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| Genre/Form: | Textbooks |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Juvenile audience |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joyce Oldham Appleby; Alan Brinkley; James M McPherson; National Geographic Society (U.S.) |
| ISBN: | 002821787X 9780028217871 0028232186 9780028232188 |
| OCLC Number: | 36988294 |
| Notes: | "Multimedia edition, TWE"--Spine. |
| Description: | xvii, RA15, 933, A72 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 30 cm. |
| Contents: | Different worlds meet: The first Americans; Exploring the Americas -- Colonial settlement: Colonial America; The colonies grow -- Creating a nation: Road to independence; The American Revolution; A more perfect union -- New republic: A new nation; The Jefferson era; Growth and expansion -- Growing nation: The Jackson era; Manifest destiny; North and south; The age of reform -- Civil War and Reconstruction: Road to Civil War; The Civil War; Reconstruction and its aftermath -- Reshaping the nation: The Western frontier; The growth of industry; Toward an urban America -- Reform, expansion, and war: Progressive reforms; Overseas expansion; World War I -- Turbulent decades: The Jazz Age -- Turning points: The Cold War era; America in the fifties; The civil rights era; The Vietnam War years -- Modern America: Search for stability; New challenges -- Glossary. |
| Responsibility: | Joyce Appleby, Alan Brinkley, James M. McPherson ; National Geographic Society. |
Abstract:
American history is people, events, places, documents, art, inventions, literature. In other words - American history is everything about the adventures of all Americans - past and present.... [This book] helps you learn about your nation's past by organizing its history around 10 themes. [These] themes help you understand events in the past and how they affect you today. -p. xvi.
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