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A People and a Nation, Volume II: Since 1865, 11th Edition

Jane Kamensky, Carol Sheriff, David W. Blight, Howard P. Chudacoff, Fredrik Logevall, Beth Bailey, Mary Beth Norton

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Overview

A PEOPLE AND A NATION, 11th Edition, offers a lively narrative that tells the stories of the diverse peoples in the United States. The authors are prize-winning historians and experienced teachers who know how to explain historical change--whether race and gender, economics and public policy, family life, popular culture or international relations and warfare--in ways that students understand. The first textbook to focus on U.S. social history, the book also supports more specialized lectures through its attention to international history and the place of the U.S. in the world, politics and policy, social movements and economic issues. Available in the following split options: A PEOPLE AND A NATION, 11th Edition (Chapters 1–29), ISBN: 9781133312727; Volume I: To 1877 (Chapters 1–14), ISBN: 9781285430829; Volume II: Since 1865 (Chapters 14–29), ISBN: 9781285430836.

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Meet the Authors

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Jane Kamensky

Jane Kamensky earned her B.A. and Ph.D. in history from Yale University. She is an American historian whose scholarship has covered the sweep of British colonial and United States history, with books centered in the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Her many books include A REVOLUTION IN COLOR: THE WORLD OF JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, winner of the New-York Historical Society’s American History book prize, along with three others. For 30 years, she worked as a history professor and higher education leader, most recently as Trumbull Professor of American history at Harvard University and director of the Schlesinger Library at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. In 2024, Kamensky became the president of Monticello/The Thomas Jefferson Foundation.

Carol Sheriff

Carol Sheriff is a Professor of History at William & Mary in Virginia, where she has taught since 1993. She received her B.A. from Wesleyan University and her Ph.D. from Yale University. She specializes in 19th century United States social and cultural history, with an emphasis on the period from 1815–1865, and she has an allied interest in early 20th century Civil War memory. She is completing a monograph on controversies surrounding 20th century history textbooks’ portrayals of the Civil War and Reconstruction; a piece of this project won the John T. Hubbell Prize from Civil War History. She has co-authored A PEOPLE AT WAR: SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS IN AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR, 1854–1877, and has written THE ARTIFICIAL RIVER: THE ERIE CANAL AND THE PARADOX OF PROGRESS, 1817–1862, which earned the Dixon Ryan Fox Award from the New York State Historical Association and the Award for Excellence in Research from the New York State Archives. At William & Mary, she has won several teaching awards.

David W. Blight

David W. Blight received his B.A. from Michigan State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He is the Sterling Professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University. In 2019, he won the Pulitzer Prize in history for his work, FREDERICK DOUGLASS: PROPHET OF FREEDOM. His RACE AND REUNION: THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICAN MEMORY, 1863–1915, received eight awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Frederick Douglass Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize and four prizes awarded by the Organization of American Historians. Blight’s essays and op-eds have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers. From 2013–2014, he was the Pitt Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge in the UK. For the first seven years of his career Dr. Blight was a high school history teacher in his hometown of Flint, MI. In 2023, he served as president of the Organization of American Historians.

Howard P. Chudacoff

Howard P. Chudacoff, the George L. Littlefield Emeritus Professor of American History at Brown University, was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He earned his A.B. (1965), M.A. (1967) and Ph.D. (1969) at the University of Chicago. He has written MOBILE AMERICANS (1972), THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN URBAN SOCIETY (eight editions between 1975 and 2014), HOW OLD ARE YOU: AGE CONSCIOUSNESS IN AMERICAN CULTURE (1989), THE AGE OF THE BACHELOR: CREATING AN AMERICAN SUBCULTURE (1999), CHILDREN AT PLAY: AN AMERICAN HISTORY (2007) and CHANGING THE PLAYBOOK: HOW POWER, PROFIT, AND POLITICS TRANSFORMED COLLEGE SPORTS (2015). His articles have appeared in The Journal of American History, The Journal of Family History, Reviews in American History and The Journal of Sport History. At Brown, he has served as Co-Chair of the Program in American Civilization, Chair of the History Department, Executive Committee of the Urban Studies Program and Faculty Representative to the NCAA. The National Endowment for the Humanities, Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation have funded his scholarship.

Fredrik Logevall

A native of Stockholm, Sweden, Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University, where he holds appointments in the Department of History and the Kennedy School of Government. He received his B.A. from Simon Fraser University and his Ph.D. from Yale University. He is the author or editor of 11 books, most recently JFK: COMING OF AGE IN THE AMERICAN CENTURY, 1917–1956 (2020), which received the Elizabeth Longford Prize and was The Times (UK) biography of the year and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His book EMBERS OF WAR: THE FALL OF AN EMPIRE AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA'S VIETNAM (2012), won the Pulitzer Prize in History and the Francis Parkman Prize, in addition to other awards. A past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Logevall is a member of the Society of American Historians and the Council of Foreign Relations and serves on numerous editorial advisory boards.

Beth Bailey

Beth Bailey is Foundation Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Military, War and Society Studies at the University of Kansas. She earned her B.A. from Northwestern University and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Bailey is a historian of the 20th and 21st century United States, whose research focuses on U.S. military, war and society and the history of gender and sexuality in the United States. A prize-winning teacher who has worked in large state universities and liberal arts colleges, she is the author or editor/co-editor of a dozen books, the most recent of which is AN ARMY AFIRE: HOW THE US ARMY CONFRONTED ITS RACIAL CRISIS IN THE VIETNAM ERA. Her recent scholarly awards include the Higuchi-Balfour Jeffrey award for research in the humanities and social sciences, the Society for Military History’s Samuel Eliot Morison award for lifetime achievement in military history and the Pitt Professorship in American History at Cambridge university (2025–2026). She currently serves, by appointment of the Secretary of the Army, as chair of the Department of the Army’s Historical Advisory Subcommittee.

Mary Beth Norton

Mary Beth Norton, the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History at Cornell University, received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She teaches courses in the history of exploration, early America, women’s history, Atlantic world and American Revolution. Her many books have won awards from the Society of American Historians, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and English-Speaking Union. Her book, FOUNDING MOTHERS & FATHERS, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2011 her book SEPARATED BY THEIR SEX: WOMEN IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN THE COLONIAL ATLANTIC WORLD was published. She was the Pitt Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge in 2005-2006. The Rockefeller Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation and Huntington Library, among others, have awarded her fellowships. Dr. Norton has served on the National Council for the Humanities and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has appeared on Book TV, the History and Discovery Channels, PBS and NBC as a commentator on Early American history.

What's New

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  • A PEOPLE AND A NATION has a new, more affordable price in the form of the MindTap digital option, which reduces costs for students and offers a complete ebook plus additional interactive content and pedagogical support.
  • The authors reduced the number of chapters from 33 to 29 in the last edition, making the text easier to assign in a typical semester and eliminating detail to more clearly emphasize key themes. They've fine-tuned that consolidation in this edition based on suggestions from users.
  • Focus questions in every chapter section help students comprehend and retain key information about the significance of historical events.
  • The eleventh edition further promotes critical thinking and students' engagement with the content. A critical thinking question now appears in each chapter's "Legacy for A People and a Nation" essay and "Links to the World" feature.
  • New key terms with definitions throughout chapters enable students to more easily retain the significance of and differences between various laws, acts and events.

Features

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  • While A PEOPLE AND A NATION was the first textbook to focus on U.S. social history, its attention to international history and the place of the U.S. in the world, to politics and policy, to social movements and to clear explanations of economic issues makes it a useful resource for more specialized lectures or for AP courses.
  • Integrated discussions of diversity throughout the narrative examine differences within broad ethnic categories and pay attention to immigration, cultural and intellectual infusions from around the world and to America's growing religious diversity.
  • More than 90 maps provide an engaging visual and geographic context for the narrative.
  • New pedagogical features--including focus questions for every chapter section, critical thinking questions at the end of feature boxes and chapter key terms--help students use critical thinking skills, see connections between events and better understand the significance of historical events.
  • Chapter-opening vignettes are closely integrated with MindTap's chapter-opening interactive stories. Each story in MindTap takes students on a visual and/or geographic journey that extends the account of a historical person or place into a deeper, more connected exploration of the chapter.
  • "Visualizing the Past" features in each chapter treat images--including artifacts, paintings, photographs and advertisements--as primary sources to explore major themes. The illustrations and extended captions help students understand how the examination of visual materials can reveal aspects of America's story that otherwise would remain unknown. Topics include naming America (Chapter 1, new), Acoma Pueblo (Chapter 2), selling war (Chapter 8), gilded age politics (Chapter 17), combating the spread of AIDS (Chapter 28) and war dead (Chapter 29, new).
  • "Links to the World" essays--one in each chapter--connect figures, topics or events in U.S. history to the history of the greater world. Topics include turkeys (Chapter 2), writing and stationery supplies (Chapter 5), William Walker and filibustering (Chapter 12), the "Back to Africa" movement (Chapter 14), Sputnik (Chapter 25, new), Margaret Mead (Chapter 21, new) and the Swine Flu pandemic (Chapter 29).
  • "Legacy for a People and a Nation" essays--one in each chapter--offer compelling and timely answers to students who question the relevance of historical study by exploring the historical roots of contemporary topics. Topics include revitalizing native languages (Chapter 1, new), witch hunting (Chapter 3, new), P.T. Barnum's publicity stunts (Chapter 10), the Mexican-United States border (Chapter 11, new), Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address (Chapter 13), national parks (Chapter 15), nuclear proliferation (Chapter 23) and the Immigration Act of 1965 (Chapter 26).

Table of Contents

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14. Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865–1877.
15. The Ecology of the West and South, 1865–1900.
16. Building Factories, Building Cities, 1877–1900.
17. Gilded Age Politics, 1877–1900.
18. The Progressive Era, 1895–1920.
19. The Quest for Empire, 1865–1914.
20. Americans in the Great War, 1914–1920.
21. The New Era, 1920–1929.
22. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929–1939.
23. The Second World War at Home and Abroad, 1939–1945.
24. The Cold War and American Globalism, 1945–1961.
25. America at Midcentury, 1945–1960.
26. The Tumultuous Sixties, 1960–1968.
27. A Pivotal Era, 1969–1980.
28. Conservatism Revived, 1980–1992.
29. Into the Global Millennium: America Since 1992.

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