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This major revision of a pathbreaking book weaves together the complex interaction of social, political, and historical forces that have shaped the United States and from which “the American people” have evolved by telling stories of people and of the nation and emphasizing that American history has never been the preserve of any particular region. Traditional turning points and watershed events are integrated with the stories of the nation's many diverse communities. The book's trademark “continental” approach has been expanded to incorporate a greater hemispheric perspective, while a new community and memory feature analyzes the role—and the conflicts—of historical memory in shaping communities' understanding of the past. Community and memory essays examine such topics as conflicts over Indian burial grounds, controversies surrounding the Alamo, and the way in which the American media is putting the World Trade Center bombing into historical perspective. Incorporates the latest research on the South, popular culture, science and technology, and the Cold War. Features full coverage of the African American experience—with full chapters on slavery and empire in the colonial period and the civil rights movement from the 1940's to the 1960's. Discussion of the role of minorities includes African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asians, and Pacific Islanders. Historians and anyone interested in American history from a narrative approach.
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John Mack Faragher is Arthur Unobskey Professor of American History and Director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University. Borwin Arizona and raised in southern California, he received his B.A. at the University of California, Riverside, and his Ph.D. at Yale University. He is the author of Women and Men on the Overland Trail (1979), which won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians, Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (1986), Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1992), and (with Robert V. Hine) The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000).
Mari Jo Buhle is William R. Kenan Jr. University Professor and Professor of American Civilization and History at Brown University, specializing in American women's history. She received her B.A. From the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920 (1981) and Feminism and Its Discontents: A Century of Struggle with Psychoanalysis (1998). She is also coeditor of Encyclopedia of the American Left, second edition (1998). Professor Buhle held a fellowship (1991-1996) from the John D. and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation.
Daniel Czitrom is Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College. Born and raised in New York City, he received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan (1982), which won the First Books Award of the American Historical Association and has been translated into Spanish and Chinese. He has served as a historical consultant and a featured on-camera commentator for several documentary film projects, including two recent PBS series, New York: A Documentary Film and American Photography: A Century of Images.
Susan H. Armitage is Claudius O. and Mary R. Johnson Distinguished Professor of History at Washington State University. She earned her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Among her many publications on western women's history are three coedited books, The Women's West (1987), So Much To Be Done: Women on the Mining and Ranching Frontier (1991), and Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West (1997). She currently serves as an editor of a series of books on women and American history for the University of Illinois Press. She is the editor of Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies.
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John Mack Faragher was born in Phoenix, Arizona and raised in southern California, where he attended the University of California, Riverside (B.A., 1967), and did social work, before doing graduate work at Yale University (Ph.D., 1977). After fifteen years as a professor at Mount Holyoke College he returned to Yale as the Arthur Unobskey Professof of American History in 1993. His books include Women and Men on the Overland Trail (1979); Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (1986); Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1992); The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000), with Robert V. Hine; A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland (2005); and Frontiers: A Short History of the American West (2007), with Robert V. Hine. He teaches the history of the American West and directs the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders.
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A very engagingly written history textbook,
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This review is from: Out of Many, Vols. 1 and 2, Brief Fourth Edition (Paperback)
This was a very well written history textbook. It read more like a story than like the dry, non fiction academic text that I thought it would be. I appreciated the small excurses on social and cultural life in America, and the maps were colorful, and the many pictures and paintings added a much needed dose of culture and nostalgia.I should say that I was disappointed at the anti-Christian bias of the authors. They make the great Swedish theologian John Calvin seem like a radical, and they portray Jonathan Edwards out to be a fire and brimstone preacher when in fact "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" was atypical of his more serene and calm manner in the pulpit. Moreover, the accounts of the first and second Great Awakenings were exploited for their religious excesses rather than mined for the way these two events contributed to the cultural and social life of 18th and 19th century America. As a preacher and as a discerning man of faith, I felt that these glosses could have been avoided with more careful and objective research. But minus this, what you have here is a fun history book to read. I recommend it with caution.
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Teaching This Book at the Community College Level,
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This review is from: Out of Many, Vols. 1 and 2, Brief Fourth Edition (Paperback)
I've used this book for years in my American History surveys at the Borough of Manhattan Communuty College. It's a good, concise history that covers a lot of ground. It does have some weaknesses in the first volume, however. While Out of Many probably has the best coverage of the West of any US textbook that I've seen, the attempt to cover diverse regions sometimes creates a disjointed narrative, especially in the brief editions. My students complain that the book "jumps around" between time periods so that they don't know what happened when. I also think that the discussion of Bacon's rebellion and John Brown both leave something to be desired. In the newest editions of the brief volumes, the new features in the text seem to balance some of the narrative problems with focused questions that should remind students of the main points and keep them on track. I was skeptical of the higher price and the bells and whistles of the illustrations, etc, but it does seem to be worth it.
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Out of Many Combined Volume "Fourth Edition",
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This review is from: Out of Many: A History of the American People, Combined Volume, Media and Research Update (4th Edition) (Hardcover)
Out of Many by John Faragher wrote an extremely well written book.
This combine volume starts with chapter one, "A Continent of Villages, to 1500", chapter two, "When Worlds Collide, 1492-1590", chapter three, "Planting Colonies in North America, 1588-1701", chapter 4, "Slavery and Empire, 1441-1770", chapter 5, "The Cultures of Colonial North America, 1700-1780", Chapter 6, From Empire to Independence, 1750-1776", chapter 7, "The Creation of the United States, 1776-1786", chapter 8, "The United States of North America, 1787-1800", chapter 9, "An Agrarian Republic, 1790-1824", chapter 10, "The Growth of Democracy, 1824-1840", chapter 11, "The South and Slavery, 1790s-1850s", chapter 12, "Industry and the North, 1790s-1840s", chapter 13, "Coming to Terms with the New Age, 1820s-1850s", chapter 14, "The Territorial Expansion of the United States, 1830s-1850s", chapter 15, "The Coming Crisis, the 1850s", chapter 16, "The Civil War, 1861-1865", chapter 17, "Reconstruction, 1863-1877", chapter 18, "Conquest and Survival: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1860-1900", chapter 19, "The Incorporation of America, 1865-1900", chapter 20, "Commonwealth and Empire, 1870-1900", chapter 21, "Urban America and the Progressive Era, 1900-1917", chapter 22, "World War I, 1914-1920", chapter 23, "The Twenties, 1920-1929", chapter 24, "The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1940", chapter 25, "World War II, 1941-1945", chapter 26, "The Cold War, 1945-1952", chapter 27, "America at Midcentury, 1952-1963", chapter 28, "The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1966", chapter 29, "War at Home, War Abroad, 1965-1974", chapter 30, "The Conservative Ascendancy, 1974-1987", chapter 31, "Toward a Transnational America, since 1988". This book also offers an appendix, bibliography, credits, and the index; however, it does not offer a dictionary with the key terms listed. The newer 5th version does have this feature.
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