Over the last fifteen years, undergraduate U.S. history courses have made great progress in incorporating primary sources and diverse voices into the survey. However, teachers still struggle to find professional writing by working historians in a format useful to undergraduates. Also, in 2014, the College Board redesigned the AP U.S. History curriculum and assessments to require students to demonstrate a critical approach to historical writing by professional historians. These facts have increased demand among teachers for access to high-quality secondary material by professional historians in a single, convenient publication. Past Forward: Articles from the Journal of American History selects some of the best articles from The Journal of American History to meet the needs of students and teachers of the U.S. history survey. Exploring all of the required "key concepts" and "historical thinking skills" required in the new AP U.S. History curriculum, the book provides pedagogical and historiographical supports for each article. It also contains concise academic biographies of the authors that highlight their path to practicing history and their major publications, which will draw students deeper into historical discourses.

Past Forward: Articles from the Journal of American History, Volume 1: From Colonial Foundations to the Civil War

History

Stacy, Jason

Sabathne, James

Americas

Oxford University Press

Past Forward: Articles from the Journal of American History, Volume 2: From the Civil War to the Present

From Main Street to Stranger Things, how poetry changed our idea of small town life A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, Spoon River Anthology won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters's work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three archetypes--populist, elite, and exile--that endure across the landscape of American culture in the twenty-first century. A wide-ranging reconsideration of a literary landmark, Spoon River America tells the story of how a Midwesterner's poetry helped change a nation's conception of itself.

Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town (Volume 1)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

University of Illinois Press

Product Description 
From Main Street to Stranger Things, how poetry changed our idea of small town life\nA literary and cultural milestone, 
Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, 
Spoon River Anthology won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters's work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three archetypes—populist, elite, and exile—that endure across the landscape of American culture in the twenty-first century. 
A wide-ranging reconsideration of a literary landmark, Spoon River America tells the story of how a Midwesterner's poetry helped change a nation's conception of itself. 
 Review 
"Cogent and persuasive. By situating 
Spoon River Anthology within a number of contexts--literary, biographical, historical, political, performance, reception history--Stacy shows us why the book has become an American classic and how it has maintained its staying power for more than one hundred years."--Marcia Noe, author of 
Susan Glaspell: Voice from the Heartland\n"The influence of Masters’ 1915 bestseller extended to cinema, radio, television, and music, says Jason Stacy. Ozzie and Harriet and Holden Caulfield find commonality with Jimmy Stewart’s movies and rocker Keith Richards in this 'history of a book and its impact.'"--Herbert K. Russell, author of 
Edgar Lee Masters: A Biography\n"An authoritative, captivating exploration of a literary landmark." -- 
Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) 
 About the Author 
Jason Stacy is a professor of history and social science pedagogy at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He is the author of 
Walt Whitman's Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman’s Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 
1840–1855 and editor of 
Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition.

Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town

In 2014, College Board rolled out a new AP® U.S. History course, which centered less on memorizing content and more on developing skills. Since then, the course has been modified here and there, but very little has changed in AP® textbooks―content is still king. Until now. Fabric of a Nation is the first book to truly embrace this dramatic shift in the AP® course and in how history is taught.
 Built from the ground up by long-time AP® leaders Jason Stacy and Matthew Ellington, this book offers a new approach to AP® US History by seamlessly integrating:
 <ul>
 <li>A brief historical narrative</li>
 <li>AP® skills practice</li>
 <li>Primary source documents</li>
 <li>Exact alignment to the AP® course</li>
</ul>
 Now, that’s revolutionary!

Fabric of a Nation: A Brief History with Skills and Sources, For the AP® Course

Ellington, Matthew

Bedford/St.Martin's

Fabric of a Nation: A History with Skills and Sources, For the AP® U.S. History Course

Fabric Of A Nation

Boston : Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers

Walt Whitman's Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855

In the fifteen years before the publication of Leaves of Grass (1855), Walt Whitman constructed three authoritative voices by which he engaged the upheavals endemic to the Industrial Revolution. Through these public personas, found mostly in his journalism, Whitman offered remedies for American artisans who had lost their economic autonomy and status. Instead of attacking broad forces beyond worker control, Whitman blamed artisans for oppressing themselves through the temptations of consumerism and affectation. Walt Whitman’s Multitudes places the first edition of Leaves of Grass on par with Whitman’s journalism and exposes a writer different from most poetry-directed analyses. In doing so, it traces Whitman’s public voice as he wrestled intimately with the debates of his day: conspicuous consumption, nativism, slavery, and, through it all, labor and the status of the new working class.

United States

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Preparing you for the AP® US History course, Documenting United States History helps you cultivate the historical skills necessary to think critically and purposefully in order to successfully approach and write historical argument.

Documenting United States History: Themes, Concepts, and Skills for the AP* Course

Heller, Stephen

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