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Introduction to American History Volume 2

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Introduction to American History Volume 2

Tenth Edition   Farmer, et al., © 2024, 773 pages

The new edition of Introduction to American History has undergone significant revisions to create a more comprehensive and readable text for students. Volume II covers US history from Reconstruction through the Trump administration.

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About the Authors

Brian Farmer person
Dr. Brian R. Farmer received his PhD from Texas Tech University in 1996 and has been teaching on the college level since 1991. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Question of Dependency and Economic Development (Lexington Books, 1999), American Political Ideologies (McFarland Press, 2005), American Conservatism: History, Theory and Practice (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006), Understanding Radical Islam (Peter Lang Publishing, 2007), and Radical Islam in the West (McFarland Press, 2011). Dr. Farmer is currently a professor of social sciences at Wayland Baptist University.
Kregg Fehr person
Dr. Kregg M. Fehr received his PhD from Texas Tech University in 1999 and has been teaching at the university level since 1986. He is the author of numerous publications in the fields of history pedagogy, the history of science, and energy history, including the award-winning article, “Harbingers of Change: Wind Turbines and the Dawning of a New Age in Texas Energy History” (2008). An article referee both for The Journal of American History and The History Teacher, Dr. Fehr currently serves as professor of history at Lubbock Christian University.
Vincent De Santis person
Vincent P. De Santis, late professor emeritus of history at the University of Notre Dame, earned a doctoral degree from Johns Hopkins University and became a specialist in American political history and the Gilded Age/Progressive Era. De Santis joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1949 and spent his entire academic career there. De Santis authored such influential books as Republicans Face the Southern Question and The Shaping of Modern America: 1877-1916, and was a contributor to the textbook, The Democratic Experience. Officially retiring in 1982, he continued to write and teach a course on "American Presidents from FDR to Clinton" until his passing in 2011.
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Carl Degler was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1921 and educated in the public schools of New Jersey. He earned his BA in history at Upsala College in 1942, served in the U.S. Army Air Forces from 1942–1945, received his MA in 1947, and his PhD in 1952 from Columbia University. Moving from an instructor to a professor at Vassar College (1952–1968), he joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1968 and was named the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History in 1972. He became an emeritus in 1990. Degler also served as a visiting professor at the Columbia University graduate school (1963–1964) and as Harmsworth Professor of American History, Oxford University, 1973–1974. His principal publications include the following: Out of Our Past: The Forces that Shaped Modern America (New York, 1959; 2nd revised ed., 1984); The Age of the Economic Revolution (Chicago, 1967, rev. ed., 1977); Affluence and Anxiety (Chicago, 1968, rev. ed., 1975); Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States (New York, 1971); The Other South: Southern Dissenters in the Nineteenth Century (New York 1974, Gainesville, FL, 2000); Place Over Time the Continuity of Southern Distinctiveness (Baton Rouge, LA 1977); At Odds: Women and the Family from the Revolution to the Present (New York, 1980); In Search of Human Nature: the Fall and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought (New York, 1991). Degler also edited Pivotal Interpretations in American History (2 vols., 1966) and The New Deal (Chicago, 1970). He wrote an introduction to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Women and Economics (New York, 1966). He also published seventy-five articles and more than one hundred book reviews. Neither Black Nor White won the Pulitzer Prize in History, 1972; the Bancroft Prize of Columbia University; and the Beveridge Prize of the American Historical Association. In Search of Human Nature was awarded the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize by Phi Beta Kappa in 1991. Degler received the Dean’s Award for Teaching in 1979 and honorary degrees from Oxford University, Colgate University, Ripon College, and Upsala College. Carl Degler served as president of the Pacific Coast branch of the American Historical Association (1974–1975), president of the Organization of American Historians (1978–1979), president of the Southern Historical Association, and president of the American Historical Association (1985–1986). He was a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (1964–1965), the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (1972–1973), the National Endowment of the Humanities (1976–1977 and 1983–1984), and the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (1979–1980). Degler was an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Society of American Historians. Dr. Degler’s life and career came to a close upon his death in 2014.

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This two-volume Introduction to American History text has undergone a number of revisions and been updated to 2022 in an effort to create a more comprehensive and readable text for students. The content within a number of chapters has been rearranged so that discussions of culture follow discussions of major events, rather than vice versa and some redundancy has been eliminated. The discussion of Puritans and Puritanism has been altered and rearranged and the histories of American women and ethnic minorities have been expanded. New key terms match the style of the previous edition; they are in bold in the body text so that they are easier to find, and definitions of the key terms appear on the outside margins of the pages. Bibliographies have been updated with new sources so that readers know where the material is coming from and where to go for further reading.

New information has been added throughout the texts and many of the maps have been redesigned and captioned to make them easier to read and understand. Volume II now begins with Emancipation and Reconstruction as “Chapter 15,” so as to preserve continuity from Volume I. The discussions of culture in the Gilded Age, Jazz Age, and cold war eras now follow the discussion of major events and international politics in these epochs. Similarly, the culture shift that occurred between 1963 and 1980 now follows the discussion of politics and events for the time period. New information in Volume II covers Mexican immigration and Hispanic American experiences; expanded coverage of segregation and violence against black Americans; expanded coverage of the Asian American experience; and the roles of Asian Americans, African Americans, and Hispanic Americans during America’s wars since the Civil War. The long African American struggle for Civil Rights is covered in greater detail as is the labor movement among California’s Hispanic agricultural workers. The second term of the Obama administration has been added along with discussions of social unrest and gun violence in the twenty-first century, including the Black Lives Matter movement, and the conservative countermovements. An entire chapter is dedicated to the election of President Donald Trump, the events that occurred during his administration, and his defeat in the 2020 election followed by his contesting of the election results, culminating with the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. Discussions of the rise of social media as a spreader of both information and misinformation are included in the context of the 2020 election and social unrest, including violence against black people by police, the death of George Floyd, and the contention of Trump and his supporters that the 2020 election was stolen. Foreign policy during Obama’s second term and Trump’s presidency are discussed, including tension between Russia and Ukraine

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