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Documents nine periods in United States history: Colonial period to 1763 ; Era of revolution: 1763-1783 ; New nation: 1783-1815 ; National expansion: 1815-1860 ; Civil War and Reconstruction: 1860-1877 ; Guilded age: 1877-1899 ; Progressive Era and the twenties: 1900-1928 ; Depression and war: 1929-...

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Other Authors: Wright, Ron, Watson, Larry, Brick, Blanche
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Mason, OH : Thomson, [2006]
Edition:5th ed.
Subjects:
United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • v. 1. Paradise found and lost / Daniel J. Boorstin
  • A modell of Christian charity / John Winthrop
  • The puritans and sex / Edmund S. Morgan
  • The middle passage / Daniel Mannix and Malcolm Cowley
  • Anne Hutchinson versus Massachusetts / Wellington Newcomb
  • Sinners in the hands of an angry God / Jonathan Edwards
  • The Philadelphia Ladies Association / Mary Beth Norton
  • Letters: John and Abigail Adams
  • What is an American? / J.H.S. de Crévecoeur
  • Equal rights and equal men
  • Farewell address / George Washington
  • The Virginia Resolution / James Madison
  • Dying of breast cancer in the 1800s / Robert Shadle and James S. Olson
  • Hope and he4ritage: Myth and Thomas Jefferson / Gordon S. Wood
  • Thomas Jefferson: first inaugural address / Henry Steele Commager, ed.
  • The Jacksonian revolution: myth and reality / Robert V. Remini
  • Trail of tears / Dale Van Every
  • Holy honor: sacred and secular in the Old South / Barbara Welter
  • Hindrances to revivals / Charles G. Finney
  • The Liberator / inaugural editorial by William Lloyd Garrison
  • Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau
  • Stephen F. Austin: political and cultural mediator / Gregg Cantrell
  • The trial of Sam Houston / H.W. Brands
  • Dred Scott vs. Sandford
  • Abraham Lincoln and the Self-made mythy / Richard Hofstadter
  • Jefferson Davis's Afrewell to the U.S. Senate
  • A war that never goes away / James M. McPherson
  • Final emancipation proclamation / Abraham Lincoln
  • Why they impeached Andrew Johnson / David Donald
  • The new view of Reconstruction / Eric Foner.
  • v. 2. "A trumpet note for heroes" / Dee Brown
  • The gospel of wealth / Andrew Carnegie
  • The Atlanta Exposition Address / Booker T. Washington
  • The souls of black folk / W.E.B.DuBois
  • The Wizard of OZ: parable on populism / Henry M. Littlefield
  • Why did the United States fight Spain in 1898? / John Offner
  • The Anti-Imperialists, the Philippines and the inequality of man / Christopher Lasch
  • Progressivism / Robert M. Crunden
  • Divorce in the Progressice Era / William L. O'Neill
  • Theodore Roosevelt, President / Edmund Morris
  • Woodrow Wilson wouldn't yield / Thomas A. Bailey
  • The Revolution in manners and morals / Fredrick Lewis Allen
  • American individualism / Herbert Hoover
  • FDR and the Kingfish / William E. Leuchtenburg
  • The innocent bystander / Robert A. Divine
  • Death march / Donald Knox
  • The biggest decision: why we had to drop the atomic bomb / Robert James Maddox
  • Epilog from the Presidency of Harry S. Truman / Donald R. McCoy
  • Letter from Birmingham city jail / Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Beyond the Feminine Mystique / Joanne Meyerowitz
  • Vietnam: a necessary war / Michael Lind
  • Reagan calls for a fight against sin, evil and Communism, 1983 / Ronald Reagan
  • The disuniting of America / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
  • History the weapon / Arthur M. Schesinger, Jr.
  • President Ronald Reagan sees a stronger America, 1985 / Ronald Reagan.