American History to 1877

American History to 1877

Author: Robert D. Geise

Publisher: Barrons Educational Services

Published: 1992-02-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780812047370

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American History to 1877 covers all the major themes, historical figures, major dates and events from your introductory American History courses. Topics covered include Pre-Columbian America to the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.


American History, 1877 to the Present

American History, 1877 to the Present

Author: Mary Jane Capozzoli Ingui

Publisher: Barrons Educational Series

Published: 2003-04-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764120053

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This book presents brief summaries and places in perspective key American men, women, and events from the post-Civil War era, through the course of the twentieth century, and concluding with today’s post 9/11 crisis. For more than a decade, titles in this handy, quick study series have helped many college freshmen and others taking introductory 101–level college courses. Designed to be compatible with virtually all standard textbooks in their target subjects, EZ–101 Study Keys outline and organize subject material so that it resembles classroom lecture notes taken by attentive students. As such, these books provide a general overview of course material, and are ideal for brush-up and review study sessions before taking examinations or writing class papers.


Writing the American Past

Writing the American Past

Author: Mark M. Smith

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-03-09

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1405163593

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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


History in the Making

History in the Making

Author: Catherine Locks

Publisher:

Published: 2013-04-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780988223769

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A peer-reviewed open U.S. History Textbook released under a CC BY SA 3.0 Unported License.


U.S. History

U.S. History

Author: P. Scott Corbett

Publisher:

Published: 2024-09-10

Total Pages: 1886

ISBN-13:

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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.


Documents for America's History, Volume 1

Documents for America's History, Volume 1

Author: Melvin Yazawa

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2011-01-10

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0312648626

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Designed to accompany America’s History, Seventh Edition, this primary-source reader offers a chorus of voices from the past to enrich the study of U.S. history. Document selections written by both celebrated historical figures and ordinary people demonstrate the diverse history of America while putting a human face on historical experience. A broad range of documents, from speeches and petitions to personal letters and diary entries, paints a vivid picture of the social and political lives of Americans, encouraging student engagement with the textbook material. Brief introductions place each document in historical context, and questions for analysis help link the individual primary sources to larger historical themes.


Exploring American History

Exploring American History

Author: Tom Lansford

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish

Published: 2007-09

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780761477464

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Americans are fond of describing their country as a young nation. Though there is much in that description that is true, it should not obscure the richness and variety of the nations pasta past that provides the indispensable key to understanding the nations present. This completely new reference set examines in detail the formative stages of Americas essential past from European settlement of the Western Hemisphere and the displacement of indigenous peoples to the birth of the United States and its astonishing growth, in both population and territory, from a modest confederation of thirteen independent states.


American Stories

American Stories

Author: Jason Ripper

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-02-12

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1317477081

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This book is ideal for any introductory American history instructor who wants to make the subject more appealing. It's designed to supplement a main text, and focuses on "personalized history" presented through engaging biographies of famous and less-well-known figures from the colonial period to 1877. Historical patterns and trends appear as they are seen through individual lives, and the selection of the profiled individuals reflects a cultural awareness and a multicultural perspective.


Outline of U.S. History

Outline of U.S. History

Author: Alonzo L. Hamby

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9781600214578

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'Outline of U.S. History' is a publication of the U.S. Department of State. The first edition (1949-50) was produced under the editorship of Francis Whitney, first of the State Department Office of International Information and later of the U.S. Information Agency. Richard Hofstadter, professor of history at Columbia University, and Wood Gray, professor of American history at The George Washington University, served as academic consultants. D. Steven Endsley of Berkeley, California, prepared additional material. It has been updated and revised extensively over the years by, among others, Keith W. Olsen, professor of American history at the University of Maryland, and Nathan Glick, writer and former editor of the USIA journal, Dialogue. Alan Winkler, professor of history at Miami University (Ohio), wrote the post-World War II chapters for previous editions. This new edition has been completely revised and updated by Alonzo L. Hamby, Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio University. Professor Hamby has written extensively on American politics and society.