Sources for America's History, Volume 1: To 1877 by Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert Self; James Henretta; Kevin B. Sheets - Tenth Edition, 2021 from Macmillan Student Store
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Sources for America's History, Volume 1: To 1877

Tenth Edition ©2021 Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert Self; James Henretta; Kevin B. Sheets

Designed to accompany America’s History, Tenth Edition, this two-volume primary source reader includes 5-6 documents and visual sources per chapter from both obscure and well-known people and sources, whose perspectives highlight key themes of the period. Each chapter opens with an introdu...

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Sources for America's History, Volume 1: To 1877 by Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert Self; James Henretta; Kevin B. Sheets - Tenth Edition, 2021 from Macmillan Student Store

Designed to accompany America’s History, Tenth Edition, this two-volume primary source reader includes 5-6 documents and visual sources per chapter from both obscure and well-known people and sources, whose perspectives highlight key themes of the period. Each chapter opens with an introduction that places the documents within their historical context. Individual documents are framed by introductory headnotes and Reading and Discussion Questions which help students practice historical thinking skills and link individual sources to larger themes. To support the structure of America’s History, document sets at the end of each part present sources that illustrate the major themes of the part.　

Sources for America’s History is packaged with America’s History, Tenth Edition and is included in the LaunchPad for America’s History. In LaunchPad for America’s History, 10e, which combines ebooks for America’s History and Sources for America’s History in a central course space, innovative auto-graded exercises accompanying the reader’s documents and visuals supply a distinctive and sophisticated pedagogy that not only helps students understand the sources but think critically about them. Sources for America’s History is also available to customize through Bedford Select.

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Over 200 diverse and thoughtfully chosen documents support the periodization and themes of the parent text, while giving students practice in evaluating a wide range of visual and documentary primary source evidence.

Part document sets at the end of each part present 5-6 sources chosen specifically to illustrate the major themes and developments covered in each of the parent text’s nine thematic parts, allowing students to make comparisons and connections across time and place.

An Introduction for Students explains the importance of primary sources and guides students through the process of document analysis.

Individual questions for analysis and end of chapter comparative questions help students practice historical thinking skills and connect sources to major themes and key concepts from the chapter.

Primary source quizzes accompany every document in the LaunchPad for America’s History.

New to This Edition

More visual sources Over thirty new image sources including photographs that capture moments of political mobilization, such as women’s rights marches, anti-tax protests, and activists demanding resources for AIDS research.　

Increased emphasis on diverse voices Over thirty new written sources give voice to the experiences of historically marginalized groups. New first-person accounts include letters from enslaved people to President Lincoln, an account from the historic Stonewall riot, and a letter from the chiefs of the Onondaga Nation protesting the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.　

“This reader includes the most diverse set of documents that incorporates the American landscape of diverse people and views. It has a larger number of readings than traditional readers and provides students with a much more comprehensive view of social history than most readers.”
– Peter Acsay, University of Missouri, St. Louis

“Sources for America’s History provides a wide variety of short, readable primary documents as well as a host of ways to use them, with questions for each document as well as for each section. Additionally, it offers more comprehensive chronological, thematic sets for use. The latter feature is the thing that most made it stand out to me.”
– Karen Phoenix, Washington State University

“I am pretty impressed by the accessibility of most of these sources!”
– Colette A. Hyman, Winona State University

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Table of Contents

PART 1: TRANSFORMATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA (1491–1700)
CHAPTER 1: Colliding Worlds, 1491–1600
CHAPTER 2: American Experiments, 1521–1700
PART 1 DOCUMENT SET: Developing Patterns of Atlantic World Exchange, 1491–1700

PART 2: BRITISH NORTH AMERICA AND THE ATLANTIC WORLD (1607–1763)
CHAPTER 3: The British Atlantic World, 1607–1750
CHAPTER 4:  Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720–1763
PART 2 DOCUMENT SET: The Causes and Consequences of the Peopling of North America, 1607–1763

PART 3: REVOLUTION AND REPUBLICAN CULTURE (1754–1820)
CHAPTER 5: The Problem of Empire, 1754–1776  
CHAPTER 6: Making War and Republican Governments, 1776–1789
CHAPTER 7: Hammering Out a Federal Republic,  1787–1820
PART 3 DOCUMENT SET: The Emergence of Democratic Ideals and a New National Identity, 1754–1820

PART 4: OVERLAPPING REVOLUTIONS (1800–1848)
CHAPTER 8: Economic Transformations, 1800–1848
CHAPTER 9: A Democratic Revolution, 1800–1848
CHAPTER 10:  Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820–1848
CHAPTER 11: Imperial Ambitions, 1820–1848
PART 4 DOCUMENT SET: Environment and Identity in an Age of Revolutions, 1800–1848

PART 5: CONSOLIDATING A CONTINENTAL UNION (1844–1877)
CHAPTER 12: Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844–1860
CHAPTER 13: Bloody Ground: The Civil War, 1861–1865
CHAPTER 14: Reconstruction, 1865–1877

Rebecca Edwards

Rebecca Edwards is Eloise Ellery Professor of History at Vassar College, where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century politics, the Civil War, the frontier West, and women, gender, and sexuality. She is the author of, among other publications, Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era; New Spirits: Americans in the “Gilded Age,” 1865–1905; and the essay “Women’s and Gender History” in The New American History. She is currently working on a book about the role of childbearing in the expansion of America’s nineteenth-century empire.

Eric Hinderaker

Eric Hinderaker is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Utah. His research explores early modern imperialism, relations between Europeans and Native Americans, military-civilian relations in the Atlantic world, and comparative colonization. His most recent book, Boston’s Massacre, was awarded the Cox Book Prize from the Society of the Cincinnati and was a finalist for the George Washington Prize. His other publications include Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673–1800; The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery, which won the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History from the New York Academy of History; and, with Peter C. Mancall, At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America.

Robert O. Self

Robert O. Self is Mary Ann Lippitt Professor of American History at Brown University. His research focuses on urban history, American politics, and the post-1945 United States. He is the author of American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, which won four professional prizes, including the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s. He is currently at work on a book about the centrality of houses, cars, and children to family consumption in the twentieth-century United States.

James A. Henretta

James A. Henretta is Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he taught Early American History and Legal History. His publications include “Salutary Neglect”: Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle; Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600-1820; and The Origins of American Capitalism. His most recent publication is a long article, “Magistrates, Lawyers, Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of Early America,” in The Cambridge History of American Law.

Kevin B. Sheets

Kevin B. Sheets is Professor and Chair of the History Department at the State University of New York, at Cortland, where he teaches courses on American intellectual and cultural history. He has received six National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awards and three U.S. Department of Education "Teaching American History" grants to lead K-12 teacher professional development programs.

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