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The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People Volume 1

ISBN10: 1266488758 | ISBN13: 9781266488757

The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People Volume 1

The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People Volume 1

ISBN10: 1266488758
ISBN13: 9781266488757
By Alan Brinkley
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The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People continues the evolution of Alan Brinkley's influential work, with a focus on making history relatable and accessible to today's students. Enhanced with the rich Evergreen resources of Connect - including over 100 maps and 30 map videos, 600 primary sources, hundreds of compelling professionally-produced podcasts, new History Skills Videos, and real-world Application-Based Activities - the text offers flexibility to instructors and engagement and convenience to students. Its authorship and balanced narrative build personal connections with students, drawing upon their own experiences and prompting readers to interpret evidence and bring to the task their own questions for a continuing dialogue with our ever-unfinished nation.

1. The Collision of Cultures
2. Transplantations and Borderlands
3. Society and Culture in Provincial America
4. The Empire in Transition
5. The American Revolution
6. The Constitution and the New Republic
7. The Jeffersonian Era
8. Expansion and Division in the Early Republic
9. Jacksonian America
10. America’s Economic Revolution
11. Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South
12. Antebellum Culture and Reform
13. The Impending Crisis
14. The Civil War
15. Reconstruction and the New South
16. The Conquest of the Far West

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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