Historical Viewpoints: Notable Articles from American Heritage : Volume One to 1877

by Garraty, John A.

• ISBN13: 9780321002990
• ISBN10: 0321002997
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

The revision of this exciting collection of articles from the popular magazine American Heritage features one of the best representations of American historical thinking available! Authoritative, interesting, significant, and a pleasure to read, Historical Viewpoints, Eighth Edition, will appeal to historians and to the students in their classrooms!

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	v
PART 1 A New World	1	(34)
Oliver La Farge
Myths That Hide the American Indian	2	(13)
Michael S. Durham
Mound Builders	15	(9)
William Cronon
Richard White
The Clash of Cultures: Indians, Europeans, and the Environment	24	(11)
PART 2 Colonial Life	35	(46)
Henry Wieneck
Spain in North America	36	(6)
Robert N. Linscott
Daily Life in Colonial Massachusetts	42	(7)
Marshall Fishwick
William Byrd II of Virginia	49	(8)
John Demos
Witchcraft in Colonial New England	57	(10)
Daniel P. Mannix
Malcolm Cowley
The Middle Passage	67	(14)
PART 3 The Birth of a Nation	81	(40)
J.H. Plumb
George III
Our Last King	82	(9)
Bernard Bailyn
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson	91	(12)
Mary Beth Norton
Women in the American Revolution	103	(8)
Irving Kristol
The Most Successful Revolution	111	(10)
PART 4 The Federalist Era	121	(42)
Alden T. Vaughan
Shays' Rebellion	122	(12)
Henry Steele Commager
The Constitution: Was It an Economic Document?	134	(11)
Garry Wills
America, France, and Their Revolutions	145	(8)
John Steele Gordon
Alexander Hamilton: The Founding Wizard	153	(10)
PART 5 National Growing Pains	163	(42)
Ray Allen Billington
The Frontier and the American Character	164	(11)
John A. Garraty
Marbury V. Madison	175	(11)
Joseph J. Ellis
Jefferson, Adams, and the American Dialogue	186	(11)
Robert V. Remini
Andrew Jackson and the Annexation of Texas	197	(8)
PART 6 Antebellum Society	205	(60)
Bernard A. Weisberger
Religion on the Frontier	206	(11)
Elaine Kendall
The Education of Women	217	(11)
Jack Larkin
Everyday Life Before the Civil War	228	(12)
Roger T. Pray
Prison "Reform" in America	240	(8)
Arnold Welles
Samuel Slater Imports a Revolution	248	(8)
Philip Burnham
Black Slaveowners	256	(9)
PART 7 Civil War and Reconstruction	265	(60)
James M. McPherson
A War That Never Goes Away	266	(7)
Robert K. Krick
Stonewall Jackson	273	(9)
Eric Foner
The South's Inner Civil War	282	(9)
Stephen B. Oates
How Lincoln Freed the Slaves	291	(13)
David Herbert Donald
Why They Impeached Andrew Jackson	304	(9)
Alan F. Westin
Ride-In: A Century of Protest Begins	313	(12)
TEXT CREDITS	325	(2)
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS	327