American History
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early US history
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transcribing documents
transcribing primary documents
transcription
US history
US history to 1877
writing
writing US history
Product details
- ISBN 9781405163590
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 218 x 274mm
- Publication Date: 13 Feb 2009
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: 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
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.
