Retracing the past : readings in the history of the American people
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Retracing the past : readings in the history of the American people
Pearson Longman, c2006
6th ed
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- v. 2
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Vol. 1: To 1877 -- v. 2: Since 1865
Description and Table of Contents
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v. 1 ISBN 9780321333797
Description
Retracing the Pastis an engaging collection of both primary and secondary sources that emphasizes social history and cultural diversity.
The anthology leads students to consider the role of women, ethnic/racial groups, and laboring Americans in weaving the nation's social fabric, and allows them to explore life at the individual and community level. It also introduces students to individuals and groups who made a critical difference in shaping American history. This edition extends its reach to cover the question of diversity more fully, incorporating it into the political and social history of the United States.
Table of Contents
*Asterisks indicate new readings.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Sources and Interpretations.
Part I.
1. Fr. Paul le Juene, "Brief Relation of the Journey to New France(1633)/Jesuit Observations on the "Enslavement" of Women (1710).Reading: James Axtell, "Imagining the Other: First Encounters."
Glossary.
Implications.
2. Richard Frethorn's Letter Home (1623).
*Reading: T. H. Breen/Stephen Innes, "Anthony Johnson: Patriarch on Pungoteague Creek."
Glossary.
Implications.
3. John Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630).
Reading: Virginia DeJohn Anderson, Migrants and Motives: Religion and the Settlement of New England,1630-1640.
Glossary.
Implications.
4. The Stranger on Slave Recreation (1772).
Reading: Peter H. Wood, Patterns of Slave Resistance.
Glossary.
Implications.
5. Anne Bradstreet, Thoughts on Her Husband and Children (1650).
Reading: Mary Beth Norton, A Small Circle of Domestic Concerns.
Glossary.
Implications.
6. Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741).
*Reading: Harry S. Stout, "American Awakener."
Glossary.
Implications.
Part II.
1. John Andrews to William Barrell on the BostonTea Party (1773).
Reading: Alfred F. Young, George Robert Twelves Hewes: The Revolution and the Rise of Popular Politics.
Glossary.
Implications.
2. Anon., "A Brief Narrative of the Ravages of the British and Hessians at Princeton(1777).
Reading: James Kirby Martin, A 'Most Undisciplined, Profligate Crew: Protest and Defiance in the Continental Ranks.
Glossary.
Implications.
3. Judith Sargent Murray, On the Equality of the Sexes (1790).
Reading: Carol Berkin, Women in the American Revolution.
Glossary.
Implications.
4. Brutus, Second Essay Opposing the Constitution (1787).
Reading: Robert E. Shalhope, The Constitution and the Competing Political Cultures of late-Eighteenth-Century America.
Glossary.
Implications.
5. Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson on the African American Intellect (1791).
*Reading: Gary B. Nash, Thomas Peters: Millwright and Deliverer.
Glossary.
Implications.
6. Little Turtle on the Treaty of Greenville(1795)/Tecumseh on Land Cessions (1810).
*Reading: Colin G. Calloway, "The Revolution in Indian Country."
Glossary.
Implications.
Part III.
1. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, The American Belisarius (c. 1790s).
Reading: Robert A. Gross, Culture and Cultivation: Agriculture and Society in Thoreau's Concord.
Glossary.
Implications.
2. Resolutions of the Journeymen Carpenters/Resolutions of the Master Carpenters (1845).
Reading: Ronald Schultz, God and Workingmen: Popular Religion and the Formation of Philadelphia's Working Class, 1790-1830.
Glossary.
Implications.
3. Lucy Larcom, "An Idyll of Work."
Reading: Christine Stansell, Women, Children, and the Uses of the Street: Class and Gender Conflict in New York City.
Glossary.
Implications.
4. The Stuart-Bennett Duel (1819).
Reading: Elliott J. Gorn, "Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch": The Social Significance of Fighting in the Southern Backcountry.
Glossary.
Implications.
5. *William Swain's Letter from the CaliforniaGold Fields (1850).
*Reading: Malcolm Rohrbough, "No Boy's Play: Migration and Settlement in Gold Rush California."
Glossary.
Implications.
6. Susie King Taylor, Reminiscences of an Army Laundress (1902).
*Reading: Drew Gilpin Faust, "Husbands and Wives: Southern Marriages in the Civil War."
Glossary.
Implications.
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v. 2 ISBN 9780321333803
Description
Retracing the Past is an engaging collection of both primary and secondary sources that emphasizes social history and cultural diversity.
The anthology leads students to consider the role of women, ethnic/racial groups, and laboring Americans in weaving the nation's social fabric, and allows them to explore life at the individual and community level. It also introduces students to individuals and groups who made a critical difference in shaping American history. This edition extends its reach to cover the question of diversity more fully, incorporating it into the political and social history of the United States.
Table of Contents
*Asterisks indicate new readings.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Sources and Interpretations.
Part I.
1. Jourdon Anderson, "To My Old Master..." (1865).
Reading: Eric Foner, African Americans in Public Office During the Era of Reconstruction.
Glossary.
Implications.
2. Lee Chew, Life of a Chinese Immigrant (1903).
Reading: Jack Chen, The Chinese Link an Continent and a Nation.
Glossary.
Implications.
3. The OmahaPlatform of the People's Party (1892).
Reading: Bruce Palmer, The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism.
Glossary.
Implications.
4. *Rose Gollop Cohen: A Young Immigrant in New York City(1918).
*Reading: Elizabeth Ewen, "First Encounters: Immigrant Women in the City."
Glossary.
Implications.
5. *Richard K. Fox, Coney IslandFrolics (1883).
*Reading: David Nasaw, "Talking and Singing Machines, Parlors, and Peep Shows: Popular Amusements in Turn-of-the-Century America."
Glossary.
Implications.
6. Red Cloud (1890) and Flying Hawk (1936) on Wounded Knee.
Reading: Laura Jane Moore, Lozen: An Apache Woman Warrior.
Glossary.
Implications.
Part II.
1. James T. Rapier, The Agricultural Labor Force in the South (1880).
Reading: Jacqueline Jones, A Bridge of Bent Backs and Laboring Muscles: The Rural South, 1880-1915.
Glossary.
Implications.
2. John Muir, MountRitter(1911).
Reading: Peter Wild, John Muir: The Mysteries of Mountains.
Glossary.
Implications.
3. *The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882).
*Reading: Judy Yung, "Unbound Feet: Chinese Immigrant Women in Early Twentieth-Century San Francisco."
Glossary.
Implications.
4. Advertisements (1925/1927).
Reading: Mary Murphy, Messenger of the New Age: Station KGIR in Butte.
Glossary.
Implications.
5. Meridel LeSueur, "The Despair of Unemployed Women" (1932).
Reading: Edward R. Ellis, What the Depression Did to People.
Glossary.
Implications.
6. *Benny Goodman, "Explaining Swing" (1939).
*Reading: Lewis A. Erenberg, "The Crowd Goes Wild: The Youth Culture of Swing."
Glossary.
Implications.
Part III.
1. Students for a Democratic Society, Port HuronStatement (1962).
*Reading: Maurice Isserman/Michael Kazin, "The Making of the 1960s Youth Culture."
Glossary.
Implications.
2. *Enriqueta Longeaux y Vasquez, A Chicana Critique of the Chicano Movement (1969).
*Reading: Vicki Ruiz, "Claiming Public Space: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America."
Glossary.
Implications.
3. Restrictions at Levittown(Late 1940s).
Reading: Kenneth T. Jackson, The Drive-In Culture of Contemporary America.
Glossary.
Implications.
4. Lyndon B. Johnson, Commencement Address at HowardUniversity(1965).
Reading: Allan J. Matusow, The Vietnam War, the Liberals, and the Overthrow of LBJ.
Glossary.
Implications.
5. Ione Malloy, Southie Won't Go (1975).
Reading: Robin D. G. Kelley, After Civil Rights: The African American Working and Middle Classes.
Glossary.
Implications.
6. Patricia Morrisroe, Yuppies-the New Class (1985).
Reading: Juliet B. Schor, The Insidious Cycle of Work and Spend.
Glossary.
Implications.
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