num_pages: 352
description: This reader for the U.S. history survey course contains both primary and secondary sources concerned with motivation, causation, and the role of ideas and economic interests in history. The text's historiographical approach gives students the opportunity to strengthen their critical-thinking skills through the comparison of historical sources. Each chapter includes an introduction to the historical problem, information on the setting and the investigation, questions to consider, sources, and a conclusion.
language: English
title: Thinking Through the Past: A Critical-Thinking Approach to U.S. History, Volume I: To 1877
titlecomplete: Thinking Through the Past: A Critical-Thinking Approach to U.S. History, Volume I: To 1877
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Cengage Learning