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CENGAGE Discovering The American Past A Look At The Evidence Volume I To 1877 8Th Edition by William Bruce Wheeler
This primary source reader in the popular DISCOVERING series contains a six-part pedagogical framework that guides students through the process of historical inquiry and explanation. The text emphasizes historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data. Each chapter is organized around the same pedagogical framework: The Problem, Background, The Method, The Evidence, Questions to Consider, and Epilogue. Volume I of the Eighth Edition integrates new documents and revised coverage throughout. For example, there are new chapters on creation stories and culture in colonial America, the transition to racial slavery in Virginia, women's rights, and Civil War nurses. 1. The Beginning of the World: Creation Accounts and Cultural Values in the Americas and Europe.2. The Threat of Anne Hutchinson.3. From English Servants to African Slaves: Creating Racial Slavery in Colonial Virginia.4. What Really Happened in the Boston Massacre? The Trial of Captain Thomas Preston.5. The Evolution of American Citizenship: The Louisiana Purchase, 1803-1812.6. Church, State, and Democracy: The Sunday Mail Controversy, 1827-1831.7. Land, Growth, and Justice: The Removal of the Cherokees.8. "Women Out of Their Latitude": Gender in the American Republic.9. The "Peculiar Institution": Slaves Tell Their Own Stories.10. Caring for the Sick and Wounded: Women Nurses in the Civil War.11. Reconstructing Reconstruction: Political Cartoonist Thomas Nast and Public Opinion.12. History Skills in Action: Designing Your Own Project.