8 v. : 29 cm
Each volume has a different editor
"A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."
Includes bibliographical references and index
--V. 1. The colonial and revolutionary eras, 1492-1783 -- v. 2. The early republic era, 1783-1860 -- v. 3. The Civil War era, 1861-1865 -- v. 4. The Reconstruction era, 1865-1877 -- v. 5. The Gilded Age, Progressive era and World War I, 1877-1920 -- v. 6. The roaring twenties, Great Depression, and World War II, 1920-1945 -- v. 7. The postwar and civil rights era, 1945-1973 -- v. 8. Toward the twenty-first century, 1974-present
V. 1. The colonial and revolutionary eras, 1492-1783. Christopher Columbus: hero or villain? ; Slavery and freedom in early Virginia ; Church and state in early Puritan Massachusetts ; Peter Stuyvesant and the loss of New Netherland -- King Philip's War ; Bacon's rebellion ; Salem witch trials ; The Great Awakening ; John Peter Zenger and freedom of the press in America -- The New York slave conspiracy ; The Iroquois Confederation ; The Albany plan of Union ; Fort William Henry in the French and Indian War ; Biological warfare: Sir Jeffrey Amherst, Native Americans, and smallpox ; The Stamp Act and the crisis of colonial government ; Withdrawing from the British economy ; Military strategy ; The Continental army ; Revolutionary finance ; Biographies --
v. 2. The early republic era, 1783-1860. The Constitutional debates ; The economy of the new nation: depression, rebellion, speculation, and reform ; The Whiskey Rebellion and emergence of federal power ; The Haitian revolution and American slavery ; Jeffersonians versus Federalists: political battles in the election of 1800 ; The Barbary pirates and the U.S. struggle for recognition in international commerce ; The Virginia dynasty, sectionalism, and the presidential election of 1812 ; The Charleston slave conspiracy of 1822 ; Female mill workers in Lowell, Massachusetts ; Andrew Jackson's war against the second bank of the United States ; The Cherokee nation, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the question of removal ; The Aroostook war and the Maine-New Brunswick boundary dispute ; American women and the temperance movement ; Conflicts over the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 ; The debate over racial supremacy ; The Seneca Falls Convention and the struggle for women's rights ; Biographies --
v. 3. The Civil War era, 1861-1865. The rise of abolitionism and the conflict over slavery ; Dred Scott: the Constitution, slavery, and the future of America ; Antebellum compromises ; The secession crisis ; Armed conflict: logistics, strategy, and the experience of battle ; African Americans in the military: contrabands, freemen, and women ; Violent abolitionism: John Brown and the raid on Harpers Ferry ; Temperance: religion, politics, and ethnic groups ; Religion in the age of slavery ; The Emancipation Proclamation: slavery, the Civil War, and Abraham Lincoln ; Biographies --
v. 4. The Reconstruction era, 1865-1877. Darwin, slavery, and science ; Reconstruction amendments: Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments ; Tammany Hall: the rise of machine politics in New York ; Reconstruction governments ; Railroads and industrialization ; The Freedmen's Bureau: reconstructing the Southern economy ; Reconstruction and the women's rights movement ; Domestic terrorism: former Confederates, conservative Democrats, and the Ku Klux Klan ; The Compromise of 1877 ; Biographies --
v. 5. The Gilded Age, Progressive era and World War I, 1877-1920. The "robber barons" and the problems of an industrialized nation ; Disfranchisement, segregation, and the Jim Crow south ; The land of opportunity ; Native Americans and American expansionism ; Immigration and nativism ; Party politics in the Gilded Age ; Populism and agrarian reforms ; The China market and the open door ; Imperialism and its detractors ; Class conflict, labor activism, and radicalism ; Wealth, poverty, and Progressive reforms ; Women's roles ; The Great War: America's conflicted role on the world state ; Biographies --
v. 6. The roaring twenties, Great Depression, and World War II, 1920-1945. African Americans' migration to the north ; Neutrality and nonintervention ; Fundamentalism ; The National Prohibition Amendment ; Labor unions and strikes ; Women's roles ; Immigration restriction ; Alfred E. Smith's presidential campaign of 1928 ; Herbert Hoover's approach to the Depression ; The New Deal ; Alternatives to the New Deal ; Japanese-American internment ; The United Nations ; The atomic bomb ; Biographies --
v. 7. The postwar and civil rights era, 1945-1973. Lynching and white supremacy ; Army desegregation and military leadership ; The Marshall Plan, the domino theory, and the Korean War ; McCarthyism and the red scare ; The beat generation protest against the age of conformity ; The sexual revolution ; From Brown v. Board of Education to the freedom rides ; From the Albany movement to the Voting Rights Act ; The Cuban Missile crisis and the Gulf of Tonkin incident ; The great society ; The new left and the underground press ; The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X ; The Black arts movement in national and transnational perspective ; Black Power and the Black Panther Party ; The Tet offensive and My Lai Massacre ; Draft resistance, Vietnam Veterans against the War, and the Kent State shootings ; The National Organization for Women and the Equal Rights Amendment ; The American Indian Movement ; Detente and American withdrawal from Vietnam ; Roe v
Wade ; COINTELPRO and the Watergate scandal ; Biographies -- v. 8. Toward the twenty-first century, 1974-present. Fundamentalism and the right to life ; Black, Chicana, and third wave feminism ; The environmentalist movement: mainstreaming, environmental justice, globalization ; Civil liberties and government monitoring ; The second cold war and U.S. involvement in foreign conflicts (1979-1985) ; AIDS activism ; Gay rights: the military and same-sex marriage ; Steroids in the sports era: Olympics, baseball, and Congress ; The Iraq Wars ; Bibliographies
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