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Praised for its focus on turning points and engines of change, the Value Edition of America’s History explains the why behind events. The tenth edition presents a greater variety of tools to engage today's students. This edition includes new part opener features to help students study change and continuity in key periods and new coverage of capitalism and the economy.　

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An analytical focus on turning points and causes and consequences 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 opener features an introduction to the period framed by three questions that probe key developments, a streamlined thematic chronology that helps students identify the important forces shaping the period, and new part pre- and post-reading questions that help students make connections among chapters and understand continuity and change over time.

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An author team of leading scholars and veteran teachers make the best of the new scholarship accessible and relevant. Rebecca Edwards, Eric Hinderaker, and Robert O. Self bring fresh perspectives, new scholarship, and in particular, an increased attention to capitalism and the economy.

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Enhanced part openers help students focus on the major developments that define each period. To help students focus on why history developed as it did, the three brief thematic essays in the part introductions now begin with headings phrased as questions. Streamlined thematic chronologies focus on the most important developments of the era and help students see the context and relationship among events. New "Tying the Chapters in This Part Together" questions at the end of each part serve a dual purpose—they are pre-reading tools to focus students as they dive into the chapters and also serve as post-reading assignments that help students reflect on big-picture issues of the period.

Narrative updates incorporate the latest scholarship and highlight the history of capitalism. In addition to highlighting the history of capitalism throughout, the tenth edition also gives revised or expanded coverage of the following: colonial resistance to British reforms after the Seven Years’ War (chapter 5); the relationship between the French Revolution and American politics (chapter 7); organization and labor activism among women working in the Waltham-Lowell mills (chapter 8); Americans’ religious experiences in the Second Great Awakening (chapter 10); free African American communities in the antebellum era (chapter 10); slave resistance, including the 1811 German Coast uprising in Louisiana (chapter 11)eugenic ideas and their real-world consequences (chapter 17); the aftermath of World War I and the devastating worldwide consequences of the Treaty of Versailles (chapter 20); the rise and flourishing of youth culture in the twentieth century (chapter 25); key developments (such as growth of the black middle class and the advent of television) that made the Civil Rights Movement possible (chapter 26); the role of religion in social and political life after the 1970s (chapter 28); environmental and economic crises in the early twenty-first century (chapter 30); and the presidency of Donald Trump (chapter 30).

Enhanced pedagogical aids help students see what is most important and develop their historical thinking skills. New preview reading questions, appearing after each major heading in the chapter, guide students as they read. Revised chapter chronologies help students see how events relate to each other and emphasize the big picture. These aids--along with Identify the Big Idea chapter-opening questions and end-of-chapter Review and Key Turning Points questions--all add up to unparalleled support for elevating the main points and fostering historical thinking skills.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 14 Reconstruction, 1865–1877

Why did freedpeople, Republican policymakers, and ex-Confederates all end up dissatisfied with Reconstruction or with its aftermath? To what degree did each group succeed in fulfilling its goals?　

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 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 14 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 15 Conquering a Continent, 1860–1890

Why and how did the United States build a continental empire, and how did this affect people living in the West?　　

The Republican Vision 

The New Union and the World 

Integrating the National Economy 

Incorporating the West 

Mining Empires 

From Bison to Cattle 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 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 15 REVIEW 

PART 6 Industrializing America: Upheavals and Experiments, 1877–1917

CHAPTER 16 Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877–1911

Why did large corporations emerge and thrive in late nineteenth century America and how did they reshape trade, work, and politics ?

The Rise of Big Business 

Innovators in Enterprise 

The Corporate Workplace 

On the Shop Floor 

Immigrants, East and West 

Newcomers from Europe 

Asian Americans and Exclusion 

Labor Gets Organized 

The Emergence of a Labor Movement 

The Knights of Labor 

Farmers and Workers: The Cooperative Alliance 

Another Path: The American Federation of Labor 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 16 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 17 Making Modern American Culture, 1880–1917

Why and how did Americans’ identities, beliefs, and culture change in the early industrial era?

Science and Faith 

Darwinism and Its Critics 

Religion: Diversity and Innovation 

Realism in the Arts 

Commerce and Culture 

Consumer Spaces 

Masculinity and the Rise of Sports 

The Great Outdoors 

Women, Men, and the Solitude of Self 

Changing Families 

Expanding Opportunities for Education 

Women’s Civic Activism  

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 17 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 18 "Civilization’s Inferno": The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880–1917

Why and how did the rise of big cities shape American society and politics?

The New Metropolis 

The Landscape of the Industrial City 

Newcomers and Neighborhoods 

City Cultures 

Governing the Great City 

Urban Political Machines 

The Limits of Machine Government 

Crucibles of Progressive Reform 

Fighting Dirt and Vice 

The Movement for Social Settlements 

Cities and National Politics 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 18 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 19 Whose Government? Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880–1917

Why and how did Progressive Era reformers seek to address the problems of industrial America, and to what extent did they succeed?

Reform Visions, 1880–1892　 　 　 　 　 　　　　　　　

Electoral Politics After Reconstruction 

The Populist Program 

The Political Earthquakes of the 1890s 

Depression and Reaction 

Democrats and the "Solid South" 

Republicans Retake National Control 

Reform Reshaped, 1901–1912 

Theodore Roosevelt as President 

Diverse Progressive Goals 

The Election of 1912 

Wilson’s Reforms, 1913–1917 

Economic Reforms 

Progressive Legacies 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 19 REVIEW 

PART 7 Global Ambitions and Domestic Turmoil, 1890–1945 

CHAPTER 20 An Emerging World Power, 1890–1918

Why did the United States become a major power on the world stage by the 1910s, and what impact did this have at home and abroad?　

From Expansion to Imperialism 

Foundations of Empire 

The War of 1898 

Spoils of War 

A Power Among Powers 

The Open Door in Asia 

The United States and Latin America 

The United States in World War I 

From Neutrality to War 

"Over There" 

War on the Home Front 

Catastrophe at Versailles 

The Fate of Wilson’s Ideas 

Congress Rejects the Treaty 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 20 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 21 Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919–1932 

Why did cultural and political conflict erupt in the 1920s, and what factors lead to the Great Depression?

Resurgent Conservatism 

The Red Scare 

Racial Backlash 

American Business at Home and Abroad 

Government Businesses Entangled 

Making a Modern Consumer Economy 

Postwar Abundance 

Consumer Culture 

The Automobile and Suburbanization 

The Politics and Culture of a Diversifying Nation 

Women in a New Age

Culture Wars 

The Harlem Renaissance 

The Coming of the Great Depression 

From Boom to Bust 

The Depression’s Early Years

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 21 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 22 Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929–1938 

What new roles did the American government take on during the New Deal, and how did these roles shape the economy and society?

Early Responses to the Depression, 1929–1932 

Enter Herbert Hoover 

Rising Discontent 

The 1932 Election 

The New Deal Arrives, 1933–1935 

Roosevelt and the First Hundred Days 

The New Deal Under Attack 

The Second New Deal and the Redefining of Liberalism, 1935–1938 

The Welfare State Comes into Being 

From Reform to Stalemate 

The New Deal and American Society 

A People’s Democracy 

Reshaping the Environment 

The New Deal and the Arts 

The Legacies of the New Deal 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 22 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 23 The World at War, 1937–1945

How did World War II transform the United States domestically and change its relationship with the world?

The Road to War 

The Rise of Fascism 

War Approaches 

The Attack on Pearl Harbor 

Organizing for a Global War 

Financing the War 

Mobilizing the American Fighting Force 

Workers and the War Effort 

Politics in Wartime 

Life on the Home Front 

"For the Duration" 

Migration and the Wartime City 

Japanese Removal 

Fighting and Winning the War 

Wartime Aims and Tensions 

The War in Europe 

The War in the Pacific 

The Atomic Bomb and the End of the War 

The Toll of the War 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 23 REVIEW 

PART 8 The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1945–1980 

CHAPTER 24 Cold War America, 1945–1963 

In the first two decades of the Cold War, how did competition on the international stage and a climate of fear at home affect politics, society, and culture in the United States?

Containment in a Divided Global Order 

Origins of the Cold War 

The Containment Strategy 

Containment in Asia 

Cold War Liberalism 

Truman and the End of Reform 

Red Scare: The Hunt for Communists 

The Politics of Cold War Liberalism 

Containment in the Postcolonial World 

The Cold War and Colonial Independence 

John F. Kennedy and the Cold War 

Making a Commitment in Vietnam 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 24 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 25 Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945–1963 

Why did consumer culture become such a fixture of American life in the postwar decades, and how did it affect politics and society?

Postwar Prosperity and the Affluent Society 

Economy: From Recovery to Dominance　　

A Nation of Consumers 

Youth Culture 

Religion and the Middle Class 

The American Family in the Era of Containment 

The Baby Boom 

Women, Work, and Family 

Challenging Middle-Class Morality 

A Suburban Nation 

The Postwar Housing Boom 

Rise of the Sunbelt 

Two Societies: Urban and Suburban 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 25 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 26 Walking into Freedom Land: The Civil Rights Movement, 1941–1973

How did the civil rights movement evolve over time, and how did competing ideas and political alliances affect its growth and that of other social movements?

The Emerging Civil Rights Struggle, 1941–1957 

Life Under Jim Crow 

Origins of the Civil Rights Movement 

World War II: The Beginnings 

Cold War Civil Rights 

Mexican Americans and Japanese Americans 

Fighting for Equality Before the Law 

Forging a Protest Movement, 1955–1965 

Nonviolent Direct Action 

Legislating Civil Rights, 1963–1965 

Beyond Civil Rights, 1966–1973 

Black Nationalism 

Urban Disorder 

Rise of the Chicano Movement 

The American Indian Movement 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 26 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 27 Uncivil Wars: Liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961–1972 

What were liberalism’s social and political achievements in the 1960s, and how did debates over liberal values contribute to conflict at home and reflect war abroad?

Liberalism at High Tide 

John F. Kennedy’s Promise 

Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society 

Rebirth of the Women’s Movement 

The Vietnam War Begins 

Escalation Under Johnson 

Public Opinion and the War 

The Student Movement 

Days of Rage, 1968–1972 

War Abroad, Tragedy at Home 

The Antiwar Movement and the 1968 Election 

The Nationalist Turn 

Women’s Liberation and Black and Chicana Feminism 

Stonewall and Gay Liberation 

Rise of the Silent Majority 

Nixon in Vietnam 

The Silent Majority Speaks Out 

The 1972 Election 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 27 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 28 The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973–1980 

How did the legacy of social changes in the 1960s—such as civil rights, shifting gender roles and challenges to the family—continue to reverberate in the 1970s, lead to both new opportunities and political clashes?　

An Era of Limits

Energy Crisis 

Environmentalism 

Economic Transformation 

Urban Crisis and Suburban Revolt 

Politics in Flux, 1973–1980 

Watergate and the Fall of a President 

Jimmy Carter: The Outsider as President 

Reform and Reaction in the 1970s 

Civil Rights in a New Era 

The Women’s Movement and Gay Rights 

After the Warren Court 

The American Family on Trial 

Working Families in the Age of Deindustrialization 

Navigating the Sexual Revolution 

Religion in the 1970s: The New Evangelicalism 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 28 REVIEW 

PART 9 Globalization and the End of the American Century, 1980 to the Present 

CHAPTER 29 Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980–1991

What factors made the rise of the New Right possible, and what ideas about freedom and citizenship did conservatives articulate in the 1980s?

The Rise of the New Right 

Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan: Champions of the Right 

Free-Market Economics and Religious Conservatism 

The Carter Presidency 

The Dawning of the Conservative Age 

The Reagan Coalition 

Conservatives in Power 

Morning in America 

The End of the Cold War 

U.S.-Soviet Relations in a New Era 

A New Political Order at Home and Abroad 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 29 REVIEW 

CHAPTER 30 Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present 

How has the post-Cold War era of globalization affected American politics, economics, and society?

America in the Global Economy 

The Rise of the European Union and China 

A New Era of Globalization 

Revolutions in Technology 

Politics and Partisanship in a Contentious Era 

An Increasingly Plural Society 

Clashes over "Family Values" 

Bill Clinton and the New Democrats 

Post–Cold War Foreign Policy 

Into a New Century 

The Ascendance of George W. Bush 

Violence Abroad and Economic Collapse at Home 

Reform and Stalemate in the Obama Years 

SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 30 REVIEW 

Rebecca Edwards

Rebecca Edwards is Eloise Ellery Professor of History at Vassar College, where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century politics, the Civil War, the frontier West, and women, gender, and sexuality. 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 working on a book about the role of childbearing in the expansion of America’s nineteenth-century empire.

Eric Hinderaker

Eric Hinderaker is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Utah. His research explores early modern imperialism, relations between Europeans and Native Americans, military-civilian relations in the Atlantic world, and comparative colonization. His most recent book, Boston’s Massacre, was awarded the Cox Book Prize from the Society of the Cincinnati and was a finalist for the George Washington Prize. His other publications include Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673–1800; The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery, which won the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History from the New York Academy of History; and, with Peter C. Mancall, At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America.

Robert O. Self

Robert O. Self is Mary Ann Lippitt Professor of American 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 Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he taught Early American History and Legal History. His publications include “Salutary Neglect”: Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle; Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600-1820; and The Origins of American Capitalism. His most recent publication is a long article, “Magistrates, Lawyers, Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of Early America,” in The Cambridge History of American Law.

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