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 ...
Complete with a robust collectiom of supporting resources to help you succeed in your AP(R) U.S. History course, America's History: for the AP(R) Course presents relevant themes and content to prepare you for the exam.
Building on the book's hallmark strengths — balance, comprehensiveness, and explanatory power — as well as its outstanding visuals and extensive primary-source features, authors James Henretta, Rebecca Edwards, and Robert Self have ...
America's History: Since 1865
"A forthright exposé of accelerated attempts to remove evidence of Christian heritage in places commemorating national history." -- from back cover.
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Since 1865 James A. Henretta, Melvin Yazawa, Kevin J. Fernlund. 27-6 The Next and More Profound Stage of the Battle for Civil Rights (1965) 2. How did Johnson propose to achieve “not just equality.
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 ...
William Henry Harrison was the first candidate to actively campaign for the presidency, under the slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler too.” Tippecanoe referenced Harrison's defeat of Shawnee Indians at Prophetstown on the Tippecanoe River in ...
28 Thomas Sowell, Race and Culture: A World View (New York: Basic Books, 1994), 26; William H. McNeill, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 667. 29 Jaime Vicens Vives, ...