America Firsthand: Volume Two: Readings from Reconstruction to the Present

Marcus, Anthony,Burner, David,Marcus, Robert D.

ISBN 10: 0312446721 / ISBN 13: 9780312446727

Editore: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006

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• Titolo: America Firsthand: Volume Two: Readings from Reconstruction to the Present
• Editore: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0312446721
• ISBN 13: 9780312446727
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

One of the most widely adopted primary source U.S. history readers, America Firsthand presents history in the words of the people who made it, inviting and provoking students to think critically about the past. The seventh edition continues to bring the past to life with more visual and textual sources that increase diversity, represent current scholarship, and engage students.

Informazioni sull?autore

ROBERT D. MARCUS, late of the State University of New York College at Brockport, wrote on late-nineteenth-century American politics as well as on the United States in the 1960s. He developed materials for collaborative learning techniques and edited several dozen books for Brandywine Press.

DAVID BURNER, professor of history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, has written two books on John F. Kennedy as well as books on Herbert Hoover, the 1960s, and the Democratic Party in the 1920s, including a number of textbooks. Burner has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and is currently writing a treatise on the administration of George W. Bush.

ANTHONY MARCUS teaches at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has taught at the City University of New York, the State University of New York, and Hofstra University and served as dean at St. John's University and at the American University in Dubai. He has published numerous books and articles on American history and Afro-American life and culture. His most recent book covers the life and work of radical editor George Breitman.