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America's History: Concise Edition, Volume 1

Ninth Edition ©2018 Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert O. Self; James A. Henretta

Known for its clear, insightful analytical narrative and balanced approach, America’s History, Concise Edition is a brief, affordable text that brings America’s diverse past to life. The Concise Edition features the full narrative of the parent text, select images and maps, built-in...

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A brief text that helps your students understand why history matters

Known for its clear, insightful analytical narrative and balanced approach, America’s History, Concise Edition is a brief, affordable text that brings America’s diverse past to life. The Concise Edition features the full narrative of the parent text, select images and maps, built-in primary sources and skills-based pedagogy that gives students practice in thinking historically. Enhanced with a wealth of digital content in LaunchPad, the ninth edition provides easily assignable options for instructors and novel ways for students to master the content. Integrated with LearningCurve's, an adaptive online resource that helps students retain the material and come to class prepared.

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A big picture, analytical focus helps students understand not just what happened, but why. With its hallmark interpretive voice and thoughtful analysis, America's History helps students make sense of the past so they're never left wondering what's important. A variety of learning tools from the beginning to the end of each chapter support this "Big Idea" focus, while fostering critical thinking and guiding students in their reading.

A unique nine-part framework highlights key developments. America's History's periodizes history into nine distinct eras, each characterized by major developments and an overarching theme. Each part features a Thematic Timeline with a "Thematic Understanding" question that helps students identify the important forces shaping each period, to make connections between chapters, and to understand continuity and change over time.

A comprehensive document program offers students practice in document analysis. Two types of primary source features in every chapter offer many opportunities for assignment and discussion: "America in Global Context" gives students practice in comparison and data analysis using primary sources and data to situate U.S. history in a global context; and "Thinking Like a Historian" asks students to analyze a group of documents and use the evidence to create an argument. Free when packaged, the new edition of the companion reader, Sources of America’s History, offers a wealth of additional primary documents.

An author team of leading scholars and veteran teachers make the best of the new scholarship accessible and relevant. Rebecca Edwards, and Robert Self, and Eric Hinderaker bring fresh perspectives, new scholarship, and in particular, an increased attention to native peoples and emphasis on global context.

Emphasis on developing historical thinking skills. Students will gain proficiency in historical thinking skills via marginal review questions that ask students to "Identify Causes," "Trace Change over Time," and "Understand Points of View." "Making Connections" and "Turning Point" questions in the chapter review section ask students to consider broader historical issues, developments, and periodization.

LaunchPad helps you do more than you can with print alone. Free when packaged with the book,　LaunchPad’s course space and interactive e-book is ready to use as is, or can be edited and customized with your own material and assigned right away. Developed with extensive feedback from history instructors and students, LaunchPad includes the complete narrative e-book, as well as abundant primary documents, maps, images, assignments and activities. The aims of key learning outcomes are addressed via formative and summative assessment, short answer and essay questions, multiple choice quizzing, and LearningCurve, an adaptive learning tool designed to get students to read before they come to class. Available with training and support, LaunchPad can help you take your teaching into a new era.

LearningCurve ensures students come to class prepared. Tired of your students not reading the textbook? Would you like to know what they read and how much they understood—BEFORE they come to class? Assign LearningCurve, the adaptive learning tool created for your survey textbook in LaunchPad , and the system’s analytics will show how your students are doing with the reading so that you can adapt your class as needed. Each chapter-based LearningCurve activity gives students multiple chances to understand key concepts, return to the narrative textbook if they need to reread, and answer questions correctly. Over 90% of students report satisfaction with LearningCurve fun and accessible game-like interface. LearningCurve appeals to students so that they engage with the textbook, and it helps you to know what they know before class begins.　

A range of options offers convenience and value. In addition to the standard bound textbook, this edition is also available in convenient, discount-priced loose-leaf and e-book formats and in an interactive e-book format in the text’s dedicated version of LaunchPad, with all accompanying study resources fully integrated. LaunchPad is a complete course’s worth of material in a course space that makes everything assignable and assessable—and all for free when packaged with the textbook. 　

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New secondary sources feature "Interpretations" brings historical argumentation into each chapter. Students read two short passages from scholarly works that offer different interpretations of the same event or period. By examining the passages side-by-side and responding to the questions, students learn how historians interpret evidence, weigh facts, and arrive at their conclusions.

Thoroughly revised chapters on the early republic and antebellum America (Part 4) draws on the most recent scholarship in the field and incorporates five chapters into four.

Revised chapters on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Part 6) provide greater focus on cultural change in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

New section-review questions "In Your Own Words" help students articulate the main points of the section.　

New on-page glossary defines key terms to aid student understanding.

Revised and expanded chapter review sections help students grasp the chapter contents and make connections to other chapters, themes, and events in the textbook

New source-based questions in the test bank and in the LearningCurve adaptive learning tool in LaunchPad give instructors easier ways to test students on their understanding of sources in the book.

Questions in the online test bank can now be sorted by chapter learning objectives. This ability to sort allows instructors to test portions of the chapters, making it easier to see what major concepts students need to work on. The test bank is also tagged to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's Student Learning Outcomes for History 1301 (U.S. History to ​1877​) and History ​1302 (U.S. History ​Since 1865).　　

This is a well-structured book that addresses important events and offers the viewpoints of the ordinary people who shaped history. The combination of text, images, timelines, primary documents, as well as a good selection of "small picture" and "big picture" questions appeals to various learning styles of students.
―Petra DeWitt, Missouri University of Science and Technology

America’s History is both informative and engaging. With its myriad attributes, ranging from digital interaction to theme analysis, America’s History is sure to please.
―Whitney Snow, Midwestern State University

This is an excellent textbook that is distinguished mostly by its sensitivity toward new perspectives on early American history. I like the way that it is organized and written so that debates and discussions within our fields and discipline are relatively transparent compared to the panoptic voices offered by competing U.S. textbooks. The special features are useful and well-edited, and I appreciate how they do not interrupt the main textual narrative.
―Michael Wise, University of North Texas

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Table of Contents

Please note:
Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-15
Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-30

NOTE: LaunchPad material that does not appear in the print book – including guided reading exercises, source feature quizzes, LearningCurve adaptive quizzes, summative quizzes, all of the documents from the companion reader – has been labeled on this table of contents as shown. Each chapter in LaunchPad also comes with a wealth of additional documents, videos, key terms flashcards, map quizzes, and much more, all of which can be easily integrated and assigned.

　

Preface

Versions and Supplements

Brief Contents

Contents

Maps, Figures, and Tables

Part 1: 　Transformations of North America, 1491–1700

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Part 1 LaunchPad

Document P1-1: Meal of Maize and Beans, the Sixth Month of the Aztec Solar Calendar (c. 1585)

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Document P1-2: THEODORE DE BRY, The Natives of Florida Worship the Column Erected by Commander on His First Voyage (1591)

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Document P1-3: THOMAS MORTON, Manners and Customs of the Indians (of New England) (1637)

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Document P1-4: THOMAS PHILLIPS, A Journal of a Voyage Made in the Hannibal (1693–1694)

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Document P1-5: RICHARD HAKLUYT, A Discourse of Western Planting (1584)

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1. Colliding Worlds, 1491–1600

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

The Native American Experience

The First Americans

American Empires

Chiefdoms and Confederacies

Patterns of Trade

Sacred Power

Western Europe: The Edge of the Old World

Hierarchy and Authority

Peasant Society

Expanding Trade Networks

Myths, Religions, and Holy Warriors

West and Central Africa: Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Empires, Kingdoms, and Ministates

Trans-Saharan and Coastal Trade

The Spirit World

Exploration and Conquest

Portuguese Expansion

The African Slave Trade

Sixteenth-Century Incursions

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context Altered Landscapes

Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian Colliding Cultures

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Interpretations How Connected Were Native American Communities Before 1492?

Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad

Analyzing Voices A Spanish Priest Criticizes His Fellow Colonists LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

1. Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 1 LaunchPad
Document 1-1: THOMAS HARIOT, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588)

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Document 1-2: De Soto Encounters Incans in Peru ARTIST UNKNOWN (SPANISH SCHOOL), Construction of the First Christian Church in San Miguel de Piura, and the Battle of Hernando de Soto with the Indians (1726)

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Document 1-3: CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, Journal of the First Voyage (1492)

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Document 1-4: BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS, A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552)

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Document 1-5: COUNCIL OF HUEJOTZINGO, Letter to the King of Spain (1560)

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Document 1-6: BROTHER LUIS BRANDAON, Letter to Father Sandoval (1610)

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2. American Experiments, 1521–1700

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

Spain’s Tribute Colonies

A New American World

The Columbian Exchange

The Protestant Challenge to Spain

Plantation Colonies

Brazil’s Sugar Plantations

England’s Tobacco Colonies

The Caribbean Islands

Plantation Life

Neo-European Colonies

New France

New Netherland

The Rise of the Iroquois

New England

Instability, War, and Rebellion

Native American Resistance

Bacon’s Rebellion

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context Plantation Colonies Versus Neo-Europes

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Thinking Like a Historian Who Was Pocahontas?

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Interpretations What Role Did Climate Play in American Colonization?

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Analyzing Voices 　Susanna Martin, Accused Witch LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 2 LaunchPad
Document 2-1: Testimony of Acoma Indians (1599)

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Document 2-2: JOHN WINTHROP, A Model of Christian Charity (1630)

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Document 2-3: CARELl ALLARD, English Quakers Planting Tobacco on Barbados (1680)

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Document 2-4: Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649)

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Document 2-5: EDMUND WHITE, Letter to Joseph Morton (1687)

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Document 2-6: REV. FATHER LOUIS CELLOT, Letter to Father François Le Mercier (1656)

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Part 2: 　British North America and the Atlantic World, 1607–1763

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Document P2-1: OLAUDAH EQUIANO, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself (1794)

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Document P2-2: Letter from Christen Janzen to His Family (1711)

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Document P2-3: The Vain Prodigal Life and Tragical Penitent Death of Thomas Hellier (1680)

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Document P2-4 : GREGOIRE HURET, The Death of Some Jesuit Fathers in Nouvelle-France (1664)

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Document P2-5: Journal of James Kenny (1761–1763)

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3. The British Atlantic World, 1607–1750

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

Colonies to Empire, 1607–1713

Self-Governing Colonies and New Elites, 1607–1660

The Restoration Colonies and Imperial Expansion

From Mercantilism to Imperial Dominion

The Glorious Revolution in England and America

Imperial Wars and Native Peoples

Tribalization

Indian Goals

The Imperial Slave Economy

The South Atlantic System

Africa, Africans, and the Slave Trade

Slavery in the Chesapeake and South Carolina

An African American Community Emerges

The Rise of the Southern Gentry

The Northern Maritime Economy

The Urban Economy

Urban Society

The New Politics of Empire, 1713–1750

The Rise of Colonial Assemblies

Salutary Neglect

Protecting the Mercantile System

Mercantilism and the American Colonies

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context Olaudah Equiano: The Brutal "Middle Passage"

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Thinking Like a Historian Servitude and Slavery

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Interpretations Why Did Americans Adopt Slavery?

Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad

Analyzing Voices Native Americans and European Empires LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

　

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 3 LaunchPad

Document 3-1: At the Town-House in Boston: April 18th, 1689. A Letter to Sir Edmond Andros Knight (1689)

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Document 3-2: CANASSATEGO, Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New York (1742)

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Document 3-3: THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA, An Act for Suppressing Outlying Slaves (1691)

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Document 3-4: WILLIAM BYRD II, Diary Entries (1709–1712)

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Document 3-5: JOHN BARNARD, The Autobiography of the Rev. John Barnard (1766)

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Document 3-6: LORD CORNBURY, Letter to the Lords of Trade (1704)

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4. Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720–1763

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

New England’s Freehold Society

Farm Families: Women in the Household Economy

Farm Property: Inheritance

Freehold Society in Crisis

Diversity in the Middle Colonies

Economic Growth, Opportunity, and Conflict

Cultural Diversity

Religion and Politics

Commerce, Culture, and Identity

Transportation and the Print Revolution

The Enlightenment in America

American Pietism and the Great Awakening

Religious Upheaval in the North

Social and Religious Conflict in the South

The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Social Conflict, 1750–1765

The French and Indian War

The Great War for Empire

British Industrial Growth and the Consumer Revolution

The Struggle for Land in the East

Western Rebels and Regulators

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context Transatlantic Migration, 1500–1760

Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian Women’s Labor

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Interpretations Did Diversity Lead to Toleration?

Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad

Analyzing Voices Evangelical Religion and Enlightenment Rationalism LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

　

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 4 LaunchPad

Document 4-1: Benjamin Franklin’s Experiments with Electricity (Turned into an 18th Century Parlor Game) (c. 18th century)

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Document 4-2: SARAH OSBORN, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sarah Osborn (1814)

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Document 4-3: CHARLES WOODMASON, Journal (1766–1768)

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Document 4-4: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Albany Plan of Union (1754)

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Document 4-5: State of the British and French Colonies in North America (1755)

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Document 4-6: Petition from the Inhabitants of Orange County, North Carolina (1770)

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Part 3: 　Revolution and Republican Culture, 1754–1800

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Document P3-1: RICHARD ALLEN, Eulogy for Washington (1799)

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Document P3-2: J. HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CRÈVECOEUR, Letters from an American Farmer (1782)

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Document P3-3: JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY, On the Equality of the Sexes (1790)

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Document P3-4: George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)

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Document P3-5: EDWARD SAVAGE, Liberty. In the Form of the Goddess of Youth, Giving Support to the Bald Eagle (1796)

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5. The Problem of Empire, 1754–1776

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

An Empire Transformed

The Costs of Empire

George Grenville and the Reform Impulse

An Open Challenge: The Stamp Act

The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765–1770

Formal Protests and the Politics of the Crowd

The Ideological Roots of Resistance

Another Kind of Freedom

Parliament and Patriots Square Off Again

The Problem of the West

Parliament Wavers

The Road to Independence, 1771–1776

A Compromise Repudiated

The Continental Congress Responds

The Rising of the Countryside

Loyalists and Neutrals

Violence East and West

Lord Dunmore’s War

Armed Resistance in Massachusetts

The Second Continental Congress Organizes for War

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

Independence Declared

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context Britain’s Atlantic and Asian Empires

Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian Beyond the Proclamation Line

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Interpretations Did British Administrators Try to Protect or Exploit Native Americans?

Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad

Analyzing Voices The Debate over Representation and Sovereignty LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

　

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 5 LaunchPad

Document 5-1: RICHARD BLAND, Inquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies (1766)

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Document 5-2: STAMP ACT CONGRESS, Declaration of Rights (1765)

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Document 5-3: PETER OLIVER, Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion (1781)

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Document 5-4: A Protest by the Worcester, Massachusetts, Selectmen (1774)

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Document 5-5: THOMAS HUTCHINSON, Letter to Thomas Whately (1769)

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Document 5-6: THOMAS PAINE, Common Sense (1776)

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6. Making War and Republican Governments, 1776–1789

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

The Trials of War, 1776–1778

War in the North

Armies and Strategies

Victory at Saratoga

The Perils of War

Financial Crisis

Valley Forge

The Path to Victory, 1778–1783

The French Alliance

War in the South

The Patriot Advantage

Diplomatic Triumph

Creating Republican Institutions, 1776–1787

The State Constitutions: How Much Democracy?

Women Seek a Public Voice

The War’s Losers: Loyalists, Native Americans, and Slaves

The Articles of Confederation

Shays’s Rebellion

The Constitution of 1787

The Rise of a Nationalist Faction

The Philadelphia Convention

The People Debate Ratification

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context China’s Growing Empire

Quiz for America in Global Context LaunchPad

Thinking Like a Historian The Black Soldier’s Dilemma

Quiz for Thinking Like a Historian LaunchPad

Interpretations Was the Constitution Necessary?

Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad

Analyzing Voices The First National Debate over Slavery LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

　

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 6 LaunchPad

Document 6-1: Instructions to the Delegates from Mecklenburg to the Provincial Congress at Halifax in November (1776)

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Document 6-2: ABIGAIL AND JOHN ADAMS, Correspondence (1776)

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Document 6-3: PRINCE HALL, Petition for Freedom to the Massachusetts Council and the House of Representatives (1777)

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Document 6-4: JAMES PEALE, General George Washington at Yorktown (c. 1782)

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Document 6-5: DANIEL GRAY, Address to the People of Several Towns (1786)

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Document 6-6: JAMES MADISON, Federalist No. 10 and Federalist No. 51 (1787)

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7. Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787–1820

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

The Political Crisis of the 1790s

The Federalists Implement the Constitution

Hamilton’s Financial Program

Jefferson’s Agrarian Vision

The French Revolution Divides Americans

The Rise of Political Parties

A Republican Empire Is Born

Sham Treaties and Indian Lands

Migration and the Changing Farm Economy

The Jefferson Presidency

Jefferson and the West

The War of 1812 and the Transformation of Politics

Conflict in the Atlantic and the West

The War of 1812

The Federalist Legacy

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context The Haitian Revolution and the Problem of Race

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Thinking Like a Historian The Social Life of Alcohol

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Interpretations Did Hamilton’s Economic System Endanger the Legacy of the Revolution?

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Analyzing Voices Factional Politics and the War of 1812 LaunchPad

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Summative Quiz LaunchPad

　

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 7 LaunchPad

Document 7-1: ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Letter to Edward Carrington (1792)

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Document 7-2: THOMAS JEFFERSON, Notes on the State of Virginia (1781)

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Document 7-3: THE PROVIDENTIAL DETECTION (c. 1790s)

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Document 7-4: THE PANOPLIST AND MISSIONARY HERALD, Retrograde Movement of National Character (1818)

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Document 7-5: TECUMSEH, "Sleep Not Longer, O’ Choctaws and Chickasaws" (1811)

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Document 7-6: Report of the Hartford Convention (1815)

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Part 4: 　Overlapping Revolutions, 1800–1848

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Part 4 LaunchPad

Document P4-1: Process of Excavation, Erie Canal, Lockport (c. 1820s)

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Document P4-2: JOSEPH STORY, Address Delivered on the Dedication of the Cemetery at Mount Auburn (1831)

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Document P4-3: EMMELINE B. WELLS, Diary (1846)

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Document P4-4: GEORGE CAITLIN, Letters and Notes (1841) and Wi-jun-jon, Pigeon’s Egg Head (The Light) Going to and Returning from Washington (c. 1837-1839)

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Document P4-5: ALBERT BRISBANE, A Concise Exposition of the Doctrine of Association (1843)

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8. Economic Transformations, 1800–1848

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

Foundations of a New Economic Order

Credit and Banking

Transportation and the Market Revolution

The Cotton Complex: Northern Industry and Southern Agriculture

The American Industrial Revolution

Origins of the Cotton South

The Cotton Boom and Slavery

Technological Innovation and Labor

The Spread of Innovation

Wageworkers and the Labor Movement

The Growth of Cities and Towns

New Social Classes and Cultures

Planters, Yeomen, and Slaves

The Northern Business Elite

The Middle Class

Urban Workers and the Poor

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context The Fate of the American and Indian Textile Industries

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Thinking Like a Historian The Entrepreneur and the Community

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Interpretations Did the Market Revolution Expand Opportunities for Women?

Quiz for Interpretations LaunchPad

Analyzing Voices The Debate over Free and Slave Labor LaunchPad

Quiz for Analyzing Voices LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

　

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 8 LaunchPad

Document 8-1: J. HILL, Junction of Erie and Northern Canal (c. 1830–1832)

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Document 8-2: THE WEEKLY REGISTER, Home Influence (1813)

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Document 8-3: LUCY LARCOM, Among Lowell Mill-Girls: A Reminiscence (1881)

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Document 8-4: Ethan Andrews, Slavery and the Domestic Slave-Trade (1836)

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Document 8-5: Ely moore, Address Delivered Before the General Trades’ Union of the City of New-York (1833)

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9. A Democratic Revolution, 1800–1848

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

The Rise of Popular Politics

The Decline of the Notables and the Rise of Parties

Racial Exclusion and Republican Motherhood

The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821

The Election of 1824

The Last Notable President: John Quincy Adams

"The Democracy" and the Election of 1828

Jackson in Power, 1829–1837

Jackson’s Agenda: Rotation and Decentralization

The Tariff and Nullification

The Bank War

Indian Removal

Jackson’s Impact

Class, Culture, and the Second Party System

The Whig Worldview

Labor Politics and the Depression of 1837–1843

"Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!"

Chapter Review

LearningCurve LaunchPad

America in Global Context Alexis de Tocqueville: Letter to Louis de Kergorlay, June 29, 1831

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Thinking Like a Historian Becoming Literate: Public Education and Democracy

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Interpretations Was Indian Removal Humanitarian or Racist?

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Analyzing Voices The Character and Goals of Andrew Jackson LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 9 LaunchPad

Document 9-1: MARTIN VAN BUREN, The Autobiography of Martin Van Buren (1854)

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Document 9-2: FITZWILLIAM BYRDSALL, The History of the Loco-Foco or Equal Rights Party (1842)

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Document 9-3: ANDREW JACKSON, Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States (1832)

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Document 9-4: Henry Clay, Speech on the Presidential Election (1840)

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Document 9-5: Capitol Fashions for 1837 (1837)

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Document 9-6: CHEROKEE WOMEN, Petition (1821 [1831?])

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10. Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820–1848

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Spiritual Awakenings

The Second Great Awakening

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism

Utopian Experiments

Urban Cultures and Conflicts

Sex in the City

Popular Fiction and the Penny Press

Urban Entertainments

African Americans and the Struggle for Freedom

Free Black Communities, North and South

The Rise of Abolitionism

The Women’s Rights Movement

Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement

From Antislavery to Seneca Falls

Chapter Review

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America in Global Context Women’s Rights in France and the United States, 1848

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Thinking Like a Historian Dance and Social Identity in Antebellum America

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Interpretations What Motivated Antebellum Reformers?

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Analyzing Voices Saving the Nation from Drink LaunchPad

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Document 10-1: MARGARET FULLER, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

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Document 10-2: JOSEPH SMITH, History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet (c. 1830s)

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Document 10-3: Advertisement for the American Museum (1845)

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Document 10-4: SARAH GRIMKÉ, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)

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Document 10-5: DAVID WALKER, Preamble to Walker’s Appeal in Four Articles (1830)

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Document 10-6: CALVIN COLTON, Abolition a Sedition (1839)

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11. Imperial Ambitions, 1820–1848 　

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The Expanding South

Planters, Small Freeholders, and Poor Freemen

The Settlement of Texas

The Politics of Democracy

The African American World

Evangelical Black Protestantism

Forging Families and Communities

Negotiating Rights

Manifest Destiny, North and South

The Push to the Pacific

The Plains Indians

The Fateful Election of 1844

The U.S.-Mexico War, 1846–1848

The "War of a Thousand Deserts"

Polk’s Expansionist Program

American Military Successes

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America in Global Context Financing War

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Thinking Like a Historian Childhood in Black and White

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Interpretations What Explains American Enthusiasm for Manifest Destiny?

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Analyzing Voices The U.S.-Mexico War: Expansion and Slavery LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 11 LaunchPad

Document 11-1: SUSAN DABNEY SMEDES, Memorials of a Southern Planter (1887)

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Document 11-2: Slave Songs of the United States (1867) and Slaves Dance to Their Own Music on a Southern Plantation (c. 1852)

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Document 11-3: LANSFORD HASTINGS, The Emigrant’s Guide to Oregon and California (1845)

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Document 11-4: JOHN D. SLOAT, To the Inhabitants of California (1846) and GENERAL FRANCISCO MEJIA, A Proclamation at Matamoros (1846)

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Document 11-5: Richard Doyle, The Land of Liberty (1847)

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Part 5: Consolidating a Continental Union, 1844–1877

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Document P5-1: ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Declaration of Rights and Sentiments (1848)

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Document P5-2: STATUTES OF CALIFORNIA, An Act for the Government and Protection of Indians (1850)

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Document P5-3: SAMUEL F. B. MORSE, Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States (1855)

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Document P5-4: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Cooper Union Address (1860)

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Document P5-5: ALEXANDER STEPHENS, "Cornerstone" Speech (1861)

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Document P5-6: THOMAS NAST, "This is a White Man’s Government" (1868)

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12. Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844–1860

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A Divisive War, 1844–1850

"Free Soil" in Politics

California Gold and Racial Warfare

1850: Crisis and Compromise

The End of the Second Party System, 1850–1858

The Abolitionist Movement Grows

The Whig Party’s Demise

Immigrants and Know-Nothings

The West and the Fate of the Union

Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Triumph, 1858–1860

Lincoln’s Political Career

The Union Under Siege

The Election of 1860

Secession Winter, 1860–1861

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America in Global Context The Gold Rush: California and Australia

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Thinking Like a Historian The Irish in America

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Interpretations Did Slavery Have a Future in the West?

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Analyzing Voices To Secede or Not to Secede? LaunchPad

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Document 12-1: Susan Shelby Magoffin, Diary (1846)

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Document 12-2: John l. Magee, Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler (1856)

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Document 12-3: JOHN C. CALHOUN, Speech on the Slavery Question (1850)

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Document 12-4: CHARLES SUMNER, The Crime of Kansas (1856)

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Document 12-5: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

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Document 12-6: KEZIAH GOODWIN HOPKINS BREVARD, Diary (1860–1861)

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13. Bloody Ground: The Civil War, 1861–1865

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The War Begins, 1861–1862

Early Expectations

Campaigns East and West

Antietam and Its Consequences

Toward "Hard War," 1863

Politics North and South

The Impact of Emancipation

Citizens and the Work of War

Vicksburg and Gettysburg

The Road to Union Victory, 1864–1865

Grant and Sherman Take Command

The Election of 1864 and Sherman’s March

The Confederacy Collapses

The World the War Made

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America in Global Context War Debt: Britain and the United States, 1830–1900

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Thinking Like a Historian Military Deaths — and Lives Saved — During the Civil War

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Interpretations How Divided Was the Confederate Public?

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Analyzing Voices These Honored Dead LaunchPad

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Document 13-1: Sowing and Reaping (1863)

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Document 13-2: Ambrose Bierce, What I Saw of Shiloh (1881)

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Document 13-3: CORNELIA HANCOCK, Letters of a Civil War Nurse (1863)

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Document 13-4: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Emancipation Proclamation (1863) and JEFFERSON DAVIS, President’s Message (1863)

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Document 13-5: HARRY SMITH, Fifty Years of Slavery (1891)

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Document 13-6: WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Special Field Order No. 15 (1865)

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14. Reconstruction, 1865–1877

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The Struggle for National Reconstruction

Presidential Approaches: From Lincoln to Johnson

Congress Versus the President

Radical Reconstruction

Women’s Rights Denied

The Meaning of Freedom

The Quest for Land

Republican Governments in the South

Building Black Communities

The Undoing of Reconstruction

The Republicans Unravel

Counterrevolution in the South

Reconstruction Rolled Back

The Political Crisis of 1877

Lasting Legacies

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America in Global Context Labor Laws After Emancipation: Haiti and the United States

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Thinking Like a Historian The South’s "Lost Cause"

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Interpretations How Free Were Freedwomen in Reconstruction?

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Analyzing Voices The Impact of Terror LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 14 LaunchPad

Document 14-1: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Last Public Address (1865)

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Document 14-2: BETTY POWERS, Federal Writers’ Project Interview (c. 1936)

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Document 14-3: FRANCES BUTLER LEIGH, Letter to a Friend in England (1867)

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Document 14-4: CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS JR., The Protection of the Ballot in National Elections (1869)

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Document 14-5: THOMAS NAST, Colored Rule in a Reconstructed State (1874)

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Document 14-6: ROBERT BROWNE ELLIOTT, Speech to Congress (1874)

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15. Conquering a Continent, 1860–1890

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The Republican Vision

The New Union and the World

Integrating the National Economy

Incorporating the West

Mining Empires

Cattlemen on the Plains

Homesteaders

The First National Park

A Harvest of Blood: Native Peoples Dispossessed

The Civil War and Indians on the Plains

Grant’s Peace Policy

The End of Armed Resistance

Strategies of Survival

Western Myths and Realities

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America in Global Context The Santa Fe Railroad in Mexico and the United States

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Thinking Like a Historian Representing Indians

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Interpretations What Factors Motivated America’s Indian Policies?

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Analyzing Voices Women’s Rights in the West LaunchPad

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Document 15-1: Indian Territory, That Garden of the World (c. 1880)

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Document 15-2: CURRIER & IVES, Across the Continent (1868)

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Document 15-3: J. WRIGHT MOOAR, Buffalo Days (1933)

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Document 15-4: FRANCIS A. WALKER, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1872)

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Document 15-5: MOURNING DOVE, A Salishan Autobiography (1990)

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Rebecca Edwards

Rebecca Edwards is Eloise Ellery Professor of History at Vassar College, where she teaches courses on the Civil War era, the West, environmental history, and the history of women and gender roles. She is the author of, among other publications, Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era; New Spirits: Americans in the "Gilded Age," 1865-1905; and the essay "Women's and Gender History" in The New American History. She is currently researching the connections between westward expansion, high frontier fertility, and nineteenth-century political ideologies.

Eric Hinderaker

Eric Hinderaker is Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Utah.  His research explores early modern imperialism, relations between Europeans and Native Americans, and comparative colonization.  His publications include The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery, which won the Dixon Ryan Fox Prize; Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800; and, with Peter C. Mancall, At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America.  He is currently working on two books, one about the Boston Massacre and another, with Rebecca Horn, on patterns of European colonization in the Americas.

Robert O. Self

Robert O. Self is Professor of History at Brown University. His research focuses on urban history, American politics, and the post-1945 United States. He is the author of American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, which won four professional prizes, including the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s. He is currently at work on a book about the centrality of houses, cars, and children to family consumption in the twentieth-century United States.

James A. Henretta

James A. Henretta is a Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Maryland, College Park. His publications include "Salutary Neglect": Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle; The Origins of American Capitalism; and an edited volume, Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750-1850. His most recent publication is a long article, "Charles Evans Hughes and the Strange Death of Liberal America," in Law and History Review, derived from his ongoing research on the liberal state in America, and in particular, New York, 1820-1975.

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