A PEOPLE AND A NATION, 11th Edition, offers a lively narrative that tells the stories of the diverse peoples in the United States. The authors are prize-winning historians and experienced teachers who know how to explain historical change--whether race and gender, economics and public policy, family life, popular culture or international relations and warfare--in ways that students understand. The first textbook to focus on U.S. social history, the book also supports more specialized lectures through its attention to international history and the place of the U.S. in the world, politics and policy, social movements and economic issues. Available in the following split options: A PEOPLE AND A NATION, 11th Edition (Chapters 1–29), ISBN: 9781133312727; Volume I: To 1877 (Chapters 1–14), ISBN: 9781285430829; Volume II: Since 1865 (Chapters 14–29), ISBN: 9781285430836.

1. Three Old Worlds Create a New, 1492–1600.
2. Europeans Colonize North America, 1600–1650.
3. North America in the Atlantic World, 1650–1720.
4. Becoming America? 1720–1760.
5. The Ends of Empire, 1754–1774.
6. American Revolutions, 1775–1783.
7. Forging a Nation, 1783–1800.
8. Defining the Nation, 1801–1823.
9. The Rise of the South, 1815–1860.
10. The Restless North, 1815–1860.
11. The Contested West, 1815–1860.
12. Politics and the Fate of the Union, 1824–1859.
13. Transforming Fire: The Civil War, 1860–1865.
14. Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865–1877.

A PEOPLE AND A NATION, 11th Edition, offers a lively narrative that tells the stories of the diverse peoples in the United States. The authors are prize-winning historians and experienced teachers who know how to explain historical change--whether race and gender, economics and public policy, family life, popular culture or international relations and warfare--in ways that students understand. The first textbook to focus on U.S. social history, the book also supports more specialized lectures through its attention to international history and the place of the U.S. in the world, politics and policy, social movements and economic issues. Available in the following split options: A PEOPLE AND A NATION, 11th Edition (Chapters 1–29), ISBN: 9781133312727; Volume I: To 1877 (Chapters 1–14), ISBN: 9781285430829; Volume II: Since 1865 (Chapters 14–29), ISBN: 9781285430836. The authors reduced the number of chapters from 33 to 29 in the last edition, making the text easier to assign in a typical semester and eliminating detail to more clearly emphasize key themes. They've fine-tuned that consolidation in this edition based on suggestions from users. Focus questions in every chapter section help students comprehend and retain key information about the significance of historical events. The eleventh edition further promotes critical thinking and students' engagement with the content. A critical thinking question now appears in each chapter's "Legacy for A People and a Nation" essay and "Links to the World" feature. New key terms with definitions throughout chapters enable students to more easily retain the significance of and differences between various laws, acts and events. While A PEOPLE AND A NATION was the first textbook to focus on U.S. social history, its attention to international history and the place of the U.S. in the world, to politics and policy, to social movements and to clear explanations of economic issues makes it a useful resource for more specialized lectures or for AP courses. Integrated discussions of diversity throughout the narrative examine differences within broad ethnic categories and pay attention to immigration, cultural and intellectual infusions from around the world and to America's growing religious diversity. More than 90 maps provide an engaging visual and geographic context for the narrative. New pedagogical features--including focus questions for every chapter section, critical thinking questions at the end of feature boxes and chapter key terms--help students use critical thinking skills, see connections between events and better understand the significance of historical events. Chapter-opening vignettes are closely integrated with MindTap's chapter-opening interactive stories. Each story in MindTap takes students on a visual and/or geographic journey that extends the account of a historical person or place into a deeper, more connected exploration of the chapter.