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352 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps, facsimiles ; 25 cm |
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1. Dawn and the Morning Star -- Toward the setting sun / Irving A. Leonard -- Experiment in colonization / Louis B. Wright -- The fertile germ of democracy / George F. Willison -- Why the Dutch failed / Richard B. Morris -- William Penn, founder of colonies / Carl Brindenbaugh -- Roger Williams, a minority of one / Max Savelle -- A red sinking sun: Bacon's rebellion / Thomas J. Wertenbaker -- -- 2. Toward a Common Cause -- The great war for th empire / Lawrence H. Gepson -- "The Father of all Yankees:" Benjamin Franklin / Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. -- Apostles of freedom: Adams and Paine / Philip Davidson -- A Virginia gentleman: George Washington / Bernhard Knollenberg -- Prophet of the American way: Thomas Jefferson / Dumas Malone -- Alexander Hamilton / Nathan Schachner -- Establishing a government / Irving Brant -- -- 3. The Ideal and the Fact -- The alien and sedition acts / Claude G. Bowers -- History's greatest real estate bargain: The Louisiana Purchase / John Bakeless -- Pioneer of technological change: Eli Whitney / Nathan Miller -- "Mr. Madison's War" / George Dangerfield -- The factory comes to New England / Thomas C. Cochran -- "Clinton's Ditch:" The Erie Canal / Carl Carmer -- Cornerstone of American policy: The Monrow Doctrine / Dexter Perkins -- -- 4. The Rise of the Common Man -- The common man's hero: Andrew Jackson / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. -- Sam Houston, Statesman / Marquis James -- War with Mexico: An inescapable step / Robert Selph Henry -- Utopia in America / Odell Shepard -- The American Renaissance / Jay Leyda -- The artist in the 19th century / Oliver W. Larkin -- -- 5. The Blue and the Gray -- Voice of northern industrialism : Daniel Webster / Arthur C. Cole -- Calhoun and nullification / Charles M. Wiltse -- The great emotion / David Donald -- Abraham Lincoln / Benjamin P. Thomas -- The Emancipation Proclamation / Paul M. Angle -- Sherman and the hard hand of war / Earl Schenck Miers -- Southern yeomen in the Civil War / Bell Irvin Wiley -- Grant and Lee: A study in contrasts / Bruce Catton -- Johnson and the radicals / Howard K. Beale -- -- 6. Darwin and Politics -- The gilded age / Leland D. Baldwin -- The farmer protests: Populism / J. D. Hicks -- Labor protests: The pullman strike / Henry David -- In words of fire: William Jennings Bryan / Eric F. Goldman -- The city and the muckrakers / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. -- The age of enterprise / Allan Nevins -- The immigrant in America / Carl Wittke -- Booker T. Washington: "Up from slavery" / Samuel R. Spencer, Jr. -- The frontier disappears / Ray A. Billington -- -- 7. From McKinley to Wilson -- McKinley and Manifest Destiny / Julius W. Pratt -- The incomparable Teddy / Elting Morison -- Passage to India-at long last / James Shenton -- Realism in American literature / Howard Mumford Jones -- The birth of the Ash Can School / James Thomas Flexner -- Woodrow Wilson / Arthur S. Link -- Failure after Versailles / John A. Garraty -- The changing status of women / Agnes Rogers Allen -- Back to normalcy / Quincy Howe -- -- 8. The Modern Era -- FDR and the new deal / Frank Freidel -- American labor organizes / Irving Howe -- FDR and global war / Nathaniel Peffer -- New Hope at San Francisco / Virginia C. Gildersleeve -- Cold war and communist containment / David J. Dallin -- The great dilemma / Waldemar Kaempffert. |
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United States -- History.
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United States. |
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History. |
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United States -- Civilization.
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Civilization. |
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