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For the Record: A Documentary History of America: From First Contact through Reconstruction - Softcover

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9780393934038: For the Record: A Documentary History of America: From First Contact through Reconstruction
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ISBN 10: 0393934039 ISBN 13: 9780393934038
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009

Synopsis

A companion primary-source reader for America: A Narrative History.

For The Record, Fourth Edition, includes a rich collection of 225 primary sources, both textual and visual, with just the right amount of pedagogy. The. Fourth Edition includes a number of documents designed to highlight the new theme of religion in the Eighth Edition of America: A Narrative History.

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About the Authors

David Emory Shi?is president emeritus and professor emeritus at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. After receiving his PhD from the University of Virginia, he taught for seventeen years at Davidson College, where he won the Distinguished Teaching Award and served as History Department Chair. In addition to authoring the best-selling America: A Narrative History family of books, he is the author of several books focusing on American cultural history, including the award-winning?The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture?and?Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850–1920. While serving as a Trustee at several colleges, he remains highly engaged with students and instructors around the country with his many annual “author-in-residence” campus visits.

Holly Mayer is professor emeritus at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Holly’s PhD is from the College of William and Mary. Her research field is late-eighteenth-century America, and she is especially interested in civil-military relations during the War for Independence and the evolution of American character and culture. Her monograph, Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community during the American Revolution (1996), is a path-breaking study of the Continental Army as a community. Her new book, Congress's Own: A Canadian Regiment, the Continental Army, and American Union (2021), chronicles Colonel Moses Hazen’s 2nd Canadian Regiment.

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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0393934039
ISBN 13 
9780393934038
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
4
Number of pages
472
Editor
Shi David E., Mayer Holly A.
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  • 3.72 out of 5 stars
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