Author: Mitchell Roth
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This anthology is from our Primary Sources in American History series, designed to make primary sources widely available in an inexpensive format that encourages analytical thinking. The letters, diary excerpts, speeches, interviews and newspaper articles in Reading the American West let students experience what historians really do and how history is written. Every document is accompanied by a contextual headnote and study questions, and each chapter includes extensive introductions.
Reading the American West
Author: Mitchell Roth
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This anthology is from our Primary Sources in American History series, designed to make primary sources widely available in an inexpensive format that encourages analytical thinking. The letters, diary excerpts, speeches, interviews and newspaper articles in Reading the American West let students experience what historians really do and how history is written. Every document is accompanied by a contextual headnote and study questions, and each chapter includes extensive introductions.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This anthology is from our Primary Sources in American History series, designed to make primary sources widely available in an inexpensive format that encourages analytical thinking. The letters, diary excerpts, speeches, interviews and newspaper articles in Reading the American West let students experience what historians really do and how history is written. Every document is accompanied by a contextual headnote and study questions, and each chapter includes extensive introductions.
Going to the Source, Volume 1: To 1877
Author: Victoria Bissell Brown
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
ISBN: 9780312448226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Lots of readers offer lots of sources, but only Going to the Source gives students a clear method for how to use them. The reader's strong pedagogical framework, developed by historians with extensive teaching experience, helps students learn how to ask fruitful questions in order to evaluate documents effectively and develop critical reading skills. Mirroring the chronology of the U.S. history survey, each chapter introduces students to the excitement of working with documents by focusing on a single intriguing historical episode. The reader's wide variety of chapter topics that complement the survey course and its rich diversity of sources -- from personal letters to political cartoons -- provokes students' interest as it teaches them the skills they need to successfully grapple with historical sources.
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
ISBN: 9780312448226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Lots of readers offer lots of sources, but only Going to the Source gives students a clear method for how to use them. The reader's strong pedagogical framework, developed by historians with extensive teaching experience, helps students learn how to ask fruitful questions in order to evaluate documents effectively and develop critical reading skills. Mirroring the chronology of the U.S. history survey, each chapter introduces students to the excitement of working with documents by focusing on a single intriguing historical episode. The reader's wide variety of chapter topics that complement the survey course and its rich diversity of sources -- from personal letters to political cartoons -- provokes students' interest as it teaches them the skills they need to successfully grapple with historical sources.
Going to the Source, Volume I: To 1877
Author: Victoria Bissell Brown
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319106269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Many document readers offer lots of sources, but only Going to the Source combines a rich selection of primary sources with in-depth instructions for how to use each type of source. Mirroring the chronology of the U.S. history survey, each chapter familiarizes students with a single type of source while focusing on an intriguing historical episode such as the Cherokee Removal or the 1894 Pullman Strike. Students practice working with a diverse range of source types including photographs, diaries, oral histories, speeches, advertisements, political cartoons, and more. A capstone chapter in each volume prompts students to synthesize information on a single topic from a variety of source types. The wide range of topics and sources across 28 chapters provides students with all they need to become fully engaged with America’s history.
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319106269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Many document readers offer lots of sources, but only Going to the Source combines a rich selection of primary sources with in-depth instructions for how to use each type of source. Mirroring the chronology of the U.S. history survey, each chapter familiarizes students with a single type of source while focusing on an intriguing historical episode such as the Cherokee Removal or the 1894 Pullman Strike. Students practice working with a diverse range of source types including photographs, diaries, oral histories, speeches, advertisements, political cartoons, and more. A capstone chapter in each volume prompts students to synthesize information on a single topic from a variety of source types. The wide range of topics and sources across 28 chapters provides students with all they need to become fully engaged with America’s history.
Source-readers in American History: In our times
Author: Albert Bushnell Hart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Going to the Source, Volume II: Since 1865
Author: Victoria Bissell Brown
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319106307
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Many document readers offer lots of sources, but only Going to the Source combines a rich selection of primary sources with in-depth instructions for how to use each type of source. Mirroring the chronology of the U.S. history survey, each chapter familiarizes students with a single type of source while focusing on an intriguing historical episode such as the Cherokee Removal or the 1894 Pullman Strike. Students practice working with a diverse range of source types including photographs, diaries, oral histories, speeches, advertisements, political cartoons, and more. A capstone chapter in each volume prompts students to synthesize information on a single topic from a variety of source types. The wide range of topics and sources across 28 chapters provides students with all they need to become fully engaged with America’s history.
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319106307
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Many document readers offer lots of sources, but only Going to the Source combines a rich selection of primary sources with in-depth instructions for how to use each type of source. Mirroring the chronology of the U.S. history survey, each chapter familiarizes students with a single type of source while focusing on an intriguing historical episode such as the Cherokee Removal or the 1894 Pullman Strike. Students practice working with a diverse range of source types including photographs, diaries, oral histories, speeches, advertisements, political cartoons, and more. A capstone chapter in each volume prompts students to synthesize information on a single topic from a variety of source types. The wide range of topics and sources across 28 chapters provides students with all they need to become fully engaged with America’s history.
Source-readers in American History ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Source-book of American History
Author: Albert Bushnell Hart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
This book offers a survey of American history, from the earliest colonial times through the Spanish-American War. The source book is directed at an adolescent crowd, and contains further explanations in the margins. The subject matter is rather balanced between political, military, and societal events and trends.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
This book offers a survey of American history, from the earliest colonial times through the Spanish-American War. The source book is directed at an adolescent crowd, and contains further explanations in the margins. The subject matter is rather balanced between political, military, and societal events and trends.
Source-readers in American History
Author: Albert Bushnell Hart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Mexican History
Author: Nora E. Jaffary
Publisher:
ISBN: 0813391687
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Mexican History is a comprehensive and innovative primary source reader in Mexican history from the pre-Columbian past to the neoliberal present. Chronologically organized chapters facilitate the book's assimilation into most course syllabi. Its selection of documents thoughtfully conveys enduring themes of Mexican history--land and labor, indigenous people, religion, and state formation--while also incorporating recent advances in scholarly research on the frontier, urban life, popular culture, race and ethnicity, and gender. Student-friendly pedagogical features include contextual introductions to each chapter and each reading, lists of key terms and related sources, and guides to recommended readings and Web-based resources.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0813391687
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Mexican History is a comprehensive and innovative primary source reader in Mexican history from the pre-Columbian past to the neoliberal present. Chronologically organized chapters facilitate the book's assimilation into most course syllabi. Its selection of documents thoughtfully conveys enduring themes of Mexican history--land and labor, indigenous people, religion, and state formation--while also incorporating recent advances in scholarly research on the frontier, urban life, popular culture, race and ethnicity, and gender. Student-friendly pedagogical features include contextual introductions to each chapter and each reading, lists of key terms and related sources, and guides to recommended readings and Web-based resources.
Perspectives on American Book History
Author: Scott E. Casper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
CD-ROM contains: Digital image archive of books, magazines, manuscripts, technologies, and readers to accompany text.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
CD-ROM contains: Digital image archive of books, magazines, manuscripts, technologies, and readers to accompany text.