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Excerpting American History from 1492 to 1877: Primary Sources and
Commentary provides students with a fresh and engaging exploration
of key themes in America's past via a collection of documents and
narratives. The text examines the themes of cultural interaction,
the growth of the American Empire, freedom, and violent arguments
over human bondage. This volume, the first in a two-book series,
analyzes the period from 1492 to 1877. Each chapter features an
introductory essay by the author to provide readers with critical
context and perspective, excerpts from primary documents, and
questions to stimulate reflection and deep learning. The book also
includes five maps, which serve as critical references. Throughout
the text, readers explore frozen Beringia, encounter historical
figures such as Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, and Benjamin
Franklin, and learn about the Bostonians who helped toss East
Indian tea into the harbor in 1773. They read the arguments of
women fighting for gender equality at Seneca Falls, perspectives on
freedom from emancipated slaves, and ideas surrounding
Reconstruction. Excerpting American History from 1492 to 1877 is an
enlightening text for courses in American history. Students can
continue their exploration of American history in the second volume
in the series, which features primary sources and commentary
chronicling 1877 to 2001.
Excerpting American History from 1877 to 2001: Primary Sources and
Commentary provides students with a collection of government
documents, newspaper accounts, manuscripts, letters, diaries,
speeches, and more to provide them with an immersive and intimate
exploration of the United States from the dawn of the Gilded Age to
the harrowing events of September 11, 2001. This volume, the second
in a two-book series, analyzes American history from 1877 to 2001.
Each chapter features an introductory essay by the author to
provide readers with critical context and perspective, excerpts
from primary documents, and questions to stimulate reflection and
deep learning. Readers learn about the industry, invention, and
economic growth that boomed during the Gilded Age, but which also
excluded many Americans, including new immigrants, farmers, African
Americans, and women. They read about the progressive policies of
Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. Select
primary sources share perspectives on the Great War, the Second
World War, the Jazz Age, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great
Depression, the economic challenges of the 1970s, and more.
Excerpting American History from 1877 to 2001 is an exemplary text
for courses in American history. Students can rewind their
exploration of American history and revisit the past in the first
volume in the series, which features primary sources and commentary
chronicling 1492 to 1877.
Although modern authors continually produce important studies of
the War Between the States, the firsthand accounts of those who
were in the conflict remain the most valuable tools for
understanding. This collection of letters and diaries provides
glimpses into the lives of a diverse group of South Carolinians.
Among the seventeen accounts are the voices of women, including a
Confederate spy; of officers like Captain Obidiah Hardin, who left
his beloved Palmetto State to fight and die in Virginia before the
war was even a year old; and of common men, like German immigrant
Augustus Franks, whose love for his adopted state compelled him to
staunchly defend the Confederacy. Collected from the archives of
Winthrop University, these remarkable documents give voices and
faces to the war as it affected South Carolina and her citizens.
South Vietnam fell because of events occurring thousands of miles
away from the battlefields--in China, the Soviet Union, Latin
America, the Middle East, and Washingtons corridors of power, along
protest lines, and around Americas dinner tables. These other wars
being fought by American presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford
profoundly impacted what happened in Vietnam. This work examines
those other conflicts and the political, social, and economic
factors involved with them that distracted and crippled the
presidencies of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and led to the
eventual abandonment of the U.S.-supported South Vietnamese regime.
Nixon entered office with the goal of bringing the world together,
but saw that goal ruined by the 1973 war in the Middle East,
preoccupations with China and the Soviet Union, a weak economy,
Watergate, and his disgraceful exit from the White House. Fords
presidency was tainted almost from the beginning because of the
pardon he granted to Nixon, but the American public, tired of war
and concerned about the economy, was ready to hear that the war had
come to an end. An argument is presented that the war could have
been won if the "other wars" had been fought by presidents willing
to honor the American commitment to its allies in South Vietnam.
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