Documents to Accompany America's History, Volume 1: To 1877 - Softcover

Yazawa, Melvin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031240591X ISBN 13: 9780312405915

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003

Synopsis

Revised for the fifth edition of America's History, this affordable and comprehensive documents collection includes more than 350 primary-source documents — 25% new to this edition — and follows the organization of the textbook to provide students with a seamless learning experience. The number of visuals has been tripled and numerous sets of documents highlight different prespectives on the same issue. Each document is preceded by a brief introduction and followed by questions for further thought.

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About the Author:

Melvin Yazawa is Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, where he has taught since 1984. He has been the recipient of a Presidential Lectureship, the Snead-Wertheim Lectureship, a Faculty Recognition Award, and the Graduate Students' Teaching Award. A specialist on the American Revolution and the early Republic, he has written Representative Government and the Revolution: The Maryland Constitutional Crisis of 1789 (1975); From Colonies to Commonwealth: Familial Ideology and the Beginnings of the American Republic (1985); The Diary and Life of Samuel Sewall (1998); and numerous journal articles and book chapters. He is currently working on a book on the politics of union and disunion in America, 1776-1815. Kevin J. Fernlund is Professor of History and Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, the Executive Director of the Western History Association, and a Fulbright Scholar. He is the author of the biographies Lyndon B. Johnson and Modern America (2009) and William Henry Holmes and the Rediscovery of the American West (2000), as well as editor of The Cold War American West, 1945 to 1989 (1998). His research and teaching interests include the American West and Big History. Fernlund has edited the fifth, sixth, and seventh editions of Bedford/St. Martin's Selected Historical Documents to Accompany America's History, Volume 2: Since 1865.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 031240591X
• ISBN 13: 9780312405915
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 369