A panoramic history of the United States ranges from the 1815 Battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War and chronicles the dramatic changes that took place in America during the period, interweaving political and military events with social, economic, and cultural history to address such issues as women's rights, religion, slavery and abolition, education, literature, and more.

Product Description: [This is Part 2 of a 2-part Audiobook CD Library Edition in Vinyl case.][Part 1 has ISBN: 9781433260193][Read by Patrick Cullen] Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History Winner of the 2008 American History Book Prize In this addition to the esteemed Oxford history series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era of revolutionary improvements in transportation and communications that accelerated the extension of the American empire...read more

Product Description: Book by Howe, Daniel Walker