With fresh interpretations from two new authors, wholly reconceived themes, and a wealth of cutting-edge scholarship, the Fifth Edition of America: A Concise History is designed to work perfectly with the way you teach the survey today. Building on the books hallmark strengths — balance, explanatory power, and a brief-yet-comprehensive narrative — as well as its outstanding full-color visuals and built-in primary sources, authors James Henretta, Rebecca Edwards, and Robert Self have shaped America into the ideal brief book for the modern survey course, at a value that cant be beat. Read the preface.
PART 1: The Creation of American Society, 1450-1763 Chapter 1 The New Global World, 1450-1620
The Native American Experience
Tradition-Bound Europe
Europeans Create a Global World, 1450-1600
The Rise of Protestant England, 1500-1620
Reading American Pictures: Maize for Blankets: Indian Trading on the Great Plains
Voices from Abroad: Hernán de Soto: De Soto's March of Destruction
American Voices: Cortés and Moctezuma Meet Chapter 2 The Invasion and Settlement of North America, 1550-1700
Rival Imperial Models: Spain, France, and Holland
The English Arrive in the Chesapeake
Puritan New England
The Eastern Indians' New World
Voices from Abroad: Samuel de Champlain: Going to War with the Hurons
American Voices: Mary Rowlandson: A Captivity Narrative Chapter 3 Creating a British Empire in America, 1660-1750
The Politics of Empire, 1660-1713
The Imperial Slave Economy
The New Politics of Empire, 1713-1750
Voices from Abroad: Olaudah Equiano: The Brutal “Middle Passage”
American Voices: Alexander Spotswood: Confronting the House of Burgess Chapter 4 Growth and Crisis in Colonial Society, 1720-1765
New England's Freehold Society
Toward a New Society: The Middle Colonies, 1720-1765
The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening, 1720-1765
The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Social Conflict, 1750-1765
Voices from Abroad: Henry Melchior Muhlenberg: Cultural Conflict in Pennsylvania
American Voices: Sarah Osborne: A Quest for Assurance PART 2: The New Republic, 1763-1820
Chapter 5 Toward Independence: Years of Decision, 1763-1776
Imperial Reform, 1763-1765
The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765-1770
The Road to Independence, 1771-1776
American Voices: Samuel Adams: An American View of the Stamp At
Voices from Abroad: Thomas Paine: Common Sense Chapter 6 Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789
The Trials of War, 1776-1778
The Path to Victory, 1778-1783
Creating Republican Institutions, 1776-1787
The Constitution of 1787
Voices from Abroad: Baroness Von Riedesel: The Surrender of Burgoyne, 1777
American Voices: Robert Yates and John Lansing: A Protest against the Philadelphia Convention Chapter 7 Politics and Society in the New Republic, 1787-1820
The Political Crisis of the 1790s
The Westward Movement and the Jeffersonian Revolution
The War of 1812 and the Transformation of Politics
Voices from Abroad: William Cobbett: Peter Porcupine Attacks Pro-French Americans
American Voices: Federalists and Republicans Debate “Mr. Madison's War” Chapter 8 Creating a Republican Culture, 1790-1820
The Capitalist Commonwealth
Toward a Democratic Republican Culture
Aristocratic Republicanism and Slavery
Protestant Christianity as a Social Force
American Voices: Emma Hart Williard and Elizabeth Scott Neblett: The Trials of Married Life
Voices from Abroad: Frances Trollope: A Camp Meeting in Indiana PART 3: Overlapping Revolutions, 1820-1860
Chapter 9 Economic Transformation, 1820-1860
The American Industrial Revolution
The Market Revolution
New Social Classes and Cultures
Voices from Abroad: Ernst Stille: German Immigrants in the Midwest
American Voices: Lyman Beecher: Catholicism Is Incompatible with Republicanism Chapter 10 A Democratic Revolution, 1820-1844
The Rise of Popular Politics, 1820-1828
The Jacksonian Presidency, 1829-1837
Class, Culture, and the Second Party System
Voices from Abroad: Alexis de Tocqueville: Parties in the United States
American Voices: Elias Boudinot: Removal: “The Only Practicable Remedy” (1837) Chapter 11 Religion and Reform, 1820-1860
Individualism: The Ethic of the Middle Class
Rural Communalism and Urban Popular Culture
Abolitionism
The Women's Rights Movement
Voices from Abroad: Charles Dickens: Slavery and Social Brutality
American Voices: Keziah Kendall: A Farm Woman Defends the Grimké Sisters Chapter 12 The South Expands: Slavery and Society, 1800-1860
Creating the Cotton South
The African American World
Voices from Abroad: Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach: The Racial Complexities of Southern Society
American Voices: Mollie Dawson: Memories of Slavery PART 4: Creating and Preserving a Continental Nation, 1844-1877
Chapter 13 Expansion, War, and Sectional Crisis, 1844-1860
Manifest Destiny: South and North
War, Expansion, and Slavery, 1846-1850
The End of the Second Party System, 1850-1858
Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Triumph, 1858-1860
American Voices: James Buchanan and Charles Sumner: Expansionism: The Mexican War
Voices from Abroad: Norman Assing (Yuan Sheng): Equality for Chinese Immigrants Chapter 14 Two Societies at War, 1861-1865
Secession and Military Stalemate, 1861-1862
Toward Total War
The Turning Point: 1863
The Union Victorious, 1864-1865
Voices from Abroad: Ernest Duvergier de Hauranne: Germans and the War in Missouri
American Voices: Dolly Sumner Lunt: Sherman's March through Georgia Chapter 15 Reconstruction, 1865-1877
The Struggle for National Reconstruction
The Meaning of Freedom
The Undoing of Reconstruction
Voices from Abroad: David Macrae: The Devastated South
American Voices: Jourdon Anderson: Relishing Freedom Chapter 16 Conquering a Continent, 1861-1877
The Republican Vision
Incorporating the West
A Harvest of Blood: Native Peoples Dispossessed
Voices from Abroad: Baron Joseph Alexander von Hübner: A Western Boom Town
American Voices: Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin): Becoming White PART 5: Bold Experiments in an Era of Industrialization, 1877-1929
Chapter 17 The Busy Hive: Industrial America at Work, 1877-1911
Business Gets Bigger
Immigrants, East and West
Labor Gets Organized
American Voices: Suey Hin: Sold into Sexual Slavery
Voices from Abroad: Count Vay de Vaya und Luskod: Pittsburgh Inferno Chapter 18 The Victorians Meet the Modern, 1880-1917
Women, Men, and the Solitude of Self
Women in the Public Sphere
Science and Faith
Voices from Abroad: Kinzo Hirai: A Japanese View of American Christianity
American Voices: Theodore Dreiser: Social Darwinism Chapter 19 “Civilization's Inferno”: The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880-1917
The New Metropolis
Governing the Great City
Cities as Crucibles of Reform
Voices from Abroad: Jose Marti: Coney Island, 1881
American Voices: Dr. Alice Hamilton: Tracking Down Lead Poisoning Chapter 20 Whose Government? Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880-1917
Reform Visions, 1880-1892
The Political Earthquakes of the 1890s
Reform Reshaped, 1901-1917
American Voices: Ida B. Wells: The Cause of Lynching
Voices from Abroad: Henry Demarest Lloyd: A Progressive Reports from New Zealand Chapter 21 An Emerging World Power, 1877-1918
From Expansion to Imperialism
A Power among Powers
The United States in World War I
The Treaty of Versailles
American Voices: General Arthur MacArthur: Making the Philippines Safe for Democracy
Voices from Abroad: German Propaganda and Black Soldiers Chapter 22 Wrestling with Modernity, 1918-1929
Conflicted Legacies of World War I
Politics in the 1920s
Intellectual Modernism
From Boom to Bust
Voices from Abroad: Patrick “Spike” Hughes and Leo Vauchant: Europeans Encounter Jazz
American Voices: Hiram Wesley Evans: The Fight for Americanism PART 6: The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1929-1973
Chapter 23 The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939
The Early Years of the Depression, 1929-1932
The New Deal Arrives, 1933-1935
The Second New Deal and the Redefining of Liberalism, 1935-1938
The New Deal's Impact on Society
Voices from Abroad: Denis W. Brogan: A British Historian Looks at the Great Depression
American Voices: Ordinary People Respond to the New Deal Chapter 24 The World at War, 1937-1945
The Road to War
Organizing for Victory
Life on the Home Front
Fighting and Winning the War
American Voices: Women in the Wartime Workplace
Voices from Abroad: Monica Itoi Sone: Japanese Relocation Chapter 25 Cold War America, 1945-1963
Containment in a Divided World
Cold War Liberalism
Containment in the Postcolonial World
Voices from Abroad: Jean Monnet: Truman's Generous Proposal
Comparing American Voices: The Kitchen Debate Chapter 26 Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945-1963
Economy: From Recovery to Dominance
A Suburban Nation
Gender, Sex, and Family in the Era of Containment
Voices from Abroad: Hanoch Bartov: Everyone Has a Car
American Voices: Coming of Age in the Postwar Years Chapter 27 Walking into Freedom Land: The Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973
The Emerging Civil Rights Struggle, 1941-1957
Forging a Protest Movement, 1955-1965
Beyond Civil Rights, 1966-1973
Voices from Abroad: Hailou Wolde-Giorghis: African Encounters with U.S. Racism
American Voices: Franklin McCain: Desegregating Lunch Counters Chapter 28 Uncivil Wars: Liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1964-1972
The Great Society: Liberalism at High Tide
The War in Vietnam, 1963-1968
Days of Rage, 1968-1972
Richard Nixon and the Politics of the Silent Majority
American Voices: Letters to Dr. Spock
Voices from Abroad: Che Guevara: Vietnam and the World Freedom Struggle PART 7: Global Capitalism and the End of the American Century, 1973-2011
Chapter 29 The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973-1980
An Era of Limits
Reform and Reaction in the 1970s
The American Family on Trial
Voices from Abroad: Fei Xiaotong: America's Crisis of Faith
American Voices: Debating the Equal Rights Amendment Chapter 30 Conservative America Ascendant, 1973-1991
The Rise of the New Right
The Dawning of the Conservative Age
The End of the Cold War
American Voices: Christianity and Public Life
Voices from Abroad: Yoichi Funabashi: Japan and America: Global Partners Chapter 31 National Dilemmas in a Global Society, 1989-2011
America in the Global Economy
Politics and Partisanship in a New Era
Into a New Century
American Voices: Cheap Labor: Immigration and Globalization
Voices from Abroad: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: A Strategy for the Iraq Insurgency