Contextualizing America's Past: An Activities Based Reader through 1877

About the Authors:

Brad Cartwright earned his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, his M.A. from the University of Texas at El Paso, and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. His research focuses on race, gender, and imperialism in nineteenth-century America and the Pacific Basin. Dr. Cartwright teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on early and antebellum American history, as well the pedagogy of history. He also serves as the director of UTEP’s Center for History Teaching and Learning. In 2015, he was awarded a University of Texas Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award.

Sue Stanfield earned her B.A. from Baylor University, Masters Degrees from University of North Texas (Communication Studies) and Kansas State University (History) and her Ph.D. in History from the University of Iowa where she also completed a graduate certificate in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on race and gender in the nineteenth-century United States. Dr. Stanfield teaches the U.S. History Survey (through 1865) as well as undergraduate and graduate courses on African American History, Women’s History, The Civil War and Reconstruction, History of Sexuality and the Nineteenth-Century United States.

About the Book:

Contextualizing America's Past: An Activities Based Reader through 1877 is an affordable and excellent addition to any United States history course's reading list for the period through 1877. This activities based reader challenges students to go beyond just reading the documents of our nation's founding. It engages them with probing questions and activities to evaluate the interpretation and understanding of each reading. The book is priced very affordably, so any instructor can add it to their course's reading list.