Discovering the American past : a look at the evidence
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Discovering the American past : a look at the evidence
Cengage Learning, c2017
8th ed., student ed
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- v. 2
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v. 1. To 1877
v. 2. Since 1865
Description and Table of Contents
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v. 1 ISBN 9781305630420
Description
This primary source reader in the popular DISCOVERING series contains a six-part framework that guides you through the process of historical inquiry and explanation. The text emphasizes historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data. Each chapter is organized within the same pedagogical framework: The Problem, Background, The Method, The Evidence, Questions to Consider, and Epilogue.
Table of Contents
1. The Beginning of the World: Creation Accounts and Cultural Values in the Americas and Europe.
2. The Threat of Anne Hutchinson.
3. From English Servants to African Slaves: Creating Racial Slavery in Colonial Virginia.
4. What Really Happened in the Boston Massacre? The Trial of Captain Thomas Preston.
5. The Evolution of American Citizenship: The Louisiana Purchase, 1803 1812.
6. Church, State, and Democracy: The Sunday Mail Controversy, 1827 1831.
7. Land, Growth, and Justice: The Removal of the Cherokees.
8. Women Out of Their Latitude : Gender in the American Republic.
9. The Peculiar Institution : Slaves Tell Their Own Stories.
10. Caring for the Sick and Wounded: Women Nurses in the Civil War.
11. Reconstructing Reconstruction: Political Cartoonist Thomas Nast and Public Opinion.
12. History Skills in Action: Designing Your Own Project.
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v. 2 ISBN 9781305630437
Description
This primary source reader in the popular DISCOVERING series contains a six-part framework that guides you through the process of historical inquiry and explanation. The text emphasizes historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data. Each chapter is organized within the same pedagogical framework: The Problem, Background, The Method, The Evidence, Questions to Consider, and Epilogue.
Table of Contents
1. The Road to True Freedom: African American Alternatives in the New South.
2. Rose Cohen Comes to America: Living and Remembering the Immigrant Experience.
3. John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Future of American Public Lands.
4. Homogenizing a Pluralistic Nation: Propaganda During World War I.
5. The New Woman: Debating Women s Roles in the 1920s.
6. Understanding Rural Poverty in the Great Depression.
7. The American Judicial System and Japanese Internment During World War II: Korematsu v. United States.
8. The 1960 Student Campaign for Civil Rights.
9. A Generation in War and Turmoil: The Agony of Vietnam.
10. The Religious Revolution in Post-World War II America: The Pivotal Role of Southern California.
11. The War on Drugs and the Rise of the Prison State.
12. History Skills in Action: Designing Your Own Project.
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