Portrait of America, Volume I
by Oates, Stephen; Errico, Charles J.Edition: 10th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-08-04
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Summary
PORTRAIT OF AMERICA is an anthology of essays written by some of America?s most eminent historians. The collection maintains a loose biographical focus. The essays in this secondary-source reader humanize American history by portraying it as a story of real people with whom students can easily identify. More than 25 percent of the essays in the Tenth Edition are new, many from books that have been nationally and internationally recognized for their insight, accuracy, and timeliness, ensuring that the readings continue to be provocative and trustworthy. Each selection is preceded by an introduction for context, and a helpful glossary identifies important individuals, events, and concepts. Study questions follow each selection, prompting students to make comparisons between the readings.
Table of Contents
| The European Discovery | |
| The American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World | |
| Love and Hate in the Jamestown Colony | |
| The First Century | |
| Black People in a White People's Country | |
| The Devil in Salem Village | |
| Transformations | |
| The Empire of My Heart: The Marriage of William Byrd II and Lucy Parke Byrd | |
| Citizen Ben: A Worldly American's Seven Great Virtues | |
| "When in the Course of Human Events..." | |
| John Adams and the Coming of the Revolution | |
| Thomas Jefferson and the Meanings of Liberty | |
| Birthof the Republic | |
| Miracle at Philadelphia | |
| The Greatness of George Washington | |
| Patterns of Society | |
| The Personal Side of a Developing People | |
| I'm Almost Worn Out in the Cause: Motherhood and Childbearing in the Old South | |
| The Nation Takes Shape | |
| The Duel | |
| The Great Chief Justice | |
| Woe if it Comes with Storm and Blood and Fire | |
| The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion | |
| I Will Be Heard!: William Lloyd Garrison and the Struggle Against Slavery | |
| The Age of Jackson | |
| Andrew Jackson: Flamboyant Hero of the Common Man | |
| A Giant of Contradictions: The Irrepressible Sam Houston | |
| Thegrowth of Technology | |
| The Erie Canal: The Waterway That Shaped a Great Nation | |
| Camelot on the Merrimack | |
| Beyond the Mississippi | |
| The Trail of Tears | |
| Empire of Gold: The Great California Gold Rush | |
| "To make them Stand in Fear": The Slaveowning South | |
| Runaways from a Hellish System | |
| Bound for Canaan: Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the Underground Railroad | |
| The Death of Slavery | |
| The Father of American Terrorism | |
| Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation | |
| The Scourge of Civil War | |
| The Ravages of War | |
| Master of The Game | |
| A Troubled Peace | |
| Call Me Mister: The Black Experience During Reconstruction | |
| The Checkered History of the Great Fourteenth Amendment | |
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