Private Lives/Public Moments Readings in American History, Volume 1 (to 1877)

by Cavallo, Dominick

• ISBN13: 9780321298560
• ISBN10: 032129856X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-30
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

A collection of essays by major historians that examine the history of the United States by connecting the private lives of its people to the public issues that have had a major impact on the nationrs"s destiny. The text examines much of what we call "history" as the product of conflict or concord (or some combination of the two) between private aspirations, frustrations, and values on the one side, and public issues, events and policies on the other.

Author Biography

Dominick Cavallo is Professor of History at Adelphi University.  He is the author of A Fiction of the Past: the Sixties in American History, Muscles and Morals: Organized Playgrounds and Urban Reform, 1880-1920, and co-editor of Family Life in America, 1492-2000

Table of Contents

Introduction

Early America: From Before 1492 To The American Revolution

Before 1492: Native Americans Of The Southwest

Columbus Meets Pocahontas: European Images Of Native American Women

Religion, Childhood, And Society In The New England And Middle Colonies

Settling South Carolina: Family Ties And The Quest For Wealth In The New World

From Africans To African Americans: Slavery, Women, And The Family

Patriot Father, Loyalist Son: Benjamin And William Franklin

Southern Women And The American Revolution

A People On The Move: Life, Work, And Territorial Expansion In The New Nation

Pioneers On The Western Farming Frontier

From Farm To Factory: The Beginning Of Industrial Labor

A New Economy And A New American Family

Irish Immigrant Women And Their Men In New York City

Indian Removal: Cherokee Women And The Trail Of Tears

After The Gold Rush: The Male World Of California Mining Towns

Social Reform, Slavery, And The Civil War

A Religious Challenge To American Capitalism: The Oneida Community

Free Black Women, The Movement To Abolish Slavery, And The Struggle For Women'S Rights

Selling Children: The Domestic Slave Trade

Divided Houses: Rebel Sons In Union Families

The Children'S Civil War

Freedom?

After The Civil War: Black Women And Their Families During Reconstruction

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