Past Forward Articles from the Journal of American History, Volume 2: From the Civil War to the Present

by Sabathne, James; Stacy, Jason

• ISBN13: 9780190299293
• ISBN10: 0190299290
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-06-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Over the last fifteen years, undergraduate U.S. history courses have made great progress in incorporating primary sources and diverse voices into the survey. However, teachers still struggle to find professional writing by working historians in a format useful to undergraduates. Also, in 2014, the College Board redesigned the AP U.S. History curriculum and assessments to require students to demonstrate a critical approach to historical writing by professional historians. These facts have increased demand among teachers for access to high-quality secondary material by professional historians in a single, convenient publication.

Past Forward: Articles from the Journal of American History selects some of the best articles from The Journal of American History to meet the needs of students and teachers of the U.S. history survey. Exploring all of the required "key concepts" and "historical thinking skills" required in the new AP U.S. History curriculum, the book provides pedagogical and historiographical supports for each article. It also contains concise academic biographies of the authors that highlight their path to practicing history and their major publications, which will draw students deeper into historical discourses.

Author Biography

James Sabathne teaches AP U.S. History at Hononegah High School in Rockton, Illinois, and is Co-Chair of the College Board AP U.S. History Development Committee. He is a coauthor of Strive for a 5: Preparing for the AP* World History Exam (2013).

Jason Stacy is Associate Professor of U.S. History and Social Science Pedagogy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of several books, including Documenting United States History: Themes, Concepts, and Skills for the AP* Course (2015), Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism (2015), and Walt Whitman's Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855 (2008).

Table of Contents

Introduction, James Sabathne and Jason Stacy

1. Kate Masur, "'A Rare Phenomenon of Philological Vegetation': The Word 'Contraband' and the Meanings of Emancipation in the United States", Journal of American History, Vol. 93, No. 4 (Mar., 2007), pp. 1050-1084

2. Eric Foner, "Rights and the Constitution in Black Life during the Civil War and Reconstruction" The Journal of American History, Vol. 74, No. 3, The Constitution and American Life: A Special Issue (Dec., 1987), pp. 863-883

3. Wayne K. Durrill, "Producing Poverty: Local Government and Economic Development in a New South County, 1874-1884," The Journal of American History, Vol. 71, No. 4 (Mar., 1985), pp. 764-781

4. Nancy F. Cott, "Feminist Politics in the 1920s: The National Woman's Party," The Journal of American History, Vol. 71, No. 1 (Jun., 1984), pp. 43-68

5. Mae M. Ngai, "The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law: A Reexamination of the Immigration Act of 1924," The Journal of American History, Vol. 86, No. 1 (Jun., 1999), pp. 67-92

6. Mary Lethert Wingerd, "Rethinking Paternalism: Power and Parochialism in a Southern Mill Village," The Journal of American History, Vol. 83, No. 3 (Dec., 1996), pp. 872-902

7. Alice Kessler-Harris, "In the Nation's Image: The Gendered Limits of Social Citizenship in the Depression Era," The Journal of American History, Vol. 86, No. 3, The Nation and Beyond: Transnational Perspectives on United States History: A Special Issue (Dec., 1999), pp. 1251-1279

8. Edmund P. Russell, "'Speaking of Annihilation': Mobilizing for War against Human and Insect Enemies, 1914-1945," The Journal of American History, Vol. 82, No. 4 (Mar., 1996), pp. 1505-1529

9. Melvyn P. Leffler, "Strategy, Diplomacy, and the Cold War: The United States, Turkey, and NATO, 1945-1952," The Journal of American History, Vol. 71, No. 4 (Mar., 1985), pp. 807-825

10. Thomas J. Sugrue, "Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction against Liberalism in the Urban North, 1940-1964," The Journal of American History, Vol. 82, No. 2 (Sep., 1995), pp. 551-578

11. Andrew Hurley, "From Hash House to Family Restaurant: The Transformation of the Diner and Post-World War II Consumer Culture," The Journal of American History, Vol. 83, No. 4 (Mar., 1997), pp. 1282-1308

12. Mary L. Dudziak, "Brown as a Cold War Case," The Journal of American History, Vol. 91, No. 1 (Jun., 2004), pp. 32-42

13. Edward J. Escobar, "The Dialectics of Repression: The Los Angeles Police Department and the Chicano Movement, 1968-1971," The Journal of American History, Vol. 79, No. 4 (Mar., 1993), pp. 1483-1514

14. Elaine Tyler May, "Security against Democracy: The Legacy of the Cold War at Home," Journal of American History, Vol. 97, No. 4 (March, 2011), pp. 939-957

15. Heather Ann Thompson, "Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History," Journal of American History, Vol. 97, No. 3 (Dec., 2010), pp. 703-734