Discovering the American Past

• Author : William Bruce Wheeler,Susan D. Becker
• Publisher : Houghton Mifflin College Division
• Release Date : 1999-08-01
• ISBN : 0618011587

[The book] provides students with the opportunity to "do" history, examining and evaluating primary-source evidence as a historian would. The authors present a ... six-step process to guide investigation and provide insight into American history. [This book] is designed to fit a one-semester American history survey class. It includes topics from colonial to contemporary history, as well as a wide range of types of historical evidence, such as statistical tables, advertisements, courtroom testimonials, diaries, and oral histories. -Back cover.

• Author : William Bruce Wheeler,Lorri Glover
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release Date : 2016-01-01
• ISBN : 1305630424

This primary source reader in the popular DISCOVERING series contains a six-part pedagogical framework that guides students through the process of historical inquiry and explanation. The text emphasizes historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data. Each chapter is organized around the same pedagogical framework: The Problem, Background, The Method, The Evidence, Questions to Consider, and Epilogue. Volume 1 of the Eighth Edition integrates new documents and revised coverage throughout. For example, there are new chapters on creation stories and

• Author : William Bruce Wheeler,Lorri Glover
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release Date : 2016-01-01
• ISBN : 1305630432

This primary source reader in the popular DISCOVERING series contains a six-part pedagogical framework that guides students through the process of historical inquiry and explanation. The text emphasizes historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data. Each chapter is organized around the same pedagogical framework: The Problem, Background, The Method, The Evidence, Questions to Consider, and Epilogue. Volume II of the Eighth Edition integrates new documents and revised coverage throughout. For example, there are new chapters on the controversial

• Author : Paul A. Cohen
• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• Release Date : 2010
• ISBN : 9780231151924

Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Readers Digest
• Release Date : 1993
• ISBN : UOM:39015029107169

The personal side of American history is revealed in a collection of anecdotes featuring the designer of Lincoln Logs, the Real McCoy, explanations of unusual customs, and a bonus guide to historic sites

• Author : Patricia Morton
• Publisher : University of Georgia Press
• Release Date : 1996-01-01
• ISBN : 9780820317571

As Patricia Morton notes in her historiographical introduction, Discovering the Women in Slavery continues the advances made, especially over the last decade, in understanding how women experienced slavery and shaped slavery history. In addition, the collection illuminates some emancipating new perspectives and methodologies. Throughout, the contributors pay close attention - over time and place - to variations, differences, and diversity regarding issues of gender and sex, race and ethnicity, and class. They draw on such qualitative sources as letters, novels,

• Author : James W. Loewen
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2007-10-16
• ISBN : 9780743296281

Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.

• Author : McGraw-Hill Education
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
• Release Date : 2015-07-17
• ISBN : 0076599396