Although European expansion was the driving force that first opened up the frontier land called America, the growth of the new nation would be forged over the centuries by the diverse peoples who stuggled to make it their home. But not everyone who made a home in the country that carved democracy out of tyranny was accepted as a full American citizen - when the democratic, humanitarian principles were re-tested by the native Americans, Blacks, immigrants, religious minorities and women, these principles were too often found wanting. This book documents the relationship between these "outgroups" and the power-holders as it examines the social, cultural, political and economic development of the US.

The Free and the Unfree: A New History of the United States; Second Edition

History

Carroll, Peter N.

Noble, David W.

Americas

Penguin??Books

RECONSTRUCTION TO WORLD WAR I, AND FROM THE 1920S TO THE HISTORY-MAKING WATERGATE SCANDAL AND THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER.

The Free and the Unfree: A New History of the United States

Although European expansion was the driving force that first opened up the frontier land called America, the growth of the new nation would be forged over the centuries by the diverse peoples who struggled to make it their home. But not everyone who made a home in the country was accepted as an American. When the democratic, humanitarian principles were retested by the native Americans, blacks, immigrants, religious minorities, and women, these principles were too often found wanting. "The Free and the Unfree" documents the dynamic relationship between these outgroups and the power-holders as it weaves in a broad tapestry the threads of social, cultural, political and economic developments of a vigorous nation. The book conveys with a keen sense of participation, the unfolding of the United States through four historical eras.

The founding Fathers based the American system on principles of equality and freedom, but often people who made America their home faced inequality, injustice, and legal discrimination. The Free and the Unfree documents what happened when Native Americans, African Americans, immigrants, religious minorities, and women tested America's humanitarian and democratic principles. It surveys the social, cultural, political, and economic developments that broadened America's definition of freedom-from the earliest contacts with Native Americans and the Revolutionary War through the Civil Rights movement and the sexual revolution. The Free and the Unfree presents a concise, thorough, and up-to-date examination of the spirit and limits of freedom, providing readers with a little-known perspective on American history.

The Free and the Unfree: A Progressive History of the United States, Third Revised Edition

Literature & Fiction

Carroll, Peter N. N.

United States

Penguin Publishing Group

The Progressive Mind, 1890-1917 Revised Edition - David W. Noble

Progressive Mind, 1890-1917

Burgess Intl Group

Progressive Mind 1890 1917 Rev Edition

Burgess International

Historians Against History: The Frontier Thesis and the National Covenant in American Historical

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

University of Minnesota Press

Examines the work of four major historians, Turner, Beard, Hofstadter, and Williams, and shows how modern events have forced a change in the writing of American history.

The end of American history: Democracy, capitalism, and the metaphor of two worlds in Anglo-American historical writing, 1880-1980

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism (Critical American Studies)

In the 1940s, American thought experienced a cataclysmic paradigm shift. Before then, national ideology was shaped by American exceptionalism and bourgeois nationalism: elites saw themselves as the children of a homogeneous nation standing outside the history and culture of the Old World. This view repressed the cultures of those who did not fit the elite vision: people of color, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants. David W. Noble, a preeminent figure in American studies, inherited this ideology. However, like many who entered the field in the 1940s, he rejected the ideals of his intellectual predecessors and sought a new, multicultural, postnational scholarship. Throughout his career, Noble has examined this rupture in American intellectual life. In Death of a Nation, he presents the culmination of decades of thought in a sweeping treatise on the shaping of contemporary American studies and an eloquent summation of his distinguished career. Exploring the roots of American exceptionalism, Noble demonstrates that it was a doomed ideology. Capitalists who believed in a bounded nationalism also depended on a boundless, international marketplace. This contradiction was inherently unstable, and the belief in a unified national landscape exploded in World War II. The rupture provided an opening for alternative narratives as class, ethnicity, race, and region were reclaimed as part of the nation's history. Noble traces the effects of this shift among scholars and artists, and shows how even today they struggle to imagine an alternative postnational narrative and seek the meaning of local and national cultures in an increasingly transnational world. While Noble illustrates the challenges that the paradigm shift created, he also suggests solutions that will help scholars avoid romanticized and reductive approaches toward the study of American culture in the future. David W. Noble is professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of numerous books, including The End of American History (1985) and The Free and the Unfree: A Progressive History of the United States (with Peter N. Carroll, 2001).

Univ. of Minnesota Press

The Paradox of Progressive Thought  was first published in 1958. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.This book describes and analyzes an important aspect of American intellectual history, the climate of opinion in which nine leaders of progressive thought in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were important creators and spokesmen. By closely examining the central ideas of these men, Professor Noble presents an illuminating view of a significant phase of the liberal tradition in America. At the same time, he questions many of the generally accepted views about the philosophical basis of traditional liberalism and demonstrates the paradox of progressive thought.The social philosophers whose writings and teachings he scrutinizes are Herbert Croly, long-time editor of the New Republic;  James Mark Baldwin, psychologist and philosopher; Charles H. Cooley, author of Social Organization;  F. H. Johnson, theologian whose name was linked with Darwinism; Henry Demarest Lloyd, reformer and newspaperman who attacked the evils of monopoly in his book Wealth and Commonwealth;  Richard T. Ely, economist and early advocate of Christian socialism; Simon N. Patten, whose work The Premises of Political Economy lifted him to fame; Thorstein Veblen, whose Theory of the Leisure Class is a household word today; and Walter Rauschenbusch, the Baptist clergyman who wrote Christianity and the Social Crisis and Christianity and the Social Order. In addition, there is extensive consideration of the thought and influence of Carl L. Becker, the noted historian and analyst of thought and philosophy in action.

The Paradox of Progressive Thought

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The Free and the Unfree: A New History of the United States; Second Edition

The Free and the Unfree: A New History of the United States

The Free and the Unfree: A New History of the United States; Second Edition

The Free and the Unfree: A Progressive History of the United States, Third Revised Edition

Progressive Mind, 1890-1917

Progressive Mind 1890 1917 Rev Edition

Historians Against History: The Frontier Thesis and the National Covenant in American Historical

The end of American history: Democracy, capitalism, and the metaphor of two worlds in Anglo-American historical writing, 1880-1980

Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism (Critical American Studies)

The Paradox of Progressive Thought