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Unto a Good Land offers a distinctive narrative history of the
American people -- from the first contacts between Europeans and
North America's native inhabitants, through the creation of a
modern nation, to the standing of the United States as a world
power. Written by a team of distinguished historians led by David
Edwin Harrell, Jr. and Edwin S. Gaustad, this textbook shows how
grasping the uniqueness of the bAmerican experimentb depends on
understanding the role of religion as well as social, cultural,
political, and economic factors in shaping U.S. history.A common
shortcoming of most United States history textbooks is that while,
in recent decades, they have expanded their coverage of social and
cultural history, they still tend to shortchange the role of
religious ideas, practices, and movements in the American past.
Unto a Good Land addresses this shortcoming in a balanced way. The
authors recognize that religion is only one of many factors that
have influenced our past -- one, however, that has often been
neglected in textbook accounts. This volume gives religion its
appropriate place in the story.Unprecedented coverage of the forces
that have shaped the history of the United States
While none of America's rich history is left out, this volume is
the first U.S. history textbook to give serious attention to the
religious dimension of American life. This textbook is not a
religious history; instead, it offers an account of American
history that includes religious ideas, practices, and movements
whenever they played a shaping role.Comprehensive and current
This volume traces the American story from the earliest encounters
between the first North Americaninhabitants and Europeans through
the 2004 presidential election. Complete and balanced treatment is
also given to issues of gender, race, and ethnicity, as well as
cultural, political, and economic forces.A clear and compelling
narrative
The authors are more than expert historians; they are also talented
writers who recognize history to be the retelling of human life.
United by a seamless narrative structure, these chapters restore
the bstoryb to history.Multiple formats specially designed for
flexible classroom use
Unto a Good Land is available as a single hardcover edition or as
two paperback volumes, offering maximum flexibility when adapting
curriculum for one- and two-semester courses in U.S. history. The
two paperback volumes can be used for U.S. history survey courses
divided at 1865 or 1900 -- or at any date in between.Informative
special features to complement the text
In addition to the book's exceptional narrative, an array of
special features enhances the instructional value of the text and
points students to resources for further study.Includes assistance
for teaching and test preparation
The instructor's manual for Unto a Good Land provides helpful
suggestions for lesson plans and assignments, and the test bank
provides multiple-choice and essay questions for use as study aids,
quizzes, or tests.Suitable for instruction at both secular and
religious colleges and universities
Drawing on their experience in both secular and religious schools,
the authors have ensured that this textbook is suitable for U.S.
history classes in a wide variety of settings.
"Unto a Good Land offers a distinctive narrative history of the
American people -- from the first contacts between Europeans and
North America's native inhabitants, through the creation of a
modern nation, to the standing of the United States as a world
power. Written by a team of distinguished historians led by David
Edwin Harrell, Jr. and Edwin S. Gaustad, this textbook shows how
grasping the uniqueness of the bAmerican experimentb depends on
understanding the role of religion as well as social, cultural,
political, and economic factors in shaping U.S. history.
A common shortcoming of most United States history textbooks is
that while, in recent decades, they have expanded their coverage of
social and cultural history, they still tend to shortchange the
role of religious ideas, practices, and movements in the American
past. "Unto a Good Land addresses this shortcoming in a balanced
way. The authors recognize that religion is only one of many
factors that have influenced our past -- one, however, that has
often been neglected in textbook accounts. This volume gives
religion its appropriate place in the story.
"Unprecedented coverage of the forces that have shaped the
history of the United States
While none of America's rich history is left out, this volume is
the first U.S. history textbook to give serious attention to the
religious dimension of American life. This textbook is not a
religious history; instead, it offers an account of American
history that includes religious ideas, practices, and movements
whenever they played a shaping role.
"Comprehensive and current
This volume traces the American story from the earliest encounters
between the first North Americaninhabitants and Europeans through
the 2004 presidential election. Complete and balanced treatment is
also given to issues of gender, race, and ethnicity, as well as
cultural, political, and economic forces.
"A clear and compelling narrative
The authors are more than expert historians; they are also talented
writers who recognize history to be the retelling of human life.
United by a seamless narrative structure, these chapters restore
the bstoryb to history.
"Multiple formats specially designed for flexible classroom
use
"Unto a Good Land is available as a single hardcover edition or as
two paperback volumes, offering maximum flexibility when adapting
curriculum for one- and two-semester courses in U.S. history. The
two paperback volumes can be used for U.S. history survey courses
divided at 1865 or 1900 -- or at any date in between.
"Informative special features to complement the text
In addition to the book's exceptional narrative, an array of
special features enhances the instructional value of the text and
points students to resources for further study.
"Includes assistance for teaching and test preparation
The instructor's manual for "Unto a Good Land provides helpful
suggestions for lesson plans and assignments, and the test bank
provides multiple-choice and essay questions for use as study aids,
quizzes, or tests.
"Suitable for instruction at both secular and religious colleges
and universities
Drawing on their experience in both secular and religious schools,
the authors have ensured that this textbook is suitable for U.S.
history classes in a wide variety of settings.
Abridged and edited for the modern reader and available in
paperback for the first time ever, this second edition brings back
into print a classic autobiography of Middle America--an immensely
readable document that enriches our understanding of Progressivism
and politics, journalism, and the social history of small-town
America from Reconstruction into the Roaring Twenties.
At the time of his death in 1944, William Allen White, editor of
the Emporia Gazette, was a national celebrity, proclaimed one of
the truly great Americans of his age. Life magazine called him "a
living symbol of small-town simplicity and kindliness and common
sense."
During his career White had managed to expand his circle of
influence far beyond Emporia Kansas to include most of the nation.
By the end of his life he had become a nationally acclaimed
journalist and author of biographies, novels, and short stories. He
was also widely known for his shrewd commentary on contemporary
events in the national media. An influential Republican political
leader, he founded the Progressive party and was a longtime
advocate of social reform and individual rights. But what endeared
him most to his contemporaries was that, in spite of national fame,
he remained first and foremost a small-town newspaperman.
First published posthumously in 1946, White's Autobiography was
immediately hailed as a classic portrait, not simply of White
himself, but of the men and women who transformed America from an
agrarian society to a powerful industrial nation in the years
before World War I. A bestselling Book-of-the-Month Club selection,
the Autobiography was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1947.
This new edition, edited to eliminate repetitions and
digressions, features an introduction by Sally Foreman Griffith,
author of a recent biography of White. Griffith explores the
background of the Autobiography and illuminates its place in the
development of the autobiographical genre.
In 1895, a 27-year-old journalist named William Allen White
returned to his home town of Emporia, Kansas, to edit a little
down-at-the-heels newspaper he had just purchased for $3,000. "The
new editor," he wrote in his first editorial, "hopes to live here
until he is the old editor, until some of the visions which rise
before him as he dreams shall have come true." White did become
"the old editor," remaining with the Emporia Gazette until his
death 50 years later. During his long tenure he gained nation-wide
fame as an author, political leader, and social commentator. But
more than anything else, he became the national embodiment of the
small-town newspaperman and all the treasured virtues that small
towns represented in the minds of Americans.
Home Town News is both a fascinating biography and a compelling
social history. As Sally Foreman Griffith shows, White's popular
image--kindly yet crusading, fiercely independent yet deeply rooted
in his community--doesn't do justice to the man's complexity.
Shrewdly carving out a position of leadership in a faction-torn
town, White carefully shaped his paper's vision of its community to
promote local economic growth, Republican political control, and
social harmony. With his emergence as a leader among Midwestern
progressives, he carefully adapted the ideas and rhetoric of
small-town boosterism to changing economic realities. The book uses
White's career to help us understand the role of journalism--and
the journalist--in turn-of-the-century American culture. Far from
being a simple chronicler of daily events, the small-town
newspaperman carried considerable weight in his community. He was a
leading force in local business, a galvanizing influence in civic
life, and a key political activist. As giant corporations came to
dominate the national economy, the newspaperman played a pivotal
yet ambivalent role in the resulting social transformation: he
sought to preserve local autonomy even as his paper introduced his
readers to mass-produced consumer goods.
Home Town News also tells the story of Emporia, Kansas, during this
period of social change. Its richly textured descriptions of
small-town life take us beyond abstractions like "modernization,"
"progressivism," and "boosterism." As we observe the Emporia Street
Fair of 1899, the heated controversy over the morality of a local
doctor in 1902, and the elaborate campaign to build a Y.M.C.A. in
1914, we gain new insights into the processes that have shaped
modern America.
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