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American Passages: A History of the United States, Brief Edition (with InfoTrac and American Journey Online) - Hardcover
Synopsis
AMERICAN PASSAGES, Brief Edition is a survey of U.S. History that uses online resources and a fully integrated, text-specific Web site to heighten students' awareness and understanding of the past. Crafted from the comprehensive text of the same title, this concise text follows the chronological contours of U.S. history. Each of its 32 chapters focuses on a discrete set of years--allowing the authors to weave events, movements, and groups of people into a unified narrative. The narrative helps students see the ways that different themes and issues in American history have interacted, and allows them to make connections between those themes and issues. Integrated references to the book's Web site allow students to experience history from the vantage of those who lived it. AMERICAN PASSAGES: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, Brief Edition is available in the following split options: American Passages, Comprehensive, Brief Edition, First Edition (Chapters 1-32), ISBN: 0155049518; American Passages, Volume I: To 1877, Brief Edition, First Edition (Chapters 1-16), ISBN: 0155051172; American Passages, Volume II: Since 1863, Brief Edition, First Edition (Chapters 15-32), ISBN: 0155051237.
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About the Author
Edward L. Ayers is Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History at the University of Virginia, where he has recently been named Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He is also Executive Director of the Center for Digital History, an institute at the University of Virginia dedicated to crafting and teaching history in new media. His digital project, "The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War," was ranked by the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA as one of the top forty education sites in the world and named the best Civil War site by Yahoo!® Ayers has written and edited several books, one of which, THE PROMISE OF THE NEW SOUTH: LIFE AFTER RECONSTRUCTION (1992), was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Ayers has won numerous teaching awards. He is the author of Chapters 9?15.
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- PublisherWadsworth Publishing
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0155049518
- ISBN 13 9780155049512
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages944
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