Out of Many, Concise Edition, Volume 2

Helps students understand how diverse communities and different regions have shaped our past.   Out of Many weaves the stories of the American people and their nation into a single compelling narrative. The authors examine the complex historical forces shaping people’s lives at various moments in the past and use the communities theme to discuss the relationship between the everyday lives of Americans and larger events that have shaped American history. This is also the only American history text to take a continental perspective, encouraging students to appreciate the great expanse of America and understand that American history has never been about any one particular region.   Out of Many: A Concise History of the United States, is a concisely formatted version of Out of Many, 7th edition. It features MyHistoryLab Connect, which integrates primary sources, maps, audio, videos, and activities from the MyHistoryLab Web site directly into the chapters of the printed text for a complete learning program.   A better teaching and learning experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience—for you and your students. Here’s how: 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 – Focus Questions at the beginning of each chapter and Study Resources closing each chapter help students understand what they read. Engage Students – “American Communities” features and an introductory essay at the beginning of the text help students examine the complex historical forces that have shaped the lives of Americans. Support Instructors – MyHistoryLab, an Instructor’s Resource Manual and Test Bank, and the Class Preparation Tool are available. For volume one of this text, search ISBN-10: 0205909809 For the combined volume of this text, search ISBN-10: 0205909817   Note: MyHistoryLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyHistoryLab, please visit: www.myhistorylab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MyHistorylab (at no additional cost).

Table of Contents:
Found in this Section: 1. Brief Table of Contents 2. Full Table of Contents   1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS   Chapter 17 Reconstruction, 1863 – 1877 Chapter 18 Conquest and Survival: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1860 – 1900 Chapter 19 Production and Consumption in the Gilded Age, 1865 – 1900  Chapter 20 Democracy and Empire, 1870 – 1900 Chapter 21 Urban America and the Progressive Era, 1900 - 1917 Chapter 22 A Global Power: The United States in the Era of the Great War, 1901 – 1920 Chapter 23 The Twenties, 1920 – 1929 Chapter 24 The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929 – 1940 Chapter 25 World War II, 1941 – 1945 Chapter 26 The Cold War Begins, 1945 – 1952 Chapter 27 America at Midcentury, 1952 – 1963 Chapter 28 The Civil Rights Movement, 1945 -1966  Chapter 29 War Abroad, War at Home, 1965 -1974 Chapter 30 The Conservative Ascendancy, 1974 – 1991 Chapter 31 The United States in a Global Age, 1992 – 2010   2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS   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 Conclusion MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 18: Conquest and Survival: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1860 – 1900 American Communities: The Oklahoma Land Rush Indian Peoples Under Siege The Internal Empire The Open Range Conclusion MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 19: Production and Consumption in the Gilded Age, 1865 – 1900 American Communities: Haymarket Square, Chicago, May 4, 1886 The Rise of Industry, The Triumph of Business Conclusion MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 20: Democracy and Empire, 1870 – 1900 American Communities: The Annexation of Hawaii Toward a National Governing Class Farmers and Workers Organize Their Communities The Crisis of the 1890s Politics of Reform, Politics of Order The Path to Imperialism Conclusion MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 21: Urban America and the Progressive Era, 1900 - 1917 American Communities: The Henry Street Settlement House Workers Create a Community of Reform The Origins of Progressivism Conclusion MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 22: A Global Power: The United States in the Era of the Great War, 1901 – 1920 American Communities: The American Expeditionary Force in France Becoming a World Power The Great War American Mobilization Conclusion MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 23: The Twenties, 1920 – 1929 American Communities: The Movie Audience and Hollywood: Mass Culture Creates a New National Community Postwar Prosperity and Its Price The State, the Economy, and Business The New Mass Culture Conclusion MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 24: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929 – 1940 American Communities:Sit-Down Strike at Flint: Automobile Workers Organize a New Union Hard Times FDR and the First New Deal Left Turn and the Second New Deal The New Deal in the South and West The Limits of Reform Depression-Era Culture Conclusion MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 25: World War II, 1941 – 1945 American Communities: Los Alamos, New Mexico The Coming of World War II The Great Arsenal of Democracy Conclusion MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 26: The Cold War Begins, 1945 – 1952 American Communities: Universityof Washington, Seattle: Students and Faculty Face the Cold War Global Insecurities at War’s End The Policy of Containment Cold War Liberalism The Cold War at Home Cold War Culture Conclusion MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 27: America at Midcentury, 1952 – 1963 American Communities: Popular Music in Memphis Under the Cold War’s Shadow The Affluent Society Youth Culture Mass Culture and Its Discontents The Coming of the New Frontier Conclusion MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 28: The Civil Rights Movement, 1945 -1966 American Communities: The Montgomery Bus Boycott: An African American Community Challenges Segregation Origins of the Movement Conclusion MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 29: War Abroad, War at Home, 1965 -1974 American Communities: Uptown, Chicago, Illinois The Vietnam War A Generation in Conflict Wars on Poverty 1968: Year of Turmoil The Politics of Identity The Nixon Presidency Conclusion MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy, 1974 – 1991 American Communities: Grassroots Conservatism in Orange County, California The Overextended Society The New Right Conclusion MyHistoryLab Media Assignments   Chapter 31: The United States in a Global Age, 1992 – 2010 American Communities: Transnational Communities in San Diego and Tijuana The Presidency of Bill Clinton Changing American Communities President George W. Bush and the War on Terror Conclusion MyHistoryLab Media Assignments  

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).