The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People / Edition 8

by Alan Brinkley, Andrew Huebner, John Giggie Professor

Overview

Known for its balanced voice and approachable scholarship, Alan Brinkley's best-selling The Unfinished Nation offers a concise, yet thorough survey of American History appropriate for students at all levels. The 8^th edition features new scholarship and updated discussions, most significantly on the topics of War, American Imperialism, and Globalization.

Brinkley’s accessible narrative is available as a digital SmartBook™,a personalized eBook that enhances understanding by asking students to demonstrate comprehension as they read. It is also supported by engaging digital tools, such as interactive maps, that encourage critical thinking and retention of key course concepts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780073513331
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date:	09/25/2015
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	944
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.30(d)
Lexile:	1280L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

In addition to being a best selling textbook author, ALAN BRINKLEY is the Allan Nevins Professor of History and former Provost at Columbia University. He is the author of Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the 1983 National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War; and Liberalism and its Discontents. His most recent books are John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963 and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century both published recently. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard and taught previously at MIT, Harvard, and the City University Graduate School before joining the Columbia faculty In 1991. In 1998-1999, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He won the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Award at Harvard in 1987 and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia in 2003. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the board of trustees of the National Humanities Center and Oxford University Press, and chairman of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation.

He has been a visiting professor at Princeton, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of Torino (Italy). He was the 1998-1999 Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.





Andrew Huebner is associate professor of history at the University of Alabama. He is
the author of Love and Death in the Great War (2018) and The Warrior Image: Soldiers in
American Culture from the Second World War to the Vietnam Era (2008). He has written and
spoken widely on the subject of war and society in the twentieth-century United States. In
2017, he was named an Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer.
He received his PhD from Brown University.


John Giggie is associate professor of history and African American studies at the
University of Alabama where he also serves as director of the Summersell Center for the
Study of the South. He is the author of After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of
African American Religion in the Delta, 1875–1917, editor of America Firsthand, and editor of
Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Commercial Culture. He is currently preparing a
book on civil rights protests in west Alabama. He has been widely honored for his teaching,
most recently with a Distinguished Fellow in Teaching Award and Excellence in Community
Engagement Award from the University of Alabama. He received his PhD from Princeton
University.

Table of Contents

Debating the Past: The American Population Before ColumbusAmerica in the World: The Atlantic Context of Early American History America in the World: Mercantilism and Colonial CommerceConsider the Source: Bartolome de las Casas, "Of the Island of Hispaniola"Debating the Past: Native Americans and "The Middle Ground"Consider the Source: Cotton Mather on the Recent History of New England Debating the Past: The Origins of SlaveryDebating the Past: The Witchcraft TrialsConsider the Source: Gottlieb Mittleburger, the Passage of Indentured ServantsAmerica in the World: The First Global WarPatterns of Popular Culture: Taverns in Revolutionary MassachusettsConsider the Source: Benjamin Franklin, Testimony against the Stamp Act Debating the Past: The American RevolutionAmerica in the World: The Age of Revolutions Consider the Source: Abigail Adams discusses women’s rightsDebating the Past: The Background of the ConstitutionConsider the Source: Washington’s Farewell AddressAmerica in the World: The Global Industrial Revolution Patterns of Popular Culture: Horse RacingConsider the Source: Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, June 1803Consider the Source: Thomas Jefferson Reacts to the Missouri CompromiseDebating the Past: Jacksonian DemocracyPatterns of Popular Culture: The Penny PressConsider the Source: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in AmericaPatterns of Popular Culture: Shakespeare in AmericaConsider the Source: The Baltimore Patriot Supports Government Regulation of Telegraphy Debating the Past: The Character of SlaveryConsider the Source: Senator James Henry Hammond Declares “Cotton Is King”America in the World: The Abolition of SlaveryConsider the Source: Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Fall, NY, 1848 Consider the Source: Wilmot Proviso to the Northwest Ordinance, 1846Debating the Past: The Causes of the Civil WarPatterns of Popular Culture: Baseball and the Civil WarConsider the Source: Debating the Past: ReconstructionConsider the Source: Southern Blacks Ask for HelpDebating the Past: The Frontier and the WestConsider the Source: Walter Baron von Richthofen, Cattle Raising on the Plains in North AmericaPatterns of Popular Culture: The Novels of Horatio AlgerConsider the Source: Andrew Carnegie Explains the Gospel of Wealth, 1889America in the World: Global MigrationsConsider the Source: John Wanamaker, The Four Cardinal Points of the Department Store, 1911Debating the Past: PopulismAmerica in the World: ImperialismConsider the Source: Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist LeagueDebating the Past: ProgressivismAmerica in the World: Social DemocracyConsider the Source: Katherine Philips Edson Boasts of Women’s Influence on State Legislation, 1913Patterns of Popular Culture: Billy Sunday and Modern RevivalismConsider the Source: George M. Cohan, “Over There,” 1918 America in the World: The CinemaConsider the Source: Black Swan Records Advertisement in the Newspaper Crisis, 1922Debating the Past: Causes of the Great DepressionAmerica in the World: The Global DepressionConsider the Source: Mr. Tarver Remembers the Great Depression in a 1940 Interview with the Federal Writers ProjectDebating the Past: The New DealPatterns of Popular Culture: The Golden Age of Comic BooksConsider the Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt Speaks on the Reorganization of the Judiciary, 1937 Debating the Past: The Question of Pearl HarborAmerica in the World: The Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1941Consider the Source: Joint Statement by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, 1941Debating the Past: The Decision to Drop the Atomic BombConsider the Source: Marjorie Haselton Writes Her Husband Richard in China, 1945Debating the Past: The Cold War Debating the Past: McCarthyismConsider the Source: National Security Council Paper No. 68 (NSC-68) Arms America, 1950Patterns of Popular Culture: Lucy and DesiConsider the Source: Eisenhower Warns of the Military Industrial Complex in His Farewell Address, 1961Debating the Past: The Civil Rights MovementDebating the Past: The Vietnam CommitmentAmerica in the World: 1968 Consider the Source: Martin Luther King, Jr., “I Have a Dream”Debating the Past: Watergate America in the World: The End of ColonialismConsider the Source: Demands of the New York High School Student Union, 1970Patterns of Popular Culture: The MallConsider the Source: James Watt, “Despite Critics, Interior Dept. Makes Rapid Progress,” Human Events, 1982America in the World: The Global Environmental MovementConsider the Source: “Keep Foreign Terrorism Foreign,” New York Times, 1993