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CONTENIDO
Capítulo 1:
Los albores de Norteamérica
Capítulo 2:
El periodo colonial
Capítulo 3:
El camino de la independencia
Capítulo 4:
La formación de un gobierno nacional
Capítulo 5:
La expansión hacia el oeste y las diferencias regionales
Capítulo 6:
Conflictos sectoriales
Capítulo 7:
La Guerra Civil y la Reconstrucción
Capítulo 8:
Crecimiento y transformación
Capítulo 9:
Descontento y reforma
Capítulo 10:
Guerra, prosperidad y depresión
Capítulo 11:
El Nuevo Trato y la Segunda Guerra Mundial
Capítulo 12:
Estados Unidos en la posguerra
Capítulo 13:
Décadas de cambio: 1960-1980
Capítulo 14:
El nuevo conservadurismo y un nuevo orden mundial
Capítulo 15:
Un puente hacia el siglo XXI
Bibliografia (en inglés)
PERFILES ILUSTRADOS
El advenimiento de una nación
La transformación de una nación
Monumentos y sitios conmemorativos
Agitación y cambio
Una nación del siglo XXI
 

(Publicado en febrero de 2007)
 
Bibliografia (en inglés)

RECENT PRIZE-WINNING BOOKS

The Bancroft Prize for American History
(Awarded by the Trustees of Columbia University)

2005
 
Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom From the 1790s Through the Civil War
By Melvin Patrick Ely
Alfred A. Knopf

From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality
By Michael J. Klarman
Oxford University Press

Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860
By Michael O'Brien
The University of North Carolina Press

2004
 
In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863
By Edward L. Ayers
W.W. Norton and Company

A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South From Slavery to the Great Migration
By Steven Hahn
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Jonathan Edwards: A Life
By George M. Marsden
Yale University Press

2003
 
Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
By James F. Brooks
University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717
By Alan Gallay
Yale University Press

2002
 
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
By David W. Blight
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America
By Alice Kessler-Harris
Oxford University Press

2001
 
Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
By Susan Lee Johnson
W. W. Norton and Company

The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
By David Nasaw
Houghton Mifflin Company

Pulitzer Prize for a distinguished book upon
the history of the United States

(Awarded by Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism)

2005
 
Washington's Crossing
By David Hackett Fischer
Oxford University Press

2004
 
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South From Slavery to the Great Migration
By Steven Hahn
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

2003
 
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
By Rick Atkinson
Henry Holt and Company

2002
 
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
By Louis Menand
Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux

2001
 
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
By Joseph Ellis
Alfred A. Knopf

SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES

American Historical Association (AHA)
http://www.historians.org/index.cfm

American History: A Documentary Record
1492 - Present
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/chrono.htm

The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Major Collections
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/major.htm

Biography of America
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/

Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

Documents for the Study of American History
http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/

History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

The Library of Congress
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/

The Library of Congress
American Memory: Timeline
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/index.html

National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.nara.gov

National Archives and Records Administration: Digital Classroom
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/

National Archives and Records Administration: Our Documents: A National Initiative on American History, Civics, and Service
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&

National Park Service: Links to the Past
http://www.cr.nps.gov/

National Park Service: History in the Parks
http://www.cr.nps.gov/catsig.htm

Organization of American Historians (OAH)
http://www.oah.org/

Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/

The Historical Society
http://www.bu.edu/historic/

WWW Virtual Library: History: United States
http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/

We the People
http://www.wethepeople.gov


The U.S. Department of State assumes no responsibility for the content and availability of the resources from other agencies and organizations listed above. All Internet links were active as of Fall 2005.

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