本教材是在内容依托教学教学理念指导下，基于**哲学社会科学项目推出的内容语言融合系列教材之一。以美国历史文化发展为线索，展现美国各段历史进程中的**概况，既训练语言技能，也丰富相关知识。涉及系统的历史内容, 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，并提供教师资源包，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。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。本书适用于英语专业一、二年级学生，也适用于具有中学英语基础的非英语专业学生和英语爱好者学习。

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 / 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 / Text A The Gilded Age / Text B Industrialization / Text C The Gilded Age Society / Unit 9 America in World War I / 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 / **参考书目和网站/