H. W. Brands - American Stories: A History of The United States, Combined Volume

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This edition is tied more closely than ever to the innovative website, MyHistoryLab, which helps you save time and improve results as you study history (www.myhistorylab.com). Improved MyHistoryLab icons throughout the book connect the main narrative of each chapter to a powerful array of MyHistoryLab resources, including primary source documents, analytical video segments, interactive maps, and more. Also tied to each chapter of the textbook, a powerful and personalized Study Plan is available on MyHistoryLab that will help you build a deeper and more critical understanding of the subject.

Every one of the more than 80 maps in the Second Edition has been redrawn for greater clarity and visual impact, making it easier for you to read and understand the book.

The text of the Second Edition has been extensively edited and rewritten to bring the story of American history into sharper focus. For example, all maps, figures, and tables are now numbered for easier reference and to integrate them more closely to the text. have more detail on empire and American foreign policy in the decades before World War I.

The coverage of Native Americans has been increased throughout the text. New sections discuss the diverse life-ways of native peoples in North America before the arrival of the Europeans ().

The discussion of the Spanish role in the American story has been enhanced with new coverage of Spanish colonization and Spanish interaction with the Native Americans ().

The history of African Americans has been expanded with new graphics in on the spread of Jim Crowe in both the South and North after Reconstruction.

have been rewritten to bring the American Story up to 2011 with new sections on the elections of 2008 and 2010, health care reform, the Great Recession, and gay marriage and gays in the military.

Many other changes have been made in light of new scholarship, and to incorporate new perspectives into the American story. See, for instance, the discussions of Jacksonian democracy in .

A History of the United States

Combined Volume

Second Edition

H. W. Brands

University of Texas

T. H. Breen

Northwestern University

R. Hal Williams

Southern Methodist University

Ariela J. Gross

University of Southern California

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

American stories : a history of the United States / H.W. Brands [et al.].2nd ed.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-205-24361-7 (combined)

978-0-205-03656-1 (vol. 1)

978-0-205-03655-4 (vol. 2)

1. United StatesHistory. I. Brands, H. W.

E178.A5544 2011

973dc23

2011023657

CHAPTER 4
EXPERIENCEOF EMPIRE: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA, 16801763

CHAPTER 5
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: FROM ELITE PROTESTTO POPULAR REVOLT, 17631783

CHAPTER 8
REPUBLICAN ASCENDANCY: THE JEFFERSONIAN VISION, 18001814

CHAPTER 10
THE TRIUMPHOF WHITE MENS DEMOCRACY, 18241840

CHAPTER 14
THE SECTIONAL CRISIS, 18461861

MAPS

Routes of the First Americans

The First Americans: Location of Major Indian Groups and Culture Areas in the 1600s

Trade Routes in Africa

Voyages of European Exploration

Chesapeake Colonies, 1640

New England Colonies, 1650

Middle Colonies, 1685

The Carolinas and Georgia

Origins and Destinations of African Slaves, 16191760

Distribution of European and African Immigrants in the Thirteen Colonies

The Spanish Borderlands, ca. 1770

The Great Wagon Road

North America, 1750

The Seven Years War, 17561763 Major battle sites

North America After 1763

Colonial Products and Trade

The American Revolution, 17751781

Spain entered the Revolutionary war as an ally of France in 1779

Northwest Territory

Western Land

Ratification of the Constitution

Conquest of the West

The Louisiana Purchase and the Route of Lewis and Clark

The War of 1812

The Missouri Compromise, 18201821

Election of 1828

Indian Removal

Election of 1840

Territorial Expansion by the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Major Battles of the Texas Revolution

The Mexican-American War

Railroads, 1850 and 1860

The Compromise of 1850