A documentary history of the United States
By: Richard D. Heffner with Alexander Heffner
Contributors: Heffner, Alexander, author
Edition: Expanded and updated edition.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 674
ISBN-13: 9780451466471
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Sources; History
Description: A collection of documents, speeches, and letters chronicles the history of the United States, with accompanying texts that analyze the significance of each document.
Table of contents: title: A new nation; title: The law of the land; title: Federalists vs. Repulicans; title: Neutrality and national growth; title: The Jeffersonian revolution; title: The power of the court; title: A bold foreign policy; title: Jacksonian democracy; title: Liberty or union; title: The abolitionist crusade; title: The sectional conflict; title: The fateful decade; title: War!; title: The prophet of democracy; title: The conflict of reconstruction; title: The gilded age; title: From frontier to factory; title: Grassroots rebellion; title: Imperial America; title: The progressive ferment; title: The great crusade and after; title: Boom and bust; title: THe Roosevelt revolution; title: The end of isolation; title: The Cold War; title: America at midcentury; title: From the new frontier to the great society; title: Decade of turmoil; title: Conservatism revisited; title: The end of the American century; title: America at the millennium; title: The politics of hope - we the people.