American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation, Volume 2 / Edition 4

by Mark C. Carnes, John A. Garraty

Overview

Bridging the present to the past.

American Destiny’s mission is to show readers how history connects to the experiences and expectations that mark their lives. The authors pursue that mission through a variety of distinctive features, including American Lives essays and Re-Viewing the Past movie essays. This book is the abridged version of The American Nation, 14th edition.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780205790401
Publisher:	Pearson
Publication date:	07/11/2011
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	552
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Mark C. Carnes

Mark C. Carnes received his undergraduate degree from Harvard and his Ph.D in history from Columbia University. He has chaired both the history and American studies departments at Barnard College and Columbia University, where he serves as the Ann Whitney Olin professor of history. He is also the general editor of the American National Biography, whose 27th volume will appear in 2011. Carnes has published numerous books on American social and cultural history, including Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America (1989), Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies (1995), Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America’s Past (2001) and Invisible Giants: 50 Americans That Shaped the Nation but Missed the History Books (2002). Carnes also pioneered the Reacting to the Past pedagogy, which won the Theodore Hesburgh Award as the top outstanding pedagogical innovation in the nation (2004). In Reacting to the Past, college students play elaborate games, set in the past, their roles informed by classic texts. (For more on Reacting, see: www.barnard.edu/reacting.) In 2005 the American Historical Association named Carnes the recipient of the William Gilbert Prize for the best article on teaching history. His Mind Games: Rethinking Higher Education will be published in 2012.

John A. Garraty

John A. Garraty held a Ph.D from Columbia University and an L.H.D. from Michigan State University. He was the Gouverneur Morris professor emeritus of history at Columbia. He was also the author, co-author and editor of scores of books and articles, among them biographies of Silas Wright, Henry Cabot Lodge, Woodrow Wilson, George W. Perkins and Theodore Roosevelt. With Carnes, he co-edited the American National Biography. Garraty also contributed a volume — The New Commonwealth — to the New American Nation series and published a pioneering comparative study of the Great Depression.

Table of Contents

Detailed Contents

Maps and Graphs

Feature Essays

Preface

Supplements for Instructors and Students

About the Authors

Chapter 15 Reconstruction and the South

Chapter 16 The Conquest of the West

Chapter 17 An Industrial Giant Emerges

Chapter 18 American Society in the Industrial Age

Chapter 19 Intellectual and Cultural Trends in the Late Nineteenth Century

Chapter 20 From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877-1896

Chapter 21 The Age of Reform

Chapter 22 From Isolation to Empire

Chapter 23 Woodrow Wilson and the Great War

Chapter 24 Postwar Sociert and Culture: Change and Adjustment

Chapter 25 From "Normalcy" to Economic Collapse: 1921-1933

Chapter 26 The New Deal: 1933-1941

Chapter 27 War and Peace: 1941-1945

Chapter 28 Collision Courses, Abroad and at Home: 1946-1960

Chapter 29 From Camelot to Watergate: 1961-1975

Chapter 20 Running on Empty: 1975-1991

Chapter 31 From Boomers to Millennials

Chapter 32 Shocks and Responses, 1992-Present

Maps

Index

Editorial Reviews

“…offers a detailed standard history of the United States, with materials beyond what can be covered in a classroom. It also has features within the book to encourage original thinking on the part of students.”

-Billy Hathorn, Laredo Community College

“…does an excellent job of organizing the material in a way that ties everything together for the student…this text provides the best instructional aides on the market.”

-Andrew Bagley, Phillips Community College

“…does an excellent job at providing a compelling chronological narrative that flows smoothly.”

-Horacio Salinas, Jr., Laredo Community College

“This text is very complete for an introductory course. It will keep the students’ interest in learning.”

-Armando C. Alonzo, Texas A&M University

“…a comprehensive people’s history that is not shy to be critical of many deeds, but is also careful to give credit to unknown individuals and groups when it is due.”

-Dr, Itai Sneh, John Jay College

“There are two compelling attributes of American Destiny: its attempt at a balance between the political and social issues…and its attempt to show the relevance (through the Chapter introductions) of history to the present.”

-Thomas Born, Blinn College

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