American History Firsthand: Working with Primary Sources, Volume 2 [Paperback]

• The design of American History First Hand: Working with Primary Sources allows students to experience real historical evidence. While it may be difficult for instructors to send students to explore archives, historical societies, and museum collections, this exciting new collection gives students the experience and feel for the historian's craft.
• American History First Hand: Working with Primary Sources contains a wide array of primary sources, which fall into three main categories: written and printed sources, visual sources, and material culture, or artifacts. Public and private letters, songs and sheet music, treaties, congressional acts, portraits, cartoons, film posters, family artifacts, needlework and more are included.
• Extensive pedagogy includes an Archive Overview, a Timeline, Placing the Sources in Context, About the Sources, a List of Sources, and Questions to Consider.

Designed to give students an up-close and personal view of history, American History First Hand: Working with Primary Sources offers students the opportunity to experience written documents, visual materials, material culture artifacts, and mapsthe materials historians actually work with to decipher the past.

Completely unique in this market, American History First Hand: Working with Primary Sources is innovative and exciting, allowing students to learn first-hand what history is and what hil£&