American stories : living American history. Volume I, To 1877
Suitable for an introductory American history instructor who wants to make the subject more appealing, this book focuses on "personalized history" presented through biographies of famous and less-well-known figures from the colonial period to 1877.
Print Book, English, DL 2015, cop. 2008
Routledge, Armonk,Oxon New York, DL 2015, cop. 2008
Biographies
1 vol. (XVII, 299 p.) : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 23 cm.
9780765619181, 0765619180
1251636364
Preface and Acknowledgments, Prologue Native Americans and Europeans Up to 1600, Chapter 1 Colonial New England, Chapter 2 The Colonial South, Chapter 3 Colonial Society, Chapter 4 The Coming of the Revolution, Chapter 5 The American Revolution, Chapter 6 The Constitutional Period, Chapter 7 Politics and Society in the Early Republic, Chapter 8 The United States on the World Stage, Chapter 9 The War of 1812, Chapter 10 Andrew Jackson and America, Chapter 11 The United States and the Antebellum West, Chapter 12 Nineteenth-Century Slavery, Chapter 13 The Coming of the Civil War, Chapter 14 The Civil War, Chapter 15 After the Civil War, About the Author