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The American journey

Author: Joyce Oldham Appleby; Alan Brinkley; James M McPherson; National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Publisher: New York : Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, ©1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : Juvenile audience : English : Teacher's wraparound edView all editions and formats
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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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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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