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American Pageant, Volume 2, 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. The 16th edition includes a major revision of Part Six (the period from 1945 to the present), reflecting recent scholarship and providing greater thematic coherence. The authors also condensed and consolidated material on the Wilson presidency and World War I (formerly Chapters 29 and 30) into a new single chapter. A new feature, \u201CContending Voices,\u201D offers paired quotes from original historical sources, accompanied by questions that prompt students to think about conflicting perspectives on controversial subjects. Additional pedagogical aids make THE AMERICAN PAGEANT accessible to students: part openers and chapter-ending chronologies provide a context for the major periods in American history, while other features present additional primary sources, scholarly debates, and key historical figures for analysis. Available in the following options: THE AMERICAN PAGEANT, Sixteenth Edition (Chapters 1\u201341); Volume 1: To 1877 (Chapters 1\u201322); Volume 2: Since 1865 (Chapters 22\u201341).

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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.

What's New

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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.

Table of Contents

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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.

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Cengage provides a range of supplements that are updated in coordination with the main title selection. For more information about these supplements, contact your Learning Consultant.

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American Pageant, Volume 1

ISBN: 9781305075931
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. The 16th edition includes a major revision of Part Six (the period from 1945 to the present), reflecting recent scholarship and providing greater thematic coherence. The authors also condensed and consolidated material on the Wilson presidency and World War I (formerly Chapters 29 and 30) into a new single chapter. A new feature, \u201CContending Voices,\u201D offers paired quotes from original historical sources, accompanied by questions that prompt students to think about conflicting perspectives on controversial subjects. Additional pedagogical aids make THE AMERICAN PAGEANT accessible to students: part openers and chapter-ending chronologies provide a context for the major periods in American history, while other features present additional primary sources, scholarly debates, and key historical figures for analysis. Available in the following options: THE AMERICAN PAGEANT, Sixteenth Edition (Chapters 1\u201341); Volume 1: To 1877 (Chapters 1\u201322); Volume 2: Since 1865 (Chapters 22\u201341).

American Pageant

ISBN: 9781305075900
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.