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Offers students insight into how diverse communities and different regions have shaped America's past. For the two-semester U.S. history survey course. Out of Many, brief edition, reveals the ethnic, geographical and economic diversity of the United States by examining the individual, the community and the state and placing a special focus on the country's regions, particularly the West. Each chapter helps students understand the textured and varied history that has produced the increasing complexity of America. This book is the abridged version of Out of Many, seventh edition. Teaching and Learning Experience Personalize Learning-The new MyHistoryLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. Improve Critical Thinking- Seeing History images and critical thinking questions help students use visual culture to make sense of the past. Engage Students- Each chapter begins with an American Communities feature that shows how the events discussed in the chapter affected particular communities for a well-rounded understanding of American history. Support Instructors- MyHistoryLab, ClassPrep, an Instructorâ€™s Manual, MyTest and PowerPoints. Note:MyHistoryLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyHistoryLab at no extra charge, please visitwww.MyHistoryLab.comor use the following (VP ISBN-10: 0205215793, VP ISBN-13: 9780205215799)

John Mack Faragher

John Mack Faragher is an Arthur Unobskey professor of American history and the director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University. Born in Arizona and raised in southern California, he received his B.A. at the University of California, Riverside, and his Ph.D. at Yale University. He is the author of Women and Men on the Overland Trail (1979), Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (1986), Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1992), The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000) and A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland (2005).

Mari Jo Buhle

Mari Jo Buhle is a William R. Kenan, Jr. University professor emerita of American civilization and history at Brown University specializing in American women’s history. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920 (1981) and Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (1998). She is also the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left (second edition, 1998). Buhle held a fellowship (1991-1996) from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She is currently an honorary fellow of the history department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Daniel Czitrom

Daniel Czitrom is a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College. Born and raised in New York City, he received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan (1982), which won the First Books Award of the American Historical Association and has been translated into Spanish and Chinese. He is the co-author of Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn of the Century New York (2008). He has served as a historical consultant and been featured as an on-camera commentator for several documentary film projects, including the PBS productions New York : A Documentary Film, American Photography: A Century of Images and The Great Transatlantic Cable. He is currently writing New York Exposed: How a Gilded Age Police Scandal Shocked the Nation and Launched the Progressive Era (Oxford).

Susan H. Armitage

Susan H. Armitage is a professor of history and women’s studies emerita at Washington State University, where she was a Claudius O. and Mary R. Johnson distinguished professor. She earned her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Among her many publications on western women’s history are three co-edited books, The Women’s West (1987), So Much To Be Done: Women on the Mining and Ranching Frontier (1991) and Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women’s West (1997). She served as editor of the feminist journal Frontiers from 1996 to 2002. Her most recent publication, co-edited with Laurie Mercier, is Speaking History: Oral Histories of the American Past, 1865-Present (2009).

IN THIS SECTION:
1.) BRIEF
2.) COMPREHENSIVE

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Chapter 17     Reconstruction 1863–1877
Chapter 18     Conquest and Survival: The Trans-Mississippi West 1860–1900
Chapter 19     Production and Consumption in the Gilded Age 1865–1900
Chapter 20    Democracy and Empire 1870–1900
Chapter 21     Urban America and the Progressive Era 1900–1917
Chapter 22     A Global Power: The United States in the Era of the Great War 1901–1920
Chapter 23     The Twenties 1920–1929
Chapter 24     The Great Depression and the New Deal 1929-1940
Chapter 25     World War II 1941–1945
Chapter 26     The Cold War Begins 1945–1952
Chapter 27     America at Midcentury 1952–1963
Chapter 28     The Civil Rights Movement 1945–1966
Chapter 29    War Abroad, War at Home 1965–1974
Chapter 30     The Conservative Ascendancy 1974–1991
Chapter 31     The United States in a Global Age 1992–2010

COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Community and Diversity

Chapter 17: Reconstruction 1863–1877

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Hale County, Alabama: From Slavery to Freedom in a Black Belt Community

The Politics of Reconstruction

The Meaning of Freedom

SEEING HISTORY Changing Images of Reconstruction

Southern Politics and Society

Reconstructing the North

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Interpreting the Past: Realities of Freedom

Chapter 18: Conquest and Survival: The Trans-Mississippi West 1860–1900

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Oklahoma Land Rush

Indian Peoples Under Siege

The Internal Empire

The Open Range

SEEING HISTORY The Legendary Cowboy: Nat Love, Deadwood Dick

Farming Communities on The Plains

The World’s Breadbasket

The Western Landscape

The Transformation of Indian Societies

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Chapter 19: Production and Consumption in the Gilded Age 1865–1900

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Haymarket Square, Chicago, May 4, 1886

The Rise of Industry, the Triumph of Business

SEEING HISTORY The Standard Oil Company

Labor in the Age of Big Business

The New South

The Industrial City

The Rise of Consumer Society

Cultures in Conflict, Culture in Common

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Chapter 20: Democracy and Empire 1870–1900

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Annexation of Hawai’i

Toward a National Governing Class

Farmers and Workers Organize their Communities

The Crisis of the 1890s

Politics of Reform, Politics of Order

The Path to Imperialism

SEEING HISTORY The White Man’s Burden

Onto a Global Stage

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Interpreting the Past: Currency Reform

Chapter 21: Urban America and the Progressive Era 1900–1917

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Henry Street Settlement House: Women Settlement House Workers Create a Community of Reform

The Origins of Progressivism

SEEING HISTORY Photographing Poverty in the Slums of New York

Progressive Politics in Cities and States

Social Control and Its Limits

Challenges to Progressivism

Women’s Movements and Black Activism

National Progressivism

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Chapter 22: A Global Power: The United States in the Era of the Great War 1901–1920

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The American Expeditionary Force in France

Becoming a World Power

The Great War

American Mobilization

SEEING HISTORY Selling War

Over Here

Repression and Reaction

An Uneasy Peace

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Chapter 23: The Twenties 1920–1929

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Movie Audience And Hollywood: Mass Culture Creates A New National Community

Postwar Prosperity and Its Price

The State, the Economy, and Business

The New Mass Culture

SEEING HISTORY Creating Celebrity

Modernity and traditionalism

Promises Postponed

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Interpreting the Past: The Scopes Monkey Trial as a Harbinger of Change

Chapter 24: The Great Depression and the New Deal 1929-1940

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Sit-Down Strike at Flint: Automobile Workers Organize a New Union

Hard Times

FDR and The First New Deal

FDR the Man

Left Turn and the Second New Deal

The New Deal in the South and West

The Limits of Reform

Depression-Era Culture

SEEING HISTORY Documenting Hard Times in Black and White and Color

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Chapter 25: World War II 1941–1945

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Los Alamos, New Mexico

The Coming of World War II

The Great Arsenal of Democracy

SEEING HISTORY Norman Rockwell’s “Rosie, the Riveter”

The Home Front

Men and Women in Uniform

The World at War

The Last Stages of War

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Chapter 26: The Cold War Begins 1945–1952

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES University of Washington, Seattle: Students and Faculty Face the Cold War

Global Insecurities at War’s End

The Policy Of Containment

Cold War Liberalism

The Cold War At Home

Cold War Culture

SEEING HISTORY The Hollywood Film Invasion, U.S.A

Stalemate for the Democrats

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Interpreting the Past: Cold War Fears and Nuclear Holocaust

Chapter 27: America at Midcentury 1952–1963

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Popular Music in Memphis

Under the Cold War’s Shadow

The Affluent Society

Youth Culture

Mass Culture and Its Discontents

The Coming of the New Frontier

SEEING HISTORY Televising a National Tragedy

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Chapter 28: The Civil Rights Movement 1945–1966

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Montgomery Bus Boycott: An African American Community Challenges Segregation

Origins of the Movement

SEEING HISTORY Civil Rights on the World Stage

No Easy Road to Freedom, 1957–62

The Movement at High Tide, 1963–65

Civil Rights Beyond Black and White

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Interpreting the Past: The Quest for African American Equality

Chapter 29: War Abroad, War at Home 1965–1974

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Uptown, Chicago, Illinois

Vietnam: America’s Longest War

A Generation in Conflict

Wars on Poverty

1968: Year of Turmoil

The Politics of Identity

The Nixon Presidency

SEEING HISTORY Kim Phuc, Fleeing a Napalm Attack Near Trang Bang

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974–1991

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Grassroots Conservatism in Orange County, California

The Overextended Society

The New Right

SEEING HISTORY The Inaugurations of Carter and Reagan

The Reagan Revolution

Best of Times, Worst of Times

Toward A New World Order

“A Kinder, Gentler Nation”

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Chapter 31: The United States in a Global Age 1992–2010

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Transnational Communities in San Diego and Tijuana

The Presidency of Bill Clinton

Changing American Communities

President George W. Bush and the War on Terror

SEEING HISTORY The 9/11 Attacks

Barack Obama and the Audacity of Hope

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Interpreting the Past: The Threat of War to Democratic Institutions

Appendix

Glossary

Credits

Index

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