* This Primary Source Edition provides 1 to 2 primary sources per chapter, tied to the chapter's content, with critical thinking questions for each source -- at no additional cost to your students. * Providing students with a thought-provoking account of America's past, The American People examines how American society assumed its present shape ...
For courses in Colonial and Revolutionary American History. *Written by highly acclaimed historian Gary B. Nash, this text presents an interpretive account of the interactions between Native Americans, African Americans, and Euroamericans during the colonial and revolutionary eras. It reveals the crucial interconnections between North America's ...
/ Providing students with a thought-provoking account of America's past, The American People examines how American society assumed its present shape and developed its present forms of government. / A strong social emphasis underscores the "humanness" of America's history as revealed through the everyday lives of ordinary Americans. / Recovering ...
Has the true history of the founding of America been rendered safe, palatable, and sanitized by historians? The American Revolution was just that: a violent upheaval. And the rebels were just that: rebels. In this people's history of the American Revolution, Gary B. Nash presents an alternative to the Founding Fathers school of American history, ...
A history of the United States in the twentieth century, featuring sociological and cultural events, as well as strictly historical, and using many pertinent literary excerpts.
The American People, Fifth Edition, Study Edition offers the same proven structure and connections between the many factors--political, social, economic, technological, religious, cultural, and intellectual--that have shaped American society. The American People, Fifth Edition, and the Study Edition also includes the Chapter Tests located at the ...
An examination of the current "culture wars" being waged on campuses and in schools throughout the United States. Nash, Crabtree, and Dun--all of them academics--were asked by the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop national standards for the study of history in high schools. When they published their study in 1994, however, it ...
/ Providing students with a thought-provoking account of America's past, The American People examines how American society assumed its present shape and developed its present forms of government. / A strong social emphasis underscores the "humanness" of America's history as revealed through the everyday lives of ordinary Americans. / Recovering ...
This is a condensed version of The American People, Sixth Edition (the comprehensive version). This engaging text examines U.S. history as revealed through the experiences of all Americans, both ordinary and extraordinary. With a thought-provoking and rich presentation, the authors explore the complex lives of Americans of all national origins and ...
This is a condensed version of The American People, Sixth Edition (the comprehensive version). This engaging text examines U.S. history as revealed through the experiences of all Americans, both ordinary and extraordinary. With a thought-provoking and rich presentation, the authors explore the complex lives of Americans of all national origins and ...
This is a condensed version of The American People, Seventh Edition (the comprehensive version). This engaging text examines U.S. history as revealed through the experiences of all Americans, both ordinary and extraordinary. With a thought-provoking and rich presentation, the authors explore the complex lives of Americans of all national origins ...
The Struggle for Freedom, a narrative of the black experience in America, uses a distinctive biographical approach to guide the story and animate the history. In each chapter, individual African Americans are the pivot points on which historical changes of the era turn. Life stories capture the rush of events that envelop individuals and ...
A condensed version of "The American People, "this engaging text examines U.S. history as revealed through the experiences of all Americans, both ordinary and extraordinary. With a thought-provoking and rich presentation, the authors explore the complex lives of Americans of all national origins and cultural backgrounds, at all levels of society, ...
A history of the United States in the twentieth century, featuring sociological and cultural events, as well as strictly historical, and using many pertinent literary excerpts.
This is a condensed version of The American People, Seventh Edition (the comprehensive version). This engaging text examines U.S. history as revealed through the experiences of all Americans, both ordinary and extraordinary. With a thought-provoking and rich presentation, the authors explore the complex lives of Americans of all national origins ...
African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom uses a unique biographical approach to present the history of African Americans as active and thoughtful agents in the construction of their lives and communities. The text places African American lives and stories at the center of the narrative and as the basis of historical analysis. Each chapter ...
This book is the first to trace the good and bad fortunes, over more than a century, of the earliest large free black community in the United States. Gary Nash shows how, from colonial times through the Revolution and into the turbulent 1830s, blacks in the City of Brotherly Love struggled to shape a family life, gain occupational competence, ...
Retracing the Pastis an engaging collection of both primary and secondary sources that emphasizes social history and cultural diversity. The anthology leads students to consider the role of women, ethnic/racial groups, and laboring Americans in weaving the nation's social fabric, and allows them to explore life at the individual and community ...
African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom uses a unique biographical approach to present the history of African Americans as active and thoughtful agents in the construction of their lives and communities. The text places African American lives and stories at the center of the narrative and as the basis of historical analysis. Each chapter ...
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