The Unfinished Nation: Brief, Interactive, Volume 1, with Primary Source Investigator and PowerWeb

In addition to being a best selling textbook author, ALAN BRINKLEY is the Allan Nevins Professor of History and former Provost at Columbia University. He is the author of Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the 1983 National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War; and Liberalism and its Discontents. His most recent books are John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963 and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century both published recently. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard and taught previously at MIT, Harvard, and the City University Graduate School before joining the Columbia faculty In 1991. In 1998-1999, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He won the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Award at Harvard in 1987 and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia in 2003. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the board of trustees of the National Humanities Center and Oxford University Press, and chairman of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of Torino (Italy). He was the 1998-1999 Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

Preface Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition Chapter 5: The American Revolution Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism Chapter 9: Jacksonian America Chapter 10: America’s Economic Revolution Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis Chapter 14: The Civil War Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South Appendices Index