Constructing the American Past: A Sourcebook of a People's History, Volume One to 1877
Constructing the American Past: A Sourcebook of a People's History, Ninth 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.
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Constructing the American Past: A Sourcebook of a People's History, Volume One to 1877
Constructing the American Past: A Sourcebook of a People's History, Ninth 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.
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Constructing the American Past: A Sourcebook of a People's History, Volume One to 1877

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Constructing the American Past: A Sourcebook of a People's History, Ninth 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780197767511
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 11/01/2024
Edition description: 9th ed.
Pages: 312
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Elliott J. Gorn - Joseph A. Gagliano Chair in American Urban History, Loyola University, Chicago
Susan Schulten - Professor of History, University of Denver
Randy Roberts - Distinguished Professor of History, Purdue University

Table of Contents

Each chapter ends with Questions and Additional Reading

Chapter 1 First Encounters in the Americas
Chapter 2 The Founding of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay Colonies
Chapter 3 Eighteenth-Century Voices
Chapter 4 What Kind of Revolution? Justifications for Rebellion
Chapter 5 Forming a More Perfect Union: The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Chapter 6 Religious Revivals and Social Reform in the Early Republic
Chapter 7 The Ambitions and Limitations of Jacksonian Democracy
Chapter 8 The Upheaval of Westward Expansion
Chapter 9 Ideals and Realities for Antebellum Women
Chapter 10 Immigration and Nativism in the Antebellum Era
Chapter 11 A House Divided: Free Labor, Slave Labor
Chapter 12 How Did American Slavery End?
Chapter 13 Civil War by Other Means
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