American odyssey : the United States in the twentieth century /
Gary B. Nash.
- Teacher's wraparound ed., multimedia ed.
- New York : Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, c1999.
- x, 1010 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 30 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: A Nation of nations, 40,000 B.C.-A.D. 1800 -- Rift and reunion, 1800-1900 -- The Roots of a modern nation, 1880-1920 -- The New era of the twenties, 1920-1929 -- Economic crisis and the new deal, 1929-1939 -- The United States transformed, 1933-1945 -- The Postwar world, 1945-1963 -- Toward equality and social reform, 1954-1976 -- The Troubled years 1960-1980 -- New challenges, 1980-Present -- Appendix.
A history of the United States in the twentieth century, featuring sociological and cultural events, as well as strictly historical, and using many pertinent literary excerpts.
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