The Way We Lived: Essays and Documents in American Social History : 1865-Present

This popular reader uses both primary and secondary sources to explore social history topics and sharpen students' interpretive skills. Each chapter includes one secondary source essay and several related primary source documents. Chapter introductions tie the readings together and pose questions to consider.

• New documents include an essay about immigrants and the conditions which led to emigration and an essay about the Little Rock crisis of 1957 concerning separate but equal schools.