Liberty, Equality, Power A History of the American People
by Murrin, John M.; Johnson, Paul E.; McPherson, James M.; Fahs, Alice; Gerstle, GaryEdition: 6th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-01-01
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
Understanding the past helps us navigate the present and future. When you read this text, you will not only learn about American History, you will also be exposed to movies and music that tell the stories of American History. A highly respected, balanced, and thoroughly modern approach to US History, LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER uses these themes to show how the United States was transformed from a land inhabited by hunter-gatherer and agricultural Native American societies into the most powerful industrial nation on earth. This approach helps you understand the impact of the notions of liberty and equality, which are often associated with the American story, and also how dominant and subordinate groups have affected and been affected by the ever-shifting balance of power.
Table of Contents
| To the Student: Why Study History? | |
| Analyzing Historical Sources | |
| When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe | |
| The Challenge to Spain and the Settlement of North America | |
| England Discovers Its Colonies: Empire, Liberty, and Expansion | |
| Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent | |
| Reform, Resistance, Revolution | |
| The Revolutionary Republic | |
| Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815 | |
| Northern Transformations, 1790-1850 | |
| The Old South, 1790-1850 | |
| Toward an American Culture | |
| Whigs and Democrats | |
| Antebellum Reform | |
| Manifest Destiny: An Empire for Liberty--or Slavery? | |
| The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860 | |
| Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862 | |
| A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865 | |
| Reconstruction, 1863-1877 | |
| A Transformed Nation: the West and the New South, 1865-1900 | |
| The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914 | |
| Cities, Peoples, Cultures, 1890-1920 | |
| Progressivism | |
| Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917 | |
| War and Society, 1914-1920 | |
| The 1920s | |
| The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939 | |
| America during the Second World War | |
| The Age of Containment, 1946-1953 | |
| Affluence and Its Discontents, 1953-1963 | |
| America during Its Longest War, 1963-1974 | |
| Uncertain Times, 1974-1992 | |
| Economic, Social, and Cultural Change in the Late 20th Century | |
| A Time of Hope and Fear, 1993-2011 | |
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