About the Author
Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University in New York, where he has taught since 1991. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard, and he has taught previously at M. I. T., Harvard, and the City University of New York Graduate School.His published works include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (Knopf, 1982), which won the 1983 National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Knopf, 1995); and Liberalism and Its Discontents (Harvard, 1998). He is the co-author of New Federalist Papers (Norton, 1997), Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States (Knopf, 1997); and The Teachers Handbook: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom (Chicago, 1999forthcoming).His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in scholarly journals and in such periodicals as the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, Time, Newsweek, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books. He has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the National Humanities Center, the Russell Sage Foundation, and others; and he was the recipient of the Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize at Harvard. He is a trustee of the Twentieth Century Fund, a member of the national advisory board of the PBS series “The American Experience”, and a member of the editorial board The American Prospect.He has been a visiting professor at Princeton, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of Torino (Italy). He was the 1998-1999 Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures
Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands
Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America
Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition
Chapter 5: The American Revolution
Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic
Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era
Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism
Chapter 9: Jacksonian America
Chapter 10: Americas Economic Revolution
Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South
Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform
Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis
Chapter 14: The Civil War
Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South
Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West
Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy
Chapter 18: The Age of the City
Chapter 19: From Stalemate to Crisis
Chapter 20: The Imperial Republic
Chapter 21: The Rise of Progressivism
Chapter 22: The Battle for National Reform
Chapter 23: America and the Great War
Chapter 24: The New Era
Chapter 25: The Great Depression
Chapter 26: The New Deal
Chapter 27: The Global Crisis, 1921-1941
Chapter 28: America in a World at War
Chapter 29: The Cold War
Chapter 30: The Affluent Society
Chapter 31: The Ordeal of Liberalism
Chapter 32: The Crisis of Authority
Chapter 33: From the “Age of Limits” to the Age of Reagan
Chapter 34: The Age of Globalization