B> This book offers a distinctive, timely and truly continental approach to American history, highlighting the experiences of diverse communities of Americans and the way that the persistent tensions between everyday life and the most momentous issues in our national lifeindependence, emerging democracy, slavery, westward settlement, imperial expansion, economic depression, war, technological changewere largely worked out in the context of local communities. The authors weave together the complex interaction of social, political and historical forces that have shaped the United States and from which the American people have evolved by telling stories of people and of the nation and emphasizing that American history has never been the preserve of any particular region. Traditional turning points and watershed events are integrated with the stories of the nation’s many diverse communities. Also highlighted are communities growing to include ever larger groups of Americans from solders of every colony forging the continental army to American linked in virtual communities of cyberspace. Historians and anyone interested in American history from a narrative approach.
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