Reading the American Past: To 1877
- ISBN-10
- 0312391323
- ISBN-13
- 9780312391324
- Series
- Reading the American Past
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 268
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-07-01
- Publisher
- Bedford/st Martins
- Author
- Michael P. Johnson
Description
This two-volume primary-source collection provides a broad range of voices and perspectives from our nation's past, while emphasizing the important social, political, and economic themes of most U.S. history survey courses. Edited by one of the authors of The American Promise and designed to complement the textbook, Reading the American Past offers a rich selection of over 125 documents and editorial apparatus to aid students' understanding of the sources.
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- 2019-09-06
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- 2019-09-06
- 320 pages
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- 2019-09-06
- 320 pages
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- 2019-09-06
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