This textbook traces the history of the US and the vision of its people, focusing on individual freedom, social equality, the rule of law, and openness to diversity over centuries of change. It emphasizes social and cultural history, and also addresses religious history, family history, the history of education, visual culture, environmental history, the global context of American history, and the histories of technology and medicine. Primary source readings are included in each chapter. This edition incorporates new developments and scholarship, new material and images, and emerging themes. It includes discussion of new evidence of the earliest known humans in the Americas, the rise of the Comanches as the dominant power challenging Spain, the War of Jenkins' Ear, the French uprising against Spanish rule in Louisiana, the Sugar Act, the Loyalists, the black uprising in Saint Domingue, the grassroots origins of the women's rights movement, the British response to the Civil War, Chinese prostitution and laborers, discrimination against the physically disabled during the rise of industrialism, the connection between intercollegiate sports and business leadership, 19th-century women writers, demobilization in World War II, the GI Bill of Rights, the postwar economic boom, the Obama presidency, healthcare reform, the recent economic recession, congressional gridlock, the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements, the presidential campaign of 2012, recent developments in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran, and other new and expanded topics. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) Read Less