Becoming America ISE

Since David Henkin joined the history faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997, he has taught and written about the sorts of subjects that rarely make it into traditional textbooks. He has offered entire courses on baseball, Broadway, immigration, time, leisure, the road, family life, news, and urban literature while publishing books and essays about street signs, paper money, junk mail, intimate correspondence, calendars, and temporal rhythms in the nineteenth century. The task of integrating that kind of material into the traditional narrative of the American past has been the singular challenge of his professional life. David holds a BA from Yale University and a PhD from U.C. Berkeley, and he was awarded Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award in the Social Sciences. Beyond the Berkeley campus, David teaches classes on the Talmud, plays cards, eats lots of fish and berries, and roots passionately for the St. Louis Cardinals. Raised in New York, where his family still lives, he makes his home with friends and community in San Francisco. Rebecca M. McLennan is Preston Hotchkis Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Passionately dedicated to making U.S. history exciting and relevant for today’s students, she has taught courses on American and global food history, consumer culture, the New Deal, and the history of American crime and punishment. She also regularly teaches her department’s gateway U.S. history survey course. Rebecca’s publications include The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776–1941 (Cambridge University Press, 2008), which won several major book awards, and she is currently completing a history of the origin and legacies of the Bering Sea crisis at the turn of the twentieth century. In her spare time, conditions permitting, she swims in San Francisco Bay, cooks for family and friends, and listens to John Coltrane.

1 CONVERGENCE OF MANY PEOPLES: AMERICA BEFORE 1600 2 EARLY COLONIES 1600–1680 3 SLAVERY AND RACE 1660–1750 4 BRITISH COLONIES IN AN ATLANTIC ECONOMY 1660–1750 5 EMPIRES, WAR, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF INDIAN COUNTRY 1700–1765 6 CRISIS AND WAR 1765–1781 7 MAKING A NEW NATION 1776–1792 8 THE EARLY REPUBLIC 1793–1811 9 WAR, EXPANSION, AND INDIAN REMOVAL 1811–1830 10 MARKET SOCIETY AND THE BIRTH OF MASS POLITICS 1825–1845 11 SLAVERY AND THE SOUTH 1831–1844 12 ERA OF MIDDLE-CLASS REFORM 1831–1848 13 EXPANSION, NATIONALISM, AND AMERICA POPULAR CULTURE 1844–1854 14 A UNION UNRAVELING 1848–1860 15 DISUNION AND WAR 1861–1865 16 SOUTHERN RECONSTRUCTION 1862–1883 17 REMAKING THE WEST 1865–1893 18 INDUSTRIALIZING AMERICA 1865–1885 19 POLITICS AND DISCONTENT IN THE GILDED AGE 1878–1896 20 THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1896–1914 21 THE BIRTH OF A GREAT POWER: AMERICA AND THE WORLD 1880–1914 22 WAR AND PEACE 1914–1920 23 AMERICA IN THE JAZZ AGE 1920–1929 24 AMERICA REMADE: THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL 1929–1939 25 AMERICA GOES TO WAR 1939–1945 26 POSTWAR AMERICA 1945–1953 27 THE AGE OF AFFLUENCE 1953–1960 28 ERA OF DREAMS AND DISCONTENT 1960–1970 29 REACTION, RECESSION, AND GLOBALIZATION 1970–1979 30 DEINDUSTRIALIZING AMERICA 1980–1992 31 GLOBALIZING AMERICA 1992–2012