This is an affordable two-volume anthology for introductory American history courses in which instructors use primary source materials to supplement the main textbook. A balanced collection, it features readings from a variety of fields of history, including economic, political, cultural, and social. Each volume contains approximately 75 pieces, including traditional political treatises, songs, diaries, orations and speeches, and journals. Chapter introductions accompany the selections.

This is an affordable two-volume anthology for introductory American history courses in which instructors use primary source materials to supplement the main textbook. A balanced collection, it features readings from a variety of fields of history, including economic, political, cultural, and social. Each volume contains approximately 75 pieces, including traditional political treatises, songs, diaries, orations and speeches, and journals. Chapter introductions accompany the selections.

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.

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.

This reader is a compilation of current newspaper, magazine, and journal articles on American history. The issues discussed include: reconstruction and the gilded age; the emergence of modern America; and new directions for America. Annual Editions titles are supported by Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/), a student Web site designed for additional study support tools and links to related Web sites.

This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in American history through readings that reflect a variety of viewpoints. Each issue is framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. Taking Sides is supported by our student Web site, Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/).

This anthology about women and minorities in Texas collects eighteen essays by highly respected scholars, examining the latest multicultural interpretations of the Lone Star state and placing them in a historical perspective. The distinctive and diverse nature of Texas history comes alive through the book’s focus on topics that have been under-represented in Texas history literature.

This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in American history through readings that reflect a variety of viewpoints. Each issue is framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. The Taking Sides readers feature annotated listings of selected World Wide Web sites. Taking Sides is supported by our student website, Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/).

This updated reader is a compilation of current newspaper, magazine, and journal articles relating to issues in American history. The topics include: the new land; revolutionary America; and new directions for American history. This title is supported by Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/), a student Web site designed to provide study support tools and links to related Web sites.

THE MAP WORKBOOK FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY consists of approximately 25 maps that trace the African experience throughout the world and in America. Accompanied by map exercises and thought questions, each map is designed to strengthen students’ knowledge of geography, as well as their critical-thinking skills. The maps focus on a wide range of topics, covering African American social, political, cultural, and economic history. This workbook provides a useful pedagogical tool for courses in African American history where instructors would like to stress the important relationship between history and geography.

For more than twenty-five years, After the Fact has provided a time-tested, innovative approach to guiding students through American history and the methods used to study it. In dramatic episodes that move chronologically through American history, this best-selling book examines a broad variety of topics like oral evidence, photographs, ecological data, films and television programs, church and town records, census data, and novels. Whether for the introductory survey or for a historical methods course, After the Fact is the ideal text for any instructor who wants to introduce his or her students to what it is that historians actually do when studying American history.