Designed to accompany American Horizons: U.S. History in a Global Context, Fourth Edition, this two-volume sourcebook provides a diverse set of documents that situate U.S. History within a global context. Covering political, social, and cultural history, the nearly 200 selections--including many visual documents--will spark discussion in the classroom and give students a deeper understanding of America's history. Robust pedagogy--including a general introduction on how to read primary sources and a headnote and reading questions for each document--makes the sources more accessible to students. The fourth edition features twenty-five new primary sources (ten visual, fifteen textual) that offer a more expansive and inclusive picture of the global influences that affected the U.S., and vice versa. DIGITAL RESOURCES Visit www.oup.com/he/schaller4e for a wealth of digital resources for students and instructors, including an enhanced eBook with embedded learning tools and the Oxford Insight Study Guide, which delivers custom-built adaptive practice sessions based on students' performance. PACKAGE and SAVE Package this volume with American Horizons, Fourth Edition, Volume I, at a discount for use in your course. Contact your Oxford Sales Representative at 800.280.0280 to order a package.
In American Horizons: U.S. History in a Global Context, Fourth Edition, the authors use the frequent movement of people, goods, and ideas into, out of, and within America's borders as a framework.
Primary source documents. Complements the survey textbook: American horizons.
Reading American Horizons includes solid pedagogy to make the documents more accessible to students.
This is the only U.S. History survey text that presents the traditional narrative in a global context, using the frequent movement of people, goods, and ideas into, out of, and within America's borders as a framework.
Reading American Horizons includes solid pedagogy to make the documents more accessible to students.
Hundreds of eyewitness accounts of great moments in American history include Langston Hughes on the Scottsboro boys, Jack London on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and other chronicles of the Salem witch trials and the Scopes trial
Prominent historian Justus Doenecke analyzes the personalities, leading action groups, and major congressional debates surrounding the U.S. decision to participate in World War II.
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