Surveys the history of the United States from the earliest Indian settlements to the present day.
“There were too many colleges,” historian Ioseph F. Kett wrote, “and they needed students more than students needed them.” Faculty members, ever nervous for their jobs, overlooked minor offenses which inevitably led to greater ones.
Writing the American Past reproduces dozens of untranscribed, handwritten documents, offering students the opportunity to transcribe, decipher, and interpret primary sources.
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This oral history reader, designed to supplement texts on the second half of the U.S. history survey, features the words of ordinary people who describe how they shaped, viewed, and remembered American history.
Growth & Welfare in the American Past: A New Economic History
"In Curating the American Past, Pete Daniel takes readers behind the "Staff Only" door at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to reveal how curators collect objects, plan exhibits, navigate public-sector politics, and ...
To 1877 James L. Roark, Michael P. Johnson, Patricia Cline Cohen, Sarah Stage, Susan M. Hartmann. To 1877 SIXTH EDITION TheAmerican Promise A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES VALUE EDITION James L. Roark Michael P. Johnson Patricia Cline ...
Now published by Oxford University Press, Constructing the American Past: A Source Book of a People's History, Eighth Edition, presents an innovative combination of case studies and primary source documents that allow students to discover, ...
In this volume, Ari Helo analyzes examples of this, including metahistorical narratives, presidential speeches, and the occasionally vague rhetoric of the Confederate statue campaigns, before diagnosing the source of doing so and suggesting ...
Including an introduction which places key themes in context, this book enables readers to make comparisons and trace major thematic developments across American history.