The Oxford Companion to United States History
- ISBN-10
- 0199771103
- ISBN-13
- 9780199771103
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 984
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-07-04
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Paul S. Boyer
Description
Here is a volume that is as big and as varied as the nation it portrays. With over 1,400 entries written by some 900 historians and other scholars, it illuminates not only America's political, diplomatic, and military history, but also social, cultural, and intellectual trends; science, technology, and medicine; the arts; and religion. Here are the familiar political heroes, from George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, to Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. But here, too, are scientists, writers, radicals, sports figures, and religious leaders, with incisive portraits of such varied individuals as Thomas Edison and Eli Whitney, Babe Ruth and Muhammed Ali, Black Elk and Crazy Horse, Margaret Fuller, Emma Goldman, and Marian Anderson, even Al Capone and Jesse James. The Companion illuminates events that have shaped the nation (the Great Awakening, Bunker Hill, Wounded Knee, the Vietnam War); major Supreme Court decisions (Marbury v. Madison, Roe v. Wade); landmark legislation (the Fugitive Slave Law, the Pure Food and Drug Act); social movements (Suffrage, Civil Rights); influential books (The Jungle, Uncle Tom's Cabin); ideologies (conservatism, liberalism, Social Darwinism); even natural disasters and iconic sites (the Chicago Fire, the Johnstown Flood, Niagara Falls, the Lincoln Memorial). Here too is the nation's social and cultural history, from Films, Football, and the 4-H Club, to Immigration, Courtship and Dating, Marriage and Divorce, and Death and Dying. Extensive multi-part entries cover such key topics as the Civil War, Indian History and Culture, Slavery, and the Federal Government. A new volume for a new century, The Oxford Companion to United States History covers everything from Jamestown and the Puritans to the Human Genome Project and the Internet--from Columbus to Clinton. Written in clear, graceful prose for researchers, browsers, and general readers alike, this is the volume that addresses the totality of the American experience, its triumphs and heroes as well as its tragedies and darker moments.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2001-07-04
- 940 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press
Similar books
-
The Oxford Companion to United States History
In this volume that is as big and as varied as the nation it portrays are over 1,400 entries written by some 900 historians and other scholars, illuminating not only America's political, diplomatic, and military history, but also social, ...
-
The Oxford Companion to Black British History
By John Gilmore, David Dabydeen, Cecily JonesThe Oxford Companion to Black British History is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the long and fascinating history of black people in the British Isles, from African...
-
The Oxford Companion to Family and Local History
By David HeyChristopher Simon Sykes's Country House Album (1989) is one of a number of recent books that have explored the ... who represented the National Trust when they were acquiring the bulk of their country house estate in the 1940s and 1950s ...
-
The Oxford Companion to American Military History
The most visited battlefields are clearly those of the Civil War, particularly the National Battlefields and ... A. Wilson Greene and Gary W. Gallagher, National Geographic Guide to the Civil War National Battlefield Parks, 1992.
-
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
By Antony Spawforth, Simon Hornblower, Esther EidinowIllustrated with full-color plates and 140 black-and-white pictures, an encyclopedic, exhaustive, and up-to-date guide contains finely detailed articles and short reference notes on the people, places, and events that shaped ancient Western ...
-
The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
By J. L. HeilbronCloning technologies, stem-cell research, defensive research on biological weapons, and programs in robotics and artificial intelligence (which has ... Paul Durbin, Social Responsibility in Science, Technology and Medicine (1992) .
-
The Oxford Companion to American History
By Thomas Herbert JohnsonThis Companion attempts to serve as a one-volume reference book on American history. Most of the articles in it are summaries of lives, events, and places significant in the founding...
-
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History
By Timothy J. LynchWayne Wei-siang Hsieh CLARK, GEORGE ROGERS (1752–1818), frontiersman and RevolutionaryWar military leader in the Ohio River valley. Born on a farm in Piedmont, Virginia, George Rogers Clark came to Kentucky as a surveyor.
-
American History: A Very Short Introduction
By Paul S. BoyerThis volume in Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series offers a concise, readable narrative of the vast span of American history, from the earliest human migrations to the early twenty-first century when the United States loomed as a ...
-
The Oxford Companion to American Politics
By Kathy SmithThe influence of radio waned in the 1950s with the ascent of television, but reemerged as a political force in the 1990s, personified by Rush Limbaugh, whose audience at one time comprised at least 20 million listeners.