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本教材编写中把以美国历史文化发展为线索，展现美国各段历史进程中的国家概况，既训练语言技能，也丰富相关知识。涉及了系统的历史内容,帮助读者了解美国各段历史时期的重大事件，系统介绍美国历史文化发展背景。 本次改版对难度有所调整，并增加教师资源包，以适应不同层次学生的需要。根据阅读材料的时效性进行增删。改版中增加“互联网+”因素， 通过二维码呈现网络资源，增强文化类教材的特色。

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Unit 1 The Age of Exploration /

Text A Early Exploration and Settlements /

Text B Columbus’s Discovery of America /

Text C The Legacy of the Puritans /

Text D The Thanksgiving Story /

Unit 2 The Colonial America /

Text A The Original 13 Colonies /

Text B Colonial Life of the Early Settlers /

Text C Slavery in Colonial America /

Unit 3 The Road to Independence /

Text A The War of Independence /

Text B The American Revolution /

Text C Causes of the American Revolution /

Unit 4 The Young Republic /

Text A The Creation of a National Government /

Text B Benjamin Franklin /

Text C The Essence of the Constitution /

Unit 5 The Westward Movement /

Text A The Frontier of the American West /

Text B The Donner Party /

Text C Louisiana Purchase /

Unit 6 The Civil War /

Text A Causes of the Civil War /

Text B The Gettysburg Address /

Text C Eye Witness Accounts of the Assassination /

Unit 7 Reconstruction (1865—1877) /

Text A Reconstruction after the Civil War /

Text B Education after the Civil War /

Text C A Shattered Fairy Tale /

Unit 8 The Gilded Age (1877—1917) /

Text A The Gilded Age /

Text B Industrialization /

Text C The Gilded Age Society /

Unit 9 America in World War I (1914—1918) /

Text A The U.S.A. and World War I /

Text B Wilson’s Declaration of Neutrality /

Text C U.S. Entry into World War I /

Unit 10 The Roaring Twenties /

Text A The Roaring Twenties /

Text B Mass Entertainment in the 1920s /

Text C The Lost Generation /

Unit 11 The Great Depression /

Text A The Great Depression in America /

Text B Iowa in the 1920s and the 1930s /

Text C Franklin D. Roosevelt /

Unit 12 America in World War II /

Text A World War II /

Text B The Origins of World War II /

Text C American Domestic Situation During World War Ⅱ/

Unit 13 Postwar American Society /

Text A American Society in the 1950s /

Text B The Postwar Economy: 1945—1960 /

Text C Desegregation /

Unit 14 America in Transition /

Text A America in the 1960s /

Text B America in the 1970s /

Text C The Cuban Missile Crisis /

Unit 15 Toward a New Century /

Text A America Entering a New Century /

Text B The Gulf War /

Text C No Ordinary Day /

Appendixes

Appendix 1 States, Their Entry into Union & Their Settlement /

Appendix 2 Presidents & Vice Presidents of the U.S. /

Appendix 3 U.S. History Timeline /

重点参考书目和网站/

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常俊跃，大连外国语大学英语学院院长。主持并完成国家哲学社会科学项目“英语专业基础阶段内容依托式教学改革研究”，主持并正在进行国家社会科学基金项目立项“内容依托教学理论指导下英语专业整体课程体系的改革与实践研究”。 负责的专业2010年获国家级特色专业建设点。

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本套教材是国家哲学社会科学项目成果，获得第六届国家级教学成果优秀成果奖、辽宁省两级教学成果一等奖。 “十二五”普通高等教育本科国家规划教材 [1]