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America's History for the AP® Course

Eleventh  Edition©2025  Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert O. Self; James A. Henretta

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Master APUSH with America's History for the AP® Course, 11e
Dive deep into U.S. history and ace your AP® exams with Rebecca Edwards, Eric Hinderaker, Robert Self, and James Henretta's America's History for the AP® Course, 11th edition. This comprehensive text aligns perfectly with AP® themes and offers a wealth of resources to help you succeed. From in-depth narratives to skill-building workshops, this textbook is your ticket to better grades and a thorough understanding of history.

Table of Contents

PART 1 Transformations of North America, 1491–1700
        1 Colliding Worlds, 1491–1600
        2 American Experiments, 1521–1700

PART 2 British North America and the Atlantic World, 1607–1763
        3 The British Atlantic World, 1607–1750
        4 Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720–1763

PART 3 Revolution and Republican Culture, 1754–1800
        5 The Problem of Empire, 1754–1776
        6 Making War and Republican Governments, 1776–1789
        7 Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787–1820

PART 4 Overlapping Revolutions, 1800–1848
        8 Economic Transformations, 1800–1848
        9 A Democratic Revolution, 1800–1848
        10 Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820–1848
        11 Imperial Ambitions, 1820–1848

PART 5 Consolidating a Continental Union, 1844–1877
        12 Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844–1861
        13 Bloody Ground: The Civil War, 1861–1865
        14 Reconstruction, 1865–1877
        15 Conquering a Continent, 1860–1890

PART 6 Industrializing America: Upheavals and Experiments, 1877–1917
        16 Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877–1911
        17 Making Modern American Culture, 1880–1917
        18 “Civilization’s Inferno”: The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1800–1917
        19 Whose Government? Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880–1917

PART 7 Global Ambitions and Domestic Turmoil, 1890–1945
        20 An Emerging World Power, 1890–1918
        21 Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919–1932
        22 Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929–1938
        23 The World at War, 1937–1945

PART 8 The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1945–1980
        24 The Cold War Dawns, 1945–1963
        25 Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945–1963
        26 The Civil Rights Movement, 1941–1973
        27 Liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961–1972
        28 The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973–1980

PART 9 Globalization and a Changing Nation, 1980 to the Present
        29 Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980–1991
        30 National and Global Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present

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.

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.

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.

James 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.