Outline of U.S. history / George Clack, Mildred Sola Neely, and Alonzo Hamby, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamby, Alonzo L., author.

Contributor:

Clack, George.

Neely, Mildred Sola.

Hamby, Alonzo L.

United States. Department of State. Bureau of International Information Programs, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--United States--Outlines, syllabi, etc.

History.

United States--History--Outlines, syllabi, etc.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

[Rev. ed.].

Other Title:

Outline of United States history

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.

[Washington, D.C.] : Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Outline of U.S. History' is a publication of the U.S.Department of State. The first edition (1949-50) was produced under the editorship of Francis Whitney,first of the State Department Office of International Information and later of the U.S. Information Agency.Richard Hofstadter, professor of history at ColumbiaUniversity, and Wood Gray, professor of American history at The George Washington University, served as academic consultants. D. Steven Endsley of Berkeley, California, prepared additional material.It has been updated and revised extensively over the years by, among others, Keith W. Olsen, professor of American history at the University of Maryland, and Nathan Glick, writer and former editor of the USIA journal, Dialogue. Alan Winkler, professor of history at Miami University (Ohio), wrote the post-World War II chapters for previous editions.This new edition has been completely revised and updated by Alonzo L. Hamby, Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio University. Professor Hamby has written extensively on American politics and society.

Contents:

""OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE*""; ""EARLY AMERICA""; ""THE FIRST AMERICANS""; ""MOUND BUILDERS AND PUEBLOS""; ""NATIVE-AMERICAN CULTURES""; ""THE FIRST EUROPEANS""; ""EARLY SETTLEMENTS""; ""JAMESTOWN""; ""MASSACHUSETTS""; ""NEW NETHERLAND AND MARYLAND""; ""COLONIAL-INDIAN RELATIONS""; ""SECOND GENERATION OF BRITISH COLONIES""; ""SETTLERS, SLAVES, AND SERVANTS""; ""THE COLONIAL PERIOD""; ""NEW PEOPLES""; ""NEW ENGLAND""; ""THE MIDDLE COLONIES""; ""THE SOUTHERN COLONIES""; ""SOCIETY, SCHOOLS, AND CULTURE""; ""EMERGENCE OF COLONIAL GOVERNMENT""

""THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR""""PICTURE PROFILE: BECOMING A NATION""; ""THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE""; ""A NEW COLONIAL SYSTEM""; ""THE STAMP ACT""; ""TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION""; ""THE TOWNSHEND ACTS""; ""SAMUEL ADAMS""; ""THE BOSTON “TEA PARTY�""; ""THE COERCIVE ACTS""; ""THE REVOLUTION BEGINS""; ""COMMON SENSE AND INDEPENDENCE""; ""DEFEATS AND VICTORIES""; ""FRANCO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE""; ""THE BRITISH MOVE SOUTH""; ""VICTORY AND INDEPENDENCE""; ""THE FORMATION OF A NATIONAL GOVERNMENT""; ""STATE CONSTITUTIONS""; ""THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION""; ""THE PROBLEM OF EXPANSION""

""CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION""""DEBATE AND COMPROMISE""; ""RATIFICATION AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS""; ""PRESIDENT WASHINGTON""; ""HAMILTON VS. JEFFERSON""; ""CITIZEN GENET AND FOREIGN POLICY""; ""ADAMS AND JEFFERSON""; ""LOUISIANA AND BRITAIN""; ""THE WAR OF 1812""; ""PICTURE PROFILE: TRANSFORMING A NATION""; ""WESTWARD EXPANSIONAND REGIONAL DIFFERENCES""; ""BUILDING UNITY""; ""EXTENSION OF SLAVERY""; ""BUILDING UNITY""; ""EXTENSION OF SLAVERY""; ""LATIN AMERICA AND THE MONROE DOCTRINE""; ""FACTIONALISM AND POLITICAL PARTIES""; ""NULLIFICATION CRISIS""; ""THE BANK FIGHT""

""WHIGS, DEMOCRATS, AND KNOW NOTHINGS""""STIRRINGS OF REFORM""; ""WOMEN�S RIGHTS""; ""WESTWARD""; ""SECTIONAL CONFLICT""; ""TWO AMERICAS""; ""LANDS OF PROMISE""; ""SLAVERY AND SECTIONALISM""; ""THE ABOLITIONISTS""; ""TEXAS AND WAR WITH MEXICO""; ""THE COMPROMISE OF 1850""; ""A DIVIDED NATION""; ""LINCOLN, DOUGLAS, AND BROWN""; ""THE 1860 ELECTION""; ""THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION""; ""SECESSION AND CIVIL WAR""; ""WESTERN ADVANCE, EASTERN STALEMATE""; ""GETTYSBURG TO APPOMATTOX""; ""WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE""; ""RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION""; ""THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION""

""GROWTH AND TRANSFORMATION""""TECHNOLOGY AND CHANGE""; ""CARNEGIE AND THE ERA OF STEEL""; ""CORPORATIONS AND CITIES""; ""RAILROADS, REGULATIONS, AND THE TARIFF""; ""REVOLUTION IN AGRICULTURE""; ""THE DIVIDED SOUTH""; ""THE LAST FRONTIER""; ""THE PLIGHT OF THE NATIVE AMERICANS""; ""AMBIVALENT EMPIRE""; ""THE CANAL AND THE AMERICAS""; ""UNITED STATES AND ASIA""; ""DISCONTENT AND REFORM""; ""AGRARIAN DISTRESS AND THE RISE OF POPULISM""; ""THE STRUGGLES OF LABOR""; ""THE REFORM IMPULSE""; ""ROOSEVELT�S REFORMS""; ""TAFT AND WILSON""; ""WAR, PROSPERITY, AND DEPRESSION""

""WAR AND NEUTRAL RIGHTS""

Notes:

Previous edition by Alonzo L. Hamby.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

1-61470-490-2

OCLC:

923657552