Now in its Sixth Edition, this text continues to offer a colorful and engaging look at the individuals, events, and ideas that make up our nation's past. Accessible and lively, Conlin includes a comprehensive treatment of political, economic, social, intellectual, constitutional, diplomatic, and military history. Consistent scholarship and a unique organization make this book comprehensive and manageable, while new chronologies offer students quick reference and easy review of the major events and movements covered in each chapter.
“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.
The 8th edition of Constructing the American Past presents an innovative combination of case studies and primary source documents from the 15th to the 19th century for readers to discover what life was like in the past.
The American Past emphasizes political history, yet provides balanced coverage of social, economic, and cultural events.
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 ...
In Curating the American Past, Pete Daniel reveals how curators collect objects, plan exhibits, and bring alive the country’s complex and exciting history.
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.
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 ...
Growth & Welfare in the American Past: A New Economic History