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1、AShortHistoryoftheUnitedStatesRobertV.ReminiForJoan,WhohasbroughtnothingbutjoytomylifeContents1DiscoveryandSettlementoftheNewWorld12IndependenceandNationBuilding313AnEmergingIdentity634TheJacksonianEra955TheDisputeoverSlavery,Secession,andtheCivilWar1276Rec
2、onstructionandtheGildedAge1557ManifestDestiny,Progressivism,War,andtheRoaringTwenties187PhotographicInsert8TheGreatDepression,theNewDeal,andWorldWarII2159TheColdWarandCivilRights24510Violence,Scandal,andtheEndoftheColdWar27711TheConservativeRevolution305Rea
3、dingList337Index343AbouttheAuthorOtherBooksbyRobertV.ReminiCreditsCoverCopyrightAboutthePublisher1DiscoveryandSettlementoftheNewWorldTherearemanyintriguingmysteriessurroundingthepeo-plinganddiscoveryofthewesternhemisphere.Whowerethepeopletofirstinhabitthenor
4、thernandsoutherncontinents?Whydidtheycome?Howdidtheygethere?Howlongwastheirmigration?ApossiblenarrativesuggeststhatthemovementofancientpeopletotheNewWorldbeganwhentheycrossedalandbridgethatonceexistedbetweenwhatwetodaycallSiberiaandAlaska,abridgethatlaterdi
5、s-appearedbecauseofglacialmeltingandisnowcoveredbywaterandknownastheBeringStrait.Itisalsopossiblethattheseearlypeopleweremotivatedbywanderlustortheneedforanewsourceoffood.Perhapstheyweresearchingforabetterclimate,andmaybetheycameforreligiousreasons,toescape
6、persecutionorfindamorecongenialareatopracticetheirparticularbeliefs.Whoknows?Ofcoursesomescholarshavearguedthattheseancientpeoplecamebysea,andseveralmodernadventurershavesoughttodemonstratehowitwasaccomplished.ButifalandroutedidprovidethegatewaytothisNewWorl
7、d,whendidithappen?Howlongago?Thebestguess—anditisaguess—isthatittookplace50,000yearsago,ifnotmore.Butwasitasinglelongmigrationstretchingoveranumberofyears?Ordiditcomeinfitsandstartsduringanextendedperiodoftime?Scholarshavesuggestedthatthemigrationcontinuedun
8、til2,000yearsagoandthatextendedfamiliescameingroups.Overtime,thesepeople2ashorthistoryoftheunitedstatessettledintoeveryhabitableareatheycouldfind,penetratingtothemostsouthernlyregionandevenoccupyingthem
