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Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Vol. 1 (2nd Edition)

 
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Give Me Liberty!: An American History is the leading textbook in the market because it works in the classroom. A single-author book, Give Me Liberty! offers students a consistent approach, a single narrative voice, and a coherent perspective throughout the text.

 

Threaded through the chronological narrative is the theme of freedom in American history and the significant conflicts over its changing meanings, its limits, and its accessibility to various social and economic groups throughout American history.

About the author:
Eric Foner is the pre-eminent historian of his generation. Foner is highly respected by historians of every stripe - whether they specialize in political history or social history. His books have won the top awards in the profession, and he has been president of both major history organizations - the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. He has worked on every detail of Give Me Liberty!, which displays all of his trademark strengths as a scholar, teacher, and writer. A specialist on the Civil War/Reconstruction period, Foner regularly teaches the 19th century survey at Columbia University, where he is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History.

CONTENTS
List of Maps, Tables, and Figures
About the Author
Preface

Part 1: American Colonies to 1763    
1. A New World
2. Beginnings of English America, 1607-1660
3. Creating Anglo-America, 1660-1750
4. Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763

Part 2: A New Nation, 1763-1840    
5. The American Revolution, 1763-1783
6. The Revolution Within
7. Founding a Nation, 1783-1789
8. Securing the Republic, 1790-1815
9. The Market Revolution, 1800-1840
10. Democracy in America, 1815-1840

Part 3: Slavery, Freedom, and the Crisis of the Union, 1840-1877    
11. The Peculiar Institution
12. An Age of Reform, 1820-1840
13. A House Divided, 1840-1861
14. A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861-1865
15. "What Is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Appendix    
Documents    
- The Declaration of Independence (1776)
- The Constitution of the United States (1787)
- From George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
- The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848)
- From Frederick Douglass's "What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?" Speech (1852)
- The Gettysburg Address (1863)
- Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
- The Populist Platform of 1892
- Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (1933)
- Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
- Ronald Reagan's First Inaugural Address (1981)

Tables and Figures
- Presidential Elections
- Admission of States
- Population of the United States
- Historical Statistics of the United States    

Glossary
Credits
Index

 




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