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Writing the American Past : US History to 1877
ISBN: 9781405163590 | 1405163593
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 3/9/2009
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Writing the American Past reproduces dozens of untranscribed, handwritten primary documents: diary entries from Massachusetts in the 1690s, a woman detailing the Great Awakening, an eighteenth-century treaty with Native Americans, a letter by a slave, all of which capture the essence of the American past and introduce students to the raw material of pre-1877 US history: the written document.Expertly introduced and edited by Mark M. Smith, this unique textbook offers students the rare opportunity to engage directly with original documents, teach... MORE
| Acknowledgments | |
| Timeline | |
| EditorG+ s Introduction: History, Handed Down | |
| Old World Explores New: Settling and Securing Newfoundland in the early 1600s | |
| The Chesapeake: Indenturing Labor, 1694 | |
| Life in Seventeenth-Century New England: Massachusetts in the 1690s | |
| The Middle Colonies: A Philadelphia Furrier, 1738 | |
| The Lower South and Slave Society: Slave Resis... MORE | |
| Social Order in the Eighteenth-Century South: Slavery and Virginia's Gentry in the 1720s | |
| The Great Awakening: A Letter to George Whitefield, 1746 | |
| Empire and Native Americans: The Treaty of Lancaster, 1744 | |
| Imperial Crises and the Coming of Revolution: The Politicization of a Colonial Merchant, 1765 | |
| Fighting the Revolutionary War: A Woman on the Homefront, 1776 | |
| Crisis, Constitution, Nation: Probate Data and the Problem of Becoming American | |
| The New Republic: A Massachusetts Federalist in 1800 | |
| Jeffersonian America: On the Road in 1818 | |
| Revolutions in Time and Space: Tourism and Travel, 1850 | |
| The Age of Jackson: The View from Abroad in 1828 | |
| The Southern Master Class: An Elite Woman's School Experiences, 1828 | |
| Lives of the Enslaved: Urban Slavery in 1862 | |
| The Modernizing North: A Businessman's Letter, 1836 | |
| The Age of Reform: On the Need for Temperance | |
| Westward Expansion: Kansas and Free Labor in 1856 | |
| The Coming of the Civil War: Bleeding in Kansas, 1856 | |
| Secession: A South Carolinian Describes the Event, 1860 | |
| The Civil War:A Canadian Soldier's Experience | |
| Emancipation: The Labor of Freedom, 1867 | |
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Mark M. Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is the author or editor of a dozen previous books including the award-winning Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (1997) and he has served or currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Southern History, the Journal of Social History, the Journal of American History, and The Senses and Society.
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