A Short History of the United States
by Remini, Robert VincentEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2008-01-01
Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publications
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Summary
Robert V. Remini's A Short History of the United States is an abbreviated, accessible, lively, and erudite narrative history that contains the essential facts about the discovery, settlement, growth, and development of the American nation and its institutions. Racing across the centuries-from the arrival and migration of Native Americans and the discovery of the New World by Europeans, the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Depression, up to the global conflicts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries-it is a fascinating overview of a great nation's epochs and missteps, and a celebration of its achievements, its unique and enduring strengths, and its abiding commitment to individual freedoms. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Robert V. Remini is professor of history emeritus and research professor of humanities emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and historian of the United States House of Representatives. He is the winner of the National Book Award for the third volume of his study of Andrew Jackson, and he lives in Wilmette, Illinois.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. xv |
| Discovery and Settlement of the New World | p. 1 |
| Independence and Nation Building | p. 31 |
| An Emerging Identity | p. 63 |
| The Jacksonian Era | p. 95 |
| The Dispute over Slavery, Secession, and the Civil War | p. 127 |
| Reconstruction and the Gilded Age | p. 155 |
| Manifest Destiny, Progressivism, War, and the Roaring Twenties | p. 187 |
| The Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II | p. 215 |
| The Cold War and Civil Rights | p. 245 |
| Violence, Scandal, and the End of the Cold War | p. 277 |
| The Conservative Revolution | p. 305 |
| Reading List | p. 337 |
| Index | p. 343 |
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