Interpretations of American History, Volume I: Through Reconstruction

Interpretations of American History, Volume I: Through Reconstruction
Author: Francis G. Couvares
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-09-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780312480493

Now in a new edition from Bedford/St. Martin’s, Interpretations of American History offers an essential collection of essays and readings on American historiography. Each chapter opens with an extended essay that explores the historiography specific to that chapter’s topic, followed by two readings by preeminent historians that highlight different — although not always diametrically opposed — historical approaches. Fully updated for the next generation of scholars, the most respected historiographical reader now comes with all the care and quality that you expect from Bedford/St. Martin’s.

Interpretations of American History Vol. I

Interpretations of American History Vol. I
Author: Francis G. Couvares
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2000-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0684867737

Contrary to conventional wisdom, no area of study is outdated more quickly than history, and no time has been more turbulent for the discipline than our own. This classic point/counterpoint reader in American history, now in a completely revised and updated seventh edition, takes note of history's impermanence, giving voice to the new without disposing of the old. In ten lively chapters, essays by the editors introduce dialectical readings by distinguished historians on topics from Reconstruction to the present. The essays and readings address history's timeless questions: "Reconstruction: Change or Stasis?," "American Imperialism: Economic Expansion or Ideological Crusade?," and "The Civil Rights Movement: Top-Down or Bottom-Up?" New readings are included on African Americans, women, and immigrants. In the fray of debate, eminent historians from Samuel Hays and Alfred Chandler to John Lewis Gaddis, Walter LaFeber, and Kathryn Kish Sklar struggle to interpret the past. The editors'essays moderate.

Interpretations of American History, 6th Ed, Vol.

Interpretations of American History, 6th Ed, Vol.
Author: Gerald N. Grob
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2010-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1451602340

This collection of essays on American history reflects recent scholarship. Contributors new to this edition include Gary Nash, Arthur Schlesinger, Richard P. McCormick, Gerda Lerner, Ellen C. DuBois, Vicki L. Ruiz, Nathan I. Huggins, John Lewis Gaddis, Paul Kennedy and Kevin P. Philips. Edited by Gerald N. Grob and George Athan Billias.

Changing Interpretations of America's Past

Changing Interpretations of America's Past
Author: Jim R. McClellan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: United States
ISBN: 9780072283839

Offers an examination of incidents from the Civil War through the 20th Century, important to the development of the American Nation. This book features primary and secondary source materials on approximately 30 selected moments in American history. It is designed for use in introductory courses in American history.

Interpretations of American History, 6th Ed, Vol. 1

Interpretations of American History, 6th Ed, Vol. 1
Author: Gerald N. Grob
Publisher:
Total Pages: 498
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN:

This collection of essays on American history reflects recent scholarship. Contributors new to this edition include Gary Nash, Arthur Schlesinger, Richard P. McCormick, Gerda Lerner, Ellen C. DuBois, Vicki L. Ruiz, Nathan I. Huggins, John Lewis Gaddis, Paul Kennedy and Kevin P. Philips.

Whig Interpretation of History

Whig Interpretation of History
Author: Herbert Butterfield
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1965
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393003185

Five essays on the tendency of modern historians to update other eras and on the need to recapture the concrete life of the past.

Contested Commemoration in U.S. History

Contested Commemoration in U.S. History
Author: Klara Stephanie Szlezák
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2019-09-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000702227

Against the backdrop of two recent socio-political developments—the shift from the Obama to the Trump administration and the surge in nationalist and populist sentiment that ushered in the current administration—Contested Commemoration in U.S. History presents eleven essays focused on practices of remembering contested events in America’s national history. This edited volume contains fresh interpretations of public history and collective memory that explore the evolving relationship between the U.S. and its past. The individual chapters investigate efforts to memorialize events or interrogate instances of historical sanitization at the expense of less partial representations that would include other perspectives. The primary source material and geography covered is extensive; contributors use historic sites and monuments, photographs, memoirs, textbooks, periodicals, music, and film to discuss the periods from colonial America, through the Revolutionary and Civil Wars up until the Vietnam War, Civil Rights movement, and Cold War, to explore how the commemoration of those eras resonates in the twenty-first century. Through a range of commemoration media and primary sources, the authors illuminate themes and arguments that are indispensable to students, scholars, and practitioners interested in Public History and American Studies more broadly.

History in the Making

History in the Making
Author: Kyle Ward
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 606
Release: 2011-01-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1458729923

In this thought-provoking study (Library Journal ), historian Kyle Ward-the widely acclaimed co-author of History Lessons-gives us another fascinating look at the biases inherent in the way we learn about our history. Juxtaposing passages from...

The New American History

The New American History
Author: Eric Foner
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781566395526

Originally released in 1990, The New American Historyedited for the American Historical Association by Eric Foner, has become an indispensable volume for teachers and students. In essays that chart the shifts in interpretation within their fields, some of our most prominent American historians survey the key works and themes in the scholarship of the last three decades. Along with substantially revised essays from the first edition, this volume presents three entirely new ones - on intellectual history, the history of the West, and the histories of the family and sexuality. The second edition of The New American Historyreflects, in Foner's words, "the continuing vitality and creativity of the study of the past, how traditional fields are being expanded and redefined even as new ones are created." Author note: Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books, including Reconstruction, 1863-1877which was awarded the Bancroft Prize.

U.S. History

U.S. History
Author: P. Scott Corbett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1886
Release: 2024-09-10
Genre: History
ISBN:

U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.