Meyer Guggenheim, a Swiss immigrant, founded a great American business dynasty. At their peak in the early twentieth century, the Guggenheims, as a family, were reckoned among America's wealthiest, and the richest Jewish family in the world after the Rothschilds. They belonged to Our Crowd, that tight social circles of New York Jewish plutocrats, ...
For undergraduate survey courses in U.S. History. Using a thematic approach, this concise survey explores the many and varied threads of American history-social, intellectual, cultural, political, diplomatic, economic, and military-from the arrival of the first native American inhabitants thousand of years ago throught the crisis following the ...
This popular two-volume series presents an anthology of primary documents, letters, and articles in which participants and contemporary observers express their opinions, make their observations, and reach their conclusions about events and issues of their own day that affected the nation and the American society as a whole. Updated throughout with ...
This compendium of essays, articles, speeches, and documents--from notable personalities and ordinary people--strips away the accumulated mythology of the 1960s and lets readers see and feel the tumultuous era with vivid immediacy.
For a two-semester, freshman/sophomore undergraduate level course in Survey of American History. This popular two-volume series presents an anthology of primary documents, letters, and articles in which participants and contemporary observers express their opinions, make their observations, and reach their conclusions about events and issues of ...
From a Pulitzer prize-winning writer, the only single-volume biography of the towering yet enigmatic leader--from his humble origins to his rise to America's highest office Flawed as a human being, Lyndon Johnson was a towering public figure of his era, a man whose social programs changed America in profound ways. In this compelling new biography ...
For undergraduate survey courses in U.S. History. Using a thematic approach, this concise survey explores the many and varied threads of American history-social, intellectual, cultural, political, diplomatic, economic, and military-from the arrival of the first native American inhabitants thousand of years ago throught the crisis following the ...
For undergraduate survey courses in U.S. History. Using a thematic approach, this concise survey explores the many and varied threads of American history-social, intellectual, cultural, political, diplomatic, economic, and military-from the arrival of the first native American inhabitants thousand of years ago throught the crisis following the ...
For courses in American History. Pulitzer-Prize winning author Irwin Unger provides a compelling narrative history of the American years from the end of World War II to the 21st century. The text touches all major topical bases--wars, economics, women, racial and life-style minorities, cultural trends, demographic evolution, and politics and ...
A collection of primary documents in which participants and observers express their opinions and make observations on events and issues of the day. Readings span the American past and deal with political, cultural, and economic problems. Each section contains differing, often contrasting, points of
A popular reference series with each volume devoted to a single subject, "Instant" Books feature cleverly-written, snazzily packaged "notes" on all the major disciplines. From the discovery of the New World to the Old West, from the fight for independence to the War Between the States, all the exciting events are here--complete with sidebars like ...
For survey courses in U.S. History. Written by a Pulitzer Prize winning author, this "concise" survey explores the many and varied threads of American history-social, intellectual, cultural political, diplomatic, economic, and military-from the arrival of the first native American inhabitants thousands of years ago through the crisis following ...
The year that saw the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, the rise of the hippie movement, and Black Power was a turning point in American history--one that led to the destruction of liberalism and sowed the seeds of the re-emergence of conservatism and the rise of Ronald Reagan. Two 8-page inserts.
For survey courses in U.S. History. Written by a Pulitzer Prize winning author, this "concise" survey explores the many and varied threads of American history-social, intellectual, cultural political, diplomatic, economic, and military-from the arrival of the first native American inhabitants thousands of years ago through the crisis following ...
This popular two-volume series presents an anthology of primary documents, letters, and articles in which participants and contemporary observers express their opinions, make their observations, and reach their conclusions about events and issues of their own day that affected the nation and the American society as a whole. Updated throughout with ...
Ideal for survey courses in U.S. History, this text maintains Pulitzer Prize winning author Irwin Unger's challenging "inquiry approach," organizing each chapter around a specific question designed to challenge students to consider the complexity of the past. The classic coverage has been both updated and expanded to offer a more contemporary ...
The novelist, William Dean Howells described autobiography as the most democratic of American literary genres. Autobiography has offered a voice to women, African Americans, Native Americans, and others whose writings have often been excluded from the literary canon. The men and women presented here observed, shaped, or participated in many of the ...
This landmark history of the people and politics behind the Great Society's social reforms--from welfare and Medicare and Medicaid to the NEA and Head Start--explores the reasons why these programs inevitably began to go awry, and explains why the current Republican Congress is attempting to overturn and dismantle them.
This book maintains Pulitzer Prize winning author Irwin Unger's challenging "inquiry approach," organizing each chapter around a specific question designed to challenge students/readers to consider the complexity of the past.
For a two-semester, freshman/sophomore undergraduate level course in Survey of American History. This popular two-volume series presents an anthology of primary documents, letters, and articles in which participants and contemporary observers express their opinions, make their observations, and reach their conclusions about events and issues of ...
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