Revised edition of: The American pageant / Thomas A. Bailey, David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen. 11th ed. 1997

Includes bibliographical references and index

Part one : Founding the new nation, c.33,000 B.C. -- A.D. 1783. New World beginnings -- The planting of English America -- Settling the Northern colonies -- American life in the seventeenth century -- Colonial society on the eve of revolution -- The duel for North America -- The road to revolution -- America secedes from the Empire -- Part two : Building the new nation, 1776-1860. The Confederation and the Constitution -- Launching the new ship of state -- The triumphs and travails of the Jeffersonian republic -- The Second War for Independence and the upsurge of nationalism -- The rise of a mass democracy -- Forging the national economy -- The ferment of reform and culture -- Part three : Testing the new nation, 1820-1877. The South and the slavery controversy -- Manifest Destiny and its legacy -- Renewing the sectional struggle -- Drifting toward disunion -- Girding for war : the North and the South -- The furnace of Civil War -- The ordeal of Reconstruction -- Part four : Forging an industrial society, 1865-1899. Political paralysis in the Gilded Age -- Industry comes of age -- America moves to the city -- The great West and the Agricultural Revolution -- The path of empire -- Part five : Struggling for justice at home and abroad, 1899-1945. America on the world stage -- Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt -- Wilsonian Progressivism at home and abroad -- The War to End War -- American life in the roaring Twenties -- The politics of boom and bust -- The Great Depression and the New Deal -- Franklin D. Roosevelt and the shadow of war -- America in World War II -- Part six : Making modern America, 1945 to the present. The Cold War begins -- The Eisenhower era -- The stormy Sixties -- The stalemated Seventies -- The resurgence of conservatism -- The American people face a new century

For this twelfth edition of The American Pageant, we have worked together closely to incorporate the most recent scholarship about American history, and to preserve the readability that has long been the Pageant's hallmark. We are often told that the Pageant is the sole American history text that has a distinctive personality -- defined by clarity, concreteness, a consistent chronological narrative, strong emphasis on major themes, avoidance of clutter, access to a variety of interpretive perspectives, and a colorful writing style leavened, as appropriate, with wit. - Preface

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