Major Problems in American History, Volume I

Elizabeth Cobbs, Edward Blum, Vanessa Walker

• Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA
• Year: 2025
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9798214145693
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, Cobbs/Blum/Walker's "Major Problems in American History, Volume I" 5th Edition, introduces you to primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. The text serves as the primary anthology for the introductory survey course, covering the subject's entire chronological span. Topical coverage includes politics, economics, labor, gender, culture and social trends. The revised edition reflects two new historiographical trends: the emergence of the history of religion as an exceptionally lively field and the internationalization of American history. Chapters include images, songs and poems to give you a better feel for the time period and events under discussion. Key pedagogical elements of the text have been retained, including chapter introductions, headnotes and suggested readings.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• About the Authors
• Introduction: How to Read Primary and Secondary Sources
• Chapter 1: Old Worlds Make New Ones
• Chapter 2: Colonial Settlements and Conflicts, 1600-1690
• Chapter 3: British Colonial Development, 1690–1770
• Chapter 4: The American Revolution
• Chapter 5: Building a Nation-State
• Chapter 6: The Early Republic
• Chapter 7: Expansion, Transportation, and Commerce
• Chapter 8: Slavery and Cotton
• Chapter 9: Jacksonian Democracy
• Chapter 10: Religion and Reform Movements
• Chapter 11: Wars with Mexico
• Chapter 12: Immigration and Sectionalism
• Chapter 13: Toward Civil War
• Chapter 14: The Civil War
• Chapter 15: Reconstruction