American Experiences: Readings in American History, Volume I

by Roberts, Randy; Olson, James S.

• ISBN13: 9780321079909
• ISBN10: 0321079906
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

This collection of secondary readings, written by a variety of authors, emphasizes social history readings that illuminate important aspects of America's past. American Experiences shows the complexity and richness of the nation's past by focusing on the people themselveshow they coped with, adjusted to, or rebelled against America. The readings examine people as they worked and played, fought and loved, lived and died.

Table of Contents

(All new essays are asterisked below.)

VOLUME I.

Preface.

I. NEW ENGLAND LIFE.

1. Alfred W. Crosby, Jr., “God...Would Destroy Them, and Give Their Country to Another People...” .

*2. Thomas A. Foster, “Deficient Husbands: Manhood, Sexual Incapacity, and Male Marital Sexuality in Seventeenth-Century New England” .

*3. Cornelius Hughes Dayton, “Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village” .

4. Marcus Rediker, “'Under the Banner of King Death': The Social World of the Anglo-American Pirates, 1716-1726” .

II. SOUTHERN LIFE.

5. Winthrop Jordan, “Englishmen and Africans” .

6. Alexander Falconridge, “Treatment of the Slaves” .

7. T.H. Breen, “Horses and Gentlemen” .

*8. Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh, “The Planter's Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland” .

III. THE REVOLUTIONARY GENERATION.

9. James Kirby Martin, “A 'Most Undisciplined, Profligate Crew'” .

10. Forrest McDonald, “Establishing a Government, 1789” .

11. John Mack Faragher, “'But a Common Man': Daniel Boone” .

12. James S. Olson, “Wounded and Presumed Dead: Dying of Breast Cancer in the Eighteenth Century” .

*13. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “A Midwife's Tale” .

IV. ADJUSTING TO AMERICA.

14. Barbara Welter, “The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860” .

15. Susan G. Davis, “'Making Night Hideous': Christmas Revelry and Public Order in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia” .

*16. Peter Quinn, “The Tragedy of Bridget Such-A-One” .

17. Arnoldo DeLeon and Saul Sanchez, “Folklore and Life Experience” .

*18. JoAnn Levy, “Forgotten Forty-Niners” .

V. THE AGE OF IMAGINATION.

19. William A. DeGregorio, “The Choice: The Jackson-Dickinson Duel” .

20. Paul Andrew Hutton, “The Alamo: An American Epic” .

21. Maury Klein, “From Utopia to Mill Town” .

22. Morris Bishop, “The Great Oneida Love-In” .

23. Elliott J. Gorn, “Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch” .

VI. AMERICANS DIVIDED.

24. Stanley S. Ivins, “Notes on Mormon Polygamy” .

25. Harriet Beecher Stowe, “The Slave Warehouse" from Uncle Tom's Cabin.

26. Henry F. Tragle, “The Southampton Slave Revolt” .

*27. Stephen B. Oates, “God's Angry Man” .

VII. CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION .

28. Bell I. Wiley, “Johnny Reb and Billy Yank” .

29. James W. Clarke, “John Wilkes Booth and the Politics of Assassination” .

*30. Jennifer Lynn Gross, “'Good Angels': Confederate Widowhood in Virginia” .

*31. Larry McMurtry, “A Road They Did Not Know” .

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