Visions of America A History of the United States, Volume One
by Keene, Jennifer D.; Cornell, Saul T.; O'Donnell, Edward T.Edition: 2nd
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Pub. Date: 2011-12-27
Publisher(s): Pearson
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Summary
See history. Understand history. Praised by instructors and students alike, the first edition of Visions of Americahas brought history to life for a generation of visual learnersand has shown how competing visions of America have shaped our nation's past. We've made the second edition of this program even better by adding engaging new features and even easier access to new teaching resources. And, thorough integration with the new MyHistoryLab enables instructors to personalize learning for each student. A better teaching and learning experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experiencefor you and your students. Here's how: 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 -Chapter openers and end-of-chapter study materials that are tied to MyHistoryLab combine visual sources, narrative, and questions to help students study effectively. Engage Students -Features focusing on visions that have shaped America and images are integrated with the new MyHistoryLab for a comprehensive learning program. Support Instructors -MyHistoryLab, Annotated Instructor's eText, MyHistoryLab Instructor's Guide, ClassPrep, Instructor's Manual, MyTest, and PowerPoints are available. For volume one of this text, search ISBN-10: 0205092675 For the combined volume of this test, search ISBN-10: 0205092667 Note:MyHistoryLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyHistoryLab, please visit:www.myhistorylab.comor you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MyHistorylab (at no additional cost): ValuePack ISBN-10: 1256463590 / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9781256463597.
Author Biography
Jennifer D. Keene is a Professor of History and chair of the History Department at Chapman University in Orange, California. Dr. Keene has published three books on the American involvement in the First World War: Doughboys, the Great War and the Remaking of America (2001); The United States and the First World War (2000); and World War I: The American Soldier Experience (2011). She has received numerous fellowships for her research, including a Mellon Fellowship, a National Research Council Postdoctoral Award, and Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards to Australia and France. Her articles have appeared in the Annales de Démographie Historique, Peace & Change, Intelligence and National Security, and Military Psychology. Dr. Keene served as an associate editor for the Encyclopedia of War and American Society (2005), which won the Society of Military History’s prize for best reference book. She works closely with the Gilder-Lehrman Institute, offering Teaching American History workshops for secondary school teachers throughout the country.
Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at Fordham University in New York. Professor Cornell has also taught at the Ohio State University, the College of William and Mary, Leiden University in the Netherlands, and has been a visiting scholar at Yale Law School. He is the author of A Well Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control (Langum Prize in Legal History) and The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788—1828 (Society of the Cincinnati Book Prize), both of which were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His articles have appeared in the Journal of American History, the William and Mary Quarterly, American Studies, Law and History Review, and dozens of leading law reviews. His work has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and several state Supreme Courts. He lectures widely on topics in legal and constitutional history and the use of visual materials to teach American history.
Edward T. O’Donnell is an Associate Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He taught previously at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General
Slocum (Random House, 2003) and the forthcoming Talisman of a Lost Hope: Henry George and Gilded Age America (Columbia University Press). His articles have appeared in The Journal of Urban History, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and The Public Historian. He is also very active in the field of public history, curating exhibits and consulting at institutions such as the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and the New York Historical Society. Since 2002, he has worked with more than fifty Teaching American History grant programs across the country, offering lectures and workshops for middle and high school teachers.
Table of Contents
Found in this section:
1. Brief Table of Contents
2. Full Table of Contents
1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 People in Motion: The Atlantic World to 1590
Chapter 2 Models of Settlement: English Colonial Societies, 1590—1710
Chapter 3 Growth, Slavery, and Conflict: Colonial America, 1710—1763
Chapter 4 Revolutionary America: Change and Transformation, 1764—1783
Chapter 5 A Virtuous Republic: Creating a Workable Government, 1783—1789
Chapter 6 The New Republic: An Age of Political Passion, 1789—1800
Chapter 7 Jeffersonian America: An Expanding Empire of Liberty, 1800—1824
Chapter 8 Democrats and Whigs: Democracy and American Culture, 1820—1840
Chapter 9 Workers, Farmers, and Slaves: The Transformation of the American Economy, 1815—1848
Chapter 10 Revivalism, Reform, and Artistic Renaissance, 1820—1850:
Chapter 11 “To Overspread the Continent”: Westward Expansion and Political Conflict, 1840—1848
Chapter 12 Slavery and Sectionalism: The Political Crisis of 1848—1861
Chapter 13 A Nation Torn Apart: The Civil War, 1861—1865
Chapter 14 Now That We Are Free: Reconstruction and the New South, 1863—1890
2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
Maps
Charts, Graphs, and Tables
Envisioning Evidence
Images as History
Competing Visions
Choices and Consequences
About the Authors
Supplements for Instructors and Students
Chapter 1: People in Motion: The Atlantic World to 1590
The First Americans
European Civilization in Turmoil
Competing Visions
European and Huron Views of Nature
Columbus and the Columbian Exchange
West African Worlds
Choices and Consequences
Benin, Portugal, and the International Slave Trade
European Colonization of the Atlantic World
Images as History
Marketing the New World: Theodore De Bry’s Engravings of the Americas
Chapter Review
Chapter 2: Models of Settlement: English Colonial Societies, 1590—1710
The Chesapeake Colonies
Choices and Consequences
The Ordeal of Pocahontas
New England
Images as History
Corruption versus Piety
Envisioning Evidence
Patterns of Settlement in New England and the Chesapeake Compared
Competing Visions
Antinomianism or Toleration: The Puritan Dilemma
The Caribbean Colonies
The Restoration Era and the Proprietary Colonies
The Crises of the Late Seventeenth Century
The Whig Ideal and the Emergence of Political Stability
Chapter Review
Chapter 3: Growth, Slavery, and Conflict: Colonial America, 1710—1763
Culture and Society in the Eighteenth Century
Images as History
A Portrait of Colonial Aspirations
Enlightenment and Awakenings
African Americans in the Colonial Era
Envisioning Evidence
The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Slave Trade
Immigration, Regional Economies, and Inequality
War and the Contest over Empire
Competing Visions
Sir William Johnson and the Iroquois: Indian Visions versus British Arms
Choices and Consequences
Quakers, Pacifism, and the Paxton Uprising
Chapter Review
Chapter 4: Revolutionary America: Change and Transformation, 1764—1783
Tightening the Reins of Empire
Envisioning Evidence
A Comparison of the Annual Per Capita Tax Rates in Britain and the Colonies in 1765
Patriots versus Loyalists
Images as History
Trumbull’s The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill
Choices and Consequences
A Loyalist Wife’s Dilemma
America at War
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Competing Visions
Remember the Ladies
Chapter Review
Chapter 5: A Virtuous Republic: Creating a Workable Government, 1783—1789
Republicanism and the Politics of Virtue
Images as History
Women’s Roles: Tradition and Change
Life under the Articles of Confederation
The Movement for Constitutional Reform
The Great Debate
Competing Visions
Brutus and the Publius Debate the Nature of Republicanism
Choices and Consequences
To Ratify or Not
Chapter Review
Chapter 6: The New Republic: An Age of Political Passion, 1789—1800
Launching the New Government
Hamilton’s Ambitious Program
Partisanship without Parties
Conflicts at Home and Abroad
Competing Visions
Jefferson’s and Hamilton’s Reactions to the French Revolution
Choices and Consequences
Washington’s Decision to Crush the Whiskey Rebellion
Cultural Politics in a Passionate Age
Images as History
Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences
The Stormy Presidency of John Adams
Chapter Review
Chapter 7: Jeffersonian America: An Expanding Empire of Liberty, 1800—1824
Politics in Jeffersonian America
Envisioning Evidence
The World of Slavery at Monticello
An Expanding Empire of Liberty
Choices and Consequences
John Marshall’s Predicament
Images as History
Samuel Morse’s House of Representatives and the National Republican Vision
Dissension at Home
America Confronts a World at War
Competing Visions
War Hawks and Their Critics
The Republic Reborn: Consequences of the War of 1812
Crisis and the Collapse of the National Republican Consensus
Chapter Review
Chapter 8: Democrats and Whigs: Democracy and American Culture, 1820—1840
Democracy in America
Competing Visions
Should White Men Without Property Have the Vote?
Andrew Jackson and His Age
White Man’s Democracy
Choices and Consequences
Acquiesce or Resist? The Cherokee Dilemma
Democrats, Whigs, and the Second Party System
Images as History
King Andrew and the Downfall of Mother Bank
Playing the Democrats’ Game: Whigs in the Election of 1840
Chapter Review
Chapter 9: Workers, Farmers, and Slaves: The Transformation of the American Economy, 1815—1848
The Market Revolution
Images as History
Nature, Technology, and the Railroad: George Inness’s Lackawanna Valley (1855)
The Spread of Industrialization
Competing Visions
The Lowell Strike of 1834
The Changing Urban Landscape
Envisioning Evidence
The Economics and Geography of Vice in Mid-Nineteenth Century New York
Southern Society
Life and Labor under Slavery
Choices and Consequences
Conscience or Duty? Judge Ruffin’s Quandary
Chapter Review
Chapter 10: Revivalism, Reform, and Artistic Renaissance, 1820—1850
Revivalism and Reform
Abolitionism and the Proslavery Response
Images as History
The Greek Slave
The Cult of True Womanhood, Reform, and Women’s Rights
Religious and Secular Utopianism
Competing Visions
Reactions to Shaker Gender Roles
Choices and Consequences
Mary Cragin’s Experiment in Free Love at Oneida
Literature and Popular Culture
Nature’s Nation
Chapter Review
Chapter 11: “To Overspread the Continent”: Westward Expansion and Political Conflict, 1840—1848
Manifest Destiny and Changing Visions of the West
Images as History
George Catlin and Mah-To-Toh-Pa: Representing Indians for an American Audience
American Expansionism into the Southwest
The Mexican War and Its Consequences
Choices and Consequences
Henry David Thoreau and Civil Disobedience
The Wilmot Proviso and the Realignment of American Politics
Competing Visions
Slavery and the Election of 1848
Chapter Review
Chapter 12: Slavery and Sectionalism: The Political Crisis of 1848—1861
The Slavery Question in the Territories
Choices and Consequences
Resisting the Fugitive Slave Act
Political Realignment
Images as History
The “Foreign Menace”
Two Societies
Envisioning Evidence
The Rise of King Cotton
A House Divided
Competing Visions
Secession or Union?
Chapter Review
Chapter 13: A Nation Torn Apart: The Civil War, 1861—1865
Mobilization, Strategy, and Diplomacy
The Early Campaigns, 1861—1863
Images as History
Who Freed the Slaves?
Behind the Lines
Competing Visions
Civil Liberties in a Civil War
Toward Union Victory
Choices and Consequences
Equal Peril, Unequal Pay
Envisioning Evidence
Human Resources in the Armies of the Civil War
Chapter Review
Chapter 14: Now That We Are Free: Reconstruction and the New South, 1863—1890
Preparing for Reconstruction
The Fruits of Freedom
The Struggle to Define Reconstruction
Competing Visions
Demanding Rights, Protecting Privilege
Implementing Reconstruction
Reconstruction Abandoned
Images as History
Political Cartoons Reflect the Shift in Public Opinion
The New South
Choices and Consequences
Sanctioning Separation
Chapter Review
Appendix
Glossary
Credits
Index
Maps
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