True Stories From The American Past (Volume 1: To 1865)

by Waller, Altina L.; Graebner, William

• ISBN13: 9780072417524
• ISBN10: 0072417528
• Edition: 3RD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-08
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This two-volume reader consists of twenty-nine original essays, each one crafted by a scholar who is an expert in a particular field of historical inquiry. Each decade of American history is represented by at least one essay. The stories cover a wide range of topics including popular culture, women's history, urban history, and the history of science and technology. The essays also shed light on political, social, economic, and cultural trends. After reading these engaging pieces, students will be left with a sense of a living past, not abstract historiographical debates.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Kateri Tekakwitha: Servant of God, Seeker of Orenda	1	(18)
Nancy Shoemaker
The Starving Time at Jamestown	19	(22)
Karen Ordahl Kupperman
The Puritan Conscience of Robert Keayne	41	(16)
Bernard Bailyn
The Domestic Battles of William Byrd	57	(23)
Kenneth Lockridge
The Great Negro Plot in New York	80	(13)
Thomas J. Davis
Benjamin Franklin's New World	93	(21)
Patricia J. Tracy
Ethan Allen and the Fall of Fort Ticonderoga	114	(20)
Michael A. Bellesiles
Rebellion in the New Republic: Massachusetts 1786--1787	134	(17)
Gregory H. Nobles
``The Gates Were Shut Against Us'': Tecumseh and the War of 1812	151	(17)
R. David Edmunds
Peggy Eaton and Andrew Jackson: A Presidential Scandal	168	(20)
Altina L. Waller
Canal Wars: The Making of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal	188	(21)
Peter J. Way
Celia: Slavery and Sexual Exploitation	209	(16)
Melton McLaurin
The Burning of Chambersburg	225	(20)
Everard H. Smith
The Legend of the ``Free State of Jones''	245	(14)
Victoria E. Bynum
An Insurrection that Never Happened: The ``Christmas Riots'' of 1865	259
Stephen Nissenbaum