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Book SynopsisA new generation of scholars addresses the current themes and questions in interpreting American history
Trade Review"[T]he contributors offer thoughtful analyses of past trends within the profession and informed discussions of the future of this organization and the historical profession more generally... [There are] many insights contained in each of the important essays in American History Now, [and] certain themes do emerge from this body of work... This fine volume will be useful to historians at various stages of their careers." Journal of Southern History, November 2012
Table of ContentsVolume Editors’ Preface
Series Editor’s Preface
Part I: Eras of the American Past
1. Squaring the Circles: The Reach of Colonial America • Alan Taylor
2. American Revolution and Early Republic • Woody Holton
3. Jacksonian America • Seth Rockman
4. Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction • Adam Rothman
5. The Possibilities of Politics: Democracy in America, 1877 to 1917 • Robert D. Johnston
6. The Interwar Years • Lisa McGirr
7. The Uncertain Future of American Politics, 1940 to 1973 • Meg Jacobs
8. 1973 to the Present • Kim Phillips-Fein
Part II: Major Themes in the American Experience
9. The United States in the World • Erez Manela
10. The “Cultural Turn” • Lawrence B. Glickman
11. American Religion • John T. McGreevy
12. Frontiers, Borderlands, Wests • Stephen Aron
13. Environmental History • Sarah T. Phillips
14. History of American Capitalism • Sven Beckert
15. Women’s and Gender History • Rebecca Edwards
16. Immigration and Ethnic History • Mae M. Ngai
17. American Indians and the Study of U. S. History • Ned Blackhawk
18. African-American History • Kevin Gaines
Contributors
