Shaped with a clear political chronology, MAKING AMERICA reflects the variety of individual experiences and cultures that comprise American society. MAKING AMERICA provides a clear, helpful text that meets students where they are. For instructors whose classrooms mirror the diversity of today’s college students, the strongly chronological narrative, together with an integrated program of learning and teaching aids, makes the historical content vivid and comprehensible to students at all levels of preparedness. Available in the following split options: MAKING AMERICA, Sixth Edition (Chapters 1-29), ISBN: 978-0-495-90979-8; Volume I: To 1877 (Chapters 1-15), ISBN: 978-0-495-91523-2; Volume II: Since 1865 (Chapters 15-29), ISBN: 978-0-495-91524-9. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Making America: A History of the United States
Making America: A History of the United States
An extended essay on social change based on case studies of a wide range of participants in the emerging corporate culture of the early 1900s. Zunz is in the history department at the U. of Virginia.
The Brief Sixth Edition retains a hallmark feature of the MAKING AMERICA program: pedagogical tools that allow readers to master complex material and enable them to develop analytical skills.
For an account ofthe Shawnee Prophet and Tecumseh's anti-American campaign, see Gregory Evans Dowd, A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Strugglefor Unity, 1745–1815 (Baltimore, MD:Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).
This authoritative work provides a close look at the famous seamstress while shedding new light on the lives of the artisan families who peopled the young nation and crafted its tools, ships, and homes.
Over time, because of the systems Hamilton set up and the ideas he left, his vision won out. Here is the story that epitomizes the American dream—a poor immigrant who made good in America.
Enhanced by photographs, reproductions, and sidebars, a survey of the role of women in American history covers such areas as health, work, education, amusements, the arts, work, and beauty.
About half were admitted directly from their ships and another half were detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station.21 While popularly called the “Ellis Island of the West,” the immigration station on Angel Island was in fact very ...
Making America History