| Description |
xiv, 370 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Based on a series of lectures prepared for the Voice of America. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The comparability of American history / C. Vann Woodward -- The colonial phase / Merrill Jensen -- The Enlightenment / Peter Gay -- The revolution / R.R. Palmer -- The "newness" of the new nation / Seymour Martin Lipset -- Frontiers / Ray Allen Billington -- Immigration / John Higham -- Mobility / George W. Pierson -- Slavery / David Brion Davis -- Civil war / David M. Potter -- Reconstruction: ultraconservative revolution / Eric McKitrick -- The Negro since freedom / John Hope Franklin -- Industrialization / Thomas C. Cochran -- Urbanization / Richard C. Wade -- Political parties / Richard Hofstadter -- The coming of big business / Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. -- Socialism and labor / David A. Shannon -- Imperialism / Robin W. Winks -- Social democracy, 1910-1918 / George E. Mowry -- World War I / Arno J. Mayer -- The Great Depression / William E. Leuchtenburg -- World War II / John Morton Blum -- The Cold War / Ernest R. May -- The test of comparison / C. Vann Woodward. |
| Subject |
United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann), 1908-1999, editor.
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Voice of America (Organization)
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