American Stories

This book is ideal for any introductory American history instructor who wants to make the subject more appealing. It's designed to supplement a main text, and focuses on "personalized history" presented through engaging biographies of famous and less-well-known figures from the colonial period to 1877. Historical patterns and trends appear as they are seen through individual lives, and the selection of the profiled individuals reflects a cultural awareness and a multicultural perspective. Preface and Acknowledgments, Prologue Native Americans and Europeans Up to 1600, Chapter 1 Colonial New England, Chapter 2 The Colonial South, Chapter 3 Colonial Society, Chapter 4 The Coming of the Revolution, Chapter 5 The American Revolution, Chapter 6 The Constitutional Period, Chapter 7 Politics and Society in the Early Republic, Chapter 8 The United States on the World Stage, Chapter 9 The War of 1812, Chapter 10 Andrew Jackson and America, Chapter 11 The United States and the Antebellum West, Chapter 12 Nineteenth-Century Slavery, Chapter 13 The Coming of the Civil War, Chapter 14 The Civil War, Chapter 15 After the Civil War, About the Author