Nation Comes of Age - People's History of Ante-Bellum Years

Description

A history of America from 1826 to 1861 The election of 1828 -- President Andrew Jackson -- The Webster-Hayne debate -- Black Hawk's War -- Nullification -- Jackson and the bank -- The Indian removal -- Jackson at bay -- Jackson vindicated -- Tocqueville's America -- The panic of 1837 -- Texas becomes a bone of contention -- The Mexican war -- Visitors -- Hell in harness -- The near West -- A modest competence -- The fur West -- Jedediah Smith -- A trapper's life -- The Southwest -- John Charles Fremont -- The taking of California -- The gold rush -- The Northwest -- Religion -- Converting the heathen -- The Mormons -- "This huge misery": slave life in the South -- The church of abolition -- Free Blacks -- Utopian communities -- Reform -- The women Immigration -- Urban life -- Entertainment -- High society -- "The devil is in the people" -- Technology -- The economy -- Education -- The kindly killers -- Home life -- Work and nature -- American character -- American art -- American originals -- American literature: the precursors -- People's poetry -- Breaking out -- The darker side -- The historians -- The United States and the world -- The new politics -- The Republicans -- Bleeding Kansas -- Lincoln reenters politics -- A decision deferred -- The Lincoln-Douglas debates -- Way out West -- John Brown -- The election of 1860 -- War