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Portrait of America from 1865 Vol. 2 by Charles J. Errico and Stephen B. Oates (2002, Perfect)
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Portrait of America is an anthology of essays written by some of America's most eminent historians. Suitable for U.S. history survey courses, the collection has a loose biographical focus. The essays in this secondary source reader humanize American history by portraying it as a story of real people with whom students can identify. Each selection is preceded by an introduction that sets the context and a helpful glossary that identifies important individuals, events, and concepts. The Eighth Edition includes an essay in which six major historians reflect on the historical significance of September 11, 2001.
Product Identifiers
- Publisher
- Cengage Learning
- ISBN-10
- 0618220240
- ISBN-13
- 9780618220243
- eBay Product ID (ePID)
- 2473073
Product Key Features
- Author
- Charles J. Errico, Stephen B. Oates
- Publication Name
- Portrait of America from 1865 Vol. 2
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Type
- Textbook
- Number of Pages
- 480 Pages
Dimensions
- Item Length
- 9.2in.
- Item Height
- 0.8in.
- Item Width
- 7.5in.
- Item Weight
- 26.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
- Lc Classification Number
- E178.1
- Grade from
- Sixth Grade
- Volume Number
- Vol. 2
- Grade to
- Twelfth Grade
- Edition Number
- 8
- Table of Content
- I. A Troubled Peace1. Vincent Harding, 1865: Beautiful, Cruel Year of Transition in the Black Struggle for Freedom2. Eric Foner, The Checkered History of the Great Fourteenth AmendmentII. Conquest of the West3. Robert M. Utley, Sitting Bull and the Sioux Resistance4. Dee Brown, Women First Won the Right to Vote in the American WestIII. The New Industrial Order5. Robert L Heilbroner, The Master of Steel: Andrew Carnegie6. David McCullough, The Brooklyn Bridge: A Monument to American Ingenuity and Daring7. David Boroff, A Little Milk, a Little HoneyIV. Reform and Expansion8. Paula A. Treckel, The Lady Versus Goliath: Ida Tarbell Takes on Standard Oil Co.9. David R. Kohler and James W. Wensyel, America's First Southeast Asian War: The Philippine InsurrectionV. Currents of the Progressive Era10. Edmund Morris, Theodore Roosevelt, President11. Sean Dennis Cashman, African Americans and the Quest for Civil RightsVI. Grim Realities of the Great War (1914-1918)12. Paul Fussell, "Hell Cannot Be So Terrible": Trench Warfare on the Western Front13. Thomas A. Bailey, Woodrow Wilson Wouldn't YieldVII. The Twenties14. Roderick Nash, Henry Ford: Symbol of an Age15. Sara M. Evans, Flappers, Freudians, and All That JazzVIII. Long Dark Night of the Depression16. T.H. Watkins, Under Hoover, the Shame and Misery Deepened17. David M. Kennedy, Strike! Labor's Historic Drive to UnionizeIX. A World at War18. Doris Kearns Goodwin, Franklin and Eleanor: The Early Wartime White House19. William J. vanden Heuvel, America and the HolocaustX. The Bomb20. Robert James Maddox, The Biggest Decision: Why We Had to Drop the Atomic Bomb21. Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II, Hiroshima: The VictimsXI. Perils of the Cold War22. David McCullough, Harry Truman, "One Tough Son-of-a-Bitch of a Man23. Michael R. Beschloss, Eisenhower and Kennedy: Contrasting Presidencies in a Fearful World24. Larry L. King, Trapped: Lyndon Johnson and the Nightmare of VietnamXII. A New Birth of Freedom25. Stephen B. Oates, Trumpet of Conscience: Martin Luther King, Jr.26. Marcia Cohen, Betty Friedan Destroys the Myth of the Happy HousewifeXIII. The Seventies27. Otto Friedrich, "I Have Never Been a Quitter": A Portrait of Richard Nixon28. Nicholas Lehmann, How the Seventies Changed AmericaXIV. The End of the Cold War29. Peter Schweizer, The Man Who Broke the Evil Empire30. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Some Lessons from the Cold WarXV. From the Technological Revolution to Modern Terrorism31. Walter Isaacson, Bill Gates: Enigmatic Genius of Microsoft32. John Lewis Gaddis, The Lessons of September 11
- Copyright Date
- 2003
- Target Audience
- College Audience
- Topic
- General, United States / General
- Lccn
- 2001-133320
- Illustrated
- Yes
- Genre
- History