
Becoming America, 2nd Edition
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Becoming America helps students recognize themselves, their interconnections, and our own time in the great sweep of history. Its contemporary narrative improves upon traditional history books—making clear the connections between the past and students’ lives through a twenty-first century lens. Infused throughout, recent scholarship grapples with important historical concerns and refocuses on areas often underemphasized framing our past in contemporary cultural and political concerns. Its student-centered learning environment empowers students to think in a historically informed way about the urgent questions of our times and to participate fully and creatively in America’s diverse and vital democracy. For instructors, a fully supportive teaching package does the heavy lifting so you can focus on what you love.
2 EARLY COLONIES 1600–1680
3 SLAVERY AND RACE 1660–1750
4 BRITISH COLONIES IN AN ATLANTIC ECONOMY 1660–1750
5 EMPIRES, WAR, & THE TRANSFORMATION OF INDIAN COUNTRY 1700–1765
6 CRISIS & WAR 1765–1781
7 MAKING A NEW NATION 1776–1792
8 THE EARLY REPUBLIC 1790–1811
9 WAR, EXPANSION, & INDIAN REMOVAL 1811–1830
10 MARKET SOCIETY & THE BIRTH OF MASS POLITICS 1825–1844
11 SLAVERY & THE SOUTH 1831–1844
12 ERA OF MIDDLE-CLASS REFORM 1831–1848
13 EXPANSION, NATIONALISM & AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE 1844–1854
14 A UNION UNRAVELING 1848–1860
15 DISUNION & WAR 1861–1865
16 SOUTHERN RECONSTRUCTION 1862–1883
17 REMAKING THE WEST 1865–1893
18 INDUSTRIALIZING AMERICA 1865–1885
19 POLITICS & DISCONTENT IN THE GILDED AGE 1878–1896
20 THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1896–1914
21 BIRTH OF A GREAT POWER: THE UNITED STATE & THE WORLD 1880-1914
22 WAR & PEACE 1914–1920
23 AMERICA IN THE JAZZ AGE 1920–1929
24 AMERICA REMADE: THE GREAT DEPRESSION & THE NEW DEAL 1929–1939
25 AMERICA GOES TO WAR 1939–1945
26 POSTWAR AMERICA 1945–1953
27 AGE OF AFFLUENCE 1953–1960
28 ERA OF DREAMS & DISCONTENT 1960–1969
29 REACTION, RECESSION & GLOBALIZATION 1970–1979
30 DEINDUSTRIALIZING AMERICA 1980–1992
31 GLOBALIZING AMERICA 1992–2008
32 UNSETTLED AMERICA 2009-2021


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