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 currently serves as a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. 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).

Chapter 1     A Continent of Villages
Chapter 2     When Worlds Collide 1492—1590
Chapter 3     Planting Colonies in North America 1588-1701
Chapter 4     Slavery and Empire 1441—1770
Chapter 5     The Cultures of Colonial North America 1700—1780
Chapter 6     From Empire to Independence 1750—1776
Chapter 7     The American Revolution 1776—1786
Chapter 8     The New Nation 1786—1800
Chapter 9     An Empire for Liberty 1790—1824
Chapter 10    The South and Slavery 1790s—1850s
Chapter 11     The Growth of Democracy 1824-1840
Chapter 12     Industry and the North 1790s—1840s
Chapter 13     Meeting the Challenges of the New Age: Immigration, Urbanization, and Social Reform 1820s —1850s
Chapter 14     The Territorial Expansion of the United States 1830s—1850s
Chapter 15     The Coming Crisis the 1850s
Chapter 16     The Civil War 1861—1865
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 1: A Continent of Villages

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES   Cahokia: Thirteenth-Century Life on the Mississippi

The First American Settlers

The Development of Farming    

Farming in Early North America   

SEEING HISTORY An Early European Image of Native Americans

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Chapter 2: When Worlds Collide 1492—1590

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The English at Roanoke

The Expansion of Europe

The Spanish in the Americas

Northern Explorations and Encounters

SEEING HISTORY A Watercolor from the First Algonquian-English Encounter

Conclusion

Chronology

Review Questions

Recommended Readings

MyHistoryLab Connections

Chapter 3: Planting Colonies in North America 1588-1701

AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Communities and Diversity in Seventeenth Century Santa Fe

The Spanish, The French, and the Dutch in North America

The Chesapeake: Virginia and Maryland

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