America

George Brown Tindall spent many years on the faculty of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was an award-winning historian of the South with a number of major books to his credit, including The Emergence of the New South. David Emory Shi?is president emeritus and professor emeritus at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. After receiving his PhD from the University of Virginia, he taught for seventeen years at Davidson College, where he won the Distinguished Teaching Award and served as History Department Chair. In addition to authoring the best-selling America: A Narrative History family of books, he is the author of several books focusing on American cultural history, including the award-winning?The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture?and?Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850–1920. While serving as a Trustee at several colleges, he remains highly engaged with students and instructors around the country with his many annual “author-in-residence” campus visits.

Volume One (Chapters 1?17)

Volume Two (Chapters 17?34)
Part One / A Not-So-"New" World

1. The Collision of Cultures

2. Britain and Its Colonies

3. Colonial Ways of Life

4. From Colonies to States


Part Two / Building a Nation

5. The American Revolution

6. Shaping a Federal Union

7. The Federalist Era

8. The Early Republic


Part Three / An Expansive Nation

9. The Dynamics of Growth

10. Nationalism and Sectionalism

11. The Jacksonian Era

12. The Old South

13. Religion, Romanticism, and Reform


Part Four / A House Divided and Rebuilt

14. An Empire in the West

15. The Gathering Storm

16. The War of the Union

- Note: Start of Volume 2 -


17. Reconstruction: North and South

- Note: End of Volume 1 ?


Part Five / Growing Pains

18. Big Business and Organized Labor

19. The South and the West Transformed

20. The Emergence of Urban America

21. Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt


Part Six / Modern America

22. Seizing an American Empire

23. "Making the World Over:" The Progressive Era

24. America and the Great War

25. The Modern Temper

26. Republican Resurgence and Decline

27. New Deal America

28. The Second World War


Part Seven / The American Age

29. The Fair Deal and Containment

30. The 1950s: Affluence and Anxiety in an Atomic Age

31. New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s

32. Rebellion and Reaction: The 1960s and 1970s

33. A Conservative Realignment: 1977-1990

34. America in a New Millennium