Firsthand America
Firsthand America

Author: David Burner

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9781881089179

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"The Birth of Modern America "tells in clear and lively prose how Americans struggled with modernity in both its cultural and its economic forms. Richly illustrated, it uses the visual images of the time as evidence of the changes it explores. It is anecdotal as well as analytic, filled with stories about evangelical enthusiasms, amusement parks, the first Miss America contest. It takes the reader into the streets of Tulsa during the race riot of 1921 and into Aimee Semple McPherson's gospel Temple. It examines how ethnic and religious groups appropriated elements of minstrelsy in "The Jazz Singer" and "Amos 'n Andy." In all this makes a strong contribution to understanding American society in the interwar years.

America Firsthand, Volume 1
America Firsthand, Volume 1

Author: Anthony Marcus

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Published: 2015-12-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781319029661

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This distinctive, class-tested primary source reader tells America’s story through the words and other creative expressions of the ordinary and extraordinary Americans who shaped it. "Points of View" sections provide varied vantage points on important topics, and select images draw students into interpreting the visual record. This carefully crafted, ready-to-go collection saves instructors time and effort in finding consistently engaging and informative sources.

America Firsthand, Volume Two
America Firsthand, Volume Two

Author: Robert D. Marcus

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Published: 2009-02-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780312489076

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With its distinctive focus on ordinary people, this primary documents reader offers a remarkable range of perspectives on America’s history from those who lived it — from Jews in the Early Republic to strikers at an auto plant in 1940s Detroit, and from a Civil War battlefield nurse to a 1990s dot.com entrepreneur.

America Firsthand, Volume I
America Firsthand, Volume I

Author: Robert D. Marcus

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Published: 2009-02-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780312489069

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With its distinctive focus on ordinary people, this primary documents reader offers a remarkable range of perspectives on America’s history from those who lived it — from Jews in the Early Republic to strikers at an auto plant in 1940s Detroit, and from a Civil War battlefield nurse to a 1990s dot.com entrepreneur. Popular Points of View sections expose students to different perspectives on a specific event or topic, and Visual Portfolios invite analysis of the visual record. These features and the collection as a whole save instructors time finding consistently suitable source material on their own.

America Firsthand, Volume 2
America Firsthand, Volume 2

Author: Anthony Marcus

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Published: 2015-12-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781319029685

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This distinctive, class-tested primary source reader tells America’s story through the words and other creative expressions of the ordinary and extraordinary Americans who shaped it. "Points of View" sections provide varied vantage points on important topics, and select images draw students into interpreting the visual record. This carefully crafted, ready-to-go collection saves instructors time and effort in finding consistently engaging and informative sources.

America Firsthand: Readings from Reconstruction to the present
America Firsthand: Readings from Reconstruction to the present

Author: Robert D. Marcus

Publisher: Bedford/st Martins

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780312403621

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Presents history in the words of the people who made it, inviting and provoking students to think critically about the past. The seventh edition continues to bring the past to life with more visual and textual sources that increase diversity, represent current scholarship, and engage students.

Firsthand America
Firsthand America

Author: David Burner

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2002-07-26

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 9781881089742

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All comprehensive United States survey textbooks, including this one, give full coverage to standard political, economic, diplomatic, and legal events. But these elements of history are largely the story of elites. This textbook also provides social history captured in the recognizable lives of ordinary people. Presidents, congressmen, and corporate executives are quoted throughout the book. So are soldiers, slaves, indentured servants, cowboys, working girls and women, and civil rights activists. Firsthand America, using more than 2,000 quotations, therefore gives due place both to the traditional leaders and to the myriad Americans never named in formal historians.