The American Pageant
by David M. Kennedy, Margaret O'Mara
18th Edition
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9780357898864 |
| eText ISBN | 9798214153377 |
| Publisher | Cengage Learning |
| Publishing Year | 2025 |
| Edition | 18th Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 1184 |
The American Pageant, 18th Edition, by David M. Kennedy and Margaret O'Mara, is a higher education history textbook designed for students and instructors. The volume provides a comprehensive narrative of the United States, tracing political, social, and economic developments across North American history.
The thematic scope begins with early American peopling, aspiring North American empires, and settlement patterns in the English colonies. The narrative progresses through colonial social structures, the Road to Revolution, the Jeffersonian Republic, the War of 1812, the rise of mass democracy, and subsequent national developments leading into modern times.
The textbook incorporates chapter-ending chronologies and introductions to key historical figures to help learners organize historical timelines. These features support instructional goals by offering structured review materials for introductory history courses.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C.E.–1680 C.E.
Chapter 2: Aspiring Empires in North America 1500–1664.
Chapter 3: Settling the English Colonies 1619–1700.
Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century 1607–1692.
Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution 1700–1775.
Chapter 6: The Road to Revolution 1754–1775.
Chapter 7: America Secedes from the Empire 1775–1783.
Chapter 8: The Confederation and the Constitution 1776–1790.
Chapter 9: Launching the New Ship of State 1789–1800.
Chapter 10: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic 1800–1812.
Chapter 11: The War of 1812 and the Upsurge of Nationalism 1812–1824.
Chapter 12: The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824–1840.
Chapter 13: Forging the National Economy 1790–1860.
Chapter 14: The Ferment of Reform and Culture 1790–1860.
Chapter 15: The South and Slavery 1793–1860.
Chapter 16: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy 1841–1848.
Chapter 17: Renewing the Sectional Struggle 1848–1854.
Chapter 18: Drifting Toward Disunion 1854–1861.
Chapter 19: Girding for War: The North and the South 1861–1865.
Chapter 20: The Furnace of Civil War 1861–1865.
Chapter 21: The Ordeal of Reconstruction 1865–1877.
Chapter 22: The Industrial Era Dawns 1865–1900.
Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age 1869–1896.
Chapter 24: America Moves to the City 1865–1900.
Chapter 25: The Conquest of the West 1865–1896.
Chapter 26: Rumbles of Discontent 1865–1900.
Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion 1890–1909.
Chapter 28: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt 1901–1912.
Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War 1913–1920.
Chapter 30: American Life in the "Roaring Twenties" 1920–1932.
Chapter 31: The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933–1939.
Chapter 32: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933–1941.
Chapter 33: America in World War II 1941–1945.
Chapter 34: The Cold War Begins 1945–1952.
Chapter 35: American Zenith 1952–1963.
Chapter 36: The Stormy Sixties 1963–1973.
Chapter 37: A Sea of Troubles 1973–1980.
Chapter 38: The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980–1992.
Chapter 39: America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992–2000.
Chapter 40: The American People Face a New Century, 2001–2018.
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