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Thinking Through the Past
A Critical Thinking Approach to U.S. History, Volume 1
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This reader for the U.S. history survey course gives you the opportunity to apply critical thinking skills to the examination of historical sources, providing pedagogy and background information to help you draw substantive conclusions. The careful organization and the context provided in each chapter make the material accessible, allowing you to gain some interesting insights into aspects of American history that you might not otherwise learn about in your course.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Ch 1: The Truth about Textbooks: Indians and the Settlement of America
- Ch 2: The Primary Materials of History: Childhood in Puritan New England
- Ch 3: Evaluating Primary Sources: Was Pennsylvania "The Best Poor Man's Country"?
- Ch 4: Evaluating One Historian's Argument: The "Hidden Side" of the American Revolution
- Ch 5: Motivation in History: The Founding Fathers and the Constitution
- Ch 6: Ideas in History: Race in Jefferson's Republic
- Ch 7: The Problem of Historical Causation: The Second Great Awakening
- Ch 8: Grand Theory and History: Democracy and the Frontier
- Ch 9: History as Biography: Historians and Old Hickory
- Ch 10: History "From the Bottom Up": Historians and Slavery
- Ch 11: Ideology and Society: The Bounds of Womanhood in the North and South
- Ch 12: Grand Theory, Great Battles, and Historical Causes: Why Secession Failed
- Ch 13: The Importance of Historical Interpretation: The Meaning of Reconstruction