Shaped with a clear political chronology, MAKING AMERICA reflects the variety of individual experiences and cultures that comprise American society. The book's clear and helpful presentation speaks directly to students, sparking their curiosity and inviting them to “do history” as well as read about it. For instructors whose classrooms mirror the diversity of today's college students, the strongly chronological narrative, together with visuals and an integrated program of learning and teaching aids, makes the historical content vivid and comprehensible to students at all levels of preparedness.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, Seventh Edition (Chapters 1-29), ISBN: 978-1-285-19479-0; Volume I: To 1877 (Chapters 1-15), ISBN: 978-1-285-19480-6; Volume II: Since 1865 (Chapters 15-29), ISBN: 978-1-285-19481-3. 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
A peer-reviewed open U.S. History Textbook released under a CC BY SA 3.0 Unported License.
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.
B. Belligerent status: of Confederacy, 357 Bell, John, 338 Benevolent societies, 277; for black, 392 Beringia, 1, ... See also Wars and warfare; specific battles and wars: of Buena Vista, 322; of Bull Run, 363; of Bunker Hill, 129; ...
In this richly interdisciplinary work twenty-eight of the nation's leading critics and scholars offer a comprehensive exploration of American society and culture.
The second edition of Dr. Gary A. Donaldson's highly successful textbook The Making of Modern America, introduces students to the cultural, social and political paths the United States has traveled from the end of WWII to the present day.
Making America: A History of the United States
A penetrating and provocative portrait of a critical decade in American history, Rightward Bound illuminates the seeds of both the successes and the failures of the conservative revolution.
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 ...
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