Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series introduces you to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. This collection serves as the primary anthology for the introductory survey course, covering the subject’s entire chronological span. Comprehensive topical coverage includes politics, economics, labor, gender, culture, and social trends. The fourth edition has been revised to reflect two new historiographical trends: the emergence of the history of religion as an exceptionally lively field and the internationalization of American history. Several chapters include images, songs, and poems to give you a better “feel” for the time period and events under discussion. Key pedagogical elements of the Major Problems format have been retained: chapter introductions, headnotes, and suggested readings.
1. Reconstruction.
2. Western Settlement and the Frontier.
3. Industrialization, Workers, and the New Immigration.
4. Imperialism and World Power.
5. The Progressive Movement.
6. World War I and the League of Nations.
7. Crossing a Cultural Divide: The Twenties.
8. The Depression, New Deal, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
9. The Ordeal of World War II.
10. The Global Cold War and the Nuclear Age.
11. The Post-War “Boom”: Affluence and Anxiety.
12. The Civil Rights Revolution.
13. The Sixties and Vietnam.
14. The Emergence of the New Right.
15. End of the Cold War and Rise of Terrorism.
16. Globalization and the Economic Challenge.
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Elizabeth Cobbs
Elizabeth Cobbs, Professor and Dwight E. Stanford Chair in American Foreign Relations at San Diego State University, has won literary prizes for both history and fiction: the Allan Nevins Prize, Stuart Bernath Book Prize, San Diego Book Award, and Director’s Mention for the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction. Her books include AMERICAN UMPIRE (2013), BROKEN PROMISES; A NOVEL OF THE CIVIL WAR (2011), ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE: THE PEACE CORPS AND THE 1960s (2000), and THE RICH NEIGHBOR POLICY (1992). She has served on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize in History and on the Historical Advisory Committee of the U.S. State Department. She has received awards and fellowships from the Fulbright Commission; Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Organization of American States; American Philosophical Society; Rockefeller Foundation, and other distinguished institutions. Her essays have been published in the New York Times, Jerusalem Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, China Daily News, National Public Radio, Washington Independent, San Diego Union, and Reuters. Her current project is a history of women soldiers in World War One.
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Edward J. Blum
Edward J. Blum is a Professor of History at San Diego State University. A scholar of religion and race, he is the co-author of THE COLOR OF CHRIST: THE SON OF GOD AND THE SAGA OF RACE IN AMERICA (2012) and the author of W. E. B. DU BOIS, AMERICAN PROPHET (2007) and REFORGING THE WHITE REPUBLIC: RACE, RELIGION, AND AMERICAN NATIONALISM, 1865–1898 (2005). An award-winning author and teacher, Blum is currently at work on a project that explores issues of radical evil during the era of the Civil War. Blum has been a fellow with the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University and with the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Jon Gjerde
Jon Gjerde died in October 2008. He was Alexander F. and May T. Morrison professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1982. His areas of expertise included nineteenth-century America with particular reference to immigration and religion, and he published some thirty articles on these subjects. He also published FROM PEASANTS TO FARMERS: THE MIGRATION FROM BALESTRAND, NORWAY, TO THE UPPER MIDDLE WEST (1985) and THE MINDS OF THE WEST: THE ETHNOCULTURAL EVOLUTION OF THE RURAL MIDDLE WEST, 1830-1917 (1997), both of which won the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award of the Immigration History Society for the best book in agricultural history.
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The fourth edition has been revised to reflect two new historiographical trends: the emergence of the history of religion as an exceptionally lively field and the internationalization of American history.
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To execute the biggest change in this edition, the shift to “America in the world,” the authors include at least one document in every chapter that reflects globalization: the ways that the perspectives of people in other parts of the world profoundly affected the United States. These documents and essays also highlight the connections between American and world trends. Examples include English Suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst Recalls American Role Models, 1914 (Ch. 5); Canadian-Japanese Mother Writes About Her Coming Internment, 1942 (Ch. 9); and Egyptian Youth Rock Out, 1957 (Ch. 11).
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Although this edition retains many documents and essays that reviewers say worked well in their survey courses, each chapter has also been updated to reflect the latest scholarship and replace excerpts that instructors found difficult to use.
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Recognizing that America’s story is getting longer with time (and that some instructors minimize attention to Reconstruction in the second half of the survey course), Chapters 15 and 16 now cover American history up through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Great Recession that began in 2008.
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Heeding suggestions from professors around the nation, the fourth edition incorporates more voices of everyday folk.
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The fourth edition has been revised to reflect two new historiographical trends: the emergence of the history of religion as an exceptionally lively field and the internationalization of American history.
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To execute the biggest change in this edition, the shift to “America in the world,” the authors include documents that reflect globalization: the ways that the perspectives of people in other parts of the world profoundly affected the United States. These documents and essays also highlight the connections between American and world trends.
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Recognizing that America’s story is getting longer with time, Chapters 15 and 16 now cover American history up through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Great Recession that began in 2008.
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The fourth edition incorporates more voices of everyday folk to give you a sense of what life was like in the periods discussed.
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The inclusion of both primary and secondary sources in a single collection provides a rich analytical experience for students. The primary sources give students evidence to explore; the secondary sources expose students to key historical debates. Often the secondary essays refer to one of the primary documents, so students can see how historians integrate evidence in an interpretation.
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An introduction -- “How to Read Primary and Secondary Sources” -- helps students distinguish types of sources and teaches them how to read and interpret critically.
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The inclusion of both primary and secondary sources in a single collection provides a rich analytical experience. The primary sources give you evidence to explore; the secondary sources expose you to key historical debates. Often the secondary essays refer to one of the primary documents, so you can see how historians integrate evidence in an interpretation.
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An introduction -- “How to Read Primary and Secondary Sources” -- helps you distinguish types of sources and teaches you how to read and interpret critically.
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A Further Reading section provides you with a wealth of classic and cutting-edge scholarship that relates to key themes in each chapter.
MindTap: Major Problems in American History, Volume II 12 Months
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