Forging America: Volume One to 1877: A Continental History of the United States

Winner of the Textbook & Academic Authors Association's Most Promising New Textbook Award

Forging America speaks to both the complexities of historical experience and the meanings of the past for our present-day lives. Warning against the assumption of preordained outcomes, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Steve Hahn focuses the reader's attention on those moments when historical change occurs. He weaves a history that is continental and transnational, a history of the many peoples whose experiences and aspirations--often times involving struggle and conflict--went into the forging of a nation.