These United States Since 1865

Author : Foster Dulles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0472751158

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The United States Since 1865 by Foster Dulles Pdf

In the wake of the Civil War, every aspect of American life was to be shaped anew by the energies of a nation now reborn. The remarkable story of the growth these energies achieved is told here--beginning with General Grant's historic ride into the little village of Appomattox and the Battle of Appomattox Court House, and taking the reader up through the extraordinary staccato of modern-day political events. In this newly expanded and completely up-to-date edition, Foster Rhea Dulles vividly depicts the individuals, episodes, and ideas that have guided the course of over a hundred years of American history: reconstruction in the South, the westward surge, Populism and Progressivism, the New Deal, the impact of the Vietnamese conflict, and the Negro revolution on the American conscience. The United States Since 1865 is a record not only of political and economic events, but of social and cultural developments as well. New directions in literature and the arts, the advent of Henry Ford's Model-T and pioneer motion picture theaters, the cultural élan brought to the White House during the Kennedy years--these too contributed to the making of modern America. Written for the general reader as well as the student of American history, this authoritative work--along with its companion volume, The United States to 1865--provides a highly readable and thoroughly up-to-date reassessment of America's heritage to her citizens and to the world.

Author : Foster Rhea Dulles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011356899

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The United States Since 1865 by Foster Rhea Dulles Pdf

A history of the United States from the Civil War to 1968covering economic, intellectual, and industrial as well as political history.

Author : Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020282681

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A History of the United States Since the Civil War by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer Pdf

An authoritative and comprehensive overview of American history during the tumultuous years following the Civil War. Oberholtzer's careful analysis of key events and trends sheds light on the economic, political, and social forces that shaped modern America. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore,Thomas J. Sugrue
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393264463

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These United States by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore,Thomas J. Sugrue Pdf

President Franklin Roosevelt told Americans in a 1936 fireside chat, “I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.” These United States builds on this foundation to present a readable, accessible history of the United States throughout the twentieth century—an ongoing and inspiring story of great leaders and everyday citizens marching, fighting, voting, and legislating to make the nation’s promise of democracy a reality for all Americans. In the college edition of These United States, Gilmore and Sugrue seamlessly weave insightful analysis with all of the support tools needed by students and instructors alike, including paired primary source documents, review questions, key terms, maps, and figures in a dynamic four-color design.

Author : Thomas Harry Williams,Richard Nelson Current,Frank Freidel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : United States
ISBN : UVA:X001200262

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A History of the United States: Since 1865 by Thomas Harry Williams,Richard Nelson Current,Frank Freidel Pdf

Author : Robert J. Cook
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421423494

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Civil War Memories by Robert J. Cook Pdf

Why has the Civil War continued to influence American life so profoundly? Winner of the 2018 Book Prize in American Studies of the British Association of American Studies At a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a race of slaves. Civil War Memories is the first comprehensive account of how and why Americans have selectively remembered, and forgotten, this watershed conflict since its conclusion in 1865. Drawing on an array of textual and visual sources as well as a wide range of modern scholarship on Civil War memory, Robert J. Cook charts the construction of four dominant narratives by the ordinary men and women, as well as the statesmen and generals, who lived through the struggle and its tumultuous aftermath. Part One explains why the Yankee victors’ memory of the “War of the Rebellion” drove political conflict into the 1890s, then waned with the passing of the soldiers who had saved the republic. It also touches on the leading role southern white women played in the development of the racially segregated South’s “Lost Cause”; explores why, by the beginning of the twentieth century, the majority of Americans had embraced a powerful reconciliatory memory of the Civil War; and details the failed efforts to connect an emancipationist reading of the conflict to the fading cause of civil rights. Part Two demonstrates the Civil War’s capacity to thrill twentieth-century Americans in movies such as The Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind. It also reveals the war’s vital connection to the black freedom struggle in the modern era. Finally, Cook argues that the massacre of African American parishioners in Charleston in June 2015 highlighted the continuing relevance of the Civil War by triggering intense nationwide controversy over the place of Confederate symbols in the United States. Written in vigorous prose for a wide audience and designed to inform popular debate on the relevance of the Civil War to the racial politics of modern America, Civil War Memories is required reading for informed Americans today.

Author : Dexter Perkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:313762040

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The United States of America by Dexter Perkins Pdf

Author : Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer
Publisher : Arkose Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1345623933

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A History of the United States Since the Civil War by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Richard White
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190619060

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The Republic for Which It Stands by Richard White Pdf

The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America. At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious North envisioned the country's future as a free-labor republic, with a homogenous citizenry, both black and white. The South and West were to be reconstructed in the image of the North. Thirty years later Americans occupied an unimagined world. The unity that the Civil War supposedly secured had proved ephemeral. The country was larger, richer, and more extensive, but also more diverse. Life spans were shorter, and physical well-being had diminished, due to disease and hazardous working conditions. Independent producers had become wage earners. The country was Catholic and Jewish as well as Protestant, and increasingly urban and industrial. The "dangerous" classes of the very rich and poor expanded, and deep differences -- ethnic, racial, religious, economic, and political -- divided society. The corruption that gave the Gilded Age its name was pervasive. These challenges also brought vigorous efforts to secure economic, moral, and cultural reforms. Real change -- technological, cultural, and political -- proliferated from below more than emerging from political leadership. Americans, mining their own traditions and borrowing ideas, produced creative possibilities for overcoming the crises that threatened their country. In a work as dramatic and colorful as the era it covers, White narrates the conflicts and paradoxes of these decades of disorienting change and mounting unrest, out of which emerged a modern nation whose characteristics resonate with the present day.

Author : Dexter Perkins,Glyndon Garlock Van Deusen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : United States
ISBN : UCSC:32106015189332

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The United States of America: Since 1865 by Dexter Perkins,Glyndon Garlock Van Deusen Pdf

Author : Jeanne Boydston,James Oakes,Michael McGerr,Jan Ellen Lewis,Nick Cullather
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0195390741

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Of the People by Jeanne Boydston,James Oakes,Michael McGerr,Jan Ellen Lewis,Nick Cullather Pdf

Of the People: A Concise History of the United States not only tells the history of America--of its people and places, of its dealings and ideals--but it also unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how this country's evolution has been anything but certain, from its complex beginnings to its modern challenges. This comprehensive survey focuses on the social and political lives of people--some famous, some ordinary--revealing the compelling story of America's democracy from an individual perspective, from across the landscapes of diverse communities, and ultimately from within the larger context of the world. The Concise Edition tells the same great story, but with fewer words and images. Maintaining the structure, the features, and maps of the comprehensive edition, this concise version has been thoughtfully condensed--paragraphs now contain trimmed sentences and a reduced number of examples--thus leaving the book's core content and compelling narrative unchanged.

Author : Andrew E. Kersten,Kriste Lindenmeyer
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110371189

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Politics and Progress by Andrew E. Kersten,Kriste Lindenmeyer Pdf

This study focuses on the state's impact on American society from the Civil War to the present. For the past several decades historians have tended to divide themselves into increasingly distinct historical perspectives. This anthology seeks to reverse that trend by linking the viewpoints of political and social historians to interpret the growth of the state and society in the United States since 1865, an era during which the state's role has been expanded and redefined in a diverse and rapidly modernizing America. This technique challenges historians to think more broadly about the interactions between the state and society. Arguing that the close examination of political frameworks offers significant insights into facets of social history, these chapters seek to connect social and political history through a common thread of human experience. Pieces are grouped thematically and chronologically to illustrate how the state's role in society has developed over time. The first six examine the state's influence on, and manipulation by, social groups, particularly women, Native Americans, labor, and the military. The final three demonstrate the impact of political and social thought on the relationship between the state and society.

Author : Dexter Perkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 845 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59641842

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The United States of America by Dexter Perkins Pdf

Author : Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore,Thomas J. Sugrue
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393283075

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These United States by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore,Thomas J. Sugrue Pdf

President Franklin Roosevelt told Americans in a 1936 fireside chat, “I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.” These United States builds on this foundation to present a readable, accessible history of the United States throughout the twentieth century—an ongoing and inspiring story of great leaders and everyday citizens marching, fighting, voting, and legislating to make the nation’s promise of democracy a reality for all Americans. In the college edition of These United States, Gilmore and Sugrue seamlessly weave insightful analysis with all of the support tools needed by students and instructors alike, including paired primary source documents, review questions, key terms, maps, and figures in a dynamic four-color design.

Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,Claude Steele,Lawrence D. Bobo,Michael Dawson,Gerald Jaynes,Lisa Crooms-Robinson,Linda Darling-Hammond
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 859 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195188059

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The Oxford Handbook of African American Citizenship, 1865-Present by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,Claude Steele,Lawrence D. Bobo,Michael Dawson,Gerald Jaynes,Lisa Crooms-Robinson,Linda Darling-Hammond Pdf

Collection of essays tracing the historical evolution of African American experiences, from the dawn of Reconstruction onward, through the perspectives of sociology, political science, law, economics, education and psychology. As a whole, the book is a systematic study of the gap between promise and performance of African Americans since 1865. Over the course of thirty-four chapters, contributors present a portrait of the particular hurdles faced by African Americans and the distinctive contributions African Americans have made to the development of U.S. institutions and culture. --From publisher description.