The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People - Hardcover

Brinkley, Alan; Huebner, Andrew; Giggie, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1259912531 ISBN 13: 9781259912535

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2018

Synopsis

Known for its balanced voice and approachable scholarship, this best selling title The Unfinished Nation offers a concise, yet thorough survey of American History appropriate for students at all levels.  With new authors and new scholarship added to the team for the 9th edition, the panorama of history will be covered even more thoroughly.  The 9th edition will feature new scholarship on treatment of Native Americans, the effects of the Revolutionary War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the effects of modern warfare on American History. 

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About the Author

In addition to being a best selling textbook author, ALAN BRINKLEY is the Allan Nevins Professor of History and former Provost at Columbia University. He is the author of Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the 1983 National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War; and Liberalism and its Discontents. His most recent books are John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963 and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century both published recently. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard and taught previously at MIT, Harvard, and the City University Graduate School before joining the Columbia faculty In 1991. In 1998-1999, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He won the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Award at Harvard in 1987 and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia in 2003. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the board of trustees of the National Humanities Center and Oxford University Press, and chairman of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of Torino (Italy). He was the 1998-1999 Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

John Giggie is associate professor of history and African American studies at theUniversity of Alabama where he also serves as director of the Summersell Center for theStudy of the South. He is the author of After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation ofAfrican American Religion in the Delta, 1875–1917, editor of America Firsthand, and editor ofFaith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Commercial Culture. He is currently preparing abook on civil rights protests in west Alabama. He has been widely honored for his teaching,most recently with a Distinguished Fellow in Teaching Award and Excellence in CommunityEngagement Award from the University of Alabama. He received his PhD from PrincetonUniversity.

Andrew Huebner is associate professor of history at the University of Alabama. He isthe author of Love and Death in the Great War (2018) and The Warrior Image: Soldiers inAmerican Culture from the Second World War to the Vietnam Era (2008). He has written andspoken widely on the subject of war and society in the twentieth-century United States. In2017, he was named an Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer.He received his PhD from Brown University.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1259912531
• ISBN 13: 9781259912535
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 944