The American Past A Survey of American

Now in its Seventh Edition, Conlin's introductory American history text continues to offer a colorful and engaging look at the individuals, events, and ideas that have shaped our nation's past. The seventh edition of The American Past is a newer book than any version since the first: a new publisher, a new look, a more thorough rewrite of the previous edition; and more new material. Accessible and lively, it emphasizes political history, yet provides balanced coverage of social, cultural, economic, intellectual, constitutional, diplomatic, and military events. Consistent scholarship and a unique organization make this book comprehensive and manageable. The text benefits from Conlin's literary prose style, which lends a unifying voice that captures and holds students' interest. Also available in the following split options: THE AMERICAN PAST: A SURVEY OF AMERICAN HISTORY, Comprehensive, (Chapters 1-51), ISBN: 0534621368; VOLUME I:TO 1877, (Chapters 1-25), ISBN: 0534621376; VOLUME II: SINCE 1865, (Chapters 25-51), ISBN: 0534621384.

Preface to the Seventh Edition

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Discoveries

Indians, Europeans, and America 15,000 B.C.--A.D. 1550

1

(17)

Settlement Across the Sea

The Idea, the Failures, Success 1550--1624

18

(13)

English America

The Thirteen Colonies 1620--1732

31

(14)

English Legacies, American Facts of Life

Colonial Society in the 1600s

45

(14)

Other Americans

The Indians, French, and Africans of Colonial North America

59

(17)

A Maturing Society

Society, Culture, and War in the 1700s

76

(15)

Years of Tumult

The Quarrel with Great Britain 1763--1770

91

(14)

From Riot to Rebellion

The Road to Independence 1770--1776

105

(14)

The War for Independence

Winning the Revolution 1776--1781

119

(14)

Inventing a Country

American Constitutions 1781--1789

133

(15)

We the People

Putting the Constitution to Work 1789--1800

148

(16)

Jeffersonian America

Expansion and Frustration 1800--1815

164

(16)

Beyond the Appalachians

The West in the Early Nineteenth Century

180

(16)

Nation Awakening

Political and Economic Development 1815--1824

196

(17)

Hero of the People

Andrew Jackson and a New Era 1824--1830

213

(15)

In the Shadow of Old Hickory

Personalities and Politics 1830--1842

228

(14)

Enthusiasm

Evangelicals, Utopians, Reformers

242

(15)

A Different Country

The South

257

(11)

The Peculiar Institution

Slavery as It Was Perceived and as It Was

268

(13)

From Sea to Shining Sea

American Expansion 1820--1848

281

(14)

Apples of Discord

Poisoned Fruits of Victory 1844--1854

295

(13)

The Collapse of the Union

The Road to Secession 1854--1861

308

(16)

Tidy Plans, Ugly Realities

The Civil War Through 1862

324

(17)

Driving Old Dixie Down

General Grant's War of Attrition 1863--1865

341

(15)

Aftermath

The Reconstruction of the Union 1865--1877

356

(15)

Parties, Patronage, and Pork

Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century

371

(16)

Big Industry, Big Business

Economic Development in the Late Nineteenth Century

387

(17)

Living with Leviathan

Reactions to Big Business and Great Wealth

404

(15)

We Who Built America

Factories and Immigrants

419

(15)

Bright Lights and Slums

The Growth of Big Cities

434

(13)

The Last Frontier

Winning the Last of the West 1865--1900

447

(16)

Stressful Times Down Home

Agriculture, 1865--1896

463

(15)

In the Days of McKinley

The United States as a World Power 1896--1903

478

(18)

Teddy Roosevelt and the Good Old Days

American Society in Transition 1890--1917

496

(14)

Age of Reform

The Progressives

510

(15)

Standing at Armageddon

The Progressives in Power 1901--1916

525

(14)

Over There

The United States and the First World War 1914--1918

539

(17)

Over Here

World War I at Home 1917--1920

556

(16)

The Days of Harding

Troubled Years 1919--1923

572

(15)

Calvin Coolidge and the New Era

When America Was Business 1923--1929

587

(14)

National Trauma

The Great Depression 1930-1933

601

(12)

Rearranging America

FDR and the New Deal 1933--1938

613

(14)

Another Great War

America and the World 1933--1942

627

(16)

Fighting World War II

At the Pinnacle of Power 1942--1945

643

(16)

Cold War

The U.S. and the Nuclear Age 1946--1952

659

(16)

Eisenhower Country

American Life in the 1950s

675

(15)

Ike and Camelot

Policies Under Eisenhower and Kennedy 1953--1963

690

(16)

Johnson's Great Society

Reform and Conflict 1961--1968

706

(16)

Presidency in Crisis

The Nixon, Ford, and Carter Administrations 1968--1980

722

(16)

Morning in America

The Age of Reagan 1980--1993

738

(15)

The Millennium Years

Decadence? Renewal? 1993--2003

753

Appendix

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Photo Credits

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Index

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