Full Description
Constructing the American Past: A Sourcebook of a People's History, Ninth Edition, presents an innovative combination of case studies and primary source documents that allow students to discover, analyze, and construct history from the actors' perspective.
Beginning with Reconstruction-era United States and ending with modern conservatism at the end of the twentieth century, Constructing the American Past provides eyewitness accounts of historical events, legal documents that helped shape the lives of citizens, and excerpts from diaries that show history through an intimate perspective. The authors expand upon past scholarship and include new material regarding gender, race, and immigration in order to provide a more complete picture of the past.
Contents
Each chapter ends with Questions and Additional Reading
Chapter 1 Civil War by Other Means
Chapter 2 The Great Strike of 1877
Chapter 3 Cultures Collide at Wounded Knee
Chapter 4 New Americans: The Immigrants
Chapter 5 The Rise of an American Overseas Empire
Chapter 6 Meatpacking and Muckraking
Chapter 7 Mobilizing for War
Chapter 8 The Struggle for Women's Rights
Chapter 9 Science, Religion, and the Scopes Trial
Chapter 10 The Great Depression
Chapter 11 The Second World War
Chapter 12 Battling Communism
Chapter 13 The Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 14 Vietnam: The Tipping Point
Chapter 15 Turning Left
Chapter 16 Turning Right
