This reader for the U.S. history survey course contains both primary and secondary sources concerned with motivation, causation, and the role of ideas and economic interests in history. The text's historiographical approach gives students the opportunity to strengthen their critical-thinking skills through the comparison of historical sources. Each chapter includes an introduction to the historical problem, information on the setting and the investigation, questions to consider, sources, and a conclusion.
Each chapter in Contending Voices examines the lives of two individuals—some of them familiar historical figures and some of them lesser known—who took opposing positions on important issues in American history. The "paired biographies" in the text are followed by a set of four to six related primary sources, many in the individuals' own voices; a "Questions to Consider" section; and an annotated bibliography. This unique format promotes critical thinking and engages students in historical debates. New! In Volume I, new chapters include "Politics, Morality, and Race in the Abolitionist Crusade: William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass"; "The Feminine Sphere in Antebellum Society: Catharine Beecher and Elizabeth Cady Stanton"; and "Yankees and 'Border Ruffians' in 'Bleeding Kansas': Sara Robinson and David Atchison." New! New chapters in Volume II include "Science, Religion, and 'Culture Wars' in the 1920s: William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow"; "Politics and Principle in the Second Red Scare: Joseph McCarthy and Margaret Chase Smith"; and "The Battlefields of Vietnam: Robert McNamara and John Kerry." A running glossary of important historical terms, events, and people appears at the bottom of selected pages in every chapter. Each of the two volumes contains 15 chapters to parallel the coverage in most survey texts.
Each chapter in CONTENDING VOICES examines the lives of two individuals, some of them familiar historical figures and some of them lesser known, who took opposing positions on important issues in American history. The paired biographies in the text are followed by a set of four to six related primary sources, many in the individuals' own voices; a Questions to Consider section; and an annotated bibliography. This unique format promotes critical thinking and engages students in historical debates. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
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
This reader for the U.S. history survey course contains both primary and secondary sources concerned with motivation, causation, and the role of ideas and economic interests in history. The text's historiographical approach gives students the opportunity to strengthen their critical-thinking skills through the comparison of historical sources. Each chapter includes an introduction to the historical problem, information on the setting and the investigation, questions to consider, sources, and a conclusion.
