![]() Railroads, canals, newspapers, and the telegraph dramatically lowered travel times and spurred the spread of information. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of the North American continent.Ī panoramic narrative, What Hath God Wrought portrays revolutionary improvements in transportation and communications that accelerated the extension of the American empire. ![]() The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. ![]()
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