Constructing the American Past

Elliott J. Gorn - Joseph A. Gagliano Chair in American Urban History, Loyola University, ChicagoSusan Schulten - Professor of History, University of DenverRandy Roberts - Distinguished Professor of History, Purdue University

Constructing the American Past has a nice mix of topics, including standard political history as well as social history. The authors do a good job of including a variety of voices in each chapter.

• Each chapter ends with Questions and Additional Reading Chapter 1 First Encounters in the AmericasChapter 2 The Founding of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay ColoniesChapter 3 Eighteenth-Century VoicesChapter 4 What Kind of Revolution? Justifications for RebellionChapter 5 Forming a More Perfect Union: The Constitution and the Bill of RightsChapter 6 Religious Revivals and Social Reform in the Early RepublicChapter 7 The Ambitions and Limitations of Jacksonian DemocracyChapter 8 The Upheaval of Westward ExpansionChapter 9 Ideals and Realities for Antebellum WomenChapter 10 Immigration and Nativism in the Antebellum EraChapter 11 A House Divided: Free Labor, Slave LaborChapter 12 How Did American Slavery End?Chapter 13 Civil War by Other Means