Portrait of America, Volume I

by Oates, Stephen; Errico, Charles J.

• ISBN13: 9780495799856
• ISBN10: 0495799858
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-04
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

PORTRAIT OF AMERICA is an anthology of essays written by some of America?s most eminent historians. The collection maintains a loose biographical focus. The essays in this secondary-source reader humanize American history by portraying it as a story of real people with whom students can easily identify. More than 25 percent of the essays in the Tenth Edition are new, many from books that have been nationally and internationally recognized for their insight, accuracy, and timeliness, ensuring that the readings continue to be provocative and trustworthy. Each selection is preceded by an introduction for context, and a helpful glossary identifies important individuals, events, and concepts. Study questions follow each selection, prompting students to make comparisons between the readings.

Table of Contents

The European Discovery

The American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World

Love and Hate in the Jamestown Colony

The First Century

Black People in a White People's Country

The Devil in Salem Village

Transformations

The Empire of My Heart: The Marriage of William Byrd II and Lucy Parke Byrd

Citizen Ben: A Worldly American's Seven Great Virtues

"When in the Course of Human Events..."

John Adams and the Coming of the Revolution

Thomas Jefferson and the Meanings of Liberty

Birthof the Republic

Miracle at Philadelphia

The Greatness of George Washington

Patterns of Society

The Personal Side of a Developing People

I'm Almost Worn Out in the Cause: Motherhood and Childbearing in the Old South

The Nation Takes Shape

The Duel

The Great Chief Justice

Woe if it Comes with Storm and Blood and Fire

The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion

I Will Be Heard!: William Lloyd Garrison and the Struggle Against Slavery

The Age of Jackson

Andrew Jackson: Flamboyant Hero of the Common Man

A Giant of Contradictions: The Irrepressible Sam Houston

Thegrowth of Technology

The Erie Canal: The Waterway That Shaped a Great Nation

Camelot on the Merrimack

Beyond the Mississippi

The Trail of Tears

Empire of Gold: The Great California Gold Rush

"To make them Stand in Fear": The Slaveowning South

Runaways from a Hellish System

Bound for Canaan: Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the Underground Railroad

The Death of Slavery

The Father of American Terrorism

Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation

The Scourge of Civil War

The Ravages of War

Master of The Game

A Troubled Peace

Call Me Mister: The Black Experience During Reconstruction

The Checkered History of the Great Fourteenth Amendment

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