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Writing the American past : US history to 1877
Writing the American Past reproduces dozens of untranscribed, handwritten documents, offering students the opportunity to transcribe, decipher, and interpret primary sources. Documents include diary entries from Massachusetts in the 1690s, a woman detailing the Great Awakening, an eighteenth-century...
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Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2009.
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| 300 | |a x, 168 p. : |b ill., facsims. ; |c 28 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Old world explores new: settling and securing Newfoundland in the early 1600s -- The Chesapeake: indenturing labor, 1694 -- Life in seventeenth-century New England: Massachusetts in the 1690s -- The middle colonies: a Philadelphia furrier, 1738 -- The lower South and slave society: slave resistance and imperial contests, 1739 -- Social order in the eighteenth-century South: slavery and Virginia's gentry in the 1720s -- The Great Awakening: a letter to George Whitefield, 1746 -- Empire and native Americans: the treaty of Lancaster, 1744 -- Imperial crises and the coming of revolution: the politicization of a colonial merchant, 1765 -- Fighting the Revolutionary War: a woman on the homefront, 1776 -- Crisis, constitution, nation: probate data and the problem of becoming American -- The new republic: a Massachusetts federalist in 1800 -- Jeffersonian America: on the road in 1818 -- Revolutions in time and space: tourism and travel, 1850 -- The age of Jackson: the view from abroad in 1828 -- The southern master class: an elite woman's school experiences, 1828 -- Lives of the enslaved: urban slavery in 186 -- The modernizing North: a businessman's letter, 1836 -- The age of reform: on the need for temperance -- Westward expansion: Kansas and free labor in 1856 -- The coming of the Civil War: bleeding in Kansas, 1856 -- Secession: a South Carolinian describes the event, 1860 -- The Civil War:a Canadian soldier's experience -- Emancipation: the labor of freedom, 1867. | |
| 520 | |a Writing the American Past reproduces dozens of untranscribed, handwritten documents, offering students the opportunity to transcribe, decipher, and interpret primary sources. Documents include diary entries from Massachusetts in the 1690s, a woman detailing the Great Awakening, an eighteenth-century treaty with Native Americans, a journal describing antebellum train travel, and a letter by a slave. An introduction and headnotes to each document contextualize the sources and provide a foundation from which the student can explore the material. - from publisher description | ||
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| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x History |y 1865-1898 |v Sources. | |
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