Unto a Good Land

A History of the American People, Volume 2: From 1865

David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith

• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN: 9780802829450
• eBook ISBN: 9781467425537
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Introducing a New U.S. History Text That Takes Religion Seriously
Unto a Good Land offers a distinctive narrative history of the American people -- from the first contacts between Europeans and North America's native inhabitants, through the creation of a modern nation, to the 2004 presidential election. Written by a team of highly regarded historians, this textbook shows how grasping the uniqueness of the "American experiment" depends on understanding not only social, cultural, political, and economic factors but also the role that religion has played in shaping U. S. history.
While most United States history textbooks in recent decades have expanded their coverage of social and cultural history, they still tend to shortchange the role of religious ideas, practices, and movements in the American past.  Unto a Good Land restores the balance by giving religion its appropriate place in the story.
This readable and teachable text also features a full complement of maps, historical illustrations, and "In Their Own Words" sidebars with excerpts from primary source documents.

Credits

Chapter 16: Reconstruction and the New South

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Chapter 17: Remaking the Trans-Mississippi Wests

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents in Brief
• Contents
• Table of Features
• Preface
• Reviewer Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• 16 Reconstruction and the New South
• 17 Remaking the Trans-Mississippi Wests
• 18 The New Industrial Order
• 19 The Modern Industrial City, 1850–1900
• 20 Post–Civil War Thought and Culture
• 21 The Politics of the Gilded Age
• 22 Innocents Abroad: Expansion and Empire, 1865–1900
• 23 In Search of Efficiency: The Values and Ideology of Progressivism, 1900–1917
• 24 Progressivism in American Politics, 1901 to World War I
• 25 A Sense of Mission: The United States in World Affairs, 1900–1920
• 26 An Exhilarating Decade: American Life in the 1920s
• 27 The Great Depression and the New Deal
• 28 Depression Decade
• 29 The Dilemmas of Power: America and the World, 1921–1945
• 30 In the Shadow of the Bomb: The Cold War in the Truman Years
• 31 Containment, Contentment, Discontent: Eisenhower Republicanism and the Fifties
• 32 The Climax of Liberalism in the Sixties and Seventies
• 33 The Liberal Hour: Politics in the Sixties
• 34 A Nation Beset: Politics from Nixon to Reagan
• 35 A Turn to the Right: The Reagan and First Bush Presidencies
• 36 The Politics of Equilibrium: The Clinton and Bush Presidencies
• 37 American Culture in the New Millennium: A “Culture War,” a Stable Center
• Appendix
• Credits