From back cover: "Reading and Writing American History is a combination reader, manual, and workbook that introduces students at all levels to the skills of the historian."

Reading and Writing American History: An Introduction to the Historian's Craft, Vol. 2, 3rd Edition

Peter Charles Hoffer

William W. Stueck

Pearson/Custom Publishing

This narrative text covers an extended span of early American history, reaching back to 30,000 years before Europeans ever landed on North American shores. With its exploration of early America through 1776 and the Declaration of Independence, this comprehensive, lively narrative provides a portrait of the building of the U.S. and the daily lives of its people.

The Brave New World: A History of Early America

History

Americas

Houghton, Mifflin Company

For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation's history. Now a veteran team of talented historians-including the editors of the acclaimed Landmark Law Cases and American Society series-have produced the most readable, astute, and up-to-date single-volume history of this venerated institution, as engaging for general readers as it is rigorous for scholars. The Supreme Court chronicles an institution that dramatically evolved from six men meeting in borrowed quarters to the most closely watched tribunal in the world. Underscoring the close connection between law and politics, the authors highlight essential issues, cases, and decisions within the context of the times in which the decisions were handed down. Deftly combining doctrine and judicial biography with case law, they demonstrate how the justices have shaped the law and how the law that the Court makes has shaped our nation, with an emphasis on how the Court responded-or failed to respond-to the plight of the underdog. Each chapter covers the Court's years under a specific Chief Justice, focusing on cases that are the most reflective of the way the Court saw the law and the world and that had the most impact on the lives of ordinary Americans. Throughout the authors reveal how-in times of war, class strife, or moral revolution-the Court sometimes voiced the conscience of the nation and sometimes seemed to lose its moral compass. Their extensive quotes from the Court's opinions and dissents illuminate its inner workings, as well as the personalities and beliefs of the justices and the often-contentious relationships among them. Fair-minded and sharply insightful, The Supreme Court portrays an institution defined by eloquent and pedestrian decisions and by justices ranging from brilliant and wise to slow-witted and expedient. An epic and essential story, it illuminates the Court's role in our lives and its place in our history.

The Supreme Court: An Essential History

N. E. H. Hull

Williamjames Hull Hoffer

University Press of Kansas

Revolution and Regeneration: Life Cycle and the Historical Vision of the Generation of 1776

University of Georgia Press

An Empire Takes Shape: Selected Articles on the Origins of the Old English Colonial System (Early American History, No. 4)

Garland Pub.

As American colleges and universities strive to prepare twenty-first-century students for an ever-changing world, the importance of studying history within a liberal arts curriculum can be forgotten. Noting that the students of today are very present-minded, the authors of Reading and Writing American History show how learning about history can be seamlessly integrated with up-to-the-minute technology, blending the past, the present, and even the future. Following the philosophy that students should become doers rather than simple consumers, the book aims to teach historical methods and skills while engaging students in a way no ordinary textbook can. The book is thus really a work-text, with opportunities for students to pause and reflect on what they are learning every few pages. Each chapter presents students not only with a period of American history, but also with a specific task to help them become better historians; for example, the chapter on the Civil War encourages students to use the Internet for research but also instructs them on how to tell valid online sources from spurious ones. The chapters include in-depth examinations of previously ignored or marginalized peoples, fulfilling the new multicultural mandates of history departments. By bringing students face to face with the questions that every history teacher and scholar confronts, the authors ensure that history becomes a living and breathing field of study for today's students. This title is a bound paperback with perforated pages and 3 hole drilled, final pages is 262.

Reading and Writing American History Volume 1 (4th Edition)

Williamjames H. Hoffer

PEARSON/LEARNING SOLUTIONS

Roe V. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History (Landmark Law Cases and American Society)

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