Writing American Past by Smith, Mark M.

Writing American Past (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781405163590)

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Writing American Past by Smith, Mark M.

Writing American Past

$25.95
Writing American Past by Smith, Mark M.

Writing American Past

$25.95
Format: Paperback
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Writing the American Past reproduces dozens of untranscribed, handwritten documents, offering students the opportunity to transcribe, decipher, and interpret primary sources.
  • Documents include diary entries from Massachusetts in the 1690s, a woman detailing the Great Awakening, an eighteenth-century treaty with Native Americans, a journal describing antebellum train travel, and a letter by a slave
  • Skillfully teaches students to engage with the raw material of pre-1877 US history: the written document
  • An introduction and headnotes to each document contextualize the sources and provide a foundation from which the student can explore the material


Author: Mark M. Smith
ISBN-10: 1405163593
ISBN-13: 9781405163590
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2009
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 10.70h x 8.50w x 0.60d
By Mark M. Smith
By Mark M. Smith
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Mark M. Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is the author or editor of a dozen previous books including the award-winning Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (1997) and he has served or currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Southern History, the Journal of Social History, the Journal of American History, and The Senses and Society.

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