Constructing the American Past: A Sourcebook of a People's History, Volume One to 1877 [Paperback]

Constructing the American Past: A Sourcebook of a People's History, Ninth Edition, presents an innovative combination of case studies and primary source documents that allow students to discover, analyze, and construct history from the actors' perspective.Constructing the American Past: A Sourcebook of a People's History, Ninth Edition, presents an innovative combination of case studies and primary source documents that allow students to discover, analyze, and construct history from the actors' perspective.Beginning with Christopher Columbus and his interaction with the Spanish crown in 1492, and ending in the Reconstruction-era United States,Constructing the American Pastprovides eyewitness accounts of historical events, legal documents that helped shape the lives of citizens, and excerpts from diaries that show history through an intimate perspective. The authors expand upon past scholarship and include new material regarding gender, race, and immigration in order to provide a more complete picture of the past.Each chapter ends with Questions and Additional ReadingChapter 1 First Encounters in the AmericasChapter 2 The Founding of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay ColoniesChapter 3 Eighteenth-Century VoicesChapter 4 What Kind of Revolution? Justifications for RebellionChapter 5 Forming a More Perfect Union: The Constitution and the Bill of RightsChapter 6 Religious Revivals and Social Reform in the Early RepublicChapter 7 The Ambitions and Limitations of Jacksonian DemocracyChapter 8 The Upheaval of Westward ExpansionChapter 9 Ideals and Realities for Antebellum WomenChapter 10 Immigration and Nativism in the Antebellum EraChapter 11 A House Divided: Free Labor, Slave LaborChapter 12 How Did American Slavery End?Chapter 13 Civil War by Other MeansElliott J. Gorn - Joseph A. Gagliano Chair in American Urban History, Loyola University, ChicagoSusan Schulten - Professor of History, University of DenverRandy Roberts - Distinguished Professor oflS