Presents primary source readings in American history to help students identify with the nation’s past. American Conversations is a two-volume anthology of original primary sources in United States history. It features texts by famous and obscure Americans, seeking to reflect the voices of Native Americans, African Americans, women, and workers out of the backwaters onto the historical mainstream by devoting attention to these “forgotten” Americans. At the same time, the text acquaints students with leading figures and core texts. This juxtaposition offers a richer understanding of American history. The people and texts presented will resonate powerfully with the contemporary American conversation. Whatever today’s topic–race relations, the battle of the sexes, protest or piety, or unum vs. pluribus–readers will find its roots in these pages. A better teaching and learning experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience–for you and your students. Here’s how: <ul>
<li> Personalize Learning- MySearchLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. </li>
<li> Improve Critical Thinking- Suggested answers and discussion topics are provided in the appendix. </li>
<li> Engage Students- Images are used as an indispensable tool for illuminating the past. To sharpen the reader’s eye, American Conversations includes three chapters devoted exclusively to visual texts. Additionally, substantive head notes accompany the longer passages. </li>
<li> Support Instructors- MySearchLab and Class Preparation are available. </li> </ul>
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American Conversations: From Centennial through Millennium, Volume 2

History

Merrell, James H.

Podair, Jerald

Kersten, Andrew

Americas

Pearson

Presents primary source readings in American history to help students identify with the nation’s past. American Conversations is a two-volume anthology of original primary sources in United States history. It features texts by famous and obscure Americans, seeking to reflect the voices of Native Americans, African Americans, women, and workers out of the backwaters onto the historical mainstream by devoting attention to these “forgotten” Americans. At the same time, the text acquaints students with leading figures and core texts. This juxtaposition offers a richer understanding of American history. The people and texts presented will resonate powerfully with the contemporary American conversation. Whatever today’s topic–race relations, the battle of the sexes, protest or piety, or unum vs. pluribus–readers will find its roots in these pages. A better teaching and learning experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience–for you and your students. Here’s how: <ul>
<li> Personalize Learning- MySearchLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. </li>
<li> Improve Critical Thinking- Suggested answers and discussion topics are provided in the appendix. </li>
<li> Engage Students- Images are used as an indispensable tool for illuminating the past. To sharpen the reader’s eye, American Conversations includes three chapters devoted exclusively to visual texts. Additionally, substantive head notes accompany the longer passages. </li>
<li> Support Instructors- MySearchLaband Class Preparation are available. </li> </ul>
For volume 2 of this text, search ISBN-10: 0131582615 Note: MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab, please visit: www.mysearchlab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MySearchLab (at no additional cost): ValuePack ISBN-10: 0205721648 / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205721641.

American Conversations: From Colonization through Reconstruction, Volume 1

Beyond the Covenant Chain: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in Indian North America, 1600-1800

Richter, Daniel K.

Washburn, Wilcomb E.

Penn State University Press

For centuries the Western view of the Iroquois was clouded by the myth that they were the supermen of the frontier—"the Romans of this Western World," as De Witt Clinton called them in 1811. Only in recent years have scholars come to realize the extent to which Europeans had exaggerated the power of the Iroquois.
 First published in 1987, Beyond the Covenant Chain was one of the first studies to acknowledge fully that the Iroquois never had an empire. It remains the best study of diplomatic and military relations among Native American groups in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century North America.
Published in paperback for the first time, it features a new introduction by Richter and Merrell. Contributors include Douglas W. Boyce, Mary A. Druke-Becker, Richard L. Haan, Francis Jennings, Michael N. McConnell, Theda Perdue, and Neal Salisbury.

Religion & Spirituality

The Lancaster Treaty of 1744 provides a close look at colonial-Indian relations in North America, focusing on the Iroquois perspectives on colonial power and diplomacy.

The Lancaster Treaty of 1744: With Related Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)

Bedford/St.Martin's

Focuses on the variety of people who acted as intermediaries to prevent war and win peace between colonial settlers and native Americans in the early 18th century. Merrell (history, Northwestern U.) emphasizes the risks they took trying to reconcile two very different cultures, their successes and failures, occasional dishonesty, and the contempt they often suffered from both sides. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Colonial Pennsylvania

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

"A stunning achievement. . . . A pathbreaking scholarly work by one of the nation's leading historians of the interaction between Native Americans and European newcomers in early America."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) James Merrell's brilliant book is an account of the "go-betweens," the Europeans and Indians who moved between cultures on the Pennsylvania frontier in efforts to maintain the peace. It is also a reflection on the meanings of wilderness to the colonists and natives of the New World. From the Quaker colony's founding in the 1680s into the 1750s, Merrell shows us how the go-betweens survived in the woods, dealing with problems of food, travel, lodging, and safety, and how they sought to bridge the vast cultural gaps between the Europeans and the Indians. The futility of these efforts became clear in the sickening plummet into war after 1750. "A stunningly original and exceedingly well-written account of diplomacy on the edge of the Pennsylvania wilderness."--Publishers Weekly Illustrations and maps

Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier

W.W.Norton&Company

The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors From European Contact Through the Era of Removal

"A superb account of the extraordinary story of the Catawba Indians... A brilliant and thorough history of a people who have, until this book, lacked a voice." ―Wilcomb E. Washburn, Smithsonian Institution, in North Carolina History Review
"This stunning history of the Catawbas―and their black and white neighbors―sets a new standard for the field. Merrell's book bristles with new insights and skilled decoding of difficult evidence. After reading this book, all those involved in teaching early American history should want to alter their perspective." ―Gary B. Nash, University of California, Los Angeles
"The Indians' New World is closely argued from an astonishing amount of evidence, and it is lucidly written.... It emphasizes the ingenuity and strength of will by which the Catawbas coped with disaster and preserved their identity as a people. Only a genuine scholar and fascinating writer could have paid tribute as James Merrell has done." ―Francis Jennings, Director Emeritus, D'Arey McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, The Newberry Library

The Indians' New World: Catawbas and their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal

This book is an eloquent account of the native peoples of the Carolina piedmont who became known as the Catawba Nation. James Merrell brings the Catawbas more fully into American history by tracing how they underwent that most fundamental of American experiences: adapting to a new world. Arguing that European colonists and African slaves created a society that was as alien—as new—to Indians as American itself was to the newcomers, Merrell follows the Catawbas from their first contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until their accommodation to a changing America was largely complete some three centuries later.
Heretofore, scholarship has mostly ignored that adaptation of native Americans to the new American cultural and physical milieu and has instead dwelt on warfare, expropriation, suppression, and annihilation. Attempts to incorporate native peoples into the mainstream of American history have usually taken the form of lists of Indian "contributions" to American culture or, conversely, a solemn paean to Indian respect for nature.
This chronicle of the Catawbas takes note of all of the above. But its center is the Catwabas' encounter with the colonists and their entourage: unfamiliar diseases, crown diplomats, trade goods, and Christian missionaries. Each of those required creative responses, which transformed Catawba life rather than destroyed it. Natives constructed new societies in the aftermath of epidemics, assimilated both traders and their enticing goods into established cultural forms, came to terms with settlers, and fended off missionaries. Through it all, the Catawbas endured—as soldiers in the Revolution, as landlords and landladies on their reservation, as potters and farmers—retaining their Indian identity, remaining in their piedmont home, and becoming a part of the American mosaic.
Absorbing archeology, anthropology, and folklore into his vast historical research, Merrell provides what will be the definitive history of the Catawbas. The book also signals a new direction for the study of native Americans and will serve as a model for their reintegration into American history.

The University of North Carolina Press

The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal

Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press

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American Conversations: From Centennial through Millennium, Volume 2

American Conversations: From Colonization through Reconstruction, Volume 1

Beyond the Covenant Chain: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in Indian North America, 1600-1800

Beyond the Covenant Chain: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in Indian North America, 1600-1800

The Lancaster Treaty of 1744: With Related Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)

Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Colonial Pennsylvania

Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier

The Indians' New World: Catawbas and their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal

The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors From European Contact Through the Era of Removal

The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal