Forging America: Volume One to 1877

Maps, Tables, and Figures
Features
Sources for Forging America
Preface
Learning Resources for Forging America
Acknowledgments
About the Author


Part One: New Worlds for All

Chapter 1 Beginnings to 1519

Chapter 2 Contact Zones 1450-1600

Chapter 3 Settler Colonies and Imperial Rivalries 1585-1681

Chapter 4 Colonial Convulsions and Rebellions 1640-1700


Part Two: Revolutions and Reversals

Chapter 5 Colonial Societies and Contentious Empires1625-1786

Chapter 6 Global War and American Independence 1750-1776

Chapter 7 A Political Revolution 1776-1791
Chapter 8 Securing a Republic, Imagining an Empire 1789-1815


Part Three: Unmaking a Slaveholders' Republic

Chapter 9 Expansion and Its Discontents, 1815-1840

Chapter 10 Social Reform, and the New Politics of Slavery 1820-1840

Chapter 11 Warring for the Pacific 1836-1848

Chapter 12 Coming Apart 1848-1857

Chapter 13 A Slaveholders' Rebellion 1856-1861

Chapter 14 The War of the Rebellion 1861-1863

Chapter 15 Ending the Rebellion and Re(constructing) the Nation 1863-1865

Part Four: Industrial Society and Its Discontents

Chapter 16 The Promise and Limits of Reconstruction 1863-1877


Appendix A: Historical Documents
Appendix B: Historical Facts and Data
Photo Credits
Index

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Steven Hahn earned his B.A. at the University of Rochester and his M.A. and Ph. D. at Yale University. He is a specialist on the social and political history of the nineteenth-century United States, on the history of the American South, on slavery, emancipation, and race, and on the development of American empire on the North American continent, in the Western Hemisphere, and in the Pacific world. His books include the Pulitzer Prize winning A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (2003); The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom (2009); A Nation without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910 (2016); and most recently, Illiberal America: A History (2024).

Hahn has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library. He has taught at the University of Delaware, the University of California San Diego, Northwestern University, and the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently Professor of History at New York University where he is also actively involved in the NYU Prison Education Program.

Sources for Forging America Volume One - Steven Hahn
Edited by Alexandra E. Stern and Stefan Lund

Special Features

• Encourages the reader to recognize that history is a continuous process of discovery, and that history is a way of learning and thinking.
• Use multiple and shifting perspectives to narrate the history of the United States and to focus the readers' attentions on those moments when historical change occurs.
• Reorients the narrative trajectory so that the Pacific world is as much a part of United States history as the Atlantic world has been.
• Breaks with convention by striving, whenever possible, to map continuity and change from the perspectives of the people who lived through them. Instead of relying exclusively on standard projections that show the United States with an east-west and north-south orientation, many of the maps in the "Mapping America" feature in each chapter show events from a south-north or west-east perspective.
• Uses images to convey the substance and meaning of differing perspectives, and to show how people envisioned the world around them. Every chapter includes a "Perspectives" feature that pairs two contrasting images.
• Emphasizes the contingency of history--that those who lived at times when important historical events took place did not themselves know what the outcome would be. Every chapter ends with a "What If?" section: an alternative outcome accompanied by original source materials for students to consider, discuss, and debate.
• Integrated directly in the e-book at no extra charge, the audio book for Forging America provides another mode for engaging with the text. Each chapter is narrated by a professional actor. Music and sound effects enhance the listening experience. Go to https://learninglink.oup.com/access/hahn1e to listen to a sample.
• The e-book includes nearly 100 primary sources, embedded at the end of each chapter, and edited specifically to accompany Forging America
• A complete package of digital teaching resources is available for adopters at https://learninglink.oup.com/access/hahn1e