Contributor
Ross, Davis R.B.
Imprint:[New York : Crowell, 1970-
Description6 v. ; 21 cm.
Note:v. 1. Colonial America, 1607-1783: John Winthrop and the founding of New England / Samuel Eliot Morison -- Virginia planters in the 17th century / Louis B. Wright -- Idealism and materialism in Quaker Pennsylvania / Frederick B. Tolles -- Economic underpinnings of the southern colonies / Lawrence Henry Gipson -- Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening / Perry Miller -- Practical politics in 18th-century Virginia / Charles S. Snydor -- Battle for the Continent / Francis Parkman.
Note:v. 2. Forging the Nation, 1763-1828: Turmoil over the Stamp Act / Edmund S. Morgan, Helen Morgan -- The diplomacy of independence / Richard B. Morris -- The Constitution as an economic document / Robert E. Brown -- Bureaucratic strife in Washington's cabinet / Leonard E. White -- American ideals in the age of Jefferson / Henry Adams -- Bank, Constitution, and economic development, 1816-1822 / Bray Hammond -- Capstone to independence / George Dangerfield.
Note:v. 3. The Nation in crisis, 1828-1865: The new West, 1820-1830 / Frederick Jackson Turner -- Radicals and workers in the age of Jackson / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -- The socialization of Christianity / Henry Steele Commager -- Slavery and personality / Stanley Elkins -- The Dred Scott decision / Allan Nevins -- Lincoln the liberal statesman / James G. Randall -- The war ends / Bruce Catton.
Note:v. 4. The emergence of modern America, 1865-1900: The Black proletariat in Mississippi / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The New York gold conspiracy / Henry Adams -- conflict within the American labor movement / John R. Commons, Selig Perlman -- Religion in the immigrant's life / Oscar Handlin -- The mysteries of the Great Plains / Walter Prescott Webb -- The farmer's grievances / John D. Hicks -- The triumph of Bryanism / Allan Nevins.
Note:v. 5. Progress, war, and reaction: 1900-1933: The Spanish-American war / Julius W. Pratt -- The status revolution and progressive leaders / Richad Hofstader -- Roosevelt versus Taft, 1912 / Mark Sullivan -- Entry into World War I / Arthur S. Link -- The supreme infanticide / Thomas A. Bailey -- Manners and morals in the 1920's / Frederick Lewis Allen -- The great crash: cause and consequence / John Kenneth Galbraith.
Note:v. 6. Recent America: 1933 to the present: The New Deal relief program / Robert E. Sherwood -- The New Deal at high tide / William E. Leuchtenburg -- The road to Pearl Harbor / Herbert Feis -- The United States overplays its hand / William Appleman Williams -- The Eisenhower equilibrium / Eric F. Goldman -- Kennedy on the eve / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -- Economic abundance and the American character / David M. Potter
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies.
