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The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived ...
106 Hagopian's last question was a remarkably candid statement and its implicit avarice went against the progressive principles of then-incumbent Carter administration. But despite President Carter's personal opposition to a reform that ...
... and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, another Unitarian minister for whom abolitionism became the core of his religion. Higginson had led the group that had tried to liberate escaped slave Anthony Burns from Boston's federal courthouse in ...
Paul S. Boyer. taxes” such as the Stamp Act. But in an influential 1767 pamphlet misleadingly titled Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia lawyer John Dickinson rejected this distinction. As the dispute deepened, ...
When the white people first came, the Indians had nothing to shoot with but bows and arrows. In Philip's time they had given up bows, finding guns much better for killing game. You may be sure that when Philip once got away from the ...
Give Me Liberty! is the #1 book in the U.S. history survey course because it works in the classroom.
Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jumping-off point for discussions in the U ...
A look at major events in U.S. and world history as they influenced, and as they may have been influenced by, the cultivation and use of hemp.
As Morris colorfully illustrates through the 200 historical vignettes that make up this book, much of our nation’s past is quite different—and far more remarkable—than we thought.
Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.