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Introduction to American History Volume 1

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Introduction to American History Volume 1

Eighth Edition   Farmer, et al., © 2011, 653 pages

The new edition of Introduction to American History has undergone significant revisions to create a more comprehensive and readable text for students. Volume I covers US history up until Reconstruction.

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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.
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.
Carl Degler person
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.
Clarence Ver Steeg person

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NEW TO THIS EDITION:
- Full color, hardcover format
- New material on the French colonial experience
- Expanded discussion of slavery and the slave trade
- The "New South"
- Brief bibliography of Abraham Lincoln, including his re-election and assassination
- The nineteenth century west

New Chapter Review includes the following:
- Key terms
- Chapter summaries
- Chronological timeline

Welcome to the webpage for Introduction to American History - Volume 1, 8/e. This webpage allows you to view the Table of Contents, sample chapters, Instructor's Manual, Student Guide, and the Test Bank that accompany this volume. In combination, Volumes 1 and 2 provide a comprehensive survey of the political, social, and economic history of the nation from the Age of Discovery to the aftermath of 9/11. Each chapter also contains a brief biography of a key individual who influenced his or her era. Volume 1 details American history from the Age of Discovery through the Civil War and Reconstruction, paying special attention to slavery, the struggle for women's rights, and the impact of immigration on the United States. It also presents a history of politics, diplomacy, and wars that impacted the course of American society. Culture is also presented with chapters devoted to discussions of the art, architecture, literature, poetry, and music unique to each historical period. Volume 2 covers the time span from the Civil War through the aftermath of 9/11 and the War in Iraq. Attention is paid to issues of race relations, the struggle for equality, war and peace, and the impact of technology on American culture.

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