Annual Edition American History: Colonial Through Reconstruction

by Maddox, Robert James

• ISBN13: 9780697393807
• ISBN10: 0697393801
• Edition: 15th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College

Summary

This nineteenth of ANNUAL EDITIONS: AMERICAN HISTORY, VOLUME 1 provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; a general introduction; brief overviews for each section; a topical index; and an instructor's resource guide with testing materials. USING ANNUAL EDITIONS IN THE CLASSROOM is offered as a practical guide for instructors. ANNUAL EDITIONS titles are supported by our student website, www.dushkin.com/online.

Table of Contents

To the Reader	iv
Topic Guide	2	(2)
Selected World Wide Web Sites	4	(2)
UNIT 1 The New Land
Overview	6	(48)
Mighty Cahokia	8	(7)
William R. Iseminger
Columbus Meets Pocahontas in the American South	15	(6)
Theda Perdue
A ``Newfounde Lande,''	21	(5)
Alan Williams
Laboring in the Fields of the Lord	26	(7)
Jerald T. Milanich
Journey to Jamestown	33	(6)
Audrey J. Horning
Squanto and the Pilgrims	39	(5)
Lynn Ceci
Bearing the Burden? Puritan Wives	44	(5)
Martha Saxton
America's First Experiment in Toleration	49	(5)
John Hartsock
UNIT 2 Revoltionary America
Overview	54	(38)
Making Sense of the Fourth of July	56	(8)
Pauline Maier
The Radical Revolution	64	(6)
Fredric Smoler
``Pvt. Robert Shurtleff'': An Unusual Revolutionary War Soldier	70	(2)
Kathleen Doyle
`It Is Not a Union,'	72	(4)
Peter Onuf
... by the Unanimous Consent of the States	76	(6)
Ezra Bowen
The Founding Fathers, Conditional Antislavery, and the Nonradicalism of the American Revolution	82	(10)
William W. Freehling
UNIT 3 National Consolidation and Expansion
Overview	92	(68)
The Greatness of George Washington	94	(7)
Gordon S. Wood
1796: The First Real Election	101	(5)
John Ferling
Lewis and Clark: Trailblazers Who Opened the Continent	106	(4)
Gerald F. Kreyche
Indians in the Land	110	(6)
William Cronon
Richard White
Jefferson's Retreat	116	(6)
Joseph J. Ellis
Before the ``Trail of Tears,''	122	(2)
Teresa Amott
Julie Matthaei
``All We Want Is Make Us Free!''	124	(7)
Howard Jones
Mountain Legend	131	(5)
Michael Martin
James K. Polk and the Expansionist Spirit	136	(5)
Harlan Hogue
All That Glittered	141	(6)
Richard Reinhardt
The Lives of Slave Women	147	(6)
Deborah Gray White
Eden Ravished	153	(7)
Harlan Hague
UNIT 4 The Civil War and Reconstruction
Overview	160	(65)
``The Doom of Slavery'': Ulysses S. Grant, War Aims, and Emancipation, 1861-1863	162	(9)
Brooks D. Simpson
Lee's Greatest Victory	171	(12)
Robert K. Krick
Gallantry under Fire	183	(5)
John E. Aliyetti
The Struggle for Black Freedom before Emancipation	188	(4)
Wayne K. Durrill
The Northern Front	192	(6)
Dara Horn
The Man at the White House Window	198	(10)
Stephen B. Oates
Why the South Lost the Civil War	208	(5)
Carl Zebrowski
A War That Never Goes Away	213	(5)
James M. McPherson
The New View of Reconstruction	218	(7)
Eric Foner
Index	225	(3)
Article Review Form	228	(1)
Article Rating Form	229