| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
volumes : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Companion to the author's The American pageant. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
England's Southern mainland colonies -- The New England and Middle colonies -- The clash between France and England -- Life in the colonies -- The eve of rebellion -- The first American Civil War -- The struggle for the constitution -- The Hamilton-Jefferson clash -- Federalist foreign policy and free speech -- Jeffersonian triumphs and failures -- The second war with Britain -- The flowering of nationalism -- The advent of Jacksonian democracy, 1824-1830 -- The heyday of Jacksonian democracy -- Oregon, Texas, and war with Mexico -- Industry, labor, and transportation to 1860 -- Religion, immigration, and education to 1860 -- Culture and reform, 1790-1860 -- The south and the slave system -- The fires of sectional conflict, 1848-1854 -- The eve of Civil conflict, 1854-1861 -- The war for the union -- The civilian front: North and south -- The Negro and reconstruction -- The Republican coldrums, 1869-1880 -- Republicans and Democrats, 1881-1889 -- The growing pains of industry -- The social ferment, 1865-1900 -- Westward expansion -- Hard times and free silver, 1889-1900 -- The birth of Imperialism -- America as a great power, 1899-1909 -- Roosevelt and the reformers -- Taft and the progressive tide -- Wilsonian idealism -- Waging neutrality, 1914-1917 -- America in World War I -- Wilson and the lost peace -- The era of normalcy -- Coolidge and the opulent twenties -- Hooverism and the depression -- Battling for the new deal -- Franklin D. Roosevelt and neutrality -- Waging World War II -- Truman and the rift with Russia -- Truman and the fateful fifties -- Eisenhower and the world crisis -- Kennedy and the new frontier -- Johnson and the great society -- The Vietnam involvement. |
| 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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