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Out of Many: A History of the American People, Volume 2 / Edition 7
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Overview
Out of Many is a coherent narrative of American history that offers insight into how diverse communities and different regions have shaped America's past. The text reveals the ethnic, geographical and economic diversity of the United States by examining the individual, the community and the state and placing a special focus on the country's regions, particularly the West.
The updated edition features new and expanded coverage of a wide variety of topics in addition to MyHistoryLab tools that connect the text to interactive online learning tools to bring U.S. history to life.
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ISBN-13: | 9780205011902 |
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Publisher: | Pearson |
Publication date: | 01/11/2011 |
Pages: | 624 |
Product dimensions: | 8.90(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
John Mack Faragher
John Mack Faragher is an Arthur Unobskey professor of American history and the director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University. Born in Arizona and raised in southern California, he received his B.A. at the University of California, Riverside, and his Ph.D. at Yale University. He is the author of Women and Men on the Overland Trail (1979), Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (1986), Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1992), The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000) and A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland (2005).
Mari Jo Buhle
Mari Jo Buhle is a William R. Kenan, Jr. University professor emerita of American civilization and history at Brown University specializing in American women’s history. She received her B.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920 (1981) and Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (1998). She is also the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left (second edition, 1998). Buhle held a fellowship (1991-1996) from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She is currently an honorary fellow of the history department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Daniel Czitrom
Daniel Czitrom is a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College. Born and raised in New York City, he received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan (1982), which won the First Books Award of the American Historical Association and has been translated into Spanish and Chinese. He is the co-author of Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn of the Century New York (2008). He has served as a historical consultant and been featured as an on-camera commentator for several documentary film projects, including the PBS productions New York : A Documentary Film, American Photography: A Century of Images and The Great Transatlantic Cable. He is currently writing New York Exposed: How a Gilded Age Police Scandal Shocked the Nation and Launched the Progressive Era (Oxford).
Susan H. Armitage
Susan H. Armitage is a professor of history and women’s studies emerita at Washington State University, where she was a Claudius O. and Mary R. Johnson distinguished professor. She earned her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Among her many publications on western women’s history are three co-edited books, The Women’s West (1987), So Much To Be Done: Women on the Mining and Ranching Frontier (1991) and Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women’s West (1997). She served as editor of the feminist journal Frontiers from 1996 to 2002. Her most recent publication, co-edited with Laurie Mercier, is Speaking History: Oral Histories of the American Past, 1865-Present (2009).
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PREFACE:
PREFACE
Out of Many, A History of the American People, Brief Third Edition, offers a distinctive and timely approach to American history, highlighting the experiences of diverse communities of Americans in the unfolding story of our country. These communities offer a way of examining the complex historical forces shaping people's lives at various moments in our past. The debates and conflicts surrounding the most momentous issues in our national lifeindependence, emerging democracy, slavery, westward settlement, imperial expansion, economic depression, war, technological changewere largely worked out in the context of local communities. Through communities we focus on the persistent tensions between everyday life and those larger decisions and events that continually reshape the circumstances of local life. Each chapter opens with a description of a representative community. Some of these portraits feature American communities struggling with one another: African slaves and English masters on the rice plantations of colonial Georgia, or Tejanos and Americans during the Texas war of independence. Other chapters feature portraits of communities facing social change: the feminists of Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848; the sitdown strikers of Flint, Michigan, in 1934; and the African Americans of Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. As the story unfolds we find communities growing to include ever larger groups of Americans: The soldiers from every colony who forged the Continental Army into a patriotic national force at Valley Forge during the American Revolution; the movie-goers who dreamed a collective dream of material prosperity andupward mobility during the 1920s; and the Americans linked in overgrowing numbers in the virtual communities of cyberspace as the twenty-first century begins.
We prepared this brief edition to serve the needs of one-semester courses, teachers who assign supplemental readings, or anyone interested in a more condensed narrative of American history. While this volume is about two-thirds the length of the full-length version, it retains the distinct point of view that makes it unique among all college-level American history texts. The community focus remains fully in place as the integrating perspective that allows us to combine political, social, and cultural history.
Out of Many is also the only American history text with a truly continental perspective. With community vignettes from New England to the South, the Midwest to the far West, we encourage students to appreciate the great expanse of our nation. For example, a vignette of seventeenth-century Santa Fe, New Mexico, illustrates the founding of the first European settlements in the New World. We present territorial expansion into the American West from the point of view of the Mandan villagers of the upper Missouri River of North Dakota. We introduce the policies of the Reconstruction era through the experience of African Americans in the Sea Island of South Carolina. This continental perspective drives home to students that American history has never been the preserve of any particular region.
In these ways Out of Many breaks new ground, but without compromising its coverage of the traditional turning points that we believe are critically important to an understanding of the American past. Among these watershed events are the Revolution and the struggle over the Constitution, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the Great Depression and World War II. In Out of Many, however, we seek to integrate the narrative of national history with the story of the nation's many diverse communities. The Revolutionary and Constitutional period tried the ability of local communities to forge a new unity, and success depended on their ability to build a nation without compromising local identity. The Civil War and Reconstruction formed a second great test of the balance between the national ideas of the revolution and the power of local and sectional communities. The Depression and the New Deal demonstrated the impotence of local communities and the growing power of national institutions during the greatest economic challenge in our history. Out of Many also looks back in a new and comprehensive wayfrom the vantage point of the beginning of a new century and the end of the Cold Warat the salient events of the last fifty years and their impact on American communities. The community focus of Out of Many weaves the stories of the people and of the nation into a single compelling narrative.
SPECIAL FEATURES
With each edition of Out of Many we have sought to strengthen its unique integration of the best of traditional American history with its innovative community-based focus and strong continental perspective. A wealth of special features and pedagogical aids reinforces our narrative and helps students grasp key issues.
- Community and Diversity. Out of Many, Brief Third Edition, opens with an introduction, titled "Community and Diversity," that acquaints students with the major themes of the book, providing them with a framework for understanding American history.
- Immigration and Community: The Changing Face of Ethnicity in America. This feature, new to this edition, highlights the impact of the immigrant experience on the formation of American communities. There are four Immigration and Community features in the book. The first covers the colonial period through 1800, the second covers from 1800 to 1860, the third covers from 1860 to 1930, and the last covers the period since 1930. Each is four pages long and opens with an overview of the character of immigration during the period in question. This overview is followed by a section called "In Their Own Words" that consists of extracts from primary sources written by immigrants themselves and by native-born Americans in response to the new arrivals. Study questions at the end of each Immigration and Community feature ask students to relate issues raised in the overview and documents to broader issues in American history.
- History and the Land. These features focus on the geographical dimension of historical change to give students an appreciation of the relationship between geography and history. Each elucidates an important historical trend or process with a map and a brief explanatory essay.
- American Communities. Each chapter opens with an American Communities vignette that relates the experience of a particular community to the broader issues discussed in the chapter.
- Maps. Out of Many, Brief Third Edition, has more maps than any other American history textbook. Many maps include topographical detail that helps students appreciate the impact of geography on history.
- Overview tables. Overview tables, also new to this edition, provide students with a summary of complex issues.
- Graphs, charts, and tables. Every chapter includes one or more graphs, charts, or tables that help students understand important events and trends.
- Photos and illustrations. The abundant illustrations in Out of Many, Brief Third Edition, include many images that have never before been used in an American history text. None of the images is anachronisticeach one dates from the historical period under discussion. Extensive captions treat the images as visual primary source documents from the American past, describing their source and explaining their significance.
- Chapter-opening outlines and key topics lists. These pedagogical aids provide students with a succinct preview of the material covered in each chapter.
- Chronologies. A chronology at the end of each chapter helps students build a framework of key events.
- Review Questions. Review questions help students review, reinforce, and retain the material in each chapter and encourage them to relate the material to broader issues in American history.
- Recommended Reading and Additional Bibliography. The works on the annotated Recommended Reading list at the end of each chapter have been selected with the interested introductory student in mind.
CLASSROOM ASSISTANCE PACKAGE
In classrooms across the country, many instructors encounter students who perceive history as merely a jumble of names, dates, and events. The key to bringing dimension to our dynamic past for students is a scholarship-laden, pedagogically rich text accompanied by a multimedia classroom assistance package that brings the 1600s through the 1990s alive. The package that accompanies Out of Many, Brief Edition, includes print and multimedia supplements that are designed to reinforce and enliven the richness of our past and inspire students with the excitement of studying the field of history.
PRINT SUPPLEMENTS
Instructor's Resource Manual
The Instructor's Resource Manual contains chapter outlines, detailed chapter overviews, activities, discussion questions, readings, and information on audio-visual resources that can be used in developing and preparing lecture presentations.
Test Item File
The Test Item File offers more than 1,500 multiple-choice, true-false, and essay test questions. It also includes multiple choice and map questions from the study guide that can be used for quizzes.
Prentice Hall Custom Test
This commercial-quality computerized test management program, for Windows and Macintosh environments, allows users to create their own tests using items from the printed Test Item File. The program allows users to edit the items in the Test Item File and to add their own questions. Online testing is also available.
Transparency Pack
This collection of over 160 full-color transparency acetates provides the maps, charts, and graphs from the text for use in classroom presentations.
Study Guide, Volumes I and II
The Study Guides are designed according to an SQ3R (Survey-Question-Read-Recite-Review) methodology. Each chapter includes a brief overview, a list of chapter objectives, an extensive questioning technique applied to chapter topics, study skills exercises, identification of terms, multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer, and essay questions. In addition, each chapter includes two to three pages of map questions and exercises.
Documents Set, Volumes I and II
Prepared by John Mack Faragher, Yale University, and Daniel Czitrom, Mount Holyoke College.
The authors have selected and carefully edited more than 300 documents that relate directly to the theme and content present in the text and organized them into five general categories: community, social history, government, culture, and politics. Each document includes a brief introduction as well as a number of questions to encourage critical analysis of the reading and to relate it to the content of the text. The documents are available for a nominal fee to the student with the purchase of the textbook.
Retrieving the American Past:
A Customized U.S. History Reader
Written and developed by leading historians and educators, this reader is an on-demand history database that offers 59 compelling modules on topics in American History. Approximately 35 pages in length, each module includes an introduction, several primary source documents, secondary source documents, follow-up questions, and recommendations for further reading. By deciding which modules to include and the order in which they will appear, instructors can compile the reader they want to use. Instructor-originated materialother readings, exercisescan be included. Contact your local Prentice Hall Representative for more information about this exciting custom publishing option.
Understanding and Answering Essay Questions
Prepared by Mary L. Kelley, San Antonio College.
This brief guide suggests helpful study techniques as well as specific analytical tools for understanding different types of essay questions and provides precise guidelines for preparing well-crafted essay answers. This guide is available free to students upon adoption by the instructor.
Reading Critically About History: A Guide to
Active Reading
Prepared by Rose Wassman and Lee Ann Rinsky.
This guide focuses on the skills needed to learn the essential information presented in college history textbooks. Material covered includes vocabulary skills, recognizing organizational patterns, critical thinking skills, understanding visual aids, and practice sections. This guide is available free to students upon adoption by the instructor.
Themes of the Times
The New York Times and Prentice Hall are sponsoring Themes of the Times, a program designed to enhance student access to current information of relevance in the classroom. Through this program, the core subject matter provided in the text is supplemented by a collection of current articles from one of the world's most distinguished newspapers, The New York Times. These articles demonstrate the vital, ongoing connection between what is learned in the classroom and what is happening in the world around us. To enjoy the wealth of information of the The New York Times daily, a reduced subscription rate is available. For information call toll-free: (800) 631-1222.
Prentice Hall and The New York Times are proud to cosponsor Themes of the Times. We hope it will make the reading of both textbooks and newspapers a more dynamic, involving process.
MULTIMEDIA SUPPLEMENTS
History on the Internet:
A Critical Thinking Guide
This guide focuses on developing the critical thinking skills necessary to evaluate and use online sources. The guide also provides a brief introduction to navigating the Internet, along with complete references related specifically to the History discipline and how to use the Companion Website available for Out of Many, Brief Edition. This 96page supplementary book is free to students with the purchase of the textbook.
Mapping American History: Interactive
Explorations CD ROM
Prepared by Gerald Danzer, University of Illinois-Chicago.
This unique multimedia resource provides over 150 interactive map activities and exercises organized by the chapters in the text. Designed to develop map reading, analysis, and literacy skills, the program also hells reinforce and review the content of each chapter. Available for Windows and Macintosh environments, the program uses audio, video, photographs, and illustrations to provide a complete multimedia experience. The software is available for a nominal fee with the purchase of the textbook.
Companion Website
Students can now take full advantage of the World Wide Web to enrich their study of American history through the Out of Many Companion Website. Features of the website include, for each chapter in the text, objectives, study questions, map labeling exercises, related links, and document exercises. A faculty module provides material from the Instructor's Resource Manual and the maps and charts from the text in Powerpoint format.
Powerpoint Images CD ROM
Available for Windows and Macintosh environments, this resource includes the maps, charts, graphs, and other illustrations from the text for use in Powerpoint" as well as over 200 color photographs. Organized by chapters in the text, this collection of images is useful for classroom presentations and lectures.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Community and Diversity
CHAPTER 17 RECONSTRUCTION 1863—1877
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Hale County, Alabama: From Slavery to Freedom in a Black Belt Community
The Politics of Reconstruction
The Meaning of Freedom
SEEING HISTORY Changing Images of Reconstruction
Southern Politics and Society
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Ku Klux Klan in Alabama
Reconstructing the North
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 18 CONQUEST AND SURVIVAL: The Trans-Mississippi West 1860—1900
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Oklahoma Land Rush
Indian Peoples Under Siege
The Internal Empire
The Open Range
SEEING HISTORY The Legendary Cowboy: Nat Love, Deadwood Dick
Farming Communities on The Plains
The World’s Breadbasket
The Western Landscape
The Transformation of Indian Societies
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 19 PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION IN THE GILDED AGE 1865—1900
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Haymarket Square, Chicago, May 4, 1886
The Rise of Industry, the Triumph of Business
SEEING HISTORY The Standard Oil Company
Labor in the Age of Big Business
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Regulating the Conditions and Limiting the Hours of Labor in the State of Illinois
The New South
The Industrial City
The Rise of Consumer Society
Cultures in Conflict, Culture in Common
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 20 DEMOCRACY AND EMPIRE 1870—1900
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Annexation of Hawai’i
Toward a National Governing Class
Farmers and Workers Organize their Communities
The Crisis of the 1890s
Politics of Reform, Politics of Order
The Path to Imperialism
SEEING HISTORY The White Man’s Burden
Onto a Global Stage
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Two Sides of Anti-Imperialism
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 21 URBAN AMERICA AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900—1917
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Henry Street Settlement House: Women Settlement House Workers Create a Community of Reform
The Origins of Progressivism
SEEING HISTORY Photographing Poverty in the Slums of New York
Progressive Politics in Cities and States
Social Control and Its Limits
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Debating Prohibition in Progressive-Era Ohio
Challenges to Progressivism
Women’s Movements and Black Activism
National Progressivism
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 22 A GLOBAL POWER: The United States in the Era of the Great War 1901—1920
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The American Expeditionary Force in France
Becoming a World Power
The Great War
American Mobilization
SEEING HISTORY Selling War
Over Here
Repression and Reaction
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Race Riot in Tulsa
An Uneasy Peace
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 23 THE TWENTIES 1920—1929
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Movie Audience And Hollywood: Mass Culture Creates A New National Community
Postwar Prosperity and Its Price
The State, the Economy, and Business
The New Mass Culture
SEEING HISTORY Creating Celebrity
Modernity and traditionalism
Promises Postponed
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 24 THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL 1929-1940
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Sit-Down Strike at Flint: Automobile Workers Organize a New Union
Hard Times
FDR and The First New Deal
FDR the Man
Left Turn and the Second New Deal
The New Deal in the South and West
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Californians Face the Influx of “Dust Bowl” Migrants
The Limits of Reform
Depression-Era Culture
SEEING HISTORY Documenting Hard Times in Black and White and Color
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Chapter 25 World War II 1941—1945
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Los Alamos, New Mexico
The Coming of World War II
The Great Arsenal of Democracy
SEEING HISTORY Norman Rockwell’s “Rosie, the Riveter”
The Home Front
Men and Women in Uniform
The World at War
The Last Stages of War
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT On Deploying the Atomic Bomb
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 26 THE COLD WAR BEGINS 1945—1952
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES University of Washington, Seattle: Students and Faculty Face the Cold War
Global Insecurities at War’s End
The Policy Of Containment
Cold War Liberalism
The Cold War At Home
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Congress and the Red Scare
Cold War Culture
SEEING HISTORY The Hollywood Film Invasion, U.S.A
Stalemate for the Democrats
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 27 AMERICA AT MIDCENTURY 1952—1963
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Popular Music in Memphis
Under the Cold War’s Shadow
The Affluent Society
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Integrating Levittown, Pennsylvania
Youth Culture
Mass Culture and Its Discontents
The Coming of the New Frontier
SEEING HISTORY Televising a National Tragedy
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 28 THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 1945—1966
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Montgomery Bus Boycott: An African American Community Challenges Segregation
Origins of the Movement
SEEING HISTORY Visualizing Civil Rights
No Easy Road to Freedom, 1957—62
The Movement at High Tide, 1963—65
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Showdown in Oxford: Integrating Ole Miss
Civil Rights Beyond Black and White
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 29 WAR ABROAD, WAR AT HOME 1965—1974
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Uptown, Chicago, Illinois
Vietnam: America’s Longest War
A Generation in Conflict
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Prospects for Peace in Vietnam, April 1965
Wars on Poverty
1968: Year of Turmoil
The Politics of Identity
The Nixon Presidency
SEEING HISTORY Kim Phuc, Fleeing a Napalm Attack Near Trang Bang
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 30 THE CONSERVATIVE ASCENDANCY 1974—1991
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Grassroots Conservatism in Orange County, California
The Overextended Society
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania
The New Right
SEEING HISTORY The Inaugurations of Carter and Reagan
The Reagan Revolution
Best of Times, Worst of Times
Toward A New World Order
“A Kinder, Gentler Nation”
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
CHAPTER 31 THE UNITED STATES IN A GLOBAL AGE 1992—2010
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Transnational Communities in San Diego and Tijuana
The Presidency of Bill Clinton
Changing American Communities
COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Illegal Immigrants and the Border Fence
President George W. Bush and the War on Terror
SEEING HISTORY The 9/11 Attacks
Barack Obama and the Audacity of Hope
Conclusion
Chronology
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
MyHistoryLab Connections
Appendix
Bibliography
Credits
Index
Preface
PREFACE
Out of Many, A History of the American People, Brief Third Edition, offers a distinctive and timely approach to American history, highlighting the experiences of diverse communities of Americans in the unfolding story of our country. These communities offer a way of examining the complex historical forces shaping people's lives at various moments in our past. The debates and conflicts surrounding the most momentous issues in our national lifeindependence, emerging democracy, slavery, westward settlement, imperial expansion, economic depression, war, technological changewere largely worked out in the context of local communities. Through communities we focus on the persistent tensions between everyday life and those larger decisions and events that continually reshape the circumstances of local life. Each chapter opens with a description of a representative community. Some of these portraits feature American communities struggling with one another: African slaves and English masters on the rice plantations of colonial Georgia, or Tejanos and Americans during the Texas war of independence. Other chapters feature portraits of communities facing social change: the feminists of Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848; the sitdown strikers of Flint, Michigan, in 1934; and the African Americans of Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. As the story unfolds we find communities growing to include ever larger groups of Americans: The soldiers from every colony who forged the Continental Army into a patriotic national force at Valley Forge during the American Revolution; the movie-goers who dreamed a collective dream of material prosperityandupward mobility during the 1920s; and the Americans linked in overgrowing numbers in the virtual communities of cyberspace as the twenty-first century begins.
We prepared this brief edition to serve the needs of one-semester courses, teachers who assign supplemental readings, or anyone interested in a more condensed narrative of American history. While this volume is about two-thirds the length of the full-length version, it retains the distinct point of view that makes it unique among all college-level American history texts. The community focus remains fully in place as the integrating perspective that allows us to combine political, social, and cultural history.
Out of Many is also the only American history text with a truly continental perspective. With community vignettes from New England to the South, the Midwest to the far West, we encourage students to appreciate the great expanse of our nation. For example, a vignette of seventeenth-century Santa Fe, New Mexico, illustrates the founding of the first European settlements in the New World. We present territorial expansion into the American West from the point of view of the Mandan villagers of the upper Missouri River of North Dakota. We introduce the policies of the Reconstruction era through the experience of African Americans in the Sea Island of South Carolina. This continental perspective drives home to students that American history has never been the preserve of any particular region.
In these ways Out of Many breaks new ground, but without compromising its coverage of the traditional turning points that we believe are critically important to an understanding of the American past. Among these watershed events are the Revolution and the struggle over the Constitution, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the Great Depression and World War II. In Out of Many, however, we seek to integrate the narrative of national history with the story of the nation's many diverse communities. The Revolutionary and Constitutional period tried the ability of local communities to forge a new unity, and success depended on their ability to build a nation without compromising local identity. The Civil War and Reconstruction formed a second great test of the balance between the national ideas of the revolution and the power of local and sectional communities. The Depression and the New Deal demonstrated the impotence of local communities and the growing power of national institutions during the greatest economic challenge in our history. Out of Many also looks back in a new and comprehensive wayfrom the vantage point of the beginning of a new century and the end of the Cold Warat the salient events of the last fifty years and their impact on American communities. The community focus of Out of Many weaves the stories of the people and of the nation into a single compelling narrative.
SPECIAL FEATURES
With each edition of Out of Many we have sought to strengthen its unique integration of the best of traditional American history with its innovative community-based focus and strong continental perspective. A wealth of special features and pedagogical aids reinforces our narrative and helps students grasp key issues.
- Community and Diversity. Out of Many, Brief Third Edition, opens with an introduction, titled "Community and Diversity," that acquaints students with the major themes of the book, providing them with a framework for understanding American history.
- Immigration and Community: The Changing Face of Ethnicity in America. This feature, new to this edition, highlights the impact of the immigrant experience on the formation of American communities. There are four Immigration and Community features in the book. The first covers the colonial period through 1800, the second covers from 1800 to 1860, the third covers from 1860 to 1930, and the last covers the period since 1930. Each is four pages long and opens with an overview of the character of immigration during the period in question. This overview is followed by a section called "In Their Own Words" that consists of extracts from primary sources written by immigrants themselves and by native-born Americans in response to the new arrivals. Study questions at the end of each Immigration and Community feature ask students to relate issues raised in the overview and documents to broader issues in American history.
- History and the Land. These features focus on the geographical dimension of historical change to give students an appreciation of the relationship between geography and history. Each elucidates an important historical trend or process with a map and a brief explanatory essay.
- American Communities. Each chapter opens with an American Communities vignette that relates the experience of a particular community to the broader issues discussed in the chapter.
- Maps. Out of Many, Brief Third Edition, has more maps than any other American history textbook. Many maps include topographical detail that helps students appreciate the impact of geography on history.
- Overview tables. Overview tables, also new to this edition, provide students with a summary of complex issues.
- Graphs, charts, and tables. Every chapter includes one or more graphs, charts, or tables that help students understand important events and trends.
- Photos and illustrations. The abundant illustrations in Out of Many, Brief Third Edition, include many images that have never before been used in an American history text. None of the images is anachronisticeach one dates from the historical period under discussion. Extensive captions treat the images as visual primary source documents from the American past, describing their source and explaining their significance.
- Chapter-opening outlines and key topics lists. These pedagogical aids provide students with a succinct preview of the material covered in each chapter.
- Chronologies. A chronology at the end of each chapter helps students build a framework of key events.
- Review Questions. Review questions help students review, reinforce, and retain the material in each chapter and encourage them to relate the material to broader issues in American history.
- Recommended Reading and Additional Bibliography. The works on the annotated Recommended Reading list at the end of each chapter have been selected with the interested introductory student in mind.
CLASSROOM ASSISTANCE PACKAGE
In classrooms across the country, many instructors encounter students who perceive history as merely a jumble of names, dates, and events. The key to bringing dimension to our dynamic past for students is a scholarship-laden, pedagogically rich text accompanied by a multimedia classroom assistance package that brings the 1600s through the 1990s alive. The package that accompanies Out of Many, Brief Edition, includes print and multimedia supplements that are designed to reinforce and enliven the richness of our past and inspire students with the excitement of studying the field of history.
PRINT SUPPLEMENTS
Instructor's Resource Manual
The Instructor's Resource Manual contains chapter outlines, detailed chapter overviews, activities, discussion questions, readings, and information on audio-visual resources that can be used in developing and preparing lecture presentations.
Test Item File
The Test Item File offers more than 1,500 multiple-choice, true-false, and essay test questions. It also includes multiple choice and map questions from the study guide that can be used for quizzes.
Prentice Hall Custom Test
This commercial-quality computerized test management program, for Windows and Macintosh environments, allows users to create their own tests using items from the printed Test Item File. The program allows users to edit the items in the Test Item File and to add their own questions. Online testing is also available.
Transparency Pack
This collection of over 160 full-color transparency acetates provides the maps, charts, and graphs from the text for use in classroom presentations.
Study Guide, Volumes I and II
The Study Guides are designed according to an SQ3R (Survey-Question-Read-Recite-Review) methodology. Each chapter includes a brief overview, a list of chapter objectives, an extensive questioning technique applied to chapter topics, study skills exercises, identification of terms, multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer, and essay questions. In addition, each chapter includes two to three pages of map questions and exercises.
Documents Set, Volumes I and II
Prepared by John Mack Faragher, Yale University, and Daniel Czitrom, Mount Holyoke College.
The authors have selected and carefully edited more than 300 documents that relate directly to the theme and content present in the text and organized them into five general categories: community, social history, government, culture, and politics. Each document includes a brief introduction as well as a number of questions to encourage critical analysis of the reading and to relate it to the content of the text. The documents are available for a nominal fee to the student with the purchase of the textbook.
Retrieving the American Past:
A Customized U.S. History Reader
Written and developed by leading historians and educators, this reader is an on-demand history database that offers 59 compelling modules on topics in American History. Approximately 35 pages in length, each module includes an introduction, several primary source documents, secondary source documents, follow-up questions, and recommendations for further reading. By deciding which modules to include and the order in which they will appear, instructors can compile the reader they want to use. Instructor-originated materialother readings, exercisescan be included. Contact your local Prentice Hall Representative for more information about this exciting custom publishing option.
Understanding and Answering Essay Questions
Prepared by Mary L. Kelley, San Antonio College.
This brief guide suggests helpful study techniques as well as specific analytical tools for understanding different types of essay questions and provides precise guidelines for preparing well-crafted essay answers. This guide is available free to students upon adoption by the instructor.
Reading Critically About History: A Guide to
Active Reading
Prepared by Rose Wassman and Lee Ann Rinsky.
This guide focuses on the skills needed to learn the essential information presented in college history textbooks. Material covered includes vocabulary skills, recognizing organizational patterns, critical thinking skills, understanding visual aids, and practice sections. This guide is available free to students upon adoption by the instructor.
Themes of the Times
The New York Times and Prentice Hall are sponsoring Themes of the Times, a program designed to enhance student access to current information of relevance in the classroom. Through this program, the core subject matter provided in the text is supplemented by a collection of current articles from one of the world's most distinguished newspapers, The New York Times. These articles demonstrate the vital, ongoing connection between what is learned in the classroom and what is happening in the world around us. To enjoy the wealth of information of the The New York Times daily, a reduced subscription rate is available. For information call toll-free: (800) 631-1222.
Prentice Hall and The New York Times are proud to cosponsor Themes of the Times. We hope it will make the reading of both textbooks and newspapers a more dynamic, involving process.
MULTIMEDIA SUPPLEMENTS
History on the Internet:
A Critical Thinking Guide
This guide focuses on developing the critical thinking skills necessary to evaluate and use online sources. The guide also provides a brief introduction to navigating the Internet, along with complete references related specifically to the History discipline and how to use the Companion Website available for Out of Many, Brief Edition. This 96page supplementary book is free to students with the purchase of the textbook.
Mapping American History: Interactive
Explorations CD ROM
Prepared by Gerald Danzer, University of Illinois-Chicago.
This unique multimedia resource provides over 150 interactive map activities and exercises organized by the chapters in the text. Designed to develop map reading, analysis, and literacy skills, the program also hells reinforce and review the content of each chapter. Available for Windows and Macintosh environments, the program uses audio, video, photographs, and illustrations to provide a complete multimedia experience. The software is available for a nominal fee with the purchase of the textbook.
Companion Website
Students can now take full advantage of the World Wide Web to enrich their study of American history through the Out of Many Companion Website. Features of the website include, for each chapter in the text, objectives, study questions, map labeling exercises, related links, and document exercises. A faculty module provides material from the Instructor's Resource Manual and the maps and charts from the text in Powerpoint format.
Powerpoint Images CD ROM
Available for Windows and Macintosh environments, this resource includes the maps, charts, graphs, and other illustrations from the text for use in Powerpoint" as well as over 200 color photographs. Organized by chapters in the text, this collection of images is useful for classroom presentations and lectures.