U.S. History
P. Scott Corbett
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U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
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This is an audio adaptation of U.S. History by OpenStax. You can access the textbook as pdf for free at openstax.org. Minor editorial changes were made to ensure a better listening experience. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Duration - 22h 24m.
Author - P. Scott Corbett.
Narrator - Digital Voice Madison G.
Published Date - Monday, 20 January 2025.
Copyright - © 2024 Rice University ©.
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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. This audiobook recording was created from the July 2024 web version of U.S. History by OpenStax. It may be more up-to-date than the textbook published in 2014. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender. This audio textbook is produced by https://AudibleClassroom.com This is an audio adaptation of U.S. History by OpenStax. You can access the textbook as pdf for free at openstax.org. Minor editorial changes were made to ensure a better listening experience. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Duration - 22h 24m. Author - P. Scott Corbett. Narrator - Digital Voice Madison G. Published Date - Monday, 20 January 2025. Copyright - © 2024 Rice University ©.
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English
Opening Credits
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Preface
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Chapter 1: The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492
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1.1 The Americas
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1.2 Europe on the Brink of Change
Duration:00:20:06
1.3 West Africa and the Role of Slavery
Duration:00:11:22
Key Terms
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Summary
Duration:00:03:28
Review Questions
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Critical Thinking Questions
Duration:00:01:16
Chapter 2: Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650
Duration:00:01:46
2.1 Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Conquest
Duration:00:22:22
2.2 Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World
Duration:00:10:00
2.3 Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy
Duration:00:17:35
2.4 New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
Duration:00:17:49
Chapter 3: Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700
Duration:00:01:34
3.1 Spanish Exploration and Colonial Society
Duration:00:07:42
3.2 Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions
Duration:00:09:56
3.3 English Settlements in America
Duration:00:41:51
3.4 The Impact of Colonization
Duration:00:12:50
Chapter 4: Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763
Duration:00:02:05
4.1 Charles II and the Restoration Colonies
Duration:00:21:22
4.2 The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire
Duration:00:07:23
4.3 An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution
Duration:00:13:06
4.4 Great Awakening and Enlightenment
Duration:00:12:55
4.5 Wars for Empire
Duration:00:09:44
Chapter 5: Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774
Duration:00:01:59
5.1 Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and Indian War
Duration:00:15:15
5.2 The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Duration:00:14:12
5.3 The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest
Duration:00:20:39
5.4 The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts
Duration:00:11:21
5.5 Disaffection: The First Continental Congress and American Identity
Duration:00:07:14
Chapter 6: America's War for Independence, 1775-1783
Duration:00:01:43
6.1 Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
Duration:00:18:01
6.2 The Early Years of the Revolution
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6.3 War in the South
Duration:00:08:40
6.4 Identity during the American Revolution
Duration:00:15:31
Chapter 7: Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790
Duration:00:01:43
7.1 Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic
Duration:00:10:11
7.2 How Much Revolutionary Change?
Duration:00:19:56
7.3 Debating Democracy
Duration:00:19:47
7.4 The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
Duration:00:19:02
Chapter 8: Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820
Duration:00:01:36
8.1 Competing Visions: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
Duration:00:21:22
8.2 The New American Republic
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8.3 Partisan Politics
Duration:00:18:41
8.4 The United States Goes Back to War
Duration:00:12:11
Chapter 9: Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850
Duration:00:02:01
9.1 Early Industrialization in the Northeast
Duration:00:26:30
9.2 A Vibrant Capitalist Republic
Duration:00:17:25
9.3 On the Move: The Transportation Revolution
Duration:00:07:44
9.4 A New Social Order: Class Divisions
Duration:00:12:53
Chapter 10: Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840
Duration:00:01:52
10.1 A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
Duration:00:18:22
10.2 The Rise of American Democracy
Duration:00:06:55
10.3 The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War
Duration:00:11:37
10.4 Indian Removal
Duration:00:13:07
10.5 The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority
Duration:00:07:13
Chapter 11: A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860
Duration:00:01:47
11.1 Lewis and Clark
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11.2 The Missouri Crisis
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11.3 Independence for Texas
Duration:00:14:53
11.4 The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848
Duration:00:18:37
11.5 Free or Slave Soil? The Dilemma of the West
Duration:00:11:53
Chapter 12: Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860
Duration:00:01:34
12.1 The Economics of Cotton
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12.2 African Americans in the Antebellum United States
Duration:00:25:57
12.3 Wealth and Culture in the South
Duration:00:25:40
12.4 The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States
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Chapter 13: Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860
Duration:00:01:56
13.1 An Awakening of Religion and Individualism
Duration:00:14:48
13.2 Antebellum Communal Experiments
Duration:00:14:33
13.3 Reforms to Human Health
Duration:00:12:21
13.4 Addressing Slavery
Duration:00:19:21
13.5 Women’s Rights
Duration:00:07:58
Chapter 14: Troubled Times: the Tumultuous 1850s
Duration:00:01:52
14.1 The Compromise of 1850
Duration:00:22:37
14.2 The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party
Duration:00:19:03
14.3 The Dred Scott Decision and Sectional Strife
Duration:00:11:48
14.4 John Brown and the Election of 1860
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Chapter 15: The Civil War, 1860–1865
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15.1 The Origins and Outbreak of the Civil War
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15.2 Early Mobilization and War
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15.3 1863: The Changing Nature of the War
Duration:00:30:27
15.4 The Union Triumphant
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Chapter 16: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877
Duration:00:01:59
16.1 Restoring the Union
Duration:00:14:39
16.2 Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
Duration:00:12:54
16.3 Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
Duration:00:24:22
16.4 The Collapse of Reconstruction
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Chapter 17: Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900
Duration:00:01:48
17.1 The Westward Spirit
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17.2 Homesteading: Dreams and Realities
Duration:00:11:06
17.3 Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
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17.4 The Assault on American Indian Life and Culture
Duration:00:16:23
17.5 The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens
Duration:00:11:26
Chapter 18: Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900
Duration:00:01:54
18.1 Inventors of the Age
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18.2 From Invention to Industrial Growth
Duration:00:22:57
18.3 Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
Duration:00:29:09
18.4 A New American Consumer Culture
Duration:00:07:15
Chapter 19: The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900
Duration:00:01:41
19.1 Urbanization and Its Challenges
Duration:00:19:31
19.2 The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration
Duration:00:13:30
19.3 Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
Duration:00:22:49
19.4 Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
Duration:00:14:42
Chapter 20: Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900
Duration:00:01:36
20.1 Political Corruption in Postbellum America
Duration:00:15:36
20.2 The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
Duration:00:20:18
20.3 Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
Duration:00:12:03
20.4 Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s
Duration:00:16:11
Chapter 21: Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920
Duration:00:01:35
21.1 The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America
Duration:00:05:53
21.2 Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
Duration:00:21:00
21.3 New Voices for Women and African Americans
Duration:00:18:05
21.4 Progressivism in the White House
Duration:00:24:13
Chapter 22: Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914
Duration:00:02:01
22.1 Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire
Duration:00:19:15
22.2 The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
Duration:00:19:22
22.3 Economic Imperialism in East Asia
Duration:00:07:01
22.4 Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy
Duration:00:13:15
22.5 Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
Duration:00:04:55
Chapter 23: Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919
Duration:00:01:51
23.1 American Isolationism and the European Origins of War
Duration:00:23:57
23.2 The United States Prepares for War
Duration:00:14:24
23.3 A New Home Front
Duration:00:17:06
23.4 From War to Peace
Duration:00:16:20
23.5 Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
Duration:00:15:03
Chapter 24: The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929
Duration:00:01:53
24.1 Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment
Duration:00:15:11
24.2 Transformation and Backlash
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24.3 A New Generation
Duration:00:19:35
24.4 Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s
Duration:00:11:51
Chapter 25: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932
Duration:00:01:45
25.1 The Stock Market Crash of 1929
Duration:00:33:12
25.2 President Hoover’s Response
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25.3 The Depths of the Great Depression
Duration:00:24:04
25.4 Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal
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Chapter 26: Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941
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26.1 The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
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26.2 The First New Deal
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26.3 The Second New Deal
Duration:00:35:40
Chapter 27: Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945
Duration:00:01:37
27.1 The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States
Duration:00:22:19
27.2 The Home Front
Duration:00:35:55
27.3 Victory in the European Theater
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27.4 The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb
Duration:00:11:51
Chapter 28: Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960
Duration:00:01:46
28.1 The Challenges of Peacetime
Duration:00:10:50
28.2 The Cold War
Duration:00:26:20
28.3 The American Dream
Duration:00:19:09
28.4 Popular Culture and Mass Media
Duration:00:07:59
28.5 The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
Duration:00:16:57
Chapter 29: Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s
Duration:00:01:45
29.1 The Kennedy Promise
Duration:00:22:07
29.2 Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
Duration:00:18:19
29.3 The Civil Rights Movement Marches On
Duration:00:27:57
29.4 Challenging the Status Quo
Duration:00:14:20
Chapter 30: Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980
Duration:00:01:24
30.1 Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
Duration:00:22:53
30.2 Coming Apart, Coming Together
Duration:00:22:36
30.3 Vietnam: The Downward Spiral
Duration:00:17:04
30.4 Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare
Duration:00:15:43
30.5 Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm
Duration:00:10:51
Chapter 31: From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000
Duration:00:01:47
31.1 The Reagan Revolution
Duration:00:12:58
31.2 Political and Cultural Fusions
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31.3 A New World Order
Duration:00:26:18
31.4 Bill Clinton and the New Economy
Duration:00:30:25
Chapter 32: The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
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32.1 The War on Terror
Duration:00:17:26
32.2 The Domestic Mission
Duration:00:23:36
32.3 New Century, Old Disputes
Duration:00:13:35
32.4 Hope and Change
Duration:00:22:44
32.5 Political Divides and Social Movements
Duration:00:09:47
Appendix A: The Declaration of Independence
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Appendix B: The Constitution of the United States
Duration:00:49:44
Appendix C: Presidents of the United States of America
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