Exploring American Histories, Volume 1: A Survey with Sources

Hewitt, Nancy A.; Lawson, Steven F.

ISBN 10: 1457694700 / ISBN 13: 9781457694707

Published by Bedford/St. Martin's, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exploring American Histories, Volume 1: A Survey with Sources
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1457694700
• ISBN 13: 9781457694707
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Using both written and visual primary sources, Exploring American Histories, Volume 1 illuminates the many histories of this nation while showing you how to think crtically about the sources which lay the groundwork for historical narratives.

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."