American Pageant, 16th Edition

David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen

Copyright 2016
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THE AMERICAN PAGEANT enjoys a reputation as one of the most popular, effective, and entertaining texts on American history. The colorful anecdotes, first-person quotations, and trademark wit bring American history to life. Learning aids make the book's content as accessible as it is enjoyable: part openers and chapter-ending chronologies provide a context for the major periods in American history, while other features present primary sources, scholarly debates, and key historical figures for analysis.

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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 General 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 and John Gilmary Shea Prizes. 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.

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A major revision of Part Six, which covers the post-1945 period, provides greater thematic coherence. Reflecting an emerging scholarly consensus, content on the period is divided into two eras: a midcentury era defined by economic growth and broadly shared prosperity followed, starting in the 1970s, by more fitful growth, increasing economic inequality, and increasing social inclusiveness. Anchoring the narrative of events in a coherent interpretive framework facilitates students' acquisition of historical thinking skills, including periodization, synthetic reasoning, and contextual analysis.
Material on the Wilson presidency and World War I (formerly Chapters 29 and 30) has been condensed into a new Chapter 29, “Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War, 1913−1920.” This change reduces the total number of chapters to 41 in this edition.
A new feature in each chapter, “Contending Voices,” adds to the wealth of primary source material. This feature offers paired quotes from original historical sources, accompanied by questions that prompt students to think about conflicting perspectives on controversial subjects. Examples of topics include: Anne Hutchinson: Accused and Defended (Ch. 3); Debating the New Constitution (Ch. 9); The Role of Women (Ch. 15); Perspectives on Race and Slavery (Ch. 16); The Ghost Dance and the Wounded Knee Massacre (Ch. 26); All that Jazz (Ch. 30); and Differing Visions of Black Freedom (Ch. 38).
A new “Thinking Globally” essay on The Global Sixties (Ch. 37) places the youth politics of that era in an international and comparative context. The “Thinking Globally” item on globalization, now in Chapter 38, has been heavily revised to emphasize the changing international economic context for domestic U.S. developments beginning in the 1970s.
A new “Examining the Evidence” item in Chapter 41, entitled “The National Security Strategy, 2002,” grapples explicitly with the task of crafting arguments from historical evidence.

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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.
“Contending Voices,” new to the 16th Edition, adds to the wealth of primary source material. This feature offers paired quotes from original historical sources, accompanied by questions that prompt students to think about conflicting perspectives on controversial subjects. Examples of topics include: Anne Hutchinson: Accused and Defended (Ch. 3); Debating the New Constitution (Ch. 9); The Role of Women (Ch. 15); Perspectives on Race and Slavery (Ch. 16); The Ghost Dance and the Wounded Knee Massacre (Ch. 26); All that Jazz (Ch. 30); and Differing Visions of Black Freedom (Ch. 38).
“Thinking Globally” essays (now totaling 14) 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. Students 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.
“Varying Viewpoints” essays reflect new interpretations of significant trends and events, as well as concern for their global context. Updated essays such as those on the 1960s (Ch. 37) and conservatism (Ch. 39) incorporate new historiography and emphasize the challenges of weighing differing historical interpretations.
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 of 10 approachable books to consult “To Learn More.” A more extensive chapter-by-chapter annotated bibliography suitable for deeper research is provided on the student website.
A list of the chapter key terms and a list of “People to Know”−created to help students focus on the most significant people introduced in that chapter−appear at the end of the chapter to help students review chapter highlights. Both lists also are included on the student website with expanded definitions/explanations.
A revised Appendix contains abundant statistical data on many aspects of the American historical experience.

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Part I: FOUNDING THE NEW NATION CA. 33,000 B.C.E–1783 C.E.
1. New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C.E.–1769 C.E.
2. The Planting of English America 1500−1733.
3. Settling the Northern Colonies 1619−1700.
4. American Life in the Seventeenth Century 1607−1692.
5. Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution 1700−1775.
6. The Duel for North America 1608−1763.
7. The Road to Revolution 1763−1775.
8. America Secedes from the Empire 1775−1783.
Part II: BUILDING THE NEW NATION CA. 1776−1860.
9. The Confederation and the Constitution 1776−1790.
10. Launching the New Ship of State 1789−1800.
11. The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic 1800−1812.
12. The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism 1812−1824.
13. The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824−1840.
14. Forging the National Economy 1790−1860.
15. The Ferment of Reform and Culture 1790−1860.
Part III: TESTING THE NEW NATION 1820−1877.
16. The South and the Slavery Controversy 1793−1860.
17. Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy 1841−1848.
18. Renewing the Sectional Struggle 1848−1854.
19. Drifting Toward Disunion 1854−1861.
20. Girding for War: The North and the South 1861−1865.
21. The Furnace of Civil War 1861−1865.
22. The Ordeal of Reconstruction 1865−1877.
Part IV: FORGING AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY 1865−1909.
23. Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age 1869−1896.
24. Industry Comes of Age 1865−1900.
25. America Moves to the City 1865−1900.
26. The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution 1865−1896.
27. Empire and Expansion 1890−1909.
Part V: STRUGGLING FOR JUSTICE AT HOME AND ABROAD 1901−1945.
28. Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt 1901−1912.
29. Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War 1913−1920.
30. American Life in the “Roaring Twenties” 1920−1929.
31. The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920−1932.
32. The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933−1939.
33. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933−1941.
34. America in World War II 1941−1945.
Part VI: MAKING MODERN AMERICA 1945 TO THE PRESENT.
35. The Cold War Begins 1945−1952.
36. American Zenith 1952−1963.
37. The Stormy Sixties 1963−1973.
38. Challenges to the Postwar Order 1973−1980.
39. The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980−1992.
40. America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992−2000.
41. The American People Face a New Century, 2001−2014.