. Models of Settlement: English Colonial Societies, 1590-1710
3. Growth, Slavery, and Conflict: Colonial America, 1710-1763
4. Revolutionary America: Change and Transformation, 1764-1783
5. A Virtuous Republic: Creating a Workable Government, 1783-1789
6. The New Republic: An Age of Political Passion, 1789-1800
7. Jeffersonian America: An Expanding Empire of Liberty, 1800-1824
8. Democrats and Whigs: Democracy and American Culture, 1820-1840
9. Workers, Farmers, and Slaves: The Transformation of the American Economy, 1815-1848
10. Revivalism, Reform, and Artistic Renaissance, 1820-1850
11. "To Overspread the Continent": Westward Expansion and Political Conflict, 1840-1848
12. Slavery and Sectionalism: The Political Crisis of 1848-1861
13. A Nation Torn Apart: The Civil War, 1861-1865
14. Now That We Are Free: Reconstruction and the New South, 1863-1890
15. Conflict and Conquest: The Transformation of the West, 1860-1900
16. Wonder and Woe: The Rise of Industrial America, 1865-1900
17. Becoming a Modern Society: America in the Gilded Age, 1877-1900
18. Creating a Democratic Paradise: The Progressive Era, 1895-1915
19. Imperial America: The United States in the World, 1890-1914
20. The Great War: World War I, 1914-1918
21. A Turbulent Decade: The Twenties
22. A New Deal for America: The Great Depression, 1929-1940
23. World War II: Fighting the Good War, 1939-1945
24. A Divided World: The Early Cold World, 1945-1963
25. In a Land of Plenty: Contentment and Discord, 1945-1960
26. A Nation Divided: The Vietnam War, 1945-1975
27. A Decade of Discord: The Challenge of the 1960s
28. Righting a Nation Adrift: America in the 1970s and 1980s
29. Building a New World Order: The United States, 1989-2015