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 theCullman 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.

Forging America is superb: the treatment of power, conflict, and crisis within the US is convincingly located within the dynamics of global transformation. The narrative is illuminating and vivid - sometimes troubling, in the best of ways - as it charts how American history is marked not only by achievements won in the realms of equity, autonomy, and human dignity but also by longstanding as well as unprecedented threats to social justice and human survival. It judiciously explores clashing perspectives. And it highlights turning-points and ruptures, making contingency come alive while also tracing long patterns of change over time, helping students to understand the relationship between past and present." -Amy Dru Stanley, University of Chicago

• Maps, Tables, and Figures FeaturesSources for Forging AmericaPreface About the Author 15. Ending the Rebellion and Re(constructing) the Nation 1863-1865Part Four: Industrial Society and Its Discontents16. THE PROMISE AND LIMITS OF RECONSTRUCTION, 1865-187717. CAPITALISM AND THE GILDED AGE, 1873-189018. CAULDRONS OF PROTEST, 1873-189619. CONSTRUCTING PROGRESSIVISM, 1886-191420. EMPIRE AND RACE, 1890-1914 Part Five: Social Democracy and Its Enemies21. WAR, REVOLUTION, AND REACTION, 1910-1925 22. LOOKING INTO THE ABYSS, 1920-193423. BIRTH PANGS OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY, 1933-194024. FLAMES OF GLOBAL WAR, VISIONS OF GLOBAL PEACE, 1940-194525. COLD WAR AMERICA, 1945-1957 Part Six: Conservatism, Neoliberalism, and Militarism26. REBELLION ON THE LEFT, RESURGENCE ON THE RIGHT, 1957-196827. DESTABILIZATIONS, 1968-197928. A NEW CONSERVATISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS: 1980-198929. NEW WORLD DISORDER, 1989-2004 30. DESTINIES, 2005 - The Present Appendix A: Historical DocumentsAppendix B: Historical Facts and DataCreditsIndex

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 theCullman 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.

Forging America is superb: the treatment of power, conflict, and crisis within the US is convincingly located within the dynamics of global transformation. The narrative is illuminating and vivid - sometimes troubling, in the best of ways - as it charts how American history is marked not only by achievements won in the realms of equity, autonomy, and human dignity but also by longstanding as well as unprecedented threats to social justice and human survival. It judiciously explores clashing perspectives. And it highlights turning-points and ruptures, making contingency come alive while also tracing long patterns of change over time, helping students to understand the relationship between past and present." -Amy Dru Stanley, University of Chicago

• Maps, Tables, and Figures FeaturesSources for Forging AmericaPreface About the Author 15. Ending the Rebellion and Re(constructing) the Nation 1863-1865Part Four: Industrial Society and Its Discontents16. THE PROMISE AND LIMITS OF RECONSTRUCTION, 1865-187717. CAPITALISM AND THE GILDED AGE, 1873-189018. CAULDRONS OF PROTEST, 1873-189619. CONSTRUCTING PROGRESSIVISM, 1886-191420. EMPIRE AND RACE, 1890-1914 Part Five: Social Democracy and Its Enemies21. WAR, REVOLUTION, AND REACTION, 1910-1925 22. LOOKING INTO THE ABYSS, 1920-193423. BIRTH PANGS OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY, 1933-194024. FLAMES OF GLOBAL WAR, VISIONS OF GLOBAL PEACE, 1940-194525. COLD WAR AMERICA, 1945-1957 Part Six: Conservatism, Neoliberalism, and Militarism26. REBELLION ON THE LEFT, RESURGENCE ON THE RIGHT, 1957-196827. DESTABILIZATIONS, 1968-197928. A NEW CONSERVATISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS: 1980-198929. NEW WORLD DISORDER, 1989-2004 30. DESTINIES, 2005 - The Present Appendix A: Historical DocumentsAppendix B: Historical Facts and DataCreditsIndex