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American History: Connecting with the Past https://www.mheducation.com/cover-images/Jpeg_400-high/0073513296.jpeg 15 2015 9780073513294 The latest iteration of Alan Brinkley’s American History, a comprehensive U.S. History program, transforms the learning experience through proven, adaptive technology helping students better grasp the issues of the past while providing instructors greater insight on student performance. Known for its clear, single voice and balanced scholarship, Brinkley asks students to think historically about the many forces shaping and re-shaping our dynamic history. 0073513296
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American History: Connecting with the Past
American History: Connecting with the Past

American History: Connecting with the Past, 15th Edition

ISBN10: 0073513296 | ISBN13: 9780073513294
By Alan Brinkley
© 2015

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The latest iteration of Alan Brinkley’s American History, a comprehensive U.S. History program, transforms the learning experience through proven, adaptive technology helping students better grasp the issues of the past while providing instructors greater insight on student performance. Known for its clear, single voice and balanced scholarship, Brinkley asks students to think historically about the many forces shaping and re-shaping our dynamic history. 0073513296

Brief Table of Contents

Chapter One: THE COLLISION OF CULTURES

Chapter Two: TRANSPLANTATIONS AND BORDERLANDS

Chapter Three: SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN PROVINCIAL AMERICA

Chapter Four: THE EMPIRE IN TRANSITION

Chapter Five: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Chapter Six: THE CONSTITUTION AND THE NEW REPUBLIC

Chapter Seven: THE JEFFERSONIAN ERA

Chapter Eight: VARIETIES OF AMERICAN NATIONALISM

Chapter Nine: JACKSONIAN AMERICA

Chapter Ten: AMERICA'S ECONOMIC REVOLUTION

Chapter Eleven: COTTON, SLAVERY, AND THE OLD SOUTH

Chapter Twelve: ANTEBELLUM CULTURE AND REFORM

Chapter Thirteen: THE IMPENDING CRISIS

Chapter Fourteen: THE CIVIL WAR

Chapter Fifteen: RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH

Chapter Sixteen: THE CONQUEST OF THE FAR WEST

Chapter Seventeen: INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACY

Chapter Eighteen: THE AGE OF THE CITY

Chapter Nineteen: FROM CRISIS TO EMPIRE

Chapter Twenty: THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

Chapter Twenty-One: AMERICA AND THE GREAT WAR

Chapter Twenty-Two: THE NEW ERA

Chapter Twenty-Three: THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Chapter Twenty-Four: THE NEW DEAL

Chapter Twenty-Five: THE GLOBAL CRISIS, 1921-1941

Chapter Twenty-Six: AMERICA IN A WORLD AT WAR

Chapter Twenty-Seven: THE COLD WAR

Chapter Twenty-Eight: THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY

Chapter Twenty-Nine: CIVIL RIGHTS, VIETNAM, AND THE ORDEAL OF LIBERALISM

Chapter Thirty: THE CRISIS OF AUTHORITY

Chapter Thirty-One: FROM "THE AGE OF LIMITS" TO THE AGE OF REAGAN

Chapter Thirty-Two: THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION

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About the Author

Alan Brinkley

Alan Brinkley (1949–2019) was the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University. He served as university provost at Columbia from 2003 to 2009. He authored works such as Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the 1983 National Book Award; American History: Connecting with the Past; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War; Liberalism and Its Discontents; Franklin D. Roosevelt; and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century. He served as board chair of the National Humanities Center, board chair of the Century Foundation, and a trustee of Oxford University Press. He was also a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1998–1999 he was the Harmsworth Professor of History at Oxford University, and in 2011–2012 the Pitt Professor at the University of Cambridge. He won the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Award at Harvard and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard.

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