By The People, Volume 1

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For courses in U.S. History

Develop historical thinkers through the stories that defined history
In By the People, author Jim Fraser tells resonant stories of the many different people who have shaped the United States as it is today — from everyday women and men to the most important leaders of their day. By leveraging both the relatable and remarkable people in U.S. history, By the People empowers students to focus on historical analysis and interpretation rather than simply memorize information. The result? A class full of historical thinkers who see themselves in history, and who may be inspired to join the list of those who have helped build a better, more hopeful country.

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By the People: A History of the Unites States is also available via REVEL™, an immersive learning experience designed for the way today's students read, think, and learn. 

James W. Fraser is Professor of History and Education at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. His teaching includes a survey course in U.S. History for future Social Studies teachers and courses in the History of American Education, Religion & Public Education, and Inquiries into Teaching and Learning. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Dr. Fraser is the President of the History of Education Society and a former member of the Editorial Board of the History of Education Quarterly. He served as Senior Vice President for Programs at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey, from 2008 to 2012. He has also served as NYU liaison to the New Design High School, a public high school in New York’s Lower East Side, and to Facing History and Ourselves.

Before coming to New York University, Dr. Fraser taught in the Department of History and the program in education at Northeastern University in Boston, where he was the founding dean of Northeastern’s School of Education. He was also a member and chair of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Education Deans Council, the Boston School Committee Nominating Committee, and other boards. He was a lecturer in the Program in Religion and Secondary Education at the Harvard University Divinity School from 1997 to 2004. He has taught at Lesley University; University of Massachusetts, Boston; Boston University; and Public School 76 Manhattan. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and was pastor of Grace Church in East Boston, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2006.

In addition to By the People, Dr. Fraser is the author or editor of twelve books including The School in the United States: A Documentary History, a third edition of which will be published in 2014, Preparing America’s Teachers: A History (2007), and A History of Hope: When Americans Have Dared to Dream of a Better Future (2002). He lives in New York City with his wife Katherine Hanson and their dog, Pebble.

PART 1: CONTACT AND EXPLORATION, 1491–1607
1. The World Before 1492
2. First Encounters, First Conquests, 1492–1607

PART 2: SETTLEMENTS OLD AND NEW, 1607–1754
3. Settlements, Alliances, and Resistance, 1607–1718
4. Creating the Culture of British North America, 1689–1754

PART 3: A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM—CREATING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1754–1800
5. The Making of a Revolution, 1754–1783
6. Creating a Nation, 1783–1788
7. Practicing Democracy, 1789–1800

PART 4: CRAFTING A NATION, PEOPLE, LAND, AND A NATIONAL IDENTITY, 1800–1848
8. Creating a New People, Expanding the Country, 1801–1823
9. New Industries, New Politics, 1815–1828
10. Democracy in the Age of Andrew Jackson, 1828–1844
11. Manifest Destiny: Expanding the Nation, 1830–1853

PART 5: EXPANSION, SEPARATION, AND A NEW UNION, 1844–1877
12. Living in a Nation of Changing Lands, Changing Faces, Changing Expectations, 1831–1854
13. The Politics of Separation, 1850–1861
14. And the War Came: The Civil War, 1861–1865
15. Reconstruction, 1865–1877