True Stories From The American Past (Volume 1: To 1865),9780072417524

True Stories From The American Past (Volume 1: To 1865)

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Edition: 3RD
ISBN13: 9780072417524
ISBN10: 0072417528
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-11-08
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Summary

This two-volume reader consists of twenty-nine original essays, each one crafted by a scholar who is an expert in a particular field of historical inquiry. Each decade of American history is represented by at least one essay. The stories cover a wide range of topics including popular culture, women's history, urban history, and the history of science and technology. The essays also shed light on political, social, economic, and cultural trends. After reading these engaging pieces, students will be left with a sense of a living past, not abstract historiographical debates.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Kateri Tekakwitha: Servant of God, Seeker of Orenda
1(18)
Nancy Shoemaker
The Starving Time at Jamestown
19(22)
Karen Ordahl Kupperman
The Puritan Conscience of Robert Keayne
41(16)
Bernard Bailyn
The Domestic Battles of William Byrd
57(23)
Kenneth Lockridge
The Great Negro Plot in New York
80(13)
Thomas J. Davis
Benjamin Franklin's New World
93(21)
Patricia J. Tracy
Ethan Allen and the Fall of Fort Ticonderoga
114(20)
Michael A. Bellesiles
Rebellion in the New Republic: Massachusetts 1786--1787
134(17)
Gregory H. Nobles
``The Gates Were Shut Against Us'': Tecumseh and the War of 1812
151(17)
R. David Edmunds
Peggy Eaton and Andrew Jackson: A Presidential Scandal
168(20)
Altina L. Waller
Canal Wars: The Making of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal
188(21)
Peter J. Way
Celia: Slavery and Sexual Exploitation
209(16)
Melton McLaurin
The Burning of Chambersburg
225(20)
Everard H. Smith
The Legend of the ``Free State of Jones''
245(14)
Victoria E. Bynum
An Insurrection that Never Happened: The ``Christmas Riots'' of 1865
259
Stephen Nissenbaum

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