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You may not think that a history book could make you laugh, but Kennedy/O'Mara's THE AMERICAN PAGEANT, 18th Edition, just might. It's known for being one of the most popular, effective and entertaining texts on American history. Colorful anecdotes, first-person quotations and the authors' trademark wit bring history to life. Learning aids make the book as accessible as it is enjoyable. Part openers and chapter-ending chronologies provide a context for the major periods in American history, while primary sources and introductions to key historical figures give you a front row seat to the nation's past and place today's debates in historical context.
Contents
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.
PART VI: FORGING AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY 1865-1900.
22. The Industrial Era Dawns 1865-1900.
23. Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age 1869-1896.
24. America Moves to the City 1865-1900.
25. The Conquest of the West 1865-1896.
26. Rumbles of Discontent 1865-1900.
PART VII: STRUGGLING FOR JUSTICE AT HOME AND ABROAD 1890-1945.
27. Empire and Expansion 1890-1909.
28. Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt 1901-1912.
29. Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War 1913-1920.
30. American Life in the "Roaring Twenties" 1920-1932.
31. The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933-1939.
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933-1941.
33. America in World War II 1941-1945.
PART VIII: MAKING AN AMERICAN SUPERPOWER 1945-1980.
34. The Cold War Begins 1945-1952.
35. American Zenith 1952-1963.
36. The Stormy Sixties 1963-1973.
37. A Sea of Troubles 1973-1980.
PART IX: SUSTAINING DEMOCRACY IN A GLOBAL AGE 1980 to the present.
38. The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-1992.
39. America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2000.
40. The American People Face a New Century, 2001-2018.
