Visions of America A History of the United States, Volume 1
, by Keene, Jennifer D.; Cornell, Saul T; O'Donnell, Edward T.
- ISBN: 9780321053091 | 0321053095
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/26/2009
Using images as primary historical evidence, "Visions of America "brings history alive for a generation of visual learners-and shows how conflicting visions of America have shaped our nation's past. "Visions of America "recognizes the value of using images to engage students in serious inquiry about the historical development of the United States. Visual images are critical primary sources, and using them effectively requires the development of key analytic skills. This new textbook revolutionizes the role of images in the history survey by integrating them into the narrative. The visual legacy of the nation's past also provides insight into the competing visions of America that have shaped American political culture. "Visions of America" explores the tensions and conflicts that have marked virtually every chapter of American history. It presents history as a dynamic, unpredictable, and dramatic process shaped by the choices made by people of all classes
Jennifer D. Keene is a professor of history and chair of the History Department at Chapman University in Orange, California. Dr. Keene has published three books on the American involvement in the First World War: Doughboys, the Great War and the Remaking of America (2001); The United States and the First World War (2000); and World War I (2006). She has received numerous fellowships for her research, including a Mellon Fellowship and Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards to Australia and France. She works closely with the Gilder-Lehrman Institute offering Teaching American History workshops for secondary school teachers throughout the country.
Edward T. O’Donnell is an Associate Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. He is the author of many scholarly articles for journals such as The Journal of Urban History, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and The Public Historian, as well as several books, including Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (Random House, 2003) and the forthcoming Talisman of a Lost Hope: Henry George and Gilded Age America (Columbia University Press). Since 2002, he has worked with more than ten Teaching American History grant programs.
Saul Cornell is a professor of History at Ohio State University and one of the nation’s leading legal and constitutional historians. His studies A Well Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control and The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 were both nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has published articles in the Journal of American History, the William and Mary Quarterly, American Studies, and the Law and History Review, among other journals.
| Peoples in Motion: The Atlantic World to 1590 | |
| The First Americans | |
| Migration, Settlement, and the Rise of Agriculture | |
| The Aztec | |
| Mound Builders and Pueblo Dwellers | |
| Eastern Woodlands Indian Societies | |
| American Societies on the Eve of European Contact | |
| European Civilization in Turmoil | |
| The Allure of the East and the Challenge of Islam | |
| Trade, Commerce, and Urbanization | |
| Competing Visions European and Huron Views of Nature | |
| Renaissance and Reformation | |
| New Monarchs and the Rise of the Nation-State | |
| Columbus and the Columbian Exchange | |
| Columbus Encounters the "Indians" | |
| European Technology in the Era of the Columbian Exchange | |
| The Conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires | |
| Images As History Blood of the Gods: Aztec Human Sacrifice | |
| West African Worlds | |
| West African Societies, Islam, and Trade | |
| The Portuguese-African Connection | |
| African Slavery | |
| European Colonization of the Atlantic World | |
| The Black Legend and the Creation of New Spain | |
| Choices And Consequences Facing the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico City | |
| Fishing and Furs: France's North Atlantic Empire | |
| English Expansion: Ireland and Virginia | |
| Europeans and the Indian Peoples of the Americas | |
| Conclusion | |
| Chapter Review | |
| Models of Settlement: English Colonial Societies, 1590-1700 | |
| The Chesapeake | |
| The Founding of Jamestown | |
| Choices And Consequences The Ordeal of Pocahontas | |
| Tobacco Agriculture and Political Reorganization | |
| Lord Baltimore's Refuge: Maryland | |
| Life in the Chesapeake: Tobacco and Society | |
| New England | |
| Plymouth Plantation | |
| Images As History Corruption versus Piety: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century | |
| Thanksgiving Myths and Realities | |
| A Godly Commonwealth | |
| Schism and Heresy | |
| Expansion and Conflict | |
| The Caribbean Colonies | |
| Power Is Sweet | |
| Barbados: The Emergence of a Slave Society | |
| The Restoration Era and the Proprietary Colonies | |
| The English Conquest of the Dutch Colony of New Netherland | |
| A Peaceable Kingdom: Quakers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania | |
| Competing Visions | |
| Lord Baltimore and William Penn: Two Visions of Religious Toleration | |
| The Carolinas | |
| The Crisis of the Late Seventeenth Century | |
| War and Rebellion | |
| The Dominion of New England and the Glorious Revolution | |
| The Salem Witchcraft Hysteria | |
| The Whig Ideal and the Emergence of Political Stability | |
| The Whig Vision of Politics | |
| Mercantilism, Federalism, and the Structure of Empire | |
| Conclusion | |
| Chapter Review | |
| Growth, Slavery, and Conflict: Colonial America, 1710-1763 | |
| Culture and Society in the Eighteenth Century | |
| The Refinement of America | |
| Images As History A Portrait of Colonial Aspirations | |
| More English, Yet More American | |
| Strong Assemblies and Weak Governors | |
| Enlightenment and Awakening | |
| Georgia's Utopian Experiment | |
| Competing Visions Slavery and Georgia | |
| American Champions of the Enlightenment | |
| Awakening, Revivalism, and American Society | |
| Indian Revivals | |
| African Americans in the Colonial Era | |
| The Atlantic Slave Trade | |
| Southern Slavery | |
| Northern Slavery and Free Blacks | |
| Slave Resistance and Rebellion | |
| An African American Culture Emerges under Slavery | |
| Immigration, Regional Economies, and Inequality | |
| Immigration to the Colonies | |
| Regional Economies | |
| New England | |
| The Mid-Atlantic | |
| The Upper and Lower South | |
| The Backcountry | |
| Cities: Expansion and Inequality | |
| Rural America: Land Becomes Scarce | |
| War and the Contest over Empire | |
| The Rise and Fall of the Middle Ground | |
| War and the Contest for Empire | |
| Choices And Consequences Quakers, Pacifism, and the Paxton Uprising | |
| Conclusion | |
| Chapter Review | |
| Independence and Revolution, 1766-1783 | |
| Tightening the Reins of Empire | |
| Taxation without Representation | |
| The Stamp Act Crisis | |
| An Assault on Liberty | |
| The Intolerable Acts and the First Continental Congress | |
| Lexington, Concord, and Lord Dunmore's Proclamation | |
| Patriots vs. Loyalists | |
| The Battle of Bunker Hill | |
| Images As History Trumbull's "The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill" | |
| Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence | |
| The Plight of the Loyalists | |
| Choices And Consequences | |
| A Loyalist Wife's Dilemma | |
| America | |
| at War | |
| The War in the North | |
| The Southern Campaigns and Final Victory at Yorktown | |
| The Radicalism of the American Revolution | |
| Popular Politics in the Revolutionary Era | |
| Constitutional Experiments: Testing the Limits of Democracy | |
| African Americans' | |
| Struggle's for Freedom | |
| The American Revolution in Indian Country | |
| Liberty's Daughters: Women and the Revolutionary Movement | |
| Competing Visions Remember the Ladies | |
| Conclusion | |
| Chapter Review | |
| A Virtuous Republic: Creating a Workable Government 1783-1789 | |
| Republicanism and the Politics of Virtue | |
| George Washington: The American Cincinnatus | |
| The Politics of Virtue: Views from the States | |
| Images As History Views of Women's Role | |
| Democracy Triumphant? | |
| Debtors versus Creditors | |
| Life under the Articles of Confederation | |
| No Taxation with Representation | |
| Diplomacy: Frustration and Stalemate | |
| Settling the Old Northwest | |
| Shays' | |
| Rebellion | |
| Competing Visions Reactions to Shays's Rebellion | |
| The Movement for Constitutional Reform | |
| Large States versus Small States | |
| Conflict over Slavery | |
| Filling out the Constitutional Design | |
| The Great Debate | |
| Federalists versus Anti-Federalists | |
| The Theory of the Large Republic: The Genius of James Madison | |
| Ratification | |
| Choices And Consequences To Ratify or Not, That Is the Question | |
| The Creation of a Loyal Opposition | |
| Conclusion | |
| Chapter Review | |
| Political Passions in the New Republic, 1789-1800 | |
| Launching the New Government | |
| Choosing the First President | |
| The First Federal Elections: Completing the Constitution | |
| Filling Out the Branches of Government | |
| Hamilton's Ambitious Program | |
| Hamilton's Vision for the New Republic | |
| The Assumption of State Debts | |
| Madison's Opposition | |
| The Bank, the Mint, and the Report on Manufactures | |
| Jefferson and Hamilton: Contrasting Visions of the Republic | |
| Partisanship without Parties | |
| A New Type of Politician | |
| The Growth of the Partisan Press | |
| The Democratic-Republican Societies | |
| Conflicts at Home and Abroad | |
| The French Revolution in America | |
| Adams versus Clinton: A Contest for Vice President | |
| Diplomatic Controversies and Triumphs | |
| Violence along the Frontier | |
| Choices And Consequences Washington's Decision to Crush the Whiskey Rebellion | |
| Cultural Politics in a Passionate Age | |
| Political Fashions and Fashionable Politics | |
| Literature, Education, and Gender | |
| Federalists, Republicans, and the Politics of Race | |
| Images As History "Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences" | |
| The Stormy Presidency of John Adams | |
| Washington's Farewell Address | |
| The XYZ Affair and Quasi-War with France | |
| The Alien and Sedition Acts | |
| Competing Visions Congressional Debate over the Sedition Act | |
| The Disputed Election of 1800 | |
| Conclusion | |
| Chapter Review | |
| Jeffersonian America, 1800-1824 | |
| Politics in Jeffersonian America | |
| Jefferson's Visions of Government | |
| The Jeffersonian Style | |
| Political Slurs and the Politics of Honor | |
| Religion in Jeffersonian America | |
| An Expanding Empire of Liberty | |
| Dismantling the Federalist Program | |
| The Courts: The Last Bastion of Federalist Power | |
| Choices And Consequences | |
| John Marshall's Dilemma | |
| The Louisiana Purchase | |
| Lewis and Clark | |
| Pan-Indian Revivalism, and Jeffersonian Expansionism | |
| Dissension at Home | |
| Jefferson's Attack on the Federalist Judiciary | |
| The Controversial Mr. Burr | |
| America | |
| Confronts a World at War | |
| The Failure of Peaceable Coercion | |
| Madison's Travails: Diplomatic Blunders Abroad and Tensions on the Frontier | |
| The War of 1812 | |
| Competing Visions War Hawks and Their Critics | |
| The Hartford Convention | |
| The Republic Reborn: Consequences of the War of 1812 | |
| The National Republican Vision of James Monroe | |
| Images As History Samuel Morse's House of Representatives and the National Republican Vision | |
| Diplomatic Triumphs | |
| Economic and Technological Innovation | |
| Judicial Nationalism | |
| Crisis and the Collapse of the National Republican Consensus | |
| The Panic of 1819 | |
| Denmark Vesey's Rebellion | |
| Conclusion | |
| Chapter Review | |
| The Democratization of American Culture, 1824-1840 | |
| Democratic Culture | |
| Competing Visions Should White Men without Property Have the Vote? | |
| Davy Crockett and the Frontier Myth Andrew Jackson and His Age | |
| The Election of 1824 and "The Corrupt Bargain" | |
| The Election of 1828: "Old Hickory's" | |
| Triumph | |
| The Reign of "King Mob" | |
| States' | |
| Rights and the Nullification Crisis | |
| White Man's Democracy | |
| Race and Politics in the Jacksonian Era | |
| The Cherokee Cases | |
| Resistance and Removal | |
| CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES | |
| Acquiescence or Resistance: The Cherokee Dilemma | |
| Democrats, Whigs, and the Second Party System | |
| Third Party Challenges: Anti-Masonry and Workingmen's Parties | |
| The Bank War and the Rise of the Whigs | |
| Images As History "Old Hickory" | |
| or "King Andrew": Popular Images of Andrew Jackson | |
| Economic Crisis and the Presidency of Martin Van Buren | |
| Playing the Democrats' | |
| Game: Whigs in the Election of 1840 | |
| Gender and Social Class: The Whig Appeal | |
| Democrats and Whigs: Two Visions of Government and Society | |
| Conclusion | |
| Chapter Review | |
| Workers, Farmers, and Slaves: The Transformation of the American Economy, 1815-1848 | |
| The Market Revolution | |
| Agricultural Changes and Consequences | |
| A Nation on the Move: Roads, Canals, Steamboats, and Trains | |
| Images As History Nature, Technology, and the Railroad: George Innes' | |
| Lackawanna Valley (1855) | |
| Spreading the News | |
| The Spread of Industrialization | |
| From Artisan to Worker | |
| Women and Work | |
| The Lowell Experiment | |
| Competing Visions The Lowell Strike of 1834 | |
| Urban Industrialization | |
| The Changing Urban Landscape | |
| Old Port Cities and the New Cities of the Interior | |
| Immigrants and the City | |
| Free Black Communities in the North | |
| Riot, Unrest, and Crime | |
| Southern Society | |
| The Planter Class | |
| Yeoman and Tenant Farmers | |
| Free Black Communities | |
| White Southern Culture | |
| Life and Labor under Slavery | |
| Varied Systems of Slave Labor | |
| Life in the Slave Quarters | |
| Slave Religion and Music | |
| Resistance and Revolt | |
| Slavery and the Law | |
| Choices And Consequences Conscience or Duty: Judge Ruffin's Quandary | |
| Conclusion | |
| Chapter Review | |
| Revivalism, Reform, and Artistic Renaissance, 1820-1850 | |
| Revivalism and the Market Revolution | |
| Temperance | |
| Competing Visions Temperance Reform and Its Critics | |
| Schools, Prisons, and Asylums | |
| Abolitionism and the Pro-Slavery Response | |
| The Rise of Immediatism | |
| Images As History "The Greek Slave" | |
| Anti-Abolitionism and the Abolitionist Response | |
| The Pro-Slavery Argument | |
| The Cult of True Womanhood, Reform, and Women's Rights | |
| The New Domestic Ideal | |
| Controlling Sexuality | |
| The Path Toward Seneca Falls | |
| Religious and Secular Utopianism | |
| Millennialism, Perfectionism, and Religious Utopianism | |
| Choices And Consequences Mary Cragin's Experiment in Free Love at Oneida | |
| Secular Utopias | |
| Literature and Popular Culture | |
| Literature and Social Criticism | |
| Domestic Fiction, Board Games, and Crime Stories | |
| Slaves Tell Their Story: Slavery in American Literature | |
| Lyceums and Lectures | |
| Nature's Nation | |
| Landscape Painting | |
| Parks and Cemeteries | |
| Revival and Reform in American Architecture | |
| Conclusion | |
| Chapter Review | |
| "To Overspread the Continent:" | |
| Westward Expansion and Political Conflict, 1840-1848 | |
| British, French, and Indian Encounters | |
| Manifest Destiny and the Overland Trail | |
| The Native American Encounter with Manifest Destiny | |
| Images As History George Catlin and Mah-to-toh-pa: Representing Indians for an American Audience | |
| The Mormon Flight to Utah | |
| American Expansionism into the Southwest | |
| The Transformation of Northern Mexico | |
| The Clash of Interests in Texas | |
| The Republic of Texas and the Politics of Annexation | |
| Polk's Expansionist Vision | |
| The Mexican War and Its Consequences | |
| A Controversial War | |
| Choices And Consequences Henry David Thoreau and Civil Disobedience | |
| War with Mexico | |
| Images of the Mexican War | |
| The Wilmot Proviso | |
| Sectionalism and the Election of 1848 | |
| COMPETING VISIONS | |
| Slavery and Election of 1848 | |
| Conclusion | |
| Chapter Review | |
| Slavery and Sectionalism: The Political Crisis of 1848-1861 | |
| The Slavery Question in the Territories | |
| The Gold Rush | |
| Organizing California and New Mexico | |
| The Compromise of 1850 | |
| Choices And Consequences Resisting the Fugitive Slave Act | |
| Political Realignment | |
| Young America | |
| The Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
| Republicans and Know-Nothings | |
| Ballots and Blood | |
| Images As History The "Foreign Menace" | |
| Deepening Controversy | |
| Two Societies | |
| The Industrial North | |
| Cotton Is Supreme | |
| The Other South | |
| Divergent Visions | |
| A House Divided | |
| The Lincoln-Douglas Debates | |
| John Brown's Raid | |
| The Election of 1860 | |
| Competing Visions Secession or Union? | |
| Conclusion | |
| Chapter Review | |
| A Nation Torn Apart: The Civil War, 1861-1865 | |
| Mobilization, Strategy, and Diplomacy | |
| Comparative Advantages and Disadvantages | |
| Mobilization in the North | |
| Mobilization in the South | |
| Wartime Diplomacy | |
| The Early Campaigns, 1861-1863 | |
| The Peninsular Campaign | |
| A New Kind of War | |
| Toward Emancipation | |
| Slaughter and Stalemate | |
| Images As History Photography and the Visualization of Modern War | |
| Behind the Lines | |
| Meeting the Demands of Modern War | |
| Hardships on the Home Front | |
| New Roles for Women | |
| Copperheads | |
| Conscription and Civil Unrest | |
| Competing Visions Civil Liberties in a Civil War | |
| Toward Union Victory | |
| Turning Point: 1863 | |
| The Confederacy Begins to Crumble | |
| Choices And Consequences Equal Peril, Unequal Pay | |
| Victory in Battle and at the Polls | |
| War Is Hell | |
| Conclusion | |
| Chapter Review | |
| Now That We Are Free: Reconstruction and the New South, 1863-1890 | |
| Preparing for Reconstruction | |
| Emancipation Test Cases | |
| Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan | |
| Radical Republicans Offer a Different Vision | |
| The Fruits of Freedom | |
| Freedom of Movement | |
| Forty Acres and a Mule | |
| Uplift through Education | |
| The Black Church | |
| The Struggle to Define Reconstruction | |
| The Conservative Vision of Freedom: Presidential Reconstruction | |
| COMPETING VISIONS | |
| Demanding Rights, Protecting Privilege | |
| Congressional Reconstruction and the Fourteenth Amendment | |
| Radical Republicans Take Control | |
| Implementing Reconstruction | |
| The Republican Party in the South | |
| Creating Reconstruction Governments in the South | |
| The Election of 1868 | |
| The Rise of White Resistance | |
| Reconstruction Abandoned | |
| Corruption and Scandal | |
| The North's Retreat | |
| Images As History Political Cartoons Reflect the Shift in Public | |
| Opinion | |
| The Election of 1872 | |
| The Return of Terrorism | |
| The End of Reconstruction | |
| The New South | |
| Redeemer Rule | |
| The Lost Cause | |
| The New South Economy | |
| The Rise of Sharecropping | |
| Jim Crow | |
| Choices And Consequences Sanctioning Separation | |
| Conclusion | |
| Chapter Review | |
| Conflict and Conquest: The Transformation of the West, 1860-1900 | |
| Congress Promotes Westward Settlement | |
| The Diversity of the Native American West | |
| Native American Tribes of the Great Plains | |
| The Great Westward Migration | |
| The Economic Transformation of the West | |
| The Railroad Fuels Western Development | |
| Hard Times for Farmers | |
| The Cattle Kingdom | |
| Fortunes Beneath the Ground: The Mining Booms | |
| The Environmental Legacy | |
| Competing Visions Preservation versus Exploitation | |
| Native Americans under Siege | |
| Mounting Problems for Native Americans | |
| Wars on the Plains | |
| War and Conflict in the Far West | |
| In Pursuit of a Solution | |
| Choices And Consequences Forced Assimilation versus Cultural | |
| Preservation | |
| Resistance and Romanticism | |
| Resistance and Persistence | |
| Creating Mythical Heroes and Images | |
| Images As History Annie Oakley | |
| The West in Art and Literature | |
| Historians Reinterpret the American West | |
| Conclusion | |
| Chapter Review | |
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