1 option
Past forward. Volume 1, From Colonial Foundations to the Civil War. : articles from the Journal of American History / edited by James Sabathne and Jason Stacy.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States-History.
- United States--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press : The Journal of American History, [2017]
- Summary:
- Past Forward: Articles from the Journal of American History selects some of the best articles from The Journal of American History to meet the needs of students and teachers of the U.S. history survey. Exploring all of the required "key concepts" and "historical thinking skills" required in the new AP U.S. History curriculum, the book provides pedagogical and historiographical supports for each article. It also contains concise academic biographies of the authors that highlight their path to practicing history and their major publications, which will draw students deeper into historical discourses.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Past Forward:Articles from theJournal of American History
- Past Forward: Acknowledgement
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION: A Guide for Studentson Active Reading and Reading Historically
- CHAPTER ONE: Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox
- CHAPTER TWO: People of the Dawn, People of theDoor: Indian Pirates and the ViolentTheft of an Atlantic World
- CHAPTER THREE: From Captives to Slaves: Commodifying Indian Women in the Borderlands
- CHAPTER FOUR: Suicide, Slavery, and Memoryin North America
- CHAPTER FIVE: The Transformation of Urban Politics 1700-1765
- CHAPTER SIX: Popular Mobilization and Political Culture in Revolutionary Virginia: The Failure of the Minutemen and the Revolution from Below
- CHAPTER SEVEN: Aristocracy Assailed:The Ideology of Backcountry Anti-Federalism
- CHAPTER EIGHT: A Road Closed: Rural Insurgency in Post-Independence Pennsylvania
- CHAPTER NINE:"The Common Rights of Mankind": Subsistence, Shad, and Commerce in the Early Republican South
- CHAPTER TEN: The Evangelical Movement and Political Culture in the North During the Second Party System
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Limits of Political Engagement in Antebellum America: A New Lookat the Golden Age of Participatory Democracy
- CHAPTER TWELVE: National Identity on a Shifting Border:Texas and New Mexico in the Age of Transition, 1821-1848
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Young American Males and Filibustering in the Age of Manifest Destiny: The United States Army as a Cultural Mirror
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Two Faces of Republicanism: Gender and Proslavery Politics in Antebellum South Carolina
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: "We Are Engaged as a Band of Sisters":Class and Domesticity in the Washingtonian Temperance Movement, 1840-1850
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Slave Trader, the White Slave,and the Politics of Racial Determination in the 1850s.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-066066-X
- OCLC:
- 1096529169
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.