U.S. a Narrative History Vol. 1 To 1877 6th Edition

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James West Davidson received his B.A. from Haverford College and his Ph.D. from Yale University. A historian who has pursued a full-time writing career, he is the author of numerous books, among them After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with Mark H. Lytle), The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth Century New England, and Great Heart: the History of a Labrador Adventure (with John Rugge). He is co-editor with Michael Stoff of the Oxford New Narratives in American History, in which his most recent book appears: 'They Say': Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race.

Brian DeLay (Ph.D., Harvard) is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in colonial and 19th century U.S. and Mexican history. His scholarship has won awards from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, the Western History Association, the Council on Latin American History, the American Society for Ethnohistory, the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is the author of War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (Yale, 2008), and is currently at work on a book about the international arms trade and the re-creation of the Americas during the long nineteenth century. He can be reached at delay@berkeley. edu

Christine Leigh Heyrman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware. She received a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University and is the author of Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750. Her book exploring the evolution of religious culture in the Southern U.S., entitled Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt, was awarded the Bancroft Prize in 1998.

Mark H. Lytle received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is Professor of History and Environmental Studies. he has served two years as Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History at University College, Dublin, in Ireland. His publications include The Origins of the Iranian-American Alliance, 1941-1953, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with James West Davidson), America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon, and, most recently, The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement. He is co-editor of a joint issue of the journals of Diplomatic History and Environmental History dedicated to the field of environmental diplomacy.

Michael B. Stoff is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin. The recipient of a Ph.D. from Yale University, he has been honored many times for his teaching, most recently with election to the Academy of Distinguished Teachers. He is the author of Oil, War, and American Security: The Search for a National Policy on Foreign Oil,1941-1947, co-editor (with Jonathan Fanton and R. Hal Williams) of The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age, and series co-editor (with James West Davidson) of the Oxford New Narratives in American History. He is currently working on a narrative on the bombing of Nagasaki.

1. The First Civilizations of North America
2. Old Worlds, New Worlds (1400-1600)
3. Colonization and Conflict in the South (1600-1750)
4. Colonization and Conflict in the North (1600-1700)
5. The Mosaic of Eighteenth-Century America (1689-1771)
6. Toward the War for American Independence (1754-1776)
7. The American People and the American Revolution (1775-1783)
8. Crisis and Constitution (1776-1789)
9: The Early Republic (1789-1824)
10. The Opening of America (1815-1850)
11. The Rise of Democracy (1824-1840)
12. The Fires of Perfection (1820-1850)
13. The Old South (1820-1860)
14. Western Expansion and the Rise of the Slavery Issue (1820-1850)
15. The Union Broken (1850-1861)
16. Total War and the Republic (1861-1865)
17. Reconstructing the Union (1865-1877)

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Expanded coverage of environmental history, so that every chapter describes how the environment shaped the choices and actions of Americans and/or Americans altered the environment.

Historian's Toolbox added as a new boxed feature that shows how historians examine visual clues to the past and invites students to look and think critically.

Review questions added to the end of each section ask students to synthesize what they've read as a way to better remember it.

The Title "U.S. a Narrative History Vol. 1 To 1877" is written by Brian DeLay, Christine Leigh Heyrman, James West Davidson, Mark Lytle. This book was published in the year 2011. The ISBN number 0073385662|9780073385662 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. The book displayed here is a 6th Edition edition. This book has total of pp. 400 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Division. U.S. a Narrative History Vol. 1 To 1877 is currently Available with us.