The American Yawp: A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 2: Since 1877 / Edition 1

The American Yawp: A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 2: Since 1877 / Edition 1

by Joseph L. Locke, Ben Wright
ISBN-10:
1503606880
ISBN-13:
9781503606883
Pub. Date:
01/22/2019
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10:
1503606880
ISBN-13:
9781503606883
Pub. Date:
01/22/2019
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
The American Yawp: A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 2: Since 1877 / Edition 1

The American Yawp: A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 2: Since 1877 / Edition 1

by Joseph L. Locke, Ben Wright
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Overview

"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass

The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jumping-off point for discussions in the U.S. history classroom and beyond.

Long before Whitman and long after, Americans have sung something collectively amid the deafening roar of their many individual voices. The Yawp highlights the dynamism and conflict inherent in the history of the United States, while also looking for the common threads that help us make sense of the past. Without losing sight of politics and power, The American Yawp incorporates transnational perspectives, integrates diverse voices, recovers narratives of resistance, and explores the complex process of cultural creation. It looks for America in crowded slave cabins, bustling markets, congested tenements, and marbled halls. It navigates between maternity wards, prisons, streets, bars, and boardrooms.

The fully peer-reviewed edition of The American Yawp will be available in two print volumes designed for the U.S. history survey. Volume II opens in the Gilded Age, before moving through the twentieth century as the country reckoned with economic crises, world wars, and social, cultural, and political upheaval at home. Bringing the narrative up to the present,The American Yawp enables students to ask their own questions about how the past informs the problems and opportunities we confront today.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781503606883
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 01/22/2019
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 464
Sales rank: 64,637
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Joseph L. Locke is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston-Victoria. He is the author of Making the Bible Belt: Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion (2017). Ben Wright is Assistant Professor of Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the coeditor of Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era (2013) and abolitionseminar.org, a NEH-funded resource for K–12 teachers. He is also Editor of the Teaching United States History Blog.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

16 Capital and Labor 1

17 Conquering the West 28

18 Life in Industrial America 56

19 American Empire 82

20 The Progressive Era 109

21 World War I and Its Aftermath 140

22 The New Era 163

23 The Great Depression 192

24 World War II 225

25 The Cold War 257

26 The Affluent Society 288

27 The Sixties 314

28 The Unraveling 343

29 The Triumph of the Right 376

30 The Recent Past 411

Contributors 441

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