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A People and a Nation: A History of the United States, Brief Edition, 11th Edition

Mary Beth Norton, Jane Kamensky, Carol Sheriff, David W. Blight, Howard P. Chudacoff, Fredrik Logevall, Beth Bailey

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Overview

Introduce history through a spirited narrative that tells the captivating stories of all people in the United States with Norton's best-selling A PEOPLE AND A NATION: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, BRIEF EDITION, 11E. Written by award-winning historians and acclaimed authors, this revised edition clearly depicts historic change -- from race, gender, economics and public policy to family life, popular culture, social movements, international relations and warfare. The first book to focus on U.S. social history, this edition now emphasizes the place of the U.S. in international history and the world. Streamlined chapters, new learning features, an emphasis on diversity and more than 90 maps support learning, while a new digital version and MindTap and Infuse digital resources make this a great resource for specialized lectures. This edition is available as a complete edition or split editions: VOLUME I: TO 1877 (Chs. 1–14), and VOLUME II: SINCE 1865 (Chs. 14–29).

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Mary Beth Norton

Mary Beth Norton, the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History at Cornell University, received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She teaches courses in the history of exploration, early America, women’s history, Atlantic world and American Revolution. Her many books have won awards from the Society of American Historians, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and English-Speaking Union. Her book, FOUNDING MOTHERS & FATHERS, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2011 her book SEPARATED BY THEIR SEX: WOMEN IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN THE COLONIAL ATLANTIC WORLD was published. She was the Pitt Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge in 2005-2006. The Rockefeller Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation and Huntington Library, among others, have awarded her fellowships. Dr. Norton has served on the National Council for the Humanities and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has appeared on Book TV, the History and Discovery Channels, PBS and NBC as a commentator on Early American history.

Jane Kamensky

Jane Kamensky earned her B.A. and Ph.D. in history from Yale University. She is an American historian whose scholarship has covered the sweep of British colonial and United States history, with books centered in the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Her many books include A REVOLUTION IN COLOR: THE WORLD OF JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, winner of the New-York Historical Society’s American History book prize, along with three others. For 30 years, she worked as a history professor and higher education leader, most recently as Trumbull Professor of American history at Harvard University and director of the Schlesinger Library at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. In 2024, Kamensky became the president of Monticello/The Thomas Jefferson Foundation.

Carol Sheriff

Carol Sheriff is a Professor of History at William & Mary in Virginia, where she has taught since 1993. She received her B.A. from Wesleyan University and her Ph.D. from Yale University. She specializes in 19th century United States social and cultural history, with an emphasis on the period from 1815–1865, and she has an allied interest in early 20th century Civil War memory. She is completing a monograph on controversies surrounding 20th century history textbooks’ portrayals of the Civil War and Reconstruction; a piece of this project won the John T. Hubbell Prize from Civil War History. She has co-authored A PEOPLE AT WAR: SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS IN AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR, 1854–1877, and has written THE ARTIFICIAL RIVER: THE ERIE CANAL AND THE PARADOX OF PROGRESS, 1817–1862, which earned the Dixon Ryan Fox Award from the New York State Historical Association and the Award for Excellence in Research from the New York State Archives. At William & Mary, she has won several teaching awards.

David W. Blight

David W. Blight received his B.A. from Michigan State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He is the Sterling Professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University. In 2019, he won the Pulitzer Prize in history for his work, FREDERICK DOUGLASS: PROPHET OF FREEDOM. His RACE AND REUNION: THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICAN MEMORY, 1863–1915, received eight awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Frederick Douglass Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize and four prizes awarded by the Organization of American Historians. Blight’s essays and op-eds have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers. From 2013–2014, he was the Pitt Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge in the UK. For the first seven years of his career Dr. Blight was a high school history teacher in his hometown of Flint, MI. In 2023, he served as president of the Organization of American Historians.

Howard P. Chudacoff

Howard P. Chudacoff, the George L. Littlefield Emeritus Professor of American History at Brown University, was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He earned his A.B. (1965), M.A. (1967) and Ph.D. (1969) at the University of Chicago. He has written MOBILE AMERICANS (1972), THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN URBAN SOCIETY (eight editions between 1975 and 2014), HOW OLD ARE YOU: AGE CONSCIOUSNESS IN AMERICAN CULTURE (1989), THE AGE OF THE BACHELOR: CREATING AN AMERICAN SUBCULTURE (1999), CHILDREN AT PLAY: AN AMERICAN HISTORY (2007) and CHANGING THE PLAYBOOK: HOW POWER, PROFIT, AND POLITICS TRANSFORMED COLLEGE SPORTS (2015). His articles have appeared in The Journal of American History, The Journal of Family History, Reviews in American History and The Journal of Sport History. At Brown, he has served as Co-Chair of the Program in American Civilization, Chair of the History Department, Executive Committee of the Urban Studies Program and Faculty Representative to the NCAA. The National Endowment for the Humanities, Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation have funded his scholarship.

Fredrik Logevall

A native of Stockholm, Sweden, Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University, where he holds appointments in the Department of History and the Kennedy School of Government. He received his B.A. from Simon Fraser University and his Ph.D. from Yale University. He is the author or editor of 11 books, most recently JFK: COMING OF AGE IN THE AMERICAN CENTURY, 1917–1956 (2020), which received the Elizabeth Longford Prize and was The Times (UK) biography of the year and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His book EMBERS OF WAR: THE FALL OF AN EMPIRE AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA'S VIETNAM (2012), won the Pulitzer Prize in History and the Francis Parkman Prize, in addition to other awards. A past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Logevall is a member of the Society of American Historians and the Council of Foreign Relations and serves on numerous editorial advisory boards.

Beth Bailey

Beth Bailey is Foundation Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Military, War and Society Studies at the University of Kansas. She earned her B.A. from Northwestern University and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Bailey is a historian of the 20th and 21st century United States, whose research focuses on U.S. military, war and society and the history of gender and sexuality in the United States. A prize-winning teacher who has worked in large state universities and liberal arts colleges, she is the author or editor/co-editor of a dozen books, the most recent of which is AN ARMY AFIRE: HOW THE US ARMY CONFRONTED ITS RACIAL CRISIS IN THE VIETNAM ERA. Her recent scholarly awards include the Higuchi-Balfour Jeffrey award for research in the humanities and social sciences, the Society for Military History’s Samuel Eliot Morison award for lifetime achievement in military history and the Pitt Professorship in American History at Cambridge university (2025–2026). She currently serves, by appointment of the Secretary of the Army, as chair of the Department of the Army’s Historical Advisory Subcommittee.

What's New

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  • NEW DIGITAL OPTION OFFERS ADDITIONAL CONTENT AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE. In addition to the printed book, this best-selling social history text is now available in a new digital format that features the entire narrative at a reduced cost for students. In addition, this eBook version provides additional content, learning tools and support to reinforce understanding.
  • COMPLETE REVISION STREAMLINES AND REFINES CONTENT WHILE RETAINING POPULAR STRENGTHS. Updates and careful revisions have reduced this book's number of chapters from 33 to 29. (This includes 14 chapters in Volume 1 and 15 in Volume 2.) All revised content is fine-tuned based on user feedback. This streamlined content makes this Brief Edition easier to assign and use in a typical semester. Rather than simply combining sections into fewer chapters, the authors honed the narrative, reducing excessive detail to sharpen content and more clearly emphasize key themes.

Features

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  • THE FIRST BOOK TO FOCUS ON U.S. SOCIAL HISTORY NOW HIGHLIGHTS THE U.S. IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WORLD. The authors continue this book's hallmark emphasis on social history, but revisions now draw student attention to the place of the U.S. in international history and the world. From politics and policy to social movements, this edition provides clear explanations of today's economic issues that make it a great resource for your specialized lectures or AP courses.
  • WELL-WRITTEN CONTENT AND AN ENGAGING APPROACH IS CREATED BY AWARD-WINNING HISTORIANS. This highly acclaimed author team brings a wealth of experience and accolades to this book's approach. Leaders in their respective fields, these authors understand how to engage readers and keep their attention.
  • CLEAR EXPLANATIONS ARE SUPPORTED WITH MEMORABLE EXAMPLES. The book's consistent chapter framework and use of an appealing narrative ensure students understand the concepts and events presented. Meaningful and interesting examples further demonstrate key points.
  • NEW LEARNING FEATURES DIRECT STUDENT ATTENTION TO KEY POINTS. This edition now includes Focus Questions for every section of each chapter. These questions encourage students to pause and carefully consider the information before moving forward.
  • DYNAMIC AND HELPFUL VISUALS PROVIDE CONTEXT FOR THE HISTORIC MATERIAL. This edition features more than 90 maps that help clarify and provide a clear geographic context for the text's intriguing stories and narratives.
  • THIS EDITION INTEGRATES DISCUSSIONS OF DIVERSITY THROUGHOUT THE NARRATIVE. Students examine differences within broad ethnic categories. In addition, the narrative highlights immigration, cultural and intellectual infusions in the U.S. from around the world. Updates also focus on America's growing religious diversity.

Table of Contents

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1. Three Old Worlds Create a New, 1492–1600.
2. Europeans Colonize North America, 1600–1650.
3. North America in the Atlantic World, 1650–1720.
4. Becoming America? 1720–1760.
5. The Ends of Empire, 1754–1774.
6. American Revolutions, 1775–1783.
7. Forging a Nation, 1783–1800.
8. Defining the Nation, 1801–1823.
9. The Rise of the South, 1815–1860.
10. The Restless North, 1815–1860.
11. The Contested West, 1815–1860.
12. Politics and the Fate of the Union, 1824–1859.
13. Transforming Fire: The Civil War, 1860–1865.
14. Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865–1877.
15. The Ecology of the West and South, 1865–1900.
16. Building Factories, Building Cities, 1877–1900.
17. Gilded Age Politics, 1877–1900.
18. The Progressive Era, 1895–1920.
19. The Quest for Empire, 1865–1914.
20. Americans in the Great War, 1914–1920.
21. The New Era, 1920–1929.
22. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929–1939.
23. The Second World War at Home and Abroad, 1939–1945.
24. The Cold War and American Globalism, 1945–1961.
25. America at Midcentury, 1945–1960.
26. The Tumultuous Sixties, 1960–1968.
27. A Pivotal Era, 1969–1980.
28. Conservatism Revived, 1980–1992.
29. Into the Global Millennium: America Since 1992.

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