American history, combined edition : 1492 - present / Thomas S. Kidd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kidd, Thomas S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (776 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Nashville, Tennessee : B&H Academic, [2019]

Summary:

In this combined edition, the full content of volumes 1 and 2 of Thomas Kidd's American History are brought together in a single, accessible textbook. This sweeping narrative spans the full scope of American history from the first Native American societies to the political and cultural struggles of contemporary times.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Early American Encounters

Chapter 2: England and Its Colonies

Chapter 3: A Maturing Colonial Society

Chapter 4: The Coming of Independence

Chapter 5: The American Revolution and the Constitution

Chapter 6: The Early National Period

Chapter 7: A Growing Republic

Chapter 8: The Age of Andrew Jackson

Chapter 9: The American West

Chapter 10: Learning and Belief in Antebellum America

Chapter 11: The Crisis of the 1850s

Chapter 12: Secession and the Coming of the Civil War

Chapter 13: The Civil War Begins

Chapter 14: To Appomattox Courthouse

Chapter 15: Reconstruction

Chapter 16: Reforging the Nation

Chapter 17: The Gilded Age

Chapter 18: Populism and Empire

Chapter 19: The Progressive Era

Chapter 20: World War I

Chapter 21: The Roaring Twenties

Chapter 22: The Great Depression and the New Deal

Chapter 23: World War II

Chapter 24: The Cold War

Chapter 25: The 1950s

Chapter 26: Civil Rights and the Great Society

Chapter 27: Nixon, Watergate, and Carter

Chapter 28: Reagan's America

Chapter 29: George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and a Changing America

Chapter 30: The Age of Terrorism

Illustration Credits

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5359-8225-X