This primary source reader in the popular DISCOVERING series contains a six-part framework that guides you through the process of historical inquiry and explanation. The text emphasizes historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data. Each chapter is organized within the same pedagogical framework: The Problem, Background, The Method, The Evidence, Questions to Consider, and Epilogue.
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Discovering the American Past
A Look at the Evidence, Volume I: To 1877
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Discovering the American Past
A Look at the Evidence, Volume I: To 1877
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Ch 1: The Beginning of the World: Creation Accounts and Cultural Values in the Americas and Europe
- Ch 2: The Threat of Anne Hutchinson
- Ch 3: From English Servants to African Slaves: Creating Racial Slavery in Colonial Virginia
- Ch 4: What Really Happened in the Boston Massacre? The Trial of Captain Thomas Preston
- Ch 5: The Evolution of American Citizenship: The Louisiana Purchase, 1803-1812
- Ch 6: Church, State, and Democracy: The Sunday Mail Controversy, 1827-1831
- Ch 7: Land, Growth, and Justice: The Removal of the Cherokees
- Ch 8: "Women Out of Their Latitude": Gender in the American Republic
- Ch 9: The "Peculiar Institution": Slaves Tell Their Own Stories
- Ch 10: Caring for the Sick and Wounded: Female Nurses in the American Civil War
- Ch 11: Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Political Cartoonist and American Public Opinion
- Ch 12: History Skills in Action: Designing Your Own Project
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