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Some rights reserved.  \nThis book is licensed under the Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 4 .0, AttributionShareAlike. This license permits commercial and non-commercial use of this work, so long as attribution is given. For more information about the license, visit [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) .  \nPrinted in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nNames: Locke, Joseph L., editor. | Wright, Ben, editor.  \nTitle: The American yawp : a massively collaborative open U.S. history textbook / edited by Joseph L. Locke and Ben Wright.  \nDescription: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.  \nIdentifiers: LCCN 2018015206 (print) | LCCN 2018017638 (ebook) |  \nISBN 9781503608139 (e-book) | ISBN 9781503606715 | ISBN 9781503606715 (v. 1 :pbk. :alk. paper) | ISBN 9781503606883(v. 2 :pbk. :alk. paper) |  \nISBN 9781503608139(v. 1 :ebook) | ISBN 9781503608146(v. 2 :ebook) Subjects: LCSH: United States—History—Textbooks.  \nClassification: LCC E178.1 (ebook) | LCC E178.1 .A493673 2019 (print) | DDC 973—dc23  \nLC record available at [https://lccn.loc.gov/2018015206](https://lccn.loc.gov/2018015206)  \nBruce Lundquist  \nTypeset by Newgen in Sabon LT 11/15  \nCover illustration: Detail from “Victory!” by M.F. Tobin, ca. 1884. Source: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.  \nYawp \\yôp\\ n: 1: a raucous noise 2: rough vigorous language“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”  \nWalt Whitman, 1854  \ncontents  \nPreface ix  \n16. Capital and Labor 1  \n17. Conquering the West 28  \n18. Life in Industrial America 56  \n19. American Empire 82  \n20. The Progressive Era 109  \n21. World War I and Its Aftermath 140  \n22. The New Era 163  \n23. The Great Depression 192  \n24. World War II 225  \n25. The Cold War 257  \n26. The Affluent Society 288  \n27. The Sixties 314  \n28. The Unraveling 343  \n29. The Triumph of the Right 376  \n30. The Recent Past 411  \nContributors 441  \npreface  \nWe are the heirs of our history. Our communities, our politics, our culture: it is all a product of the past. As William Faulkner wrote,“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”1 To understand who we are, we must therefore understand our history.  \nBut what is history? What does it mean to study the past? History can never be the simple memorizing of names and dates (how would we even know what names and dates are worth studying?) . It is too complex a task and too dynamic a process to be reduced to that. It must be something more because, in a sense, it is we who give life to the past. Historians ask historical questions, weigh evidence from primary sources (material produced in the era under study), grapple with rival interpretations, and argue for their conclusions. History, then, is our ongoing conversation about the past.  \nEvery generation must write its own history. Old conclusions—say, about the motives of European explorers or the realities of life on slave plantations—fall before new evidence and new outlooks. Names of  \nCivil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in  \n1965. Library of Congress.  \nx prefAce  \nleaders and dates of events may not change, but the weight we give them and the context with which we frame them invariably evolves. History is a conversation between the past and the present. To understand a global society, we must explore a history of transnational forces. 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