" This highly visual brief survey of U.S. History introduces the key features of American political, social, and economic history in an exciting new format designed to ignite, in the readers, a passion to know and love history. This volume covers U.S. History from approximately 1900 to 2003 through enhanced visual presentations, emphasis in geographic literacy, and a free CD-ROM that includes History Notes and the Western Civilizatio ..."
"For all the advances of the civil rights movement, and for all the cultural diversity attending economic prosperity, many white southerners have been unable to relinquish the Confederate past and the idea of a heroic, liberty-loving South crushed by power-hungry Yankees. The Making of a Confederate uses the life of one man―Walter Lenoir of North Carolina―to explore the origins of southern white identity and the myriad ambiguities and co ..."
The Making of a Confederate(1st Edition) Walter Lenoir's Civil War (New Narratives in American History) by WilliamL. Barney Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2008 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-531434-2, ISBN: 0-19-531434-4
"Reconstruction and the end of slavery brought deep-seated problems to the reunited nation. This single-volume encyclopedia includes 245 entries on all facets of the conflicted era."
"During the 1950s consensus historians, attempting to challenge the claims of an
earlier generation of Progressive historians, maintained that what distinguished
the history of the United States was the absence of feudalism, the strength of a
liberal tradition, the weakness of aristocracy, the limits of working-class
discontent, and the failure of socialism. Implicit in such an explanation was the
belief that conflict in America did ..."