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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, Ohio : Cengage Learning, 2014.
Edition:Seventh edition.
Subjects:
United States > History.
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
  • A time to be born / George Marsden
  • Patriot father, loyalist son / Sheila L. Skemp
  • Equal rights and equal men, 1774-76 / Edmund Morgan
  • What is an American? / J.H.S. de Crévecoeur
  • Farewell address / George Washington
  • Dying of breast cancer in the 1800s / Robert Shadle and James S. Olson
  • Hope and heritage: Myth and Thomas Jefferson / Gordon S. Wood
  • Thomas Jefferson: first inaugural address, 1801 / Henry Steele Commager, ed.
  • The Jacksonian revolution: myth and reality / Robert V. Remini
  • Trail of tears / Dale Van Every
  • The cult of true womanhood, 1820-1860 / 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
  • The everyday life of enslaved people in the antebellum South / Calvin Schermerhorn
  • Abraham Lincoln and the Self-made myth / Richard Hofstadter
  • Jefferson Davis's Afrewell to the U.S. Senate
  • A war that never goes away / James M. McPherson
  • Final inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln
  • The Gettysburg address / Abraham Lincoln, Henry Steele Commager, ed.
  • Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln
  • Grant: Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant conclusion chapter / Eric Foner
  • The new view of Reconstruction / Eric Foner.