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 ...
Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history...
A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of American history.
Offering an abbreviated, accessible, and lively narrative history of the United States, this erudite volume contains the essential facts about the discovery, settlement, growth, and development of the American nation and its institutions.
The book begins in colonial America as the first Europeans arrived, lured by the promise of financial profit, driven by religious piety and accompanied by diseases which would ravage the native populations.
A peer-reviewed open U.S. History Textbook released under a CC BY SA 3.0 Unported License.
Connect, Experience, Understand Prentice Hall United States History (High School) provides content that connects students to history by helping them explore enduring issues of American History This highly acclaimed US History program ...
Quoted in David Goldfield, Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990), p. 257. 34. Green v. County School Board of New Kent CoKnfy, ...
For her writings, see Ida B. Wells-Barnett, The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-lynching Crusader, ed. Mia Bay and Henry Louis Gates Jr. (New York: Penguin Books, 2014). Frederick Douglass, Letter, in Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors: ...
A True History of the United States was inspired by a course that Sjursen taught to cadets at West Point, his alma mater.