The American Pageant, AP® Edition,17th Student Edition,
17th Edition

David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen

The American Pageant, AP® Edition,17th Student Edition
ISBN-13: 9781337915571
Copyright 2020 | Published
1152 pages | List Price: USD $235.95

The reputable authors of The American Pageant combine excellent scholarship with a witty, engaging narrative style and creative look at U.S. History to build critical thinking skills and a love of American history. The American Pageant, the best-selling AP US History text, is a clear and approachable book for any student studying American history.

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  • David M. Kennedy

    David M. Kennedy is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus and founding Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. He also serves as editor of the Oxford History of the United States series. His volume in the series, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Ambassador's Prize, and the California Gold Medal for Literature. He is also the author of Over Here: The First World War and American Society, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, which won the Bancroft Prize. He is also editor of The Modern American Military, and co-editor of World War II and the West it Wrought. He lives in Stanford, California.

  • Lizabeth Cohen

    Lizabeth Cohen is an historian of the United States in the 20th century in the Harvard History Department, where she is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and a Harvard University Distinguished Professor. She is the author most recently of Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History. Previous books include A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America and Making A New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939, which also won the Bancroft and was a finalist for the Pulitzer in History. She was Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2011-2018.

  • The 17th edition breaks the narrative into 9 historical periods to better address historical thinking skills and reasoning processes.

  • Enhanced attention is given to Native American history from European arrival to the 21st Century.

  • The new edition examines Western expansion and its human and environmental consequences.

  • There is a refreshed look at post-Civil War America and American Capitalism with insights into American’s role in the industrialization and modernization of the global society.

  • Revised coverage of “Contending Voices” helps students make connections and formulate an argument.

  • “Varying Viewpoints” guides students through sourcing and examining evidence.

  • “Examining the Evidence” provides primary and secondary source analyses.

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