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Subject: U.S. Historycovers the breadth of the chronological history of the United States and also provides the necessary depth to ensure the course is manageable for instructors and students alike. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most courses. The authors introduce key forces and major developments that together form the American experience, with particular attention paid to considering issues of race, class, and gender. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). OpenStax College has compiled many resources for faculty and students, from faculty-only content to interactive homework and study guides.

Table of Contents:

• The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492
• Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492-1650
• Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500-1700
• Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660-1763
• Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774
• America's War for Independence, 1775-1783
• Creating Republican Governments, 1776-1790
• Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790-1820
• The Industrial, Market, and Transportation Revolutions, 1800-1850
• Jacksonian Democracy, 1820-1840
• A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800-1860
• Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800-1860
• Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820-1860
• Troubled Times: the Tumultuous 1850s
• The Civil War, 1860-1865
• The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
• Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900
• Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900
• The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900
• Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900

• Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920
• Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914
• Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919
• The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929
• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932
• Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941
• Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945
• Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960
• Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s
• Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980
• From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000
• The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century.

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Author/Creator:

Corbett, P. Scott , author

Contributors:

Janssen, Volker , author

Lund, John M. , author

Open Textbook Library , distributor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Main Work:

U.S. History [by Corbett, P.S.]

Subjects:

Humanities — Textbooks

History — Textbooks

General Notes:

Attribution
Description based on: Print resource.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

D20 .C673 2015eb

ISBNs:

1938168364

OCLC Numbers:

1090379995

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: OTLid0000206