The reputable authors of The American Pageant combine excellent scholarship with a witty, engaging narrative style and creative look at U.S. History to build critical thinking skills and a love of American history. The American Pageant, the best-selling AP US History text, is a clear and approachable book for any student studying American history. The Updated 16th Edition completely aligns to the 2015 Framework announced by the College Board in August 2015.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cengage Learning
ISBN-10
1337090158
ISBN-13
9781337090155
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18038821442
Product Key Features
Author
David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen, Lizabeth Kennedy
Publication Name
American Pageant
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Dimensions
Item Weight
96.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
16
Table of Content
Part One: Founding the New Nation: ca. 33,000 B.C.E-1783 C.E 1. New World Beginnings (33,000 B.C.E-1769 C.E.) 2. The Planting of English America (1500-1733) 3. Settling the Northern Colonies (1619-1700) 4. American Life in the Seventeenth Century (1607-1692) 5. Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution (1700-1775) 6. The Duel for North America (1608-1763) 7. The Road to Revolution (1763-1775) 8. America Secedes from the Empire (1775-1783) Part Two: Building the New Nation: 1776-1860 9. The Confederation and the Constitution (1776-1790) 10. Launching the New Ship of State (1789-1800) 11. The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic (1800-1812) 12. The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism (1812-1824) 13. The Rise of a Mass Democracy (1824-1840) 14. Forging the National Economy (1790-1860) 15. The Ferment of Reform and Culture (1790-1860) Part Three: Testing the New Nation: 1820-1877 16. The South and the Slavery Controversy (1793-1860) 17. Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy (1841-1848) 18. Renewing the Sectional Struggle (1848-1854) 19. Drifting Toward Disunion (1854-1861) 20. Girding for War: The North and the South (1861-1865) 21. The Furnace of Civil War (1861-1865) 22. The Ordeal of Reconstruction (1865-1877) Part Four: Forging an Industrial Society: 1865-1909 23. Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age (1869-1896) 24. Industry Comes of Age (1865-1900) 25. America Moves to the City (1865-1900) 26. The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution (1865-1896) 27. Empire and Expansion (1890-1909) Part Five: Struggling for Justice at Home and Abroad: 1901-1945 28. Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt (1901-1912) 29. Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War (1913-1920) 30. American Life in the "Roaring Twenties" (1920-1929) 31. The Politics of Boom and Bust (1920-1932) 32. The Great Depression and the New Deal (1933-1939) 33. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War (1933-1941) 34. America in World War II (1941-1945) Part Six: Making Modern America: 1945 to the Present 35. The Cold War Begins (1945-1952) 36. American Zenith (1952-1963) 37. The Stormy Sixties (1963-1973) 38. Challenges to the Postwar Order (1973-1980) 39. The Resurgence of Conservatism (1980-1992) 40. America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era (1992-2000) 41. The American People Face a New Century (2001-2014)
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
General, United States / General
Genre
History
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