Writing the American past : US history to 1877
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Writing the American past : US history to 1877
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
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Description
Writing the American Past reproduces dozens of untranscribed, handwritten documents, offering students the opportunity to transcribe, decipher, and interpret primary sources.
Documents include diary entries from Massachusetts in the 1690s, a woman detailing the Great Awakening, an eighteenth-century treaty with Native Americans, a journal describing antebellum train travel, and a letter by a slave
Skillfully teaches students to engage with the raw material of pre-1877 US history: the written document
An introduction and headnotes to each document contextualize the sources and provide a foundation from which the student can explore the material
Table of Contents
Timeline vii
Acknowledgments xi
Editor’s Introduction: History, Handed Down 1
1 Old World Explores New: 7
Settling and Securing Newfoundland in the Early 1600s
2 The Chesapeake: 13
Indenturing Labor, 1694
3 Life in Seventeenth-century New England: 19
Massachusetts in the 1690s
4 The Middle Colonies: 25
A Philadelphia Furrier, 1738
5 The Lower South and Slave Society: 33
Slave Resistance and Imperial Contests, 1739
6 Social Order in the Eighteenth-century South: 39
Slavery and Virginia’s Gentry in the 1720s
7 The Great Awakening: 45
A Letter to George Whitefield, 1746
8 Empire and Native Americans: 51
The Treaty of Lancaster, 1744
9 Imperial Crises and the Coming of Revolution: 57
The Politicization of a Colonial Merchant, 1765
10 Fighting the Revolutionary War: 65
AWoman on the Homefront, 1776
11 Crisis, Constitution, Nation: 71
Probate Data and the Problem of Becoming American in the 1780s
12 The New Republic: 77
A Massachusetts Federalist in 1800
13 Jeffersonian America: 83
On the Road in 1818
14 Revolutions in Time and Space: 89
Tourism and Travel, 1850
15 The Age of Jackson: 95
The View from Abroad in 1828
16 The Southern Master Class: 103
An Elite Woman’s School Experience, 1838
17 Lives of the Enslaved: 111
Urban Slavery in 1862
18 The Modernizing North: 119
A Businessman’s Letter, 1836
19 The Age of Reform: 125
On the Need for Temperance, 1824
20 Westward Expansion: 133
Kansas and Free Labor in 1856
21 The Coming of the Civil War: 141
Bleeding in Kansas, 1856
22 Secession: 149
A South Carolinian Describes the Event, 1860
23 Americans in Civil War: 155
A Canadian Soldier’s Experience, 1864
24 Emancipation: 161
The Labor of Freedom, 1867
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