Gorn, et al.
©2005
ISBN: 0-321-21641-5
Soft cover

This popular reader consists of a variety of primary sources grouped around central themes in American history.

• Each chapter focuses on a particular problem in American history.
• Introductions, documents, and study questions prompt students to think critically.
• End-of-chapter pedagogy, including Postscript Questions, a Defining Terms section, Probing the Sources, Interpreting the Sources, and Additional Readings, helps students analyze and think critically about the sources.
• Strong coverage on the voices of minorities and women, such as excerpts from Olaudah Equiano's diary of slavery and Sarah Osborn's life and times as a recent widow in colonial America (Ch. 4).
• In-depth discussion of the making of the Constitution in 1787, with particularly rich source material about the many controversies surrounding the Constitution, including slavery (Ch. 6).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Reconstruction and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
2. The Great Strike of 1877
3. When Cultures Collide: Wounded Knee
4. New Americans: The Immigrants
5. Building an Empire: America and the Philippines
6. The Woman Rebel: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement
7. Selling the War: Recruitment Posters of World War I
8. Science on Trial: Tennessee Versus John Thomas Scopes
9. Writing the Great Depression
10. In Love and War: Exploring World War II through Family and Oral History
11. Setting the Temperature of the Cold War
12. The Civil Rights Movement: Freedom Summer, 1964
13. Iron Man Comics
14. HIV-AIDS