Out of Many: A History of the American People, Volume 1 / Edition 7

by John Mack Faragher

Overview

This major revision of a pathbreaking book weaves together the complex interaction of social, political, and historical forces that have shaped the United States and from which "the American people" have evolved by telling stories of people and of the nation and emphasizing that American history has never been the preserve of any particular region. Traditional turning points and watershed events are integrated with the stories of the nation's many diverse communities. The book's trademark "continental" approach has been expanded to incorporate a greater hemispheric perspective, while a new community and memory feature analyzes the role—and the conflicts—of historical memory in shaping communities' understanding of the past. Community and memory essays examine such topics as conflicts over Indian burial grounds, controversies surrounding the Alamo, and the way in which the American media is putting the World Trade Center bombing into historical perspective. Incorporates the latest research on the South, popular culture, science and technology, and the Cold War. Features full coverage of the African American experience—with full chapters on slavery and empire in the colonial period and the civil rights movement from the 1940's to the 1960's. Discussion of the role of minorities includes African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asians, and Pacific Islanders. Historians and anyone interested in American history from a narrative approach.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900205011918
Publisher:	Pearson
Publication date:	01/11/2011
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(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 life—independence, emerging democracy, slavery, westward settlement, imperial expansion, economic depression, war, technological change—were 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 way—from the vantage point of the beginning of a new century and the end of the Cold War—at 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 anachronistic—each 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 material—other readings, exercises—can 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: [phone].

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

Combined Edition includes Chapters 1-31
Volume I includes Chapters 1-17
Volume II includes Chapters 17-31

(NOTE: Each chapter begins with chapter-opening outlines and key topic lists and concludes with a Chronology, Conclusion, Review Questions, Recommended Reading, Additional Bibliography, and History on the Internet.)
Preface.
Community and Diversity.
1. A Continent of Villages, to 1500.

American Communities: Cahokia: Thirteenth-Century Life on the Mississippi. Settling the Continent. New Ways of Living on the Land. The Development of Farming. Cultural Regions of North America on the Eve of Colonization.

Community and Memory: The Battle over Burials.

2. When Worlds Collide, 1492-1590.

American Communities: The English and the Algonquians at Roanoke. The Expansion of Europe. The Spanish in the Americas. Northern Explorations and Encounters.

3. Planting Colonies in North America, 1588-1701.

American Communities: Communities Struggle with Diversity in Seventeenth-Century Santa Fé. Spain and Its Competitors in North America. England in the Chesapeake. The New England Colonies. The Restoration Colonies. Conflict and War.

4. Slavery and Empire, 1441-1770.

American Communities: African Slaves Build Their Own Community in Coastal Georgia. The Beginnings of African Slavery. The African Slave Trade. The Development of NorthAmerican Slave Societies. African to African American. Slavery and the Economies of Empire. Slavery and Freedom.

Community and Memory: The Living History of Slavery.

5. The Cultures of Colonial North America, 1700-1780.

American Communities: From Deerfield to Kahnawake: Crossing Cultural Boundaries. North American Regions. Diverging Social and Political Patterns. The Cultural Transformation of British North America.

6. From Empire to Independence, 1750-1776.

American Communities: The First Continental Congress Shapes a National Political Community. The Seven Years' War in America. The Imperial Crisis in British North America. “Save Your Money and Save Your Country.” From Resistance to Rebellion. Deciding For Independence.

Community and Memory: The Invention of the Liberty Bell.

7. The Creation of the United States, 1776-1786.

American Communities: A National Community Evolves at Valley Forge. The War for Independence. The United States in Congress Assembled. Revolutionary Politics in the States.

8. The United States of North America, 1787-1800.

American Communities: Mingo Creek Settlers Refuse to Pay the Whiskey Tax. Forming a New Government. The New Nation. Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans. “The Rising Glory of America.”

9. An Agrarian Republic, 1790-1824.

American Communities: Expansion Touches Mandan Villages on the Upper Missouri. North American Communities from Coast to Coast. A National Economy. The Jefferson Presidency. Renewed Imperial Rivalry in North America. The War of 1812. Defining the Boundaries.

Community and Memory: In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark.

10. The Growth of Democracy, 1824-1840.

American Communities: Martin Van Buren Forges a New Kind of Political Community. The New Democratic Politics in North America. The Jackson Presidency. Internal Improvements: Building an Infrastructure. Jackson and His Opponents: The Rise of the Whigs. The Second American Party System. American Arts and Letters.

11. The South and Slavery, 1790s-1850s.

American Communities: Natchez-under-the Hill. King Cotton and Southern Expansion. To Be a Slave. The African American Community. The White Majority. Planters. The Defense of Slavery.

12. Industry and the North, 1790s-1840s.

American Communities: Women Factory Workers Form a Community in Lowell, Massachusetts. Preindustrial Ways of Working. The Market Revolution. From Artisan to Worker. A New Social Order.

13. Coming to Terms with the New Age, 1820s-1850s.

American Communities: Seneca Falls: Women Reformers Respond to the Market Revolution. Urban America. The Labor Movement and Urban Politics. Social Reform Movements. Antislavery and Abolitionism. The Women's Rights Movement.

14. The Territorial Expansion of the United States, 1830s-1850s.

American Communities: Texans and Tejanos “Remember the Alamo!” Exploring the West. The Politics of Expansion. Americans in Texas. The Mexican-American War. California and the Gold Rush. The Politics of Manifest Destiny.

Community and Memory: Remembering the Alamo

15. The Coming Crisis, the 1850s.

American Communities: Illinois Communities Debate Slavery. America in 1850. The Compromise of 1850. The Crisis of the National Party System. The Differences Deepen. The South Secedes.

16. The Civil War, 1861-1865.

American Communities: Mother Bickerdyke Connects Northern Communities to Their Boys at War. Communities Mobilize for War. Governments Organize for War. The Fighting through 1862. The Death of Slavery. The Front Lines and the Home Front. The Tide Turns.

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. Southern Politics and Society. Reconstructing the North.

18. Conquest and Survival: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1860-1900.

American Communities: The Oklahoma Land Rush. Indian Peoples Under Siege. The Internal Empire. The Cattle Industry. Farming Communities on the Plains. The World's Breadbasket. The Western Landscape. The Transformation of Indian Societies.

19. The Incorporation of America, 1865-1900.

American Communities: Packingtown, Chicago, Illinois. Rise of Industry, the Triumph of Business. Labor in the Age of Big Business. The New South. The Industrial City. Culture and Society in the Gilded Age. Cultures in Conflict, Culture in Common.

Community and Memory: Representing Chicago's History.

20. Commonwealth and Empire, 1870-1900.

American Communities: The Cooperative Commonwealth. Toward a National Governing Class. Farmers and Workers Organize Their Communities. The Crisis of the 1890s. Politics of Reform, Politics of Order. “Imperialism of Righteousness.” The Spanish-America War.

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 Currents of Progressivism. Social Control and Its Limits. Working-Class Communities and Protest. Women's Movements and Black Awakening. National Progressivism.

Community and Memory: Battle for the Lower East Side.

22. World War I, 1914-1920.

American Communities: Vigilante Justice in Bisbee, Arizona. Becoming a World Power. The Great War. American Mobilization. Over Here. Repression and Reaction. An Uneasy Peace.

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 New Mass Culture. The State, the Economy, and Business. Resistance to Modernity. Promises Postponed.

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. Left Turn and the Second New Deal. The New Deal and the West. Depression-Era Culture. The Limits of Reform.

25. World War II, 1941-1945.

American Communities: Los Alamos, New Mexico. The Coming of World War II. Arsenal of Democracy. The Home Front. Men and Women in Uniform. The World at War. The Last Stages of War.

26. The Cold War, 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. The Truman Presidency. The Cold War at Home. Cold War Culture. End of the Democratic Era.

27. America at Midcentury, 1952-1963.

American Communities: Popular Music in Memphis. American Society at Midcentury. Youth Culture. Mass Culture and Its Discontents. The Cold War Continued. John F. Kennedy and the New Frontier.

28. The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1966.

American Communities: The Montgomery Bus Boycott: An African American Community Challenges Segregation. Origins of the Movement. No Easy Road to Freedom, 1957-62. The Movement at High Tide, 1963-65. Forgotten Minorities, 1945-65.

Community and Memory: Flying the “Stars and Bars.”

29. War at Home, War Abroad, 1965-1974.

American Communities: Uptown. Chicago, Illinois. Vietnam: America's Longest War. A Generation in Conflict. Wars on Poverty. 1968. The Politics of Identity. The Nixon Presidency. Watergate.

30. The Conservative Ascendancy, 1974-1987.

American Communities: Grass Roots Conservatism in Orange County, California. The Overextended Society. Communities and Politics. The New Conservatism. Adjusting to a New World. Reagan Revolution. Best of Times, Worst of Times. Reagan's Foreign Policy.

31. Toward a Transnational America, since 1988.

American Communities: The World Trade Center, New York, as a Transnational Community. A New World Order. The New Economy. Changing American Communities. A New Age of Anxiety. The New Millennium.

Community and Memory: The World Trade Center and Ways of Remembering.

Appendix.
Credits.
Index.

Combined Edition:

Preface

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 life—independence, emerging democracy, slavery, westward settlement, imperial expansion, economic depression, war, technological change—were 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 way—from the vantage point of the beginning of a new century and the end of the Cold War—at 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 anachronistic—each 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 material—other readings, exercises—can 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: [phone].

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.

Editorial Reviews

The stories of diverse communities of Americans offer a way of examining the complex forces shaping people's lives in this text/CD- ROM package. Each chapter in the text opens with a description of a representative community, with vignettes from all regions. This fourth edition features expanded coverage of immigrant communities and of US relations with the nations of the Western Hemisphere, plus a new final chapter on the promises and risks of American diversity in the 21st century. There is also new material on popular culture, the Cold War, and ways in which communities memorialize the past. The CD-ROM contains 120 maps with animations and interactive exercises, plus video clips, quizes, and essay questions. Faragher teaches history at Yale University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Out of Many is a fine synthesis of U.S. political, social, and cultural history, with splendid attention to region ... engagingly written and illustrated for students.

-Michael J. Pfeifer, John Jay College of Criminal Justice / History

The text provokes student excitement by initiating interesting stories augmented by illuminating but not excessive details. The review questions enable students to prepare for class discussion and the recommended readings provide a starting point for students wishing to delve further in a particular topic.

-Dr. Deborah Welch, Longwood University

The community vignettes are the most compelling feature of the textbook, marking this text as unique and at once scholarly and accessible. I admire these essays greatly and when reading them feel I myself am learning from some of the best scholars in the field.

-TJ Boisseau, University of Akron

…the overall presentation is very effective in every way. In the end that is the most important attribute. I would certainly describe it as one of the best textbooks on the market today.

-Burton Peretti, Western Connecticut State University

…an excellent text for instructors to use as they look for interesting information to add to their lectures.

-Thomas Clarkin, San Antonio College

From what I’ve seen over the years, the authors of Out of Many have proven to be very responsive to changes in the field, regularly broadening their geographic focus, highlighting the experiences of a wider variety of historical actors, and more meaningfully exploring global forces that have impacted American history. Thus, its most compelling attribute would have to be its sheer ambition in attempting to remain as current as possible, and it mostly succeeds.

- Jeffrey M. Schulze, University of Texas at Dallas

It is an easy-to-read, engaging text that gives students the information they need without bogging them down in unnecessary details, and it doesn’t tell students how to think but rather gives them the information they need to draw their own conclusions.

-Cynthia Carter, Florida Community College at Jacksonville

The main headings and subheadings help to navigate both instructor and student into a chronological and topical advance which both challenges and elevates critical thinking.

-Dr. John S. Leiby, Paradise Valley Community College

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