American Story

Name: American Story
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ISBN: 9780321091871

ISBN-10: 0321091876

ISBN-13: 9780321091871

Edition: 2002

Authors: Robert A. Divine

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"The American Story" presents a balanced and manageable overview of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, integrating social and political history into a coherent and compelling narrative. Acknowledging the nation' s rich diversity of class, race, gender, and ethnicity, this edition tells the story both of the people who, through their collective and individual endeavors, shaped the past and of the demands that events placed upon them. This text is available in a highly affordable Penguin Academic edition.

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About the Author: Robert A. Divine is a Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin, and is the author of Eisenhower and the Cold War and Blowing on the Wind.




The Agony of Reconstruction


Robert Smalls and Black Politicians During Reconstruction


The President Versus Congress


Reconstructing Southern Society


Retreat from Reconstruction


Reunion and the New South


Conclusion: Henry McNeal Turner and the "Unfinished Revolution."



The West: Exploiting an Empire


Lean Bear's Changing West


Beyond the Frontier


Crushing the Native Americans


Settlement of the West


The Bonanza West


Conclusion: The Meaning of the West



The Industrial Society


A Machine Culture


Industrial Development


An Empire on Rails


An Industrial Empire


The Sellers


The Wage Earners


Conclusion: Industrializations Benefits and Costs



Toward an Urban Society, 1877-1900


The Overcrowded City


The Lure of the City


Social and Cultural Change, 1877-1900


The Stirrings of Reform


Conclusion: A Pluralistic Society



Political Realignments in the 1890s


Hardship and Heartache


Politics of Stalemate


Republicans in Power: The Billion-Dollar Congress


The Rise of the Populist Movement


The Crisis of the Depression


Changing Attitudes


The Presidential Election of 1896


The McKinley Administration


Conclusion: A Decade's Dramatic Changes



Toward Empire


Roosevelt and the Rough Riders


America Looks Outward


War with Spain


Acquisition of Empire


Conclusion: Outcome of the War with Spain



The Progressive Era


Muckrakers Call for Reform


The Changing Face of Industrialism


Society's Masses


Conflict in the Workplace


A New Urban Culture


Conclusion: A Ferment of Discovery and