Becoming America, Volume I

The way we once learned history is now history.

Developed for students and instructors of the twenty-first century, Becoming America excites learners by connecting history to their experience of contemporary life. You can’t travel back in time, but you can be transported, and Becoming America does so by expanding the traditional core of the U.S survey to include the most contemporary scholarship on cultural, technological, and environmental transformations. At the same time, the program transforms the student learning experience through innovative technology that is at the forefront of the digital revolution. As a result, the Becoming America program makes it easier for students to grasp both the distinctiveness and the familiarity of bygone eras, and to think in a historically focused way about the urgent questions of our times.

1 CONVERGENCE OF MANY PEOPLES: AMERICA BEFORE 1600

2 EARLY COLONIES 1600–1680

3 SLAVERY AND RACE 1660–1750

4 BRITISH COLONIES IN AN ATLANTIC ECONOMY 1660–1750

5 EMPIRES, WAR, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF INDIAN COUNTRY 1700–1765

6 CRISIS AND WAR 1765–1781

7 MAKING A NEW NATION 1776–1792

8 THE EARLY REPUBLIC 1793–1811

9 WAR, EXPANSION, AND INDIAN REMOVAL 1811–1830

10 MARKET SOCIETY AND THE BIRTH OF MASS POLITICS 1825–1845

11 SLAVERY AND THE SOUTH 1831–1844

12 ERA OF MIDDLE-CLASS REFORM 1831–1848

13 EXPANSION, NATIONALISM, AND AMERICA POPULAR CULTURE 1844–1854

14 A UNION UNRAVELING 1848–1860

15 DISUNION AND WAR 1861–1865

16 SOUTHERN RECONSTRUCTION 1862–1883