Michael McGerr, Jan Ellen Lewis, James Oakes, Nick Cullather, Mark Summers, Camilla Townsend, and others
Introduction
Reference Maps:
Colonization of the Americas
Hunter-Gatherers and Early Farmers in North America from 8000 BCE
Native American Peoples c. 1500
Movements of Native American Peoples 14th to 18th Centuries
The Pueblo Peoples
Moundbuilders of the
Mississippi
Voyages of Exploration 1485-1600
Exploration of the Caribbean 1492-1550
Exploration of Central America and Southern North America 1519-50
Cortés's Expedition to Tenochtitlan
Mexico, Central America, and the Eastern Caribbean 1520-1750
Administrative Divisions of
Spanish North America 1780
Colonization of the North American Mainland to 1750
Colonization of the Caribbean 1625-1763
The Seven Years War 1756-63
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Slave Economies of the Western Hemisphere
European Empires and Trade
The Colonial Economy c.
1770
British North America 1763-75
The American War of Independence 1775-83
Stages of Settlement
Territorial Expansion from 1783
Routes of Exploration and Settlement
Treatment of Native Americans
The Slave Population and Cotton Production
The Legal Position of Slavery
in 1861
The Civil War
Railroads and Canals 1860
Industrial Development 1890
Outline Maps:
Find Your Place in the World
Major Cultural Areas of North America, c. 1500
The Old World, c. 1492
Columbus's Voyage
The Columbian Exchange
The Spanish and French Invade
North America, 1519-1565
New Spain, the Southwest, and Southeast, 1565-1610
The Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, c. 1580-1626
New England, 1635-1675
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Caribbean
Colonial Settlements in Eastern North America, 1710
The West, c. 1650 to c. 1750
The
Southeast, c. 1700-1730
The Economy of British North America, 1750-1775
Race and Ethnicity in British North America, 1775
North Atlantic Trade, c. 1750
The French and Indian War (Seven Year's War), 1754-1763
North America in 1763
The Revolutionary War, 1775-1778
The
Revolutionary War, 1779-1783
North America after the Treaty of Paris, 1783
The Northwest Ordinance
Exploration and Expansion in North America, 1803-1810
The War of 1812
African Americans as a Total Percentage of Population, 1800
Transportation Times and the Development of
Roads and Canals, 1800 and 1830
The Antebellum Slave Economy
Indian Removals, 1830s
Overland Trails
The Mexican War
The Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Railroad Expansion, 1850-1860
The Underground Railroad
The Secession of the Southern
States
Major Battles and Campaigns of the Civil War, 1861-62
Major Battles and Campaigns of the Civil War, 1863
Major Battles and Campaigns of the Civil War, 1864-65
Military Districts Established by the Reconstruction Acts, 1867
Sharecropping, c. 1880
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Michael McGerr is the Paul V. McNutt Professor of History at Indiana University-Bloomington. He is the author of The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865-1928 (1986) and A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement, 1870-1920 (2003), both from Oxford
University Press. He is writing "The Public Be Damned": The Kingdom and the Dream of the Vanderbilts. The recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Professor McGerr has won numerous teaching awards at Indiana, where his courses include the US Survey; War in Modern
American History; Rock, Hip Hop, and Revolution; Big Business; The Sixties; and American Pleasure. He has previously taught at Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his BA, MA, and PhD from Yale.
James Oakes has published several books and numerous
articles on slavery and antislavery in the nineteenth century, including The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (2007), winner of the Lincoln Prize in 2008. Professor Oakes is Distinguished Professor of History and Graduate School
Humanities Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center. In 2008 he was a fellow at the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. His new book is Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States (February 2013).
Jan Ellen Lewis is Professor of History
and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University-Newark. She also teaches in the history PhD program at Rutgers, New Brunswick, and was a visiting professor of history at Princeton. A specialist in colonial and early national history, she is the author of The Pursuit of Happiness:
Family and Values in Jefferson's Virginia (1983) as well as numerous articles and reviews. She has coedited An Emotional History of the United States (1998), Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture (1999), and The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New
Republic (2002). She has served as president of the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic, as chair of the New Jersey Historical Commission, and on the editorial board of the American Historical Review. She is an elected member of the Society of American Historians and the American
Antiquarian Society. She received her AB from Bryn Mawr College and MAs and PhD from the University of Michigan.
Nick Cullather is a historian of US foreign relations at Indiana University-Bloomington. He is author of three books on nation building: The Hungry World (2010), a story of
foreign aid, development, and science; Illusions of Influence (1994), on US-Philippines relations; and Secret History (1999 and 2006), a history of the CIA's overthrow of the Guatemalan government in 1954. He received his PhD from the University of Virginia.
Mark Summers is the Thomas D.
Clark Professor of History at the University of Kentucky-Lexington. In addition to various articles, he has written Railroads, Reconstruction, and the Gospel of Prosperity (1984), The Plundering Generation (1988), The Era of Good Stealings (1993), The Press Gang (1994), The Gilded Age; or, The
Hazard of New Functions (1997), Rum, Romanism and Rebellion (2000), Party Games (2004), and A Dangerous Stir (2009). At present, he has just completed a book about a Tammany politician, Big Tim and the Tiger. He is now writing a survey of Reconstruction and a book about 1868. He teaches the American
history survey (both halves), the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, the Age of Jackson, Civil War and Reconstruction, the British Empire (both halves), the Old West (both halves), a history of political cartooning, and various graduate courses. He earned his BA from Yale and his PhD from the
University of California-Berkeley.
Camilla Townsend is Professor of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She is the author of five books, among them Annals of Native America (2016), Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico (2006) and Pocahontas and the
Powhatan Dilemma (2004), and she is the editor of American Indian History: A Documentary Reader (2010). The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, she has also won awards at Rutgers and at Colgate, where she used to
teach. Her courses at the graduate and undergraduate level cover the colonial history of the Americas, as well as Native American history, early and modern. She received her BA from Bryn Mawr and her PhD from Rutgers.
Karen M. Dunak is Associate Professor of History at Muskingum
University in New Concord, Ohio. She is the author of As Long as We Both Shall Love: The White Wedding in Postwar America (2013), published by New York University Press. She currently is working on a book about media representations of and responses to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Her courses include
the US Survey, Women in US History, Gender and Sexuality in US History, and various topics related to modern US history. She earned her BA from American University and her PhD from Indiana University.
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Of the People with Sources Volume 1 to 1877 - Michael McGerr, Jan Ellen Lewis, James Oakes, Nick Cullather, Jeanne Boydston, Mark Summers, and others
Of the People Volume 1 to 1877 - Michael McGerr, Jan Ellen Lewis, James Oakes, Nick Cullather, Mark Summers, Camilla Townsend, and others
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