The unfinished nation : a concise history of the American people

The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People continues the evolution of Alan Brinkley’s influential work as authors John M. Giggie and Andrew J. Huebner build upon this canonical text, with a focus on making history relatable and accessible to today’s students. Its authorship, balanced narrative, and coverage effectuates personal connections with students drawing upon their own experiences prompting readers to interpret evidence before them and bring to the task their own questions for a continuing conversation of our ever-unfinished nation. 1 THE COLLISION OF CULTURES 2 TRANSPLANTATIONS AND BORDERLANDS 3 SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN PROVINCIAL AMERICA 4 THE EMPIRE IN TRANSITION 5 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 6 THE CONSTITUTION AND THE NEW REPUBLIC 7 THE JEFFERSONIAN ERA 8 EXPANSION AND DIVISION IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC 9 JACKSONIAN AMERICA 10 AMERICA’S ECONOMIC REVOLUTION 11 COTTON, SLAVERY, AND THE OLD SOUTH 12 ANTEBELLUM CULTURE AND REFORM 13 THE IMPENDING CRISIS 14 THE CIVIL WAR 15 RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH 16 THE CONQUEST OF THE FAR WEST 17 INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACY 18 THE AGE OF THE CITY 19 FROM CRISIS TO EMPIRE 20 THE PROGRESSIVES 21 AMERICA AND THE GREAT WAR 22 THE NEW ERA 23 THE GREAT DEPRESSION 24 THE NEW DEAL ERA 25 AMERICA IN A WORLD AT WAR 26 THE COLD WAR 27 THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY 28 THE TURBULENT SIXTIES 29 THE CRISIS OF AUTHORITY 30 FROM “THE AGE OF LIMITS” TO REAGANISM 31 THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION APPENDIX A-1 GLOSSARY G INDEX I-1 "The title 'The Unfinished Nation' is meant to suggest several things. It is a reminder of America's exceptional diversity of the degree to which, despite all the many efforts to build a single, uniform definition of the meaning of American nationhood, that meaning remains contested. It is a reference to the centrality of change in American history to the ways in which the nation has continually transformed itself and continues to do so in our own time. It is also a description of the writing of American history itself of the ways in which historians are engaged in a continuing, ever unfinished process of asking new questions"-- Provided by publisher