American History

Highly respected for its impeccable scholarship and elegant writing style, Alan Brinkleys American History provides students and instructors with a reliable, comprehensive account of the American past in which no single approach or theme predominates. From its first edition, this text has included a scrupulous account of American political and diplomatic history. Today, the book explores areas of history such as social, cultural, urban, racial and ethnic history, the history of the West and South, environmental history, the history of women and gender, and American history in a global context. The twelfth edition of this text includes the McGraw-Hills hit Primary Source Investigator (PSI) cd-rom, with hundreds of sources and a program that walks students through how to write a paper using those sources as evidence.

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.

Chapter Fifteen: RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH

Chapter Sixteen: THE CONQUEST OF THE FAR WEST

Chapter Seventeen: INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACY

Chapter Eighteen: THE AGE OF THE CITY

Chapter Nineteen: FROM STALEMATE TO CRISIS

Chapter Twenty: THE IMPERIAL REPUBLIC

Chapter Twenty-One: THE RISE OF PROGRESSIVISM

Chapter Twenty-Two: THE BATTLE FOR NATIONAL REFORM

Chapter Twenty-Three: AMERICA AND THE GREAT WAR

Chapter Twenty-Four: "THE NEW ERA"

Chapter Twenty-Five: THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Chapter Twenty-Six: THE NEW DEAL

Chapter Twenty-Seven: THE GLOBAL CRISIS, 1921-1941

Chapter Twenty-Eight: AMERICA IN A WORLD AT WAR

Chapter Twenty-Nine: THE COLD WAR

Chapter Thirty: THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY

Chapter Thirty-One: THE ORDER OF LIBERALISM

Chapter Thirty-Two: THE CRISIS OF AUTHORITY

Chapter Thirty-Three: FROM "THE AGE OF LIMITS" TO THE AGE OF REAGAN

Chapter Thirty-Four: THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION