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This spirited narrative challenges students to think about the
meaning of American history. Thoughtful inclusion of the lives of
everyday people, cultural diversity, work, and popular culture
preserves the text's basic approach to American history as a story
of all the American people.The Seventh Edition maintains the
emphasis on the unique social history of the United States and
engages students through cutting-edge research and scholarship. New
content includes expanded coverage of modern history (post-1945)
with discussion of foreign relations, gender analysis, and race and
racial relations.
Follow history with a spirited narrative that tells the captivating
stories of all people in the United States in 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
and more than 90 maps support learning, while a new digital version
and optional MindTap and Infuse digital resources help you envision
what life was like in the past. 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).
**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a
great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important
African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the
escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of
the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. As a young man
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore,
Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave
owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major
literary figures of his time. His very existence gave the lie to
slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence he bore witness
to the brutality of slavery. Initially mentored by William Lloyd
Garrison, Douglass spoke widely, using his own story to condemn
slavery. By the Civil War, Douglass had become the most famed and
widely travelled orator in the nation. In his unique and eloquent
voice, written and spoken, Douglass was a fierce critic of the
United States as well as a radical patriot. After the war he
sometimes argued politically with younger African Americans, but he
never forsook either the Republican party or the cause of black
civil and political rights. In this "cinematic and deeply engaging"
(The New York Times Book Review) biography, David Blight has drawn
on new information held in a private collection that few other
historian have consulted, as well as recently discovered issues of
Douglass's newspapers. "Absorbing and even moving...a brilliant
book that speaks to our own time as well as Douglass's" (The Wall
Street Journal), Blight's biography tells the fascinating story of
Douglass's two marriages and his complex extended family. "David
Blight has written the definitive biography of Frederick
Douglass...a powerful portrait of one of the most important
American voices of the nineteenth century" (The Boston Globe). In
addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Frederick Douglass won the
Bancroft, Parkman, Los Angeles Times (biography), Lincoln,
Plutarch, and Christopher awards and was named one of the Best
Books of 2018 by The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street
Journal, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco
Chronicle, and Time.
Over the last two decades, fighting modern slavery and human
trafficking has become a cause celebre. Yet large numbers of
researchers, non-governmental organizations, trade unions, workers,
and others who would seem like natural allies in the fight against
modern slavery and trafficking are hugely skeptical of these
movements. They object to how the problems are framed, and are
skeptical of the "new abolitionist" movement. Why? This book
tackles key controversies surrounding the anti-slavery and
anti-trafficking movements head on. Champions and skeptics explore
the fissures and fault lines that surround efforts to fight modern
slavery and human trafficking today. These include: whether efforts
to fight modern slavery displace or crowd out support for labor and
migrant rights; whether and to what extent efforts to fight modern
slavery mask, naturalize, and distract from racial, gendered, and
economic inequality; and whether contemporary anti-slavery and
anti-trafficking crusaders' use of history are accurate and
appropriate.
Over the last two decades, fighting modern slavery and human
trafficking has become a cause celebre. Yet large numbers of
researchers, non-governmental organizations, trade unions, workers,
and others who would seem like natural allies in the fight against
modern slavery and trafficking are hugely skeptical of these
movements. They object to how the problems are framed, and are
skeptical of the "new abolitionist" movement. Why? This book
tackles key controversies surrounding the anti-slavery and
anti-trafficking movements head on. Champions and skeptics explore
the fissures and fault lines that surround efforts to fight modern
slavery and human trafficking today. These include: whether efforts
to fight modern slavery displace or crowd out support for labor and
migrant rights; whether and to what extent efforts to fight modern
slavery mask, naturalize, and distract from racial, gendered, and
economic inequality; and whether contemporary anti-slavery and
anti-trafficking crusaders' use of history are accurate and
appropriate.
The Brief Edition of A PEOPLE AND A NATION offers a succinct and
spirited narrative that tells the stories of all people in the
United States. The authors' attention to race and racial identity
and their inclusion of everyday people and popular culture brings
history to life, engaging readers and encouraging them to imagine
what life was really like in the past.
A extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to
illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade Winner
of the Association of American Publishers' 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award
and PROSE Award "A monumental chronicle of this historical
tragedy."-Dwight Garner, New York Times Between 1501 and 1867, the
transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million
Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic
coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have
created the first comprehensive, up-to-date atlas on this 350-year
history of kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps,
especially created for the volume, that explore every detail of the
African slave traffic to the New World. The atlas is based on an
online database (www.slavevoyages.org) with records on nearly
35,000 slaving voyages-roughly 80 percent of all such voyages ever
made. Using maps, David Eltis and David Richardson show which
nations participated in the slave trade, where the ships involved
were outfitted, where the captives boarded ship, and where they
were landed in the Americas, as well as the experience of the
transatlantic voyage and the geographic dimensions of the eventual
abolition of the traffic. Accompanying the maps are illustrations
and contemporary literary selections, including poems, letters, and
diary entries, intended to enhance readers' understanding of the
human story underlying the trade from its inception to its end.
This groundbreaking work provides the fullest possible picture of
the extent and inhumanity of one of the largest forced migrations
in history.
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Follow history with a spirited narrative that tells the captivating
stories of all people in the United States in 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
and more than 90 maps support learning, while a new digital version
and optional MindTap and Infuse digital resources help you envision
what life was like in the past. 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).
Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and
innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death
and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation—and how
those meanings still influence Americans today. In each essay, a
noted historian explores a different type of gravesite—including
large marble temples, unmarked graves beneath the waves, makeshift
markers on battlefields, mass graves on hillsides, neat rows of
military headstones, university graveyards, tombs without bodies,
and small family plots. Each burial place tells a unique story of
how someone lived and died; how they were mourned and remembered.
Together, they help us reckon with the most tragic period of
American history. CONTRUBUTORS: Terry Alford, Melodie Andrews,
Edward L. Ayers, DeAnne Blanton, Michael Burlingame, Katherine
Reynolds Chaddock, John M. Coski, William C. Davis, Douglas R.
Egerton, Stephen D. Engle, Barbara Gannon, Michael P. Gray, Hilary
Green, Allen C. Guelzo, Anna Gibson Holloway, Vitor Izecksohn,
Caroline E. Janney, Michelle A. Krowl, Glenn W. LaFantasie,
Jennifer M. Murray, Barton A. Myers, Timothy J. Orr, Christopher
Phillips, Mark S. Schantz, Dana B. Shoaf, Walter Stahr, Michael
Vorenberg, and Ronald C. White
"The Columbian Orator was of profound importance to the shaping of
the African American canon, through The Narrative of Frederick
Douglass. David Blight has done historians and literary critics a
profound service by so expertly editing this germinal text. A must
read for scholars of American and African American studies."
--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University "Thousands of young
readers in 19th century America learned about eloquence and liberty
from the stirring speeches, plays, and poems in The Columbian
Orator. When one reads it today--even better, reads it aloud- -its
eloquence speaks to us all." --Sydney Nathans, Duke University
"Frederick Douglass validated his manhood by giving Edward Covey,
his surrogate slave master, a good whipping. What inspired his
fists was not only manly rage, but liberating knowledge--knowledge
gained in part from his reading of The Columbian Orator. I read it
now and the words still inspire and inflame." --Ossie Davis First
published in 1797, The Columbian Orator helped shape the American
mind for the next half century, going through some 23 editions and
totaling 200,000 copies in sales. The book was read by virtually
every American schoolboy in the first half of the 19th century. As
a slave youth, Frederick Douglass owned just one book, and read it
frequently, referring to it as a "gem" and his "rich treasure." The
Columbian Orator presents 84 selections, most of which are notable
examples of oratory on such subjects as nationalism, religious
faith, individual liberty, freedom, and slavery, including pieces
by Washington, Franklin, Milton, Socrates, and Cicero, as well as
heroic poetry and dramatic dialogues. Augmenting these is an essay
on effective public speaking which influenced Abraham Lincoln as a
young politician. As America experiences a resurgence of interest
in the art of debating and oratory, The Columbian Orator--whether
as historical artifact or contemporary guidebook--is one of those
rare books to be valued for what it meant in its own time, and for
how its ideas have endured. Above all, this book is a remarkable
compilation of Enlightenment era thought and language that has
stood the test of time. Professor of History and Black Studies at
Amherst College, David W. Blight is the author of Fredrick
Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee and editor of the
Bedford Books editions of Narrative of the Life of Fredrick
Douglass, An American Slave and W. E. B. DuBois's The Souls of
Black Folk.
**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a
great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important
African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the
escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of
the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. As a young man
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore,
Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave
owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major
literary figures of his time. His very existence gave the lie to
slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence he bore witness
to the brutality of slavery. Initially mentored by William Lloyd
Garrison, Douglass spoke widely, using his own story to condemn
slavery. By the Civil War, Douglass had become the most famed and
widely travelled orator in the nation. In his unique and eloquent
voice, written and spoken, Douglass was a fierce critic of the
United States as well as a radical patriot. After the war he
sometimes argued politically with younger African Americans, but he
never forsook either the Republican party or the cause of black
civil and political rights. In this "cinematic and deeply engaging"
(The New York Times Book Review) biography, David Blight has drawn
on new information held in a private collection that few other
historian have consulted, as well as recently discovered issues of
Douglass's newspapers. "Absorbing and even moving...a brilliant
book that speaks to our own time as well as Douglass's" (The Wall
Street Journal), Blight's biography tells the fascinating story of
Douglass's two marriages and his complex extended family. "David
Blight has written the definitive biography of Frederick
Douglass...a powerful portrait of one of the most important
American voices of the nineteenth century" (The Boston Globe). In
addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Frederick Douglass won the
Bancroft, Parkman, Los Angeles Times (biography), Lincoln,
Plutarch, and Christopher awards and was named one of the Best
Books of 2018 by The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street
Journal, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco
Chronicle, and Time.
Think history is dull? No way, and you're about to find out for
yourself. A PEOPLE AND A NATION offers a lively narrative, telling
the stories of the diverse peoples in the United States. The
authors bring history to life by encouraging you to imagine what
life was really like in the past. Focus questions and key terms
(with definitions, of course) help you concentrate on important
information and easily review it as you prep for tests. And with
MindTap for A People and a Nation, you get convenient digital
access to an ebook with note-taking and other time-saving features
and apps. You'll also explore the people, events and places in the
United States through interactive activities, videos, images and
maps. Enjoy your journey.
"No one working on Douglass should leave home without a copy of
this book."-from the foreword by David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize
winning author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Drawing on
previously untapped sources, Young Frederick Douglass recreates
with fidelity and in convincing detail the background and early
life of the man who was to become "the gadfly of America's
conscience" and the undisputed spokesman for nineteenth-century
black Americans. With a new foreword by renowned Douglass scholar
David W. Blight, Dickson J. Preston's highly regarded biography
traces the life and times of Frederick Douglass from his birth on
Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1818 until 1838, when he escaped from
slavery to emerge upon the national scene. Astounding his white
contemporaries with his oratorical brilliance and intellectual
capabilities, Douglass dared to challenge the doctrine of white
supremacy on its own grounds. At the time of Douglass's death in
1895, one eulogist wrote that he was probably the best-known
American throughout the world since Abraham Lincoln.
Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln
Prize Winner of the Merle Curti award Winner of the Frederick
Douglass Prize No historical event has left as deep an imprint on
America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's
aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past.
David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and
forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and
America's national reunion.In 1865, confronted with a ravaged
landscape and a torn America, the North and South began a slow and
painful process of reconciliation. The ensuing decades witnessed
the triumph of a culture of reunion, which downplayed sectional
division and emphasized the heroics of a battle between noble men
of the Blue and the Gray. Nearly lost in national culture were the
moral crusades over slavery that ignited the war, the presence and
participation of African Americans throughout the war, and the
promise of emancipation that emerged from the war. Race and Reunion
is a history of how the unity of white America was purchased
through the increasing segregation of black and white memory of the
Civil War. Blight delves deeply into the shifting meanings of death
and sacrifice, Reconstruction, the romanticized South of
literature, soldiers' reminiscences of battle, the idea of the Lost
Cause, and the ritual of Memorial Day. He resurrects the variety of
African-American voices and memories of the war and the efforts to
preserve the emancipationist legacy in the midst of a culture built
on its denial. Blight's sweeping narrative of triumph and tragedy,
romance and realism, is a compelling tale of the politics of
memory, of how a nation healed from civil war without justice. By
the early twentieth century, the problems of race and reunion were
locked in mutual dependence, a painful legacy that continues to
haunt us today.
Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and
innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death
and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation—and how
those meanings still influence Americans today. In each essay, a
noted historian explores a different type of gravesite—including
large marble temples, unmarked graves beneath the waves, makeshift
markers on battlefields, mass graves on hillsides, neat rows of
military headstones, university graveyards, tombs without bodies,
and small family plots. Each burial place tells a unique story of
how someone lived and died; how they were mourned and remembered.
Together, they help us reckon with the most tragic period of
American history. CONTRUBUTORS: Terry Alford, Melodie Andrews,
Edward L. Ayers, DeAnne Blanton, Michael Burlingame, Katherine
Reynolds Chaddock, John M. Coski, William C. Davis, Douglas R.
Egerton, Stephen D. Engle, Barbara Gannon, Michael P. Gray, Hilary
Green, Allen C. Guelzo, Anna Gibson Holloway, Vitor Izecksohn,
Caroline E. Janney, Michelle A. Krowl, Glenn W. LaFantasie,
Jennifer M. Murray, Barton A. Myers, Timothy J. Orr, Christopher
Phillips, Mark S. Schantz, Dana B. Shoaf, Walter Stahr, Michael
Vorenberg, and Ronald C. White
"The ghosts of the Civil War never leave us, as David Blight knows
perhaps better than anyone, and in this superb book he masterfully
unites two distant but inextricably bound events." Ken Burns
Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, a
century after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Martin
Luther King, Jr., declared, "One hundred years later, the Negro
still is not free." He delivered this speech just three years after
the Virginia Civil War Commission published a guide proclaiming
that "the Centennial is no time for finding fault or placing blame
or fighting the issues all over again." David Blight takes his
readers back to the centennial celebration to determine how
Americans then made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation
that had wracked the United States a century earlier. Amid cold war
politics and civil rights protest, four of America's most incisive
writers explored the gulf between remembrance and reality. Robert
Penn Warren, the southern-reared poet-novelist who recanted his
support of segregation; Bruce Catton, the journalist and U.S. Navy
officer who became a popular Civil War historian; Edmund Wilson,
the century's preeminent literary critic; and James Baldwin, the
searing African-American essayist and activist-each exposed
America's triumphalist memory of the war. And each, in his own way,
demanded a reckoning with the tragic consequences it spawned.
Blight illuminates not only mid-twentieth-century America's sense
of itself but also the dynamic, ever-changing nature of Civil War
memory. On the eve of the 150th anniversary of the war, we have an
invaluable perspective on how this conflict continues to shape the
country's political debates, national identity, and sense of
purpose.
"David Blight has produced a fine edition of Douglass' second
autobiography. This is an essential work in African-American and
American history, and displays Douglass' developing strength as a
writer and political leader."-Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan University
Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom
and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change
and the foremost spokesperson for the nation's enslaved African
American population in the years preceding the Civil War. My
Bondage and My Freedom is Douglass's masterful recounting of his
remarkable life and a fiery condemnation of a political and social
system that would reduce people to property and keep an entire race
in chains. This classic is revisited with a new introduction and
annotations by celebrated Douglass scholar David W. Blight. Blight
situates the book within the politics of the 1850s and illuminates
how My Bondage represents Douglass as a mature, confident, powerful
writer who crafted some of the most unforgettable metaphors of
slavery and freedom-indeed of basic human universal aspirations for
freedom-anywhere in the English language.
Think history is dull? No way, and you're about to find out for
yourself. A PEOPLE AND A NATION offers a lively narrative, telling
the stories of the diverse peoples in the United States. The
authors bring history to life by encouraging you to imagine what
life was really like in the past. Focus questions and key terms
(with definitions, of course) help you concentrate on important
information and easily review it as you prep for tests. And with
MindTap for A People and a Nation, you get convenient digital
access to an ebook with note-taking and other time-saving features
and apps. You'll also explore the people, events and places in the
United States through interactive activities, videos, images and
maps. Enjoy your journey.
This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept
of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of
emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did it mean to
nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after
slavery? Some of the essays disrupt the traditional story and
time-frame of emancipation.
This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept
of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of
emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did it mean to
nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after
slavery? Some of the essays disrupt the traditional story and
time-frame of emancipation.
I am scared most to death every battle we have, but I don't think
you need be afraid of my sneaking away unhurt. Thus wrote Adjutant
Charles Harvey Brewster of the 10th Massachusetts to his sister
Martha in 1864, in one of over 200 letters he would pen during his
four years of service. Born and raised in Northampton,
Massachusetts, Brewster was a twenty-seven-year-old store clerk
when he enlisted in Company C of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteers
in April 1861. During the next three and a half years he fought in
many of the major battles of the Virginia campaigns--Fair Oaks, the
Seven Days, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, the
"Bloody Angle" at Spotsylvania--rising through the ranks to become
second lieutenant and later adjutant of his regiment. His letters,
most of which were written to his mother and two sisters, record
not only the horrors he witnessed on the battlefield, but also his
inner struggle with his own values, convictions, and sense of
manhood. In a thoughtful and illuminating introductory essay, David
W. Blight explores the evolution of Brewster's understanding of the
terrible conflict in which he was engaged. Blight shows how
Brewster's attitudes toward race and slavery gradually changed, in
part as a result of his contact with escaped slaves and his
experience recruiting black troops. He also examines the shift in
Brewster's conception of courage, as the realities of war collided
with the romantic ideals he had previously embraced. This recently
discovered and exceptionally literate collection of 137 letters
chronicles the experiences of an ordinary Union soldier caught up
in extraordinary events. At times naive and sentimental, at times
mature and realistic, Brewster's correspondence not only provides
remarkable insight into the meaning of the Civil War for the
average Yankee, but also testifies to the persistent power of war
to attract and repel the human imagination.
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Follow history with a spirited narrative that tells the captivating
stories of all people in the United States in 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
and more than 90 maps support learning, while a new digital version
and optional MindTap and Infuse digital resources help you envision
what life was like in the past. 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).
In this sensitive intellectual biography David W. Blight
undertakes the first systematic analysis of the impact of the Civil
War on Frederick Douglass' life and thought, offering new insights
into the meaning of the war in American history and in the
Afro-American experience. Frederick Douglass' Civil War follows
Douglass' intellectual and personal growth from the political
crises of the 1850s through secession, war, black enlistment,
emancipation, and Reconstruction. This book provides an engrossing
story of Douglass' development of a social identity in relation to
transforming events, and demonstrates that he saw the Civil War as
the Second American Revolution, and himself as one of the founders
of a new nation. Through Douglass' life, his voice, and his
interpretations we see the Civil War era and its memory in a new
light.
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