Out of Many: A History of the American People, Brief Edition, Volume 1 (Chapters 1-17)

Offers students insight into how diverse communities and different regions have shaped America's past.   For the two-semester U.S. history survey course.   Out of Many, brief edition, reveals the ethnic, geographical and economic diversity of the United States by examining the individual, the community and the state and placing a special focus on the country's regions, particularly the West. Each chapter helps students understand the textured and varied history that has produced the increasing complexity of America. This book is the abridged version of Out of Many, seventh edition. Teaching and Learning Experience   Personalize Learning-The new MyHistoryLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.   Improve Critical Thinking- Seeing History images and critical thinking questions help students use visual culture to make sense of the past.    Engage Students- Each chapter begins with an American Communities feature that shows how the events discussed in the chapter affected particular communities for a well-rounded understanding of American history.   Support Instructors- MyHistoryLab, ClassPrep, an Instructor’s Manual, MyTest and PowerPoints.   Note: MyHistoryLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyHistoryLab at no extra charge, please visit www.MyHistoryLab.com or use the following (VP ISBN-10: 0205215793, VP ISBN-13: 9780205215799)

Table of Contents:
IN THIS SECTION: 1.) BRIEF 2.) COMPREHENSIVE   BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:   Chapter 1     A Continent of Villages Chapter 2     When Worlds Collide 1492–1590 Chapter 3     Planting Colonies in North America 1588-1701 Chapter 4     Slavery and Empire 1441–1770 Chapter 5     The Cultures of Colonial North America 1700–1780 Chapter 6     From Empire to Independence 1750–1776 Chapter 7     The American Revolution 1776–1786 Chapter 8     The New Nation 1786–1800 Chapter 9     An Empire for Liberty 1790–1824 Chapter 10    The South and Slavery 1790s–1850s Chapter 11     The Growth of Democracy 1824-1840 Chapter 12     Industry and the North 1790s–1840s Chapter 13     Meeting the Challenges of the New Age: Immigration, Urbanization, and Social Reform 1820s –1850s Chapter 14     The Territorial Expansion of the United States 1830s–1850s Chapter 15     The Coming Crisis the 1850s Chapter 16     The Civil War 1861–1865 Chapter 17     Reconstruction 1863–1877   COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:    Preface Acknowledgments About the Authors Community and Diversity   Chapter 1: A Continent of Villages AMERICAN COMMUNITIES   Cahokia: Thirteenth-Century Life on the Mississippi The First American Settlers The Development of Farming     Farming in Early North America    SEEING HISTORY An Early European Image of Native Americans Conclusion Chronology Review Questions Recommended Readings MyHistoryLab Connections   Chapter 2: When Worlds Collide 1492–1590 AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The English at Roanoke The Expansion of Europe The Spanish in the Americas Northern Explorations and Encounters SEEING HISTORY A Watercolor from the First Algonquian-English Encounter Conclusion Chronology Review Questions Recommended Readings MyHistoryLab Connections   Chapter 3: Planting Colonies in North America 1588-1701 AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Communities and Diversity in Seventeenth Century Santa Fe The Spanish, The French, and the Dutch in North America The Chesapeake: Virginia and Maryland SEEING HISTORY John Smith’s Cartoon History of His Adventures in Virginia The New England Colonies The Proprietary Colonies Conflict and War Conclusion Chronology Review Questions Recommended Readings MyHistoryLab Connections Interpreting the Past: Democratic Roots in New England Soil    Chapter 4: Slavery and Empire 1441–1770 AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Rebellion In Stono, South Carolina The Beginnings of African Slavery The African Slave Trade The Development of North American Slave Societies African to African American SEEING HISTORY A Musical Celebration In The Slave Quarters Slavery and the Economics of Empire Slavery, Prosperity, and Freedom Conclusion Chronology Review Questions Recommended Readings MyHistoryLab Connections   Chapter 5: The Cultures of Colonial North America 1700–1780 AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Revival of Religion and Community in Northampton North American Regions SEEING HISTORY A Plan of an American New Cleared Farm Social and Political Patterns The Cultural Transformation of British North America Conclusion Chronology Review Questions Recommended Readings MyHistoryLab Connections   Chapter 6: From Empire to Independence 1750–1776 AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The First Continental Congress Begins to Shape a National Political Community The Seven Years’ War in America The Emergence of American Nationalism  “Save Your Money and Save Your Country” From Resistance to Rebellion SEEING HISTORY The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring and Feathering Deciding for Independence Conclusion Chronology Review Questions Recommended Readings MyHistoryLab Connections   Chapter 7: The American Revolution 1776–1786 AMERICAN COMMUNITIES A National Community Evolves at Valley Forge The War for Independence The United Sates in Congress Assembled SEEING HISTORY The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis Revolutionary Politics in the States Conclusion Chronology Review Questions Recommended Readings MyHistoryLab Connections   Chapter 8: The New Nation 1786–1800 AMERICAN COMMUNITIES A Rural Massachusetts Community Rises in Defense of Liberty The Crisis of the 1780s The New Constitution The First Federal Administration SEEING HISTORY The Columbian Tragedy Federalists and Democratic-Republicans  “The Rising Glory of America” Conclusion Chronology Review Questions Recommended Readings MyHistoryLab Connections   Chapter 9: An Empire for Liberty 1790–1824 AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Expansion Touches Mandan Villages on the Upper Missouri North American Communities From Coast To Coast A National Economy   The Jefferson Presidency   Renewed Imperial Rivalry In North America   The War of 1812   SEEING HISTORY “A Scene on the Frontiers as Practiced by the ‘Humane’ British and their ‘Worthy’ Allies” Defining the Boundaries Conclusion Chronology Review Questions Recommended Readings MyHistoryLab Connections   Chapter 10: The South and Slavery 1790s–1850s AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Cotton Communities in the Old Southwest King Cotton and Southern Expansion   The African American Community   Freedom and Resistance   The White Majority   Planters SEEING HISTORY “Gordon Under Medical Inspection” The Defense of Slavery   Conclusion Chronology Review Questions Recommended Readings MyHistoryLab Connections   Chapter 11: The Growth of Democracy 1824-1840 AMERICAN COMMUNITIES A Political Community Abandons Deference for Democracy The New Democratic Politics in North America The Jackson Presidency SEEING HISTORY “President’s Levee, or all Creation Going to the White House” Changing the Course of Government The Second American Party System American Arts and Letters Conclusion Chronology Review Questions Recommended Readings MyHistoryLab Connections Interpreting the Past:  Jacksonian Democracy and American Politics   Chapter 12: Industry and the North 1790s–1840s AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Women Factory Workers Form a Community in Lowell, Massachusetts The Transportation Revolution The Market Revolution SEEING HISTORY Industrialization and Rural Life The Yankee West Industrialization Begins From Artisan to Worker The New Middle Class Conclusion Chronology Review Questions Recommended Readings MyHistoryLab Connections Interpreting the Past:  The Second Great Awakening and Religious Diversity in America   Chapter 13: Meeting the Challenges of the New Age: Immigration, Urbanization, and Social Reform 1820s –1850s AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Women Reformers of Seneca Falls Respond to the Market Revolution Immigration and the City Urban Problems SEEING HISTORY P.T. Barnum’s Famous “Curiosity:” General Tom Thumb Social Reform Movements Antislavery and Abolitionism The Women’s Rights Movement Conclusion Chronology Review Questions Recommended Readings MyHistoryLab Connections   Chapter 14: The Territorial Expansion of the United States 1830s–1850s AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Texans and Tejanos “Remember the Alamo!” Exploring the West The Politics of Expansion The Mexican-American War California and the Gold Rush SEEING HISTORY War News from Mexico The Politics of Manifest Destiny Conclusion Chronology Review Questions Recommended Readings MyHistoryLab Connections   Chapter 15: The Coming Crisis the 1850s AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Illinois Communities Debate Slavery America in 1850 Cracks in National Unity The Crisis of The National Party System SEEING HISTORY Brooks Beats Sumner The Differences Deepen The South Secedes Conclusion Chronology Review Questions Recommended Readings MyHistoryLab Connections   Chapter 16: The Civil War 1861–1865 AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Mother Bickerdyke Connects Northern Communities to Their Boys at War Communities Mobilize for War The Governments Organize for War The Fighting through 1862   The Death of Slavery The Front Lines and The Home Front SEEING HISTORY Come and Join Us Brothers The Tide Turns Conclusion Chronology Review Questions Recommended Readings MyHistoryLab Connections   Chapter 17: Reconstruction 1863–1877 AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Hale County, Alabama: From Slavery to Freedom in a Black Belt Community The Politics of Reconstruction The Meaning of Freedom SEEING HISTORY Changing Images of Reconstruction Southern Politics and Society Reconstructing the North Conclusion Chronology Review Questions Recommended Readings MyHistoryLab Connections Interpreting the Past:  Realities of Freedom    Appendix Glossary Credits Index

About the Author :
John Mack Faragher John Mack Faragher is an Arthur Unobskey professor of American history and the director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University. Born in Arizona and raised in southern California, he received his B.A. at the University of California, Riverside, and his Ph.D. at Yale University. He is the author of Women and Men on the Overland Trail (1979), Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (1986), Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1992), The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000) and A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland (2005).   Mari Jo Buhle Mari Jo Buhle is a William R. Kenan, Jr. University professor emerita of American civilization and history at Brown University specializing in American women’s history. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920 (1981) and Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (1998). She is also the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left (second edition, 1998). Buhle held a fellowship (1991-1996) from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She is currently an honorary fellow of the history department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.   Daniel Czitrom Daniel Czitrom is a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College. Born and raised in New York City, he received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan (1982), which won the First Books Award of the American Historical Association and has been translated into Spanish and Chinese. He is the co-author of Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn of the Century New York (2008). He has served as a historical consultant and been featured as an on-camera commentator for several documentary film projects, including the PBS productions New York: A Documentary Film, American Photography: A Century of Images and The Great Transatlantic Cable. He is currently writing New York Exposed: How a Gilded Age Police Scandal Shocked the Nation and Launched the Progressive Era (Oxford).   Susan H. Armitage Susan H. Armitage is a professor of history and women’s studies emerita at Washington State University, where she was a Claudius O. and Mary R. Johnson distinguished professor. She earned her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Among her many publications on western women’s history are three co-edited books, The Women’s West (1987), So Much To Be Done: Women on the Mining and Ranching Frontier (1991) and Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women’s West (1997). She served as editor of the feminist journal Frontiers from 1996 to 2002.  Her most recent publication, co-edited with Laurie Mercier, is Speaking History: Oral Histories of the American Past, 1865-Present (2009).

Review :
The use of documents and images are the most compelling features of Out of Many, TLC … The use of these also reflects current pedagogical trends emphasizing visual learning or tools and uses of primary sources.             -Jeff Crane, SamHouston State University   The book has a nice, easy-to-read narrative style that is supplemented well with images and useful “extra” features such as American Communities. It is a very good text.             -Julie Courtwright, TexasA&M University   …visually appealing and engaging to the students.             -Robert B. Bruce, SamHouston State University   The broad-ranging, multicultural, multiethnic focus is this book’s greatest strength. This is what sets it apart from most other textbooks.             -Brian D. Behnken, TexasA&M University   The single most compelling attribute of Out of Many, TLC is its smooth comprehensiveness. It is thorough without being overly simplified. Out of Many, TLC is user-friendly and very approachable for students.             -Michael K. Ward, CaliforniaState University-Northridge