The American Pageant, AP Edition, Updated

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The reputable authors of The American Pageant combine excellent scholarship with a witty, engaging narrative style and creative look at U.S. History to build critical thinking skills and a love of American history. The American Pageant, the best-selling AP US History text, is a clear and approachable book for any student studying American history. The Updated 16th Edition completely aligns to the 2015 Framework announced by the College Board in August 2015. Part One: Founding the New Nation: ca. 33,000 B.C.E-1783 C.E 1. New World Beginnings (33,000 B.C.E-1769 C.E.) 2. The Planting of English America (1500-1733) 3. Settling the Northern Colonies (1619-1700) 4. American Life in the Seventeenth Century (1607-1692) 5. Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution (1700-1775) 6. The Duel for North America (1608-1763) 7. The Road to Revolution (1763-1775) 8. America Secedes from the Empire (1775-1783) Part Two: Building the New Nation: 1776-1860 9. The Confederation and the Constitution (1776-1790) 10. Launching the New Ship of State (1789-1800) 11. The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic (1800-1812) 12. The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism (1812-1824) 13. The Rise of a Mass Democracy (1824-1840) 14. Forging the National Economy (1790-1860) 15. The Ferment of Reform and Culture (1790-1860) Part Three: Testing the New Nation: 1820-1877 16. The South and the Slavery Controversy (1793-1860) 17. Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy (1841-1848) 18. Renewing the Sectional Struggle (1848-1854) 19. Drifting Toward Disunion (1854-1861) 20. Girding for War: The North and the South (1861-1865) 21. The Furnace of Civil War (1861-1865) 22. The Ordeal of Reconstruction (1865-1877) Part Four: Forging an Industrial Society: 1865-1909 23. Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age (1869-1896) 24. Industry Comes of Age (1865-1900) 25. America Moves to the City (1865-1900) 26. The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution (1865-1896) 27. Empire and Expansion (1890-1909) Part Five: Struggling for Justice at Home and Abroad: 1901-1945 28. Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt (1901-1912) 29. Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War (1913-1920) 30. American Life in the “Roaring Twenties” (1920-1929) 31. The Politics of Boom and Bust (1920-1932) 32. The Great Depression and the New Deal (1933-1939) 33. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War (1933-1941) 34. America in World War II (1941-1945) Part Six: Making Modern America: 1945 to the Present 35. The Cold War Begins (1945-1952) 36. American Zenith (1952-1963) 37. The Stormy Sixties (1963-1973) 38. Challenges to the Postwar Order (1973-1980) 39. The Resurgence of Conservatism (1980-1992) 40. America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era (1992-2000) 41. The American People Face a New Century (2001-2014)