The American vision
By: Joyce Appleby ... [et al.].
Contributors: Appleby, Joyce Oldham.; National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Edition: Teacher Wraparound ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: United States -- History -- Textbooks.; United States -- History -- Study and teaching (Secondary); United States -- History.
Genres: Textbooks.
Description: American history is people, events, places, documents, art, inventions, literature. In other words - American history is everything about the adventures of all Americans - past and present ... [This book] helps you learn about your nation's past by organizing its history around 10 themes. [These] themes help you understand events in the past and how they affect you today.-p. xvi.
Notes: "National Geographic."

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Unit 1: Three worlds meet: Beginnings to 1763; Unit 2: Creating a nation 1754-1816; Unit 3 : The young republic, 1789-1850; Unit 4: The crisis of union, 1848-1877; Unit 5, The Birth of Modern America, 1865-1900; Unit 6: Imperialism and progressivism, 1890-1919; Unit 7 : Boom and bust, 1920-1941; Unit 8 : Global struggles, 1934-1960; Unit 9 : A time of upheaval, 1954-1980; Unit 10 : A changing society, 1968-present.; title: Glossary.