Exploring American Histories, Value Edition, Combined Volume: A Survey - Softcover

Hewitt, Nancy A.; Lawson, Steven F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1319038263 ISBN 13: 9781319038267

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2016

Synopsis

The diverse histories of the United States that come to life in Exploring American Histories are available at a lower price in a compact format. The two-color Value Edition includes the full narrative and all maps and select images from the comprehensive text.

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About the Author

Nancy A. Hewitt (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is Professor Emerita of History and of Women s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her publications include Southern Discomfort: Women s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s, for which she received the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize from the Southern Association of Women Historians; Women s Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822-1872; the edited volume No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism; and the co-edited volume, Lucretia Mott Speaks. She is currently working on a biography of the nineteenth-century radical activist Amy Kirby Post.

Steven F. Lawson (Ph.D., Columbia University) is Professor Emeritus of History at Rutgers University. His research interests include U.S. politics since 1945 and the history of the civil rights movement, with a particular focus on black politics and the interplay between civil rights and political culture in the mid-twentieth century. He is the author of many works including Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America since 1941; Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969; and In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics, 1965-1982."

Edition details

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1319038263
• ISBN 13: 9781319038267
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 788