The American Record: Volume 1, to 1877: v. 1 (The American Record to 1877: Images of the Nation's Past) - Softcover

Graebner, William; Richards, Leonard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072317388 ISBN 13: 9780072317381

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2000

Synopsis

A very successful book for two decades, the fourth edition continues its tradition of excellence. Using primary and secondary source material and numerous photographs and illustrations, this book seeks to present history through a broad perspective. Incorporating the traditional approach, centered on politics, economics, diplomacy, and war with the modern approach, including social aspects of women and children, the poor and economically marginal, gays and native Americans, it is a book that teaches the skill of making sense out of one’s whole world.

About this title

From the Publisher:

'Voices' sections. Source material produced by ordinary people showing their part in the historical process. For example, Sarah Winnemucca's story of her migration to California in Chapter 11, Volume I and John Morrison, a working-class machinist, gives an 1883 congressional testimony in Volume II, chapter 2.

4 new secondary essays in Volume I and 8 new secondary essays in Volume II.

More primary and secondary material on African-Americans and women.

More focus on WWI, WWII, and civil rights.

General discussion/essay questions to conclude and unify the chapters.

More illustrations.

About the Author:

William Graebner is professor of history at the State University of New York, College at Fredonia. He has written on a variety of aspects of twentieth-century American history. His books include A History of Retirement (1980), The Engineering of Consent: Democracy and Authority in Twentieth-Century America (1987), Coming of Age in Buffalo (1990), and The Age of Doubt: American Thought and Culture in the 1940s (1991). He is Associate Editor of American Studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0072317388
• ISBN 13: 9780072317381
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 384