An Outline of American History

An Outline of American History

Editor: Howard Cincotta | United States Information Agency May 1994

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An Outline of American History is one of the oldest continuing publications of the United States Information Agency (USIA). The first edition (1949-50) was produced under the editorship of Francis Whitney, first of the State Department Office of International Information and later of the U.S. Information Agency. Richard Hofstadter, professor of history at Columbia University, and Wood Gray, professor of American history at The George Washington University, served as academic consultants. D. Steven Endsley of Berkeley, California, prepared additional material. It has been updated and revised extensively over the years by, among others, Keith W. Olsen, professor of American history at the University of Maryland, and Nathan Glick, writer and former editor of the USIA journal, Dialogue. Alan Winkler, professor of history at Miami University (Ohio), wrote the post-World War II Chapters for the current edition, and the entire volume has been extensively revised by the staff editors.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Early America
Chapter 2: The Colonial Period
Chapter 3: The Road to Independence
Chapter 4: The Formation of A National Government
Chapter 5: Westward Expansion and Regional Differences
Chapter 6: Sectional Conflict
Chapter 7: Growth and Transformation
Chapter 8: Discontent and Reform
Chapter 9: War, Prosperity and Depression
Chapter 10: The New Deal and World War
Chapter 11: Postwar America
Chapter 12: Decades of Change
Chapter 13: Toward the 21st Century
Brief Reading List in American History

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