| Edition |
3rd ed. |
| Description |
2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Chapter 16 "Reconstruction" repeated in v. 2. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Presents a variety of diverse perspectives through more than 230 primary sources. Offers well known primary sources such as Federalist 10 and President Eisenhower's farewell address, as well as Cotton Mather's admonitions on the evils of "self-pollution," a woman's description of the southern homefront during the Civil War, John Muir's essay on American forests, and recent East Asian immigrant's description of life in America. |
| Contents |
v. 1. A guide to reading and interpreting documents -- Diverse beginnings -- Emerging colonial societies -- Toward an American identity -- Coming of the Revolution -- Creating a new nation -- Limits of republicanism -- New nation and its place in the world -- Rise of democracy -- Society and the economy -- Social reform -- Manifest destiny -- Slavery and the old south -- Origins of the Civil War -- The Civil War -- Reconstruction -- v.2. Reconstruction -- The West -- The expansion of big business -- How the other half lives -- Imperialism -- The progressive movement -- Making the world safe for democracy -- The return to "normalcy" -- FDR and the New Deal -- Isolationism and World War II -- Postwar America -- The turbulent sixties -- The rising conservative tide -- Society and culture at century's end -- Our times. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Sources.
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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| Added Author |
Hyser, Raymond M., 1955-
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Arndt, J. Chris.
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| ISBN |
0534643000 (v. 1 ; pbk.) |
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9780534643003 (v. 1 ; pbk.) |
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0534643019 (v. 2 ; pbk.) |
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9780534643010 (v. 2 ; pbk.) |
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