"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my
barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song
of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online,
collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300
historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their
own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the
best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jumping-off
point for discussions in the U.S. history classroom and beyond.
Long before Whitman and long after, Americans have sung something
collectively amid the deafening roar of their many individual
voices. The Yawp highlights the dynamism and conflict inherent in
the history of the United States, while also looking for the common
threads that help us make sense of the past. Without losing sight
of politics and power, The American Yawp incorporates transnational
perspectives, integrates diverse voices, recovers narratives of
resistance, and explores the complex process of cultural creation.
It looks for America in crowded slave cabins, bustling markets,
congested tenements, and marbled halls. It navigates between
maternity wards, prisons, streets, bars, and boardrooms. The fully
peer-reviewed edition of The American Yawp will be available in two
print volumes designed for the U.S. history survey. Volume I begins
with the indigenous people who called the Americas home before
chronicling the collision of Native Americans, Europeans, and
Africans.The American Yawp traces the development of colonial
society in the context of the larger Atlantic World and
investigates the origins and ruptures of slavery, the American
Revolution, and the new nation's development and rebirth through
the Civil War and Reconstruction. Rather than asserting a fixed
narrative of American progress, The American Yawp gives students a
starting point for asking their own questions about how the past
informs the problems and opportunities that we confront today.
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