Annual Editions: American History, Volume 1, 18/e

by Maddox, Robert James

• ISBN13: 9780072968859
• ISBN10: 0072968850
• Edition: 18th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-11
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin

Summary

This updated reader is a compilation of current newspaper, magazine, and journal articles relating to issues in American history. Annual Editions: American History, Volume 1 is designed for non-specialized survey courses. This text presents a fair sampling of articles that incorporate newer approaches to the study of history as well as more traditional ones. The sources from which these essays have been taken, for the most part, are intended for the general reader. This title is supported by Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/), a student website designed to provide study support tools and links to related websites.

Table of Contents

To the Reader	iv
Topic Guide	xi
Selected World Wide Web Sites	xiv
UNIT 1 The New Land
Unit Overview	xvi
Island Hopping to a New World, Alex Markels, U.S. News & World Report, Feburary 23 - March 1, 2004	3	(2)
1491, Charles C. Mann, The Atlantic Monthly, March 2002	5	(11)
Slavery in the Lower South, OAH Magazine of History, April 2003	16	(4)
Pocahontas, William M.S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton, American History, July 1995	20	(2)
Instruments of Seduction: A Tale of Two Women, Sandra F. Van-Burkleo, OAH Magazine of History, Winter 1995	22	(6)
The Pueblo Revolt, Jake Page, American History, February 2002	28	(4)
Penning a Legacy, Patricia Hudson, American History, February 1998	32	(2)
Blessed and Bedeviled: Tales of Remarkable Providences in Puritan New England. Helen Mondloch The World & I May 2002	34	(4)
Roots of Revolution, Dick Conway, American History, December 2002	38	(4)
UNIT 2 Revolutionary America
Unit Overview	40	(2)
The American Self, Mark Richard Barna. The World & I, June 1997	42	(6)
Ben Franklin's `Scientific Amusements,' Dudley R. Herschbach Harvard Magazine, November/December 1995	48	(8)
Flora MacDonald, Jean Creznic, American History, May/June 1997	56	(3)
Founding Friendship: Washington, Madison and the Creation of the American Republic, Stuart Leibiger. History Today, July 2001	59	(8)
Making Sense of the Fourth of July, Pauline Maier, American Heritage, July/August 1997	67	(8)
Hamilton Takes Command, Smithsonian, January 2003	75	(5)
Winter of Discontent, Norman Gelb, Smithsonian, May 2003	80	(5)
Founders Chic: Live From Philadelphia, Evan Thomas, Newsweek, July 9, 2001	85	(3)
Your Constitution Is Killing You, Daniel Lazare, Harper's Magazine, October 1999	88	(8)
UNIT 3 National Consolidation and Expansion
Unit Overview	94	(2)
The First Democrats, Joseph J. Ellis, U.S. News & World Report, August 21, 2000	96	(3)
The Revolution of 1803, Peter S. Onuf, Wilson Quarterly, Winter 2003	99	(4)
Brains and Brawn: The Lewis and Clark Expedition, Tom Huntington, American History, April 2003	103	(3)
African Americans in the Early Republic, Gary B. Nash, OAH Magazine of History, Winter 2000	106	(5)
Andrew Jackson Versus the Cherokee Nation, Robert V. Remini, American History, August 2001	111	(6)
New Horizons for the American West, Margaret Walsh, History Today, March 1994	117	(5)
The Great Famine, Edward Oxford, American History, March/April 1996	122	(5)
James K. Polk and the Expansionist Spirit, Harlan Hague, Journal of the West, July 1992	127	(6)
Little Women? The Female Mind At Work in Antebellum America, Louise Stevenson, History Today, March 1995	133	(5)
A Violent Crusader in the Cause of Freedom, Ron Schaumburg, The New York Times Upfront, February 7, 2003	138	(5)
UNIT 4 The Civil War and Reconstruction
Unit Overview	140	(3)
``The Doom of Slavery'': Ulysses S. Grant, War Aims, and Emancipation, 1861-1863, Brooks D. Simpson, Civil War History, March 1990	143	(10)
Richmond's Bread Riot, Alan Pell Crawford, American History, June 2002	153	(4)
The Civil War's Deadliest Weapons were not Rapid-Fire Guns or Giant Cannon, but the Simple Rifle-Musket and the Humble Minie Ball, Allan W. Howey, Civil War Times, October 1999	157	(4)
A Bold Break for Freedom, Mark H. Dunkelman, American History, December 1999	161	(4)
A Gallant Rush for Glory, William C. Kashatus, American History, October 2000	165	(5)
Between Honor and Glory, Jay Winik, The American Spectator, March 2001	170	(11)
Absence of Malice, Ronald C. White, Jr., Smithsonian, April 2002	181	(8)
America's Birth at Appomattox, Anne Wortham, The World & I, May 1999	189	(8)
The New View of Reconstruction, Eric Foner, American Heritage, vol. 34, no. 6 (October/November 1983)	197	(5)
Index	202	(4)
Test Your Knowledge Form	206	(1)
Article Rating Form	207