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- 2024
- 2022
A People and a Nation
A History of the United States, Brief Edition - Eleventh Edition
- 960 pages
- 34 hours of reading
Follow history with a spirited narrative that tells the captivating stories of all people in the United States in Norton's best-selling A PEOPLE AND A A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, BRIEF EDITION, 11E. Written by award-winning historians and acclaimed authors, this revised edition clearly depicts historic change -- from race, gender, economics and public policy to family life, popular culture, social movements, international relations and warfare. The first book to focus on U.S. social history, this edition now emphasizes the place of the U.S. in international history and the world. Streamlined chapters, new learning features and more than 90 maps support learning, while a new digital version and optional MindTap and Infuse digital resources help you envision what life was like in the past. This edition is available as a complete edition or split VOLUME TO 1877 (Chs. 1-14), and VOLUME SINCE 1865 (Chs. 14-29).
- 2022
The narrative explores the diverse stories of the American populace, emphasizing social history and its intersection with race, gender, and public policy. This revised edition highlights the U.S.'s role in international history while offering streamlined chapters, enhanced learning features, and over 90 maps. New digital resources, including MindTap and Infuse, provide an immersive experience of historical life. Available in complete or split volumes, it serves as a comprehensive resource for understanding the complexities of U.S. history.
- 2019
Frederick Douglass
- 912 pages
- 32 hours of reading
The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the 19th century--Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. era.
- 2013
American Oracle
- 328 pages
- 12 hours of reading
David Blight takes his readers back to the Civil War's centennial celebration to determine how Americans made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation a century earlier. He shows how four of America's most incisive writers-Robert Penn Warren, Bruce Catton, Edmund Wilson, and James Baldwin-explored the gulf between remembrance and reality.
- 2012
Embers of War
- 864 pages
- 31 hours of reading
This monumental history asks the simple question: How did we end up in a war in Vietnam? Fredrik Logevall traces the forty-year path that led us from World War I to the first American casualties in 1959This monumental history asks the simple question: How did we end up in a war in Vietnam?
- 2011
Separated by Their Sex
Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World
- 272 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Exploring the evolution of gender roles in the Anglo-American public sphere, this work traces developments from the 1640s to the 1760s. It examines the interplay of societal norms and individual identities, highlighting how gender shaped political discourse and public life during this transformative period. The study offers a critical analysis of historical contexts, revealing the complexities of gender dynamics and their implications for contemporary understandings of identity and power.
- 2002
Race and Reunion
- 528 pages
- 19 hours of reading
In 1865, in the aftermath of civil war, the North and South of America began a slow process of reconciliation. This book examines the construction of a culture of reunion during the ensuing decades and analyzes how this unity was created through increasing racial segregation.
- 2001
A short introduction to the origins of the Vietnam War. The book sets the context to the conflict from the end of the Indochina War in 1954 to the eruption of full scale war in 1965. It places events in their full international background. číst celé
- 1988
This textbook history of the United States, beginning in 1492 and going through the present day, is a shortened version of the 1982 edition.

