Readings in United States history
By: [edited by] Ron Wright, Larry Watson & Blanche Brick
Edition: Seventh edition.
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Mason, Ohio
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781305026070
Subjects: History
Description: Documents nine periods in United States history: Colonial period to 1763 ; Era of revolution: 1763-1783 ; New nation: 1783-1815 ; National expansion: 1815-1860 ; Civil War and Reconstruction: 1860-1877 ; Guilded age: 1877-1899 ; Progressive Era and the twenties: 1900-1928 ; Depression and war: 1929-1945 ; Cold War and beyond: 1946-
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Paradise found and lost / Daniel J. Boorstin; title: A modell of Christian charity / John Winthrop; title: The puritans and sex / Edmund S. Morgan; title: The middle passage / Daniel Mannix and Malcolm Cowley; title: Anne Hutchinson versus Massachusetts / Wellington Newcomb; title: A time to be born / George Marsden; title: Patriot father, loyalist son / Sheila L. Skemp; title: Equal rights and equal men, 1774-76 / Edmund Morgan; title: What is an American? / J.H.S. de Crévecoeur; title: Farewell address / George Washington; title: Dying of breast cancer in the 1800s / Robert Shadle and James S. Olson; title: Hope and heritage: Myth and Thomas Jefferson / Gordon S. Wood; title: Thomas Jefferson: first inaugural address, 1801 / Henry Steele Commager, ed.; title: The Jacksonian revolution: myth and reality / Robert V. Remini; title: Trail of tears / Dale Van Every; title: The cult of true womanhood, 1820-1860 / Barbara Welter; title: Hindrances to revivals / Charles G. Finney; title: The Liberator / inaugural editorial by William Lloyd Garrison; title: Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau; title: Stephen F. Austin: political and cultural mediator / Gregg Cantrell; title: The trial of Sam Houston / H.W. Brands; title: Dred Scott vs. Sandford; title: The everyday life of enslaved people in the antebellum South / Calvin Schermerhorn; title: Abraham Lincoln and the Self-made myth / Richard Hofstadter; title: Jefferson Davis's Afrewell to the U.S. Senate; title: A war that never goes away / James M. McPherson; title: Final inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln; title: The Gettysburg address / Abraham Lincoln, Henry Steele Commager, ed.; title: Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln; title: Grant: Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant conclusion chapter / Eric Foner; title: The new view of Reconstruction / Eric Foner.