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America's History, For the AP® Course by James A. Henretta; Eric Hinderaker; Rebecca Edwards; Robert O. Self - Eighth Edition, 2014 from Macmillan Student Store
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America's History, For the AP® Course

Eighth  Edition|©2014  James A. Henretta; Eric Hinderaker; Rebecca Edwards; Robert O. Self

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Brief Contents

Historical Thinking, Reading, and Writing Skills for AP® U.S. History

Part 1: Transformations of North America, 1450-1700

Chapter 1: Colliding Worlds, 1450–1600

Chapter 2: American Experiments, 1521-1700

Part 2: British North America and the Atlantic World, 1660-1763

Chapter 3: The British Atlantic World, 1660-1750

Chapter 4: Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720-1763

Part 3: Revolution and Republican Culture, 1763-1820

Chapter 5: The Problem of Empire, 1763-1776

Chapter 6: Making War and Republican Governments, 1776–1789

Chapter 7: Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787-1820

Chapter 8: Creating a Republican Culture, 1790–1820

Part 4: Overlapping Revolutions, 1800–1860

Chapter 9: Transforming the Economy, 1800–1860

Chapter 10: A Democratic Revolution, 1800–1844

Chapter 11: Religion and Reform, 1800–1860

Chapter 12: The South Expands: Slavery and Society, 1800–1860

Part 5: Creating and Preserving a Continental Nation, 1844-1877

Chapter 13: Expansion, War, and Sectional Crisis, 1844–1860

Chapter 14: Two Societies at War, 1861–1865

Chapter 15: Reconstruction, 1865–1877

Chapter 16: Conquering a Continent, 1854-1890

Part 6: Industrializing America: Upheavals and Experiments, 1877-1917

Chapter 17: Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877–1911

Chapter 18: The Victorians Make the Modern, 1880–1916

Chapter 19: "Civilization’s Inferno:" The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880–1917

Chapter 20: Whose Government? Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880–1917

Part 7: Domestic and Global Challenges, 1890-1945

Chapter 21: An Emerging World Power, 1890–1918

Chapter 22: Cultural Conflict, Bubble, and Bust, 1919–1932

Chapter 23: Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929–1939

Chapter 24: The World at War, 1937–1945

Part 8: The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1945-1980

Chapter 25: Cold War America, 1945–1963

Chapter 26: Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945–1963

Chapter 27: Walking into Freedom Land: The Civil Rights Movement, 1941–1973

Chapter 28: Uncivil Wars: Liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961–1972

Chapter 29: The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973–1980

Part 9: Global Capitalism and the End of the American Century, 1980 to the Present

Chapter 30: Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980–1991

Chapter 31: Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present

Authors

James A. Henretta

James A. Henretta is Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he taught Early American History and Legal History. His publications include “Salutary Neglect”: Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle; Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600-1820; and The Origins of American Capitalism. His most recent publication is a long article, “Magistrates, Lawyers, Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of Early America,” in The Cambridge History of American Law.


Eric Hinderaker

Eric Hinderaker is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Utah. His research explores early modern imperialism, relations between Europeans and Native Americans, military-civilian relations in the Atlantic world, and comparative colonization. His most recent book, Boston’s Massacre, was awarded the Cox Book Prize from the Society of the Cincinnati and was a finalist for the George Washington Prize. His other publications include Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673–1800; The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery, which won the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History from the New York Academy of History; and, with Peter C. Mancall, At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America.


Rebecca Edwards

Rebecca Edwards is Eloise Ellery Professor of History at Vassar College, where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century politics, the Civil War, the frontier West, and women, gender, and sexuality. She is the author of, among other publications, Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era; New Spirits: Americans in the “Gilded Age,” 1865–1905; and the essay “Women’s and Gender History” in The New American History. She is currently working on a book about the role of childbearing in the expansion of America’s nineteenth-century empire.


Robert O. Self

Robert O. Self is Mary Ann Lippitt Professor of American History at Brown University. His research focuses on urban history, American politics, and the post-1945 United States. He is the author of American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, which won four professional prizes, including the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s. He is currently at work on a book about the centrality of houses, cars, and children to family consumption in the twentieth-century United States.


Updated for the 2015 AP® US History Redesigned Course revisions.

Table of Contents

Brief Contents

Historical Thinking, Reading, and Writing Skills for AP® U.S. History

Part 1: Transformations of North America, 1450-1700

Chapter 1: Colliding Worlds, 1450–1600

Chapter 2: American Experiments, 1521-1700

Part 2: British North America and the Atlantic World, 1660-1763

Chapter 3: The British Atlantic World, 1660-1750

Chapter 4: Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720-1763

Part 3: Revolution and Republican Culture, 1763-1820

Chapter 5: The Problem of Empire, 1763-1776

Chapter 6: Making War and Republican Governments, 1776–1789

Chapter 7: Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787-1820

Chapter 8: Creating a Republican Culture, 1790–1820

Part 4: Overlapping Revolutions, 1800–1860

Chapter 9: Transforming the Economy, 1800–1860

Chapter 10: A Democratic Revolution, 1800–1844

Chapter 11: Religion and Reform, 1800–1860

Chapter 12: The South Expands: Slavery and Society, 1800–1860

Part 5: Creating and Preserving a Continental Nation, 1844-1877

Chapter 13: Expansion, War, and Sectional Crisis, 1844–1860

Chapter 14: Two Societies at War, 1861–1865

Chapter 15: Reconstruction, 1865–1877

Chapter 16: Conquering a Continent, 1854-1890

Part 6: Industrializing America: Upheavals and Experiments, 1877-1917

Chapter 17: Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877–1911

Chapter 18: The Victorians Make the Modern, 1880–1916

Chapter 19: "Civilization’s Inferno:" The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880–1917

Chapter 20: Whose Government? Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880–1917

Part 7: Domestic and Global Challenges, 1890-1945

Chapter 21: An Emerging World Power, 1890–1918

Chapter 22: Cultural Conflict, Bubble, and Bust, 1919–1932

Chapter 23: Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929–1939

Chapter 24: The World at War, 1937–1945

Part 8: The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1945-1980

Chapter 25: Cold War America, 1945–1963

Chapter 26: Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945–1963

Chapter 27: Walking into Freedom Land: The Civil Rights Movement, 1941–1973

Chapter 28: Uncivil Wars: Liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961–1972

Chapter 29: The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973–1980

Part 9: Global Capitalism and the End of the American Century, 1980 to the Present

Chapter 30: Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980–1991

Chapter 31: Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present

James A. Henretta

James A. Henretta is Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he taught Early American History and Legal History. His publications include “Salutary Neglect”: Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle; Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600-1820; and The Origins of American Capitalism. His most recent publication is a long article, “Magistrates, Lawyers, Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of Early America,” in The Cambridge History of American Law.


Eric Hinderaker

Eric Hinderaker is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Utah. His research explores early modern imperialism, relations between Europeans and Native Americans, military-civilian relations in the Atlantic world, and comparative colonization. His most recent book, Boston’s Massacre, was awarded the Cox Book Prize from the Society of the Cincinnati and was a finalist for the George Washington Prize. His other publications include Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673–1800; The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery, which won the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History from the New York Academy of History; and, with Peter C. Mancall, At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America.


Rebecca Edwards

Rebecca Edwards is Eloise Ellery Professor of History at Vassar College, where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century politics, the Civil War, the frontier West, and women, gender, and sexuality. She is the author of, among other publications, Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era; New Spirits: Americans in the “Gilded Age,” 1865–1905; and the essay “Women’s and Gender History” in The New American History. She is currently working on a book about the role of childbearing in the expansion of America’s nineteenth-century empire.


Robert O. Self

Robert O. Self is Mary Ann Lippitt Professor of American History at Brown University. His research focuses on urban history, American politics, and the post-1945 United States. He is the author of American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, which won four professional prizes, including the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s. He is currently at work on a book about the centrality of houses, cars, and children to family consumption in the twentieth-century United States.


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