Perspectives on the American Past: 1865 to the present
Author | : Michael Perman |
Publisher | : Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780673186171 |
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Author | : Michael Perman |
Publisher | : Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780673186171 |
Author | : Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 859 |
Release | : 2012-05-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195188055 |
Collection of essays tracing the historical evolution of African American experiences, from the dawn of Reconstruction onward, through the perspectives of sociology, political science, law, economics, education and psychology. As a whole, the book is a systematic study of the gap between promise and performance of African Americans since 1865. Over the course of thirty-four chapters, contributors present a portrait of the particular hurdles faced by African Americans and the distinctive contributions African Americans have made to the development of U.S. institutions and culture. --From publisher description.
Author | : H. Trevor Colbourn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Raymond M. Hyser |
Publisher | : Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780534643010 |
Presents a variety of diverse perspectives through more than 230 primary sources. Offers well known primary sources such as Federalist 10 and President Eisenhower's farewell address, as well as Cotton Mather's admonitions on the evils of "self-pollution," a woman's description of the southern homefront during the Civil War, John Muir's essay on American forests, and recent East Asian immigrant's description of life in America.
Author | : Raymond M. Hyser |
Publisher | : Wadsworth Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2004-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780495189558 |
Edited by Raymond M. Hyser and J. Christopher Arndt, VOICES OF THE AMERICAN PAST is a two-volume reader that presents a variety of diverse perspectives through more than 230 primary sources. Excerpts from speeches, letters, journals, political cartoons, magazine articles, hearings and government documents raise issues from both public and private aspects of American life throughout history. A "Guide to Reading and Interpreting Documents" in the front matter explains how and why historians use primary source evidence, and outlines basic points to help students learn to analyze sources. Brief headnotes set each source into context. "Questions to Consider" precede each document, offering prompts for critical thinking and reflection. The volumes are organized chronologically into 31 chapters, with the Reconstruction chapter overlapping in both volumes -- corresponding to the splits of most survey texts. In this new Third Edition, the selection of new documents was guided by the editors' desire to provide greater diversity of voices while also offering readable selections that speak to larger issues. This edition offers well known primary sources such as Federalist 10 and President Eisenhower's farewell address, as well as Cotton Mather's admonitions on the evils of "self-pollution," a woman's description of the southern homefront during the Civil War, John Muir's essay on American forests, and recent East Asian immigrant's description of life in America. The most significant change, however, is the addition of visual images, taking the text beyond the use of documents traditionally found in other readers.
Author | : Elliott J. Gorn |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2017-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780190280963 |
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, analyze, and construct history from the actors' perspective. Beginning with Christopher Columbus and his interaction with the Spanish crown in 1492, and ending in the Reconstruction-era United States, Constructing the American Past provides eyewitness accounts of historical events, legal documents that helped shape the lives of citizens, and excerpts from diaries that show history through an intimate perspective. The authors expand upon past scholarship and include new material regarding gender, race, and immigration in order to provide a more complete picture of the past.
Author | : Leonard L. Richards |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000-09 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : 9780072317374 |
Using primary and secondary source material and numerous photographs and illustrations, presents United States history through a broad perspective. Blending the traditional approach to American history (centered on politics, economics, diplomacy, and war) with the modern approach (including histories of women and children, people of color, and the poor and economically marginal), it offers a version of our national past that is inclusive, complex, and dynamic. Volume 2 covers Reconstruction to the present.
Author | : Arthur Meier Schlesinger |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2015-06-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781330208045 |
Excerpt from New Viewpoints in American History Most adult Americans of today gained their knowledge of American history before the present generation of historians had made perceptible progress in their epoch-making work of reconstructing the story of our past in the light of their new studies and investigations. Signs of a renaissance of American historical writing began to be evident as early as the decade of the eighties of the last century. The new interest in historical and social phenomena was shown, for instance, in the founding of the American Historical Association, the American Economic Association, the American Statistical Association and the American Academy of Political and Social Science during that decade, followed shortly after by the formation of the American Political Science Association, the American Sociological Society and the American Society of International Law. American history, which had formerly been envisaged as a record of arid political and constitutional development, began to be enriched by the new conceptions and fresh points of view afforded by the scientific study of economics, sociology and politics. Influences from abroad also played their part, particularly the notable work of John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People (1874), with its revisions and enlargements. Quickened by these new impulses, historians began to view the past of America with broadened vision and to attain the power of seeing familiar facts in new relationships. The change did not take place overnight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.