Document Sets, Volume 2 for Boyer/Clark/Halttunen/Hawley/Kett/Rieser/Salisbury/Sitkoff/Woloch's The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, ... Vol 2 (Enduring Voices: The Enduring Vision) - Softcover

Boyer, Paul; Salisbury, Neal; Clark, Clifford; Kett, Joseph; Sitkoff, Harvard; Woloch, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039596086X ISBN 13: 9780395960868

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 1980

Synopsis

This supplement offers a wide range of primary-source documents in sets built around a historical "problem." Each set comprises several documents, including excerpts from letters, diaries, speeches, and petitions, as well as song lyrics, political cartoons, and advertisements. Introductions and questions guide readers in understanding and interpreting the documents.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul S. Boyer, Merle Curti Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University. An editor of NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN, 1607-1950 (1971), he also co-authored SALEM POSSESSED: THE SOCIAL ORIGINS OF WITCHCRAFT (1974), for which, with Stephen Nissenbaum, he received the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association. His other works include URBAN MASSES AND MORAL ORDER IN AMERICA, 1820-1920 (1978), BY THE BOMB’S EARLY LIGHT: AMERICAN THOUGHT AND CULTURE AT THE DAWN OF THE ATOMIC AGE (1985), WHEN TIME SHALL BE NO MORE: PROPHECY BELIEF IN MODERN AMERICAN CULTURE (1992), and PROMISES TO KEEP: THE UNITED STATES SINCE WORLD WAR II (3e, 2003). He is also editor-in-chief of the OXFORD COMPANION TO UNITED STATES HISTORY (2001). His articles and essays have appeared in the “American Quarterly,” “New Republic,” and other journals. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles; Northwestern University; and the College of William and Mary.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 039596086X
• ISBN 13: 9780395960868
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 448