Kennedy's THE AMERICAN PAGEANT, AP® EDITION, 18th STUDENT EDITION, combines excellent scholarship with a witty and engaging narrative style and a creative look at the history of the United States in order to build students' critical thinking skills and inspire a love of American history. This best-selling AP® U.S. History text is a clear and approachable book for any student studying American history.
1. New World Beginnings.
2. The Contest for North America.
3. Settling the English Colonies.
4. American Life in the Seventeenth Century.
5. Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution.
6. The Road to Revolution.
7. America Secedes from the Empire.
8. The Confederation and the Constitution.
9. Launching the New Ship of State.
10. The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic.
11. The War of 1812 and the Upsurge of Nationalism.
12. The Rise of a Mass Democracy.
13. Forging the National Economy.
14. The Ferment of Reform and Culture.
15. The South and Slavery.
16. Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy.
17. Renewing the Sectional Struggle.
18. Drifting Toward Disunion.
19. Girding for War: The North and the South.
20. The Furnace of Civil War.
21. The Ordeal of Reconstruction.
22. The Industrial Era Dawns.
23. Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age.
24. America Moves to the City.
25. The Conquest of the West.
26. Rumbles of Discontent.
27. Empire and Expansion.
28. Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt.
29. Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War.
30. American Life in the "Roaring Twenties".
31. The Great Depression and the New Deal.
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War.
33. America in World War II .
34. The Cold War Begins.
35. American Zenith.
36. The Stormy Sixties.
37. A Sea of Troubles.
38. The Resurgence of Conservatism.
39. America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era
40. The American People Face a New Century.
Practice Material for the AP U.S. History Examination.
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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.
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This edition breaks the narrative into nine historical periods to better address historical thinking skills and reasoning processes.
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Enhanced attention is given to Native American history from European arrival to the 21st Century.
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The new edition examines Western expansion and its human and environmental consequences.
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There is a refreshed look at post-Civil War America and American capitalism with insights into American’s role in the industrialization and modernization of the global society.
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Revised coverage of “Contending Voices” helps students make connections and formulate an argument.
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“Varying Viewpoints” guides students through sourcing and examining evidence.
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“Examining the Evidence” provides primary and secondary source analyses.
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