Product Description: For courses in U.S. History An accessible social history of the U.S. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Concise Edition examines U.S. history as revealed through the experiences of diverse Americans, both ordinary and extraordinary...read more

The American People, Fifth Edition, Study Edition offers the same proven structure and connections between the many factorspolitical, social, economic, technological, religious, cultural, and intellectualthat have shaped American society. The American People, Fifth Edition, and the Study Edition also includes the Chapter Tests located at the end of the text. Written by an outstanding team of scholars and teachers, this text seamlessly weaves together the rich and complex story of the creation and development of the American nation and American society. The narrative integrates discussion of public events such as presidential elections, wars, and reform movements with the private stories of ordinary Americans who participated in and responded to these events as it unfolds the drama of American history.

Providing students with a thought-provoking account of America’s past, The American People examines how American society assumed its present shape and developed its present forms of government.   Emphasizing the interaction of ordinary Americans with extraordinary events, the text combines the discussion of political events with analysis of their impact on social and economic life. The comprehensive narrative encompasses description of the lives and experiences of Americans of all national origins and cultural backgrounds, at all class levels of society, and in all regions of the country. The thoughtful analysis seeks the connections among the political, social, economic, technological, and cultural factors that have shaped and reshaped American society over four centuries.

Product Description: 0205740618 / 9780205740611  American People, The: Creating a Nation and a Society, Volume 1 (to 1877), VangoBooks and Voices of The American People, Volume 1 with MyHistoryKit   Package consists of:    0205642829 / 9780205642823 American People, The: Creating a Nation and a Society, Volume 1 (to 1877), VangoBooks 0205700926 / 9780205700929 MyHistoryKit -- Valuepack Access Card 0321395905 / 9780321395900 Voices of The American People, Volume ...read more

Product Description: The golden age of the postcard coincides with a rapidly evolving time when the world was being transformed by the introduction of telephones, cameras, fountain pens, automobiles, trains, and modern magazines. By 1905 the Rural Free Delivery system enabled even Vermont's most remotely located residents to receive these cards in their roadside mailboxes, along with letters and Sears Roebuck catalogs...read more

Books about Jane Addams―founder of Hull House, social reformer, suffragist, pacifist, and one of the most greatly admired women in American history―come and go, but Allen Davis's account of her life, work, and ideas remains the standard biography. "A distinguished work of scholarship, mature, incisive....Davis has written not only the best study of Jane Addams but perhaps the best biography of any great American woman."―William L. O'Neill. "The first book that systematically and persuasively separates the real woman from the myth. It will be indispensable to anyone interested in the subject or the period."―Rosemarie Scherman, New York Times Book Review. "An important work, especially valuable for its cultural analysis and its sane, careful approach to the biographer's task."―Alonzo L. Hamby, History. "Detailed and well researched, this account...is the best thing written on Jane Addams I have seen."―Doris Grumbach, New Republic. "An impressively researched, perceptive biography." ―Gertrude Benson, Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Twelve articles study the problems of Philadelphia's ethnic groups and the degrading living conditions of the city's poor. (view table of contents)

9 chapters include power, politics and wealth in colonial america, the american revolution, the constitution, jeffersonians and the federalists etc.

Photographs document the growth of Philadelphia and show the life of its citizens from 1920-1960

Published in 1967, a book on early American History that tells what things happened and why they happened.