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American Experiences, Volume I, 6/E
Randy Roberts, Purdue University
James S. Olson, Sam Houston State University

ISBN-10: 032121644X
ISBN-13: 9780321216441

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 432 pp
Published: 07/26/2004

This item has been replaced by American Experiences, Volume 1, 7/E .

This collection of secondary readings, written by a variety of authors, emphasizes social history through the use of high-interest readings that illuminate important aspects of America's past.

American Experiences shows the complexity and richness of the nation's past by focusing on the people themselves—how they coped with, adjusted to, or rebelled against America. The readings examine people as they worked and played, fought and loved, lived and died.

  • This collection offers secondary readings written by multiple authors about a wide variety of social-oriented topics. A large number of selections allows instructors many choices.
  • Popular culture and high-interest topics have been chosen because of their appeal to students.
  • Each essay serves two purposes: to tell a particular story well, and to help illuminate the social or political landscape of America.

  • Volume I has 10 new readings, including readings on Daniel Boone, Folklore, and P.T. Barnum.



Preface.


1. New England Life.

Alfred W. Crosby, Jr., “God...Would Destroy Them, and Give Their Country to Another People...”

Thomas A. Foster, “Deficient Husbands: Manhood, Sexual Incapacity, and Male Marital Sexuality in Seventeenth-Century New England.”

Cornelius Hughes Dayton, “Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village.”

Peggy Robbins, “The Devil in Salem.”

Marcus Rediker, “Under the Banner of King Death: The Social World of the Anglo-American Pirates, 1716 to 1726.”



2. Southern Life.

Winthrop Jordan, “Englishmen and Africans.”

Alexander Falconridge, “Treatment of the Slaves.”

T.H. Breen, “Horses and Gentlemen.”

Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh, “The Planter's Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland.”



3. The Revolutionary Generation.

John Mack Faragher, “But a Common Man: Daniel Boone.”

Phyllis Lee Levin, Abigail Adams and the American Revolution .

James S. Olson, “Wounded and Presumed Dead: Dying of Breast Cancer in Early America.”

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “A Midwife's Tale.”

Uzal E. Ent, “America's First Confrontation with the Muslim World.”



4. Adjusting to America.

Barbara Welter, “The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860.”

Peter Quinn, “The Tragedy of Bridget Such-A-One.”

Arnold de Leon and Saul Sanchez, “Folklore and Life Experience.”

JoAnn Levy, “Forgotten Forty-Niners.”



5. The Age of Imagination.

William A. DeGregorio, “The Choice: The Jackson-Dickinson Duel.”

Randy Roberts and James S. Olson, “In Search of Davy's Grave.”

Martin S. Pernick, “Anesthesia and the Politics of Pain.”

Morris Bishop, “The Great Oneida Love-In.”

Elliott J. Gorn, “Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch.”



6. Americans Divided.

Benjamin Reiss, “P.T. Barnum, Joice Heth and Antebellum Spectacles of Race.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe, “The Slave Warehouse” from Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Henry F. Tragle, “The Southampton Slave Revolt.”

Stanley S. Ivins, “Notes on Mormon Polygamy.”

Stephen B. Oates, “God's Angry Man.”



7. Civil War and Reconstruction.

Joseph Glathaar, Gettysburg.

James W. Clarke, “John Wilkes Booth and the Politics of Assassination.”

Allen W. Trelease, “The Knights of the Rising Sun.”

Larry McMurtry, “A Road They Did Not Know.”

    This diverse and distinctive collection of secondary sources, written by a variety of authors, emphasizes social and cultural history.  Each article illuminates the complexity and richness of the nation's past by focusing on the people themselves--how they coped with, adjusted to, or rebelled against America.  The readings examine people as they worked and played, fought and loved, lived and died.

  • 0321487028American Experiences, Volume 1, 7/E
    Roberts & Olson
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    ISBN-10: 0321487028 | ISBN-13: 9780321487025
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