The American Yawp

A Documentary Companion to the American Yawp

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VOLUME I: BEFORE 1877

Indigenous America1
Colliding Cultures2
British North America3
Colonial Society4
The American Revolution5
A New Nation6
The Early Republic7
The Market Revolution8
Democracy in America9
Religion and Reform10
The Cotton Revolution11
Manifest Destiny12
The Sectional Crisis13
The Civil War14
Reconstruction15

VOLUME II: AFTER 1877

Capital and Labor16
The West17
Life in Industrial America18
American Empire19
The Progressive Era20
World War I & Its Aftermath21
The New Era22
The Great Depression23
World War II24
The Cold War25
The Affluent Society26
The Sixties27
The Unraveling28
The Triumph of the Right29
The Recent Past30

Primary Source (n): 1: Textual, visual, or physical remains of a particular era that are capable of producing historical insight 2: The raw materials of history.

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