1st Edition

American Stories Living American History: v. 1: To 1877

By Jason Ripper Copyright 2008
320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

This book is ideal for any introductory American history instructor who wants to make the subject more appealing. It's designed to supplement a main text, and focuses on "personalized history" presented through engaging biographies of famous and less-well-known figures from the colonial period to 1877. Historical patterns and trends appear as they are seen through individual lives, and the... Read more
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Colonial New England; 2. The Colonial South; 3. Colonial Society; 4. The Coming of the Revolution; 5. The American Revolution; 6. The Constitutional Period; 7. Politics and Society in the Early Republic; 8. The United States Greets The World; 9. The War of 1812; 10. Andrew Jackson's America; 11. The United States and the Antebellum West; 12. Nineteenth Century Slavery; 13. The Coming of the Civil War; 14. The Civil War; 15. After the Civil War; About the Author.

Biography

Ripper, Jason