These United States The Questions of Our Past, Concise Edition, Volume 1

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Pulitzer Prize winning historian Irwin Unger has been teaching American history for over forty years on both coasts. Born and largely educated in New York, he has lived in California, Virginia, and Washington State. He is married to Debi Unger and they have five children, now all safely past their college years. Professor Unger formerly taught at California State University at Long Beach, the University of California at Davis, and New York University. He is now professor emeritus at NYU.

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS

 1    THE NEW WORLD ENCOUNTERS THE OLD

 2    THE OLD WORLD COMES TO AMERICA  

 3    COLONIAL SOCIETY  

 4    MOVING TOWARD INDEPENDENCE  

 5    THE REVOLUTION  

 6    THE ORIGINS OF THE CONSTITUTION

 7    THE FIRST PARTY SYSTEM  

 8    THE JEFFERSONIANS IN OFFICE  

 9    THE AMERICAN ECONOMIC MIRACLE  

10   JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY  

11   THE MEXICAN WAR AND EXPANSIONISM  

12   AMERICANS BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR  

13   THE OLD SOUTH  

14   THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR  

15   THE CIVIL WAR  

16   RECONSTRUCTION  

APPENDIX  

BIBLIOGRAPHIES  

INDEX  

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