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CONTENTS
Chapter 1:
Early America
Chapter 2:
The Colonial Period
Chapter 3:
The Road to Independence
Chapter 4:
The Formation of a National Government
Chapter 5:
Westward Expansion and Regional Differences
Chapter 6:
Sectional Conflict
Chapter 7:
The Civil War and Reconstruction
Chapter 8:
Growth and Transformation
Chapter 9:
Discontent and Reform
Chapter 10:
War, Prosperity, and Depression
Chapter 11:
The New Deal and World War II
Chapter 12:
Postwar America
Chapter 13:
Decades of Change: 1960-1980
Chapter 14:
The New Conservatism and a New World Order
Chapter 15:
Bridge to the 21st Century
Bibliography
PICTURE PROFILES
Becoming a Nation
Transforming a Nation
Monuments and Memorials
Turmoil and Change
21st Century Nation
 

(Posted November 2005)
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY

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


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