The American Journey: Brief Edition, Volume 1

  This highly visual survey of American history introduces students to the key features of American political, social, and economic history in an exciting format designed to ignite students passion to know history.     The American Journey, Brief Edition provides students with the most support available in reading, thinking, and applying the material they are learning in the text and in lecture. A series of pedagogical aids, in text and out of class study companions, as well as complete instructor presentational and assessment support make this text the perfect choice for those looking to make history come alive for their students.   The path that led the authors to The American Journey began in the classroom with their students.  The goal of this text is to make American history accessible to students.  The key to that goal--the core of the book--is a strong, clear narrative and a positive theme of The American "Journey."  American history is a compelling story that the authors tell in an engaging, forthright way, while providing students with an abundance of tools to help them absorb that story and put it into context.  This text combines political and social history, to fit the experience of particular groups into the broader perspective of the American past, to give voice to minor and major players alike, because the history of America is in the stories of its people.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1   Worlds Apart Native American Societies before 1492 West African Societies Western Europe on the Eve of Exploration Contact Competition for a Continent   Chapter 2  Transplantation and Adaptation, 1600–1685 The French in North America The Dutch Overseas Empire English Settlement in the Chesapeake The Founding of New England Competition in the Caribbean The Restoration Colonies   Chapter 3  A Meeting of Cultures Indians and Europeans Africans and Europeans European Laborers in Early America   Chapter 4  English Colonies in an Age of Empire 1660s–1763 Economic Development and Imperial Trade in the British Colonies The Transformation of Culture The Colonial Political World Expanding Empires A Century of Warfare   Chapter 5  Imperial Breakdown 1763–1774 The Crisis of Imperial Authority Republican Ideology and Colonial Protest The Stamp Act Crisis The Townshend Crisis Domestic Divisions The Final Imperial Crisis   Chapter 6  The War for Independence 1774–1783 From Rebellion to War The Continental Congress Becomes a National Government The Combatants The War in the North, 1776–1777 The War Widens, 1778–1781 The War and Society, 1775–1783 The American Victory, 1782–1783   Chapter 7  The First Republic 1776–1789 The New Order of Republicanism Problems at Home Diplomatic Weaknesses Toward a New Union   Chapter 8  A New Republic and the Rise of Parties 1789–1800 Washington’s America Forging a New Government The Emergence of Parties The Last Federalist Administration   Chapter 9   The Triumph and Collapse of Jeffersonian Republicanism             1800–1824  Jefferson’s Presidency Madison and the Coming of War The War of 1812 The Era of Good Feelings The Breakdown of Unity   Chapter 10  The Jacksonian Era 1824–1845 The Egalitarian Impulse Jackson’s Presidency Van Buren and Hard Times The Rise of the Whig Party The Whigs in Power   Chapter 11 Slavery and the Old South 1800–1860 The Lower South The Upper South Slave Life and Culture Free Society The Proslavery Argument   Chapter 12  The Market Revolution and Social Reform 1815–1850 Industrial Change and Urbanization Reform and Moral Order Institutions and Social Improvement Abolitionism and Women’s Rights   Chapter 13 The Way West 1815–1850 The Agricultural Frontier The Frontier of the Plains Indians The Mexican Borderlands Politics, Expansion, and War   Chapter 14 The Politics of Sectionalism 1846–1861 Slavery in the Territories Political Realignment The Road to Disunion   Chapter 15 Battle Cries and Freedom Songs the Civil War 1861–1865 Mobilization, North and South The Early War, 1861–1862 Turning Points, 1862–1863 The War Transforms the North The Confederacy Disintegrates The Union Prevails, 1864–1865   Chapter 16  Reconstruction 1865–1877 White Southerners and the Ghosts of the Confederacy, 1865 More Than Freedom: African American Aspirations in 1865 Federal Reconstruction, 1865–1870 Counter-Reconstruction, 1870–1874 Redemption, 1874–1877

About the Author :
David Goldfield received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland. Since 1982 he has been Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. He is the author or editor of thirteen books on various aspects of southern and urban history. Two of his works–Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and Region, 1607-1980 (1982) and Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present (1990)–received the Mayflower Award for nonfiction and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in history. His most recent book is Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History (2002). When he is not writing history, Dr. Goldfield applies his historical craft to history museum exhibits, voting rights cases, and local planning and policy issues. Carl Abbott is a professor of Urban Studies and planning at Portland State University. He taught previously in the history departments at the University of Denver and Old Dominion University, and held visiting appointments at Mesa College in Colorado and George Washington University. He holds degrees in history from Swarthmore College and the University of Chicago. He specializes in the history of cities and the American West and serves as co-editor of the Pacific Historical Review. His books include The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities (1981, 1987), The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West (1993), Planning a New West: The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (1997), and Political Terrain: Washington, D.C. from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis (1999). He is currently working on a comprehensive history of the role of urbanization and urban culture in the history of western North America. Virginia DeJohn Anderson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received her B.A. from the University of Connecticut. As the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship, she earned an M.A. degree at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. Returning to the United States, she received her A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. She is the author of New England’s Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century (1991) and several articles on colonial history, which have appeared in such journals as the William and Mary Quarterly and the New England Quarterly. She is currently finishing a book entitled Creatures of Empire: People and Animals in Early America.  Jo Ann E. Argersinger received her Ph.D. from George Washington University and is Professor of History at Southern Illinois University. A recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, she is a historian of social, labor, and business policy. Her publications include Toward a New Deal in Baltimore: People and Government in the Great Depression (1988) and Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry (1999). Peter H. Argersinger received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and is Professor of History at Southern Illinois University. He has won several fellowships as well as the Binkley-Stephenson Award from the Organization of American Historians. Among his books on American political and rural history are Populism and Politics (1974), Structure, Process, and Party (1992), and The Limits of Agrarian Radicalism (1995). His current research focuses on the political crisis of the 1890s. William L. Barney is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A native of Pennsylvania, he received his B.A. from Cornell University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has published extensively on nineteenth century U.S. history and has a particular interest in the Old South and the coming of the Civil War. Among his publications are The Road to Secession (1972), The Secessionist Impulse (1974), Flawed Victory (1975), The Passage of the Republic (1987), and Battleground for the Union (1989). He is currently finishing an edited collection of essays on nineteenth-century America and a book on the Civil War. Most recently, he has edited A Companion to 19th-Century America (2001) and finished The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Student Companion (2001). Robert M. Weir is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of South Carolina. He received his B.A. from Pennsylvania State University and his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. He has taught at the University of Houston and, as a visiting professor, at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. His articles have won prizes from the Southeastern Society for the Study of the Eighteenth Century and the William and Mary Quarterly. Among his publications are Colonial South Carolina: A History, “The Last of American Freemen”: Studies in the Political Culture of the Colonial and Revolutionary South, and, more recently, a chapter on the Carolinas in the new Oxford History of the British Empire (1998).