The authors' own abridgement preserves the hallmark explanatory power of the parent text, helping students to understand not only what happened but why -- so they're never left wondering what's important.
America: A Concise History 3rd Ed Vol 1 + The Sovereignty and Goodness of God + The Interesting Narrative of...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, with Related Documents encourages you to think about how his work made a lasting impact on American society and culture through its accessible and inviting content.
In 1765 Mary Rowlandson was captured in Massachusetts by Native Americans during King Philip's War. She was held for eleven weeks. This is her story of the ordeal.
Now published by Oxford University Press, Constructing the American Past: A Source Book of a People's History, Eighth Edition, presents an innovative combination of case studies and primary source documents that allow students to discover, ...
In Tropicopolitans Srinivas Aravamudan reconstructs the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century.
A moving exception is Douglas Dunn's Elegies ( London : Faber and Faber , 1985 ) , poems written for his artist wife . 7. In making his muse a ghost , Hardy is drawing on a contemporary resurgence of interest in the supernatural ...
This book traces how early Americans imagined what a 'nation' meant during the first fifty years of the country's existence.
Until fairly recently, critical studies and anthologies of African American literature generally began with the 1830s and 1840s. Yet there was an active and lively transatlantic black literary tradition as early as the 1760s.
This book addresses the need to radically transform societies plagued by racism.
"Building the American Republic tells the story of United States with remarkable grace and skill, its fast moving narrative making the nation's struggles and accomplishments new and compelling.