U.S.: A Narrative History, Volume 2: Since 1865

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U.S., transforms the learning experience through personalized, adaptive technology helping students better grasp the issues of the past while providing greater flexibility for instructors to enhance their teaching. This brief American History program tells the story of the American people in a highly portable and visually appealing manner helping students connect with our nation's past and understand our present.\nThe Connect suite of assignments contain critical thinking and interactive map exercises, with over 600 searchable primary resources with integrated writing assignments, and an adaptive reading experience to strengthen reading comprehension of students―all improving student outcomes. \nAbout the Author
Michael B. Stoff is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin. The recipient of a Ph.D. from Yale University, he has been honored many times for his teaching, most recently with election to the Academy of Distinguished Teachers. He is the author of
Oil, War, and American Security: The Search for a National Policy on Foreign Oil,1941-1947, co-editor (with Jonathan Fanton and R. Hal Williams) of
The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age, and series co-editor (with James West Davidson) of the
Oxford New Narratives in American History. He is currently working on a narrative on the bombing of Nagasaki.\nJames West Davidson received his B.A. from Haverford College and his Ph.D. from Yale University. A historian who has pursued a full-time writing career, he is the author of numerous books, among them
After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with Mark H. Lytle),
The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth Century New England, and
Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure (with John Rugge). He is co-editor with Michael Stiff of the
Oxford New Narratives in American History, in which his most recent book appears:
'They Say': Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race.\nChristine Leigh Heyrman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware. She received a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University and is the author of
Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750. Her book exploring the evolution of religious culture in the Southern U.S., entitled
Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt, was awarded the Bancroft Prize in 1998.\nMark H. Lytle received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is Professor of History and Environmental Studies. he has served two years as Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History at University College, Dublin, in Ireland. His publications include
The Origins of the Iranian-American Alliance, 1941-1953,
After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with James West Davidson),
America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon, and, most recently,
The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement. He is co-editor of a joint issue of the journals of
Diplomatic History and
Environmental History dedicated to the field of environmental diplomacy.\nBrian DeLay (Ph.D., Harvard) is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in colonial and 19th century U.S. and Mexican history. His scholarship has won awards from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, the Western History Association, the Council on Latin American History, the American Society for Ethnohistory, the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is the author of
War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (Yale, 2008), and is currently at work on a book about the international arms trade and the re-creation of the Americas during the long nineteenth century. He can be reached at delay@berk