American Experiences, Volume 1

by Roberts, Randy J.; Olson, James S.

• ISBN13: 9780321487025
• ISBN10: 0321487028
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-03
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This diverse and distinctive collection of secondary sources, written by a variety of authors, emphasizes social and cultural history. Each article illuminates the complexity and richness of the nation's past by focusing on the people themselves-- how 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

Preface

Colonial Life

God . . . Would Destroy Them, and Give Their Country to Another People

Deficient Husbands: Manhood, Sexual Incapacity, and Male Marital Sexuality in Seventeenth-Century New England

Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village

The Devil in Salem. Winthrop Jordan, Englishmen and Africans

Treatment of Slaves

The Planters Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland

The Revolutionary Generation

But a Common Man: Daniel Boone

Capital in Crisis: 1793

Wounded and Presumed Dead: Dying of Breast Cancer in Early America

Americas First Confrontation with the Muslim World

Adjusting to America

Violence, Gender, and Intemperance in Early National Connecticut

No Irish Need Apply: A Myth of Victimization

Folklore and Life Experience

Forgotten Forty-Niners

The Age of Imagination

The Choice: The Jackson-Dickinson Duel

In Search of Davys Grave

The Great Oneida Love-In

Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch

All Men & Women Are Created Equal

Americans Divided

Rascals on the Antebellum Mississippi: African American Steamboat Workers and the St. Louis Hanging of 1841

The Slave Warehouse from Uncle Toms Cabin

The Southampton Slave Revolt

Notes on Mormon Polygamy

Gods Angry Man

Civil War and Reconstruction

A Gallant Rush For Glory

John Wilkes Booth and the Politics of Assassination

Knights of the Rising Sun

Chief Joseph

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