Constructing the American Past: A Source Book of a People's History
- ISBN-10
- 0321093429
- ISBN-13
- 9780321093424
- Series
- Constructing the American Past
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Longman Publishing Group
Description
Overview: Constructing the American Past explores U.S. history through letters, articles, journalistic sources, photographs and posters. This book achieves a level of inclusion and depth rarely found in other primary source collections. Each chapter focuses on a particular problem or moment in American history, and provides readers with several points of view. The photographs, posters and maps included also ask the reader to "read" the visual sources of American history. Explores U.S. history through letters, articles, journalistic sources, photographs, and posters. U.S History Primary Sources. Anyone interested in exploring US History through documents, letters, articles, and other primary sources.
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- 2008
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- 2005
- 334 pages
- Paperback
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- 2004-07
- 288 pages
- Paperback
- Longman Publishing Group
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- 2017-10-25
- 384 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press, USA
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