Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.
Offering an abbreviated, accessible, and lively narrative history of the United States, this erudite volume contains the essential facts about the discovery, settlement, growth, and development of the American nation and its institutions.
Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the struggles for workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights during the nineteenth and twentieth ...
A True History of the United States was inspired by a course that Sjursen taught to cadets at West Point, his alma mater.
In short, vivid chapters the book brings to life hundreds of individuals whose stories are part of the larger American story.
For her writings, see Ida B. Wells-Barnett, The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-lynching Crusader, ed. Mia Bay and Henry Louis Gates Jr. (New York: Penguin Books, 2014). Frederick Douglass, Letter, in Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors: ...
Weinstein and Gattell: “When Indian warfare broke out on the frontier,” Berkeley “called for restraint.” Williams and Freidel: In , Berkeley opened up the frontier to settlement, sending explorers and an army.
Accompanied by interpretations of their significance by noted historian Richard D. Heffner and journalist Alexander Heffner, this book includes important documents such as: The complete text of the Declaration of Independence The complete ...
Here is one striking example of the class anger and spirit of popular rebellion at the time, from a letter that Joseph Clarke, the adopted child of Joseph Hawley, a well-known Massachusetts politician, sent to an unknown friaod.
From Colonization to the Space Race, this is the story of America's successes and failures.