The American Pageant, Volume I,
17th Edition

PART I: PEOPLING A CONTINENT c. 33,000 B.C.E. – 1700 C.E.
1. New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C.E. – 1680 C.E.
2. Aspiring Empires in North America 1500 – 1664.
3. Settling the English Colonies 1619 – 1700.
PART II: BUILDING A BRITISH NORTH AMERICA 1607 – 1775.
4. American Life in the Seventeenth Century 1607 – 1692.
5. Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution 1700 – 1775.
6. The Road to Revolution 1754 – 1775.
PART III: FOUNDING A NEW NATION 1775 – 1800.
7. America Secedes from the Empire 1775 – 1783.
8. The Confederation and the Constitution 1776 – 1790.
9. Launching the New Ship of State 1789 – 1800.
PART IV: BUILDING THE NEW NATION 1800 – 1860.
10. The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic 1800 – 1812.
11. The War of 1812 and the Upsurge of Nationalism 1812 – 1824.
12. The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824 – 1840.
13. Forging the National Economy 1790 – 1860.
14. The Ferment of Reform and Culture 1790 – 1860.
15. The South and Slavery 1793 – 1860.
PART V: TESTING THE NEW NATION 1841 – 1877.
16. Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy 1841 – 1848.
17. Renewing the Sectional Struggle 1848 – 1854.
18. Drifting Toward Disunion 1854 – 1861.
19. Girding for War: The North and the South 1861 – 1865.
20. The Furnace of Civil War 1861 – 1865.
21. The Ordeal of Reconstruction 1865 – 1877.

• David M. Kennedy

  David M. Kennedy is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus and founding Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. He also serves as editor of the Oxford History of the United States series. His volume in the series, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Ambassador's Prize, and the California Gold Medal for Literature. He is also the author of Over Here: The First World War and American Society, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, which won the Bancroft Prize. He is also editor of The Modern American Military, and co-editor of World War II and the West it Wrought. He lives in Stanford, California.

• Lizabeth Cohen

  Lizabeth Cohen is an historian of the United States in the 20th century in the Harvard History Department, where she is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and a Harvard University Distinguished Professor. She is the author most recently of Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History. Previous books include A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America and Making A New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939, which also won the Bancroft and was a finalist for the Pulitzer in History. She was Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2011-2018.

• This edition aligns more closely with the current Advanced Placement Curriculum Framework (AP CF). The authors created a new nine-part structure that approximately correlates to the nine periods outlined in the AP CF. New part essays each include two focus questions to provide additional signposts for students.

• Organizational changes enhance the new framework and assure a cohesive narrative. Chapters 2 and 3 introduce English colonization in the context of French, Spanish and Dutch colonization. Material in the previous edition's Chapter 6 is condensed and integrated into Chapter 2 (for the early French material) and 7 (including the French and Indian War). A new chapter (26, "Rumbles of Discontent 1865 – 1900") focuses on challenges to the political and societal status quo (formerly covered in Chapter 25). Chapter 30, on the 1920s, combines content from the previous edition's Chapters 30 and 31.

• Substantial revisions, particularly in Volume 1, incorporate more non-white history and reflect more recent historiography. Native American history particularly receives thorough attention, with Native American agency and history emphasized from the pre-Columbian era through the Civil War. Substantial additions to the book's features incorporate more non-white and female voices.

• Increased coverage of the Spanish West and California helps move the focus of the narrative beyond the geographic bounds of the English colonies and early states.

• Discussion of slavery in Volume 1 is significantly revised to show cotton cultivation as a capitalist enterprise.

• One of the most popular, effective and entertaining American history texts ever written, THE AMERICAN PAGEANT combines colorful anecdotes, a wealth of primary source materials, an abundance of photos and cartoons and the authors' scholarship and trademark wit to bring American history to life.

• The seventeenth edition aligns even more closely with the Advanced Placement Curriculum Framework, with a new nine-part structure approximately correlating to the nine periods outlined in the current Curriculum Framework. Each of the new part essays includes two focus questions to provide additional signposts for students.

• Contending Voices boxes pair quotes from original historical sources, accompanied by questions that prompt students to think about conflicting perspectives on controversial subjects. Topics include: Anne Hutchinson: Accused and Defended (Ch. 3), War in 1812 (Ch. 10, new to this edition), The Role of Women (Ch. 14, new to this edition), Debating Slavery (Ch. 15, revised for this edition), Populism and Anti-Populism (Ch. 26, new to this edition), All That Jazz (Ch. 30) and Differing Visions of Black Freedom (Ch. 36).

• Thinking Globally essays (now totaling 13) present a different aspect of the American experience contextualized within world history. Readers learn how developments in North America were part of worldwide phenomena, be it the challenge to empire in the 18th century or the globalization that followed World War II. They also see how key aspects of American history were faced by other nations but resolved in distinct ways according to each country's history, cultural traditions and political and economic structures.

• A global focus throughout the text includes graphics to help students compare American developments to developments around the world in areas such as railroad building, cotton production, city size and urban reform strategies, immigration, automobile ownership, the economic effects of the Great Depression and women's participation in voting and the workforce.

• Boxed quotes, many relating to international events or figures, add personal voices to the events chronicled in the text's historical narrative. This edition incorporates not only more non-white voices, but also more female voices.

• Varying Viewpoints essays reflect new interpretations of significant trends and events, as well as concern for their global context.

• Examining the Evidence primary source features include topics such as what correspondence between Abigail and John Adams reveals about women in the American Revolution, how the Gettysburg Address sheds light on President Lincoln's vision of the nation, what the manuscript census shows us about immigrant households on New York's Lower East Side in 1900 and government policy and homeownership.

• Pedagogy includes: visual material (documentary images, graphs and tables) to illuminate complex and important historical ideas; maps with topographical detail and clear labeling to communicate analytical points; small regional/global locator maps to reinforce students' understanding of U.S. geography and its global context and bolded key terms with a related glossary.

• Every chapter concludes with an expanded chronology and a list (titled To Learn More) of ten approachable books to consult for additional information.

• A chapter-ending list of People to Know--created to help students focus on the most significant people introduced--and a list of key terms help students review chapter highlights.

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