Hist, Volume 2

by Kevin Schultz

Overview

Learn American history YOUR Way with Schultz's HIST, Volume 2, 6th Edition! This easy-to-read, narratively constructed comprehensive paperback textbook presents course content through visually-engaging chapters, engaging story telling and clear analysis of the complex themes of U.S. history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780357948736
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	02/22/2024
Series:	Mindtap Course List
Edition description:	6th ed.
Pages:	1152
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Kevin M. Schultz teaches American history to hundreds of students each year at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), a public R1 university with one of the most diverse campuses in the country. Currently Chair of the Department of History, Professor Schultz has special interests in religion, ethnic and racial history and American intellectual and cultural life. He is past president of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History and is the author of several books. His BUCKLEY AND MAILER: THE DIFFICULT FRIENDSHIP THAT SHAPED THE SIXTIES (W.W. Norton & Co.), came out in 2015 and was reviewed widely, including in The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal and dozens more venues. His TRI-FAITH AMERICA: HOW POSTWAR CATHOLICS AND JEWS HELPED AMERICA REALIZE ITS PROTESTANT PROMISE was published by Oxford University Press in 2011 and is now in paperback. And he is currently finishing a book on why everyone in America seems to hate liberals. An award-winning teacher, he received his B.A. from Vanderbilt University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

1. Three Societies on the Verge of Contact. 2. Contact and Settlement, 1492-1660. 3. Expansion and Its Costs, 1660-1700. 4. Expansion and Control, 1700-1763. 5. Toward Revolution, 1763-1775. 6. The Revolution. 7. Confederation and Constitution, 1783-1789. 8. Securing the New Nation, 1789-1800. 9. Jeffersonian Democracy, 1800-1814. 10. The Market Revolution. 11. Politics of the Market Revolution. 12. A Regionalized America, 1830-1860. 13. The Continued Move West. 14. The Impending Crisis. 15. The Civil War. 16. Reconstruction, 1865-1877. 17. The Industrial Revolution. 18. The Industrial Age: North, South, and West. 19. The Progressive Era. 20. Becoming a World Power. 21. Prosperity and Change in the Twenties. 22. The Great Depression and the New Deal. 23. World War II. 24. Cold War America. 25. The Sixties. 26. The Age of Fracture: The 1970s. 27. Reagan's America. 28. America in the Information Age. 29. Globalization and Its Discontents.