American Record to 1877

A very successful book for two decades, the fourth edition continues its tradition of excellence. Using primary and secondary source material and numerous photographs and illustrations, this book seeks to present history through a broad perspective. Incorporating the traditional approach, centered on politics, economics, diplomacy, and war with the modern approach, including social aspects of women and children, the poor and economically marginal, gays and native Americans, it is a book that teaches the skill of making sense out of one's whole world.

William Graebner is professor of history at the State University of New York, College at Fredonia. He has written on a variety of aspects of twentieth-century American history. His books include A History of Retirement (1980), The Engineering of Consent: Democracy and Authority in Twentieth-Century America (1987), Coming of Age in Buffalo (1990), and The Age of Doubt: American Thought and Culture in the 1940s (1991). He is Associate Editor of American Studies. Leonard Richards is a Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was awarded the 1970 Beveridge Prize by the American Historical Association for his book Gentlemen of Property and Standing: Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America. Professor Richards is also the author of The Advent of American Democracy and The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams.