The best collection of primary sources--at the best priceFor the Record features over 250 primary source selections, both textual and visual, drawn from a broad range of government documents, newspapers, speeches, letters, and novels. In the Eighth Edition, timely new selections on the Latino/a experience in American history expands the already inclusive collection of documents (covering gender, African American, Native American, immigration, and LGBTQ history) and allows students to better understand the issues of today. For the first time, For the Record is available as an ebook, making it an even more incredible value both as a stand-alone text and as the perfect companion reader for the America family of textbooks by coeditor David E. Shi.

For the Record: A Documentary History of America (Volume 1)

History

Shi, David E.

Mayer, Holly A.

Americas

W.W.Norton&Company

"For the Record features over 250 primary source selections, both textual and visual, drawn from a broad range of government documents, newspapers, speeches, letters, and novels. In the Eighth Edition, timely new selections on the Latino/a experience in American history expands the already inclusive collection of documents (covering gender, African American, Native American, immigration, and LGBTQ history) and allows students to better understand the issues of today"--

For the Record: A Documentary History of America (Volume 2)

Assembled by a highly successful textbook author and an accomplished scholar and teacher, For the Record is a new and exciting two-volume primary source reader for American history survey courses. Variety and substance are the text's defining qualities. Drawing on documents that range in length from one to seven pages, For the Record allows students and instructors to delve into the many themes and issues that make up our past. The selections are culled from a wealth of political, social, and cultural sources, and each reading provides students with diverse insights into the American experience. In addition, four unique chapters link the written word to the visual, teaching students how to interpret visual sources. While For the Record is ideally suited for use with the best-selling surveys America: A Narrative History and America: A Narrative History, Brief Edition, by George Brown Tindall and David F. Shi, its breadth and variety make this collection a successful stand-alone reader as well. 
For the Record easily outdistances all other primary-source readers by * offering excerpts that range in length from one to seven pages and that are drawn from over three hundred primary sources; * providing readings that draw on a rich variety of sources, including eyewitness accounts, public documents, and contemporary literature; * using broad themes to help readers make Connections within and across historical periods; * including introductions to each chapter as well as headnotes, noninterpretive footnotes, and review questions; * encouraging students to interpret visual sources: colonial architecture, Mathew Brady's unsparing photographs of the Civil War, images of urban poverty as captured by the Progressive reformer Jacob Riis, and propagandistic photographs from the Vietnam War.

For the Record: A Documentary History of America : From Contact Through Reconstruction

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Congress's Own (Campaigns and Commanders Series) (Volume 73)

Product Description 
Colonel Moses Hazen’s 2nd Canadian Regiment was one of the first “national” regiments in the American army. Created by the Continental Congress, it drew members from Canada, eleven states, and foreign forces. “Congress’s Own” was among the most culturally, ethnically, and regionally diverse of the Continental Army’s regiments—a distinction that makes it an apt reflection of the union that was struggling to create a nation.\nThe 2nd Canadian, like the larger army, represented and pushed the transition from a colonial, continental alliance to a national association. The problems the regiment raised and encountered underscored the complications of managing a confederation of states and troops.\nIn this enterprising study of an intriguing and at times “infernal” regiment, Holly A. Mayer marshals personal and official accounts—from the letters and journals of Continentals and congressmen to the pension applications of veterans and their widows—to reveal what the personal passions, hardships, and accommodations of the 2nd Canadian can tell us about the greater military and civil dynamics of the American Revolution. 
Congress’s Own follows congressmen, commanders, and soldiers through the Revolutionary War as the regiment’s story shifts from tents and trenches to the halls of power and back.\nInterweaving insights from borderlands and community studies with military history, Mayer tracks key battles and traces debates that raged within the Revolution’s military and political borderlands wherein subjects became rebels, soldiers, and citizens. Her book offers fresh, vivid accounts of the Revolution that disclose how “Congress’s Own” regiment embodied the dreams, diversity, and divisions within and between the Continental Army, Congress, and the emergent union of states during the War for American Independence.\nReview 
“By far one of the most important and original studies of the Continental Army yet published, Holly Mayer’s book is notable for how deeply and broadly it explores the Canadian borderlands context that gave birth to Congress’s Own Regiment, as well as the meanings of community, independence, and union for which Continental soldiers fought and died.”— 
David L. Preston, author of 
Braddock’s Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution\n“ 
Congress’s Own is a deep dive into a Continental regiment, its officers, its men and women, and their experiences and tribulations, but it is also much more. Here is the story of the war 
and the Revolution. Mayer shows us how the Continental government functioned through its commander-in-chief, through the Board of War, and ultimately through its army. Somehow, in all the chaos, a nation was made, carried forward on the backs of a very unlikely and diverse cast of characters.”— 
Wayne Lee, author of 
Barbarians and Brothers: Anglo-American Warfare, 1500–1865\n“Executing a deep dive into archival accounts, both official and personal, Holly Mayer produces a comprehensive and multi-faceted view of a singular regiment of the Continental Army. This is a thoroughly researched and detailed investigation of the totality of the people of the regiment and their place in the American Revolution.” — 
Journal of America's Military Past\nAbout the Author \nHolly A. Mayer is Professor Emerita of History at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and the author of 
Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community during the American Revolution.

Congress's Own: A Canadian Regiment, the Continental Army, and American Union (Volume 73) (Campaigns and Commanders Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

University of Oklahoma Press

For the Record: A Documentary History of America tells the stories of American history through in-depth primary sources, both textual and visual, that give students more opportunities to explore diverse voices from the past. A wide variety of longer archival sources--including government documents, newspapers, speeches, letters, and contemporary literature--are surrounded by carefully considered pedagogical features that help students understand big-picture context and dig deeply into the readings. The new edition incorporates feedback from a range of instructors to ensure wide appeal and strong classroom performance as well as a new focus on the diverse experiences of women in American history.

Describes the role of camp followers merchants, family members, servants, and military employees in the survival and success of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Examines the formation and administration of the Continental community as well as the meaning of class, gender, and race within it, and documents the military's efforts to be rid of the camp followers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community During the American Revolution

Univ of South Carolina Pr

Belonging to the Army reveals the identity and importance of the civilians now referred to as camp followers, whom Holly A. Mayer calls the forgotten revolutionaries of the War for American Independence. These merchants, contractors, family members, servants, government officers, and military employees provided necessary supplies, services, and emotional support to the troops of the Continental Army. Mayer describes their activities and demonstrates how they made encampments livable communities and played a fundamental role in the survival and ultimate success of the Continental Army. She also considers how the army wanted to be rid of the followers but were unsuccessful because of the civilians' essential support functions and determination to make camps into communities. Instead the civilians' assimilation gave an expansive meaning to the term "belonging to the army

Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community during the American Revolution

Mayer, Holly

University of South Carolina Press

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For the Record: A Documentary History of America (Volume 1)

For the Record: A Documentary History of America (Volume 2)

For the Record: A Documentary History of America : From Contact Through Reconstruction

Congress's Own: A Canadian Regiment, the Continental Army, and American Union (Volume 73) (Campaigns and Commanders Series)

For the Record: A Documentary History of America (Volume 1)

For the Record: A Documentary History of America (Volume 2)

Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community During the American Revolution

Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community during the American Revolution