The American yawp. Volume 2, Since 1887 : a massively collaborative open U.S. history textbook / edited by Joseph L. Locke and Ben Wright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Locke, Joseph L., editor.

Wright, Ben, 1983- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Textbooks.

History.

United States--History--Textbooks.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (462 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jumping-off point for discussions in the U.S. history classroom and beyond. Long before Whitman and long after, Americans have sung something collectively amid the deafening roar of their many individual voices. The Yawp highlights the dynamism and conflict inherent in the history of the United States, while also looking for the common threads that help us make sense of the past. Without losing sight of politics and power, The American Yawp incorporates transnational perspectives, integrates diverse voices, recovers narratives of resistance, and explores the complex process of cultural creation. It looks for America in crowded slave cabins, bustling markets, congested tenements, and marbled halls. It navigates between maternity wards, prisons, streets, bars, and boardrooms. The fully peer-reviewed edition of The American Yawp will be available in two print volumes designed for the U.S. history survey. Volume II opens in the Gilded Age, before moving through the twentieth century as the country reckoned with economic crises, world wars, and social, cultural, and political upheaval at home. Bringing the narrative up to the present,The American Yawp enables students to ask their own questions about how the past informs the problems and opportunities we confront today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

16. Capital and Labor

17. Conquering the West

18. Life in Industrial America

19. American Empire

20. The Progressive Era

21. World War I and Its Aftermath

22. The New Era

23. The Great Depression

24. World War II

25. The Cold War

26. The Affluent Society

27. The Sixties

28. The Unraveling

29. The Triumph of the Right

30. The Recent Past

Contributors

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503608146

150360814X

OCLC:

1198931229