History in the Making An Absorbing Look at How American History Has Changed in the Telling over the Last 200 Years

Name: History in the Making An Absorbing Look at How American History Has Changed in the Telling over the Last 200 Years
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ISBN: 9781595582157

ISBN-10: 1595582150

ISBN-13: 9781595582157

Edition: 2007

Authors: Kyle Ward

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A fascinating reminder of how contemporary prejudices color the way each generation looks at the nation's past. In this "thought-provoking study" ("Library Journal"), historian Kyle Ward--the widely acclaimed co-author of "History Lessons"--gives us another fascinating look at the biases inherent in the way we learn about our history. Juxtaposing passages from U.S. history textbooks from different eras, "History in the Making" provides us with intriguing new perspectives on familiar historical events and the ways in which they have been represented over time. The hardcover edition of "History in the Making" struck a chord among readers of popular history, and Ward was featured on NPR's…

Book details

List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 10/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 374
Size: 5.87" wide x 8.93" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Editor's Note


Introduction



Exploration and Colonization



Native American Relations with the New Settlers



The Vikings



Columbus's Landing in the New World



St. Augustine: America's First City



Captain John Smith and Pocahontas



The Pilgrims Land in the New World



New Sweden



Anne Hutchinson



Witchcraft in the Colonies



The American Revolution



George Washington and Fort Duquesne



The Boston Massacre



Lexington and Concord



Massacre at Wyoming



Women in the Revolutionary War



The New Nation



Andrew Jackson and the Battle of Horseshoe Bend



The Monroe Doctrine



The Caroline Affair



The Trail of Tears



The Mormons



The Alamo



The Start of the Mexican-American War



The Civil War Era



Slavery in America



Abraham Lincoln's Character



John Brown at Harpers Ferry



The Dakota Conflict of 1862



Sherman's March to the Sea



African Americans and Reconstruction



Birth of the Ku Klux Klan



Industrialization, Imperialism, and War



Eugene V. Debs and the Pullman Strike



Immigration



Women's Suffrage



The Sinking of the USS Maine



The Philippine-American War



The Espionage Act



The League of Nations



The Great Depression and World War II



Causes of the Stock Market Crash



Social Security Act



The Bataan Death March



Japanese Internment



Rosie the Riveter



The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki



The Cold War and Postwar America



The Marshall Plan



Truman Fires MacArthur



McCarthyism



Desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement



The Bay of Pigs



The Laotian Crisis



The Vietnam Era



The Gulf of Tonkin



The Countercultre



Nixon in China



The Modern Feminist Movement



The Camp David Accords



The Reagan Revolution


Notes


Bibliography


Permissions


Index