Tracing events from the pre-history to the present day, this book offers a concise and accessible history of the American West.

• Explores the complex interactions between and among cultures in the American West
  
• Chronologically organized and informed by the latest scholarship
  
• Grounded in attention to race, class, gender, and the environment, the text focuses on social, economic, and political forces that shaped the lived experiences of diverse westerners and influenced the patterns of western history.

For students with no prior knowledge of the New Deal era, Ronald Edsforth presents a wide-ranging introduction to the sweeping political and economic changes that occurred in the first half of the 20th Century. Devoting a good portion of the book to the events that led to the New Deal, he presents the Great Depression as a prolonged economic crises that generated widespread human suffering but led to enormous creativity in the political culture and restored faith in the government.

The Vietnam War, which dominated American life during the 1960s, helped to create, radicalize, and alter social and political life in the US.

This concise overview of the history and historiography of the American South puts the major problems and issues of that region into clear, accessible prose.

• Examines the major problems and issues of the Old South in clear, accessible prose.
  
• Covers the development of European outposts in the 16th Century, the Southern colonies, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War and its aftermath.
  
• Explores the underlying topics and themes of the Southern way of life.

In this concise historical narrative, Jacqueline Jones provides a sweeping account of the most significant aspect of nearly every American's life.

This concise historical narrative by a prize-winning Cold War historian covers the entire Cold War period from the Yalta conference of 1945 to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The book analyzes the Cold War as the primary event and framework that dominated American thought and action for half a century.

The United States and Imperialism uses concepts of civilization, identity, the civilizing mission, and cooperation to explain the role of imperialism throughout American history. Ninkovich's original analysis of America as an empire shows how imperialism, anti-imperialism, and geopolitics have all played a role in how the United States made decisions when seeking new territories.

This engaging textbook is a concise overview of a sweeping topic - American Immigration. Immigration is core to the history of America - a "Nation of Immigrants" who are diverse by definition. Beginning with the first arrival of migrants from Asia, Africa, and Europe, and ending with a discussion of the United States at the turn of the 21st century, this book offers an unflinching analysis of the complex relationship between America's national solidarity and ethnic diversity.

In this compact and engaging book, Peter S. Onuf and Leonard J. Sadosky analyze Thomas Jefferson's conception of American nationhood in light of the political and social demands facing the post-Revolutionary Republic in its formative years. Onuf and Sadosky's fresh approach to the history and historiography of this crucial period underscores the challenges of preserving American independence and securing a fragile union in a dangerous world. In clear terms, the volume lays out the conflict between Jeffersonian Republicans and their Federalist opponents who were accused of war-mongering, and...

This concise overview of the history and historiography of the American South puts the major problems and issues of that region into clear, accessible prose.

• Examines the major problems and issues of the Old South in clear, accessible prose.
  
• Covers the development of European outposts in the 16th Century, the Southern colonies, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War and its aftermath.
  
• Explores the underlying topics and themes of the Southern way of life.