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Product Description: Book by Berkin, Carol

Making America presents history as a dynamic process that is shaped by human expectations, difficult choices, and surprising circumstances. By describing history as a process that students themselves can—and do—influence, the text engages students in learning about the past and emphasizes that each person has the power to make history, to make America.A strong chronological narrative, together with an integrated program of learning and teaching aids, makes the historical material vivid and comprehensible to students at all levels of preparedness.The chapter-opening Individual Choices feature provides a portrait of one individual and highlights how this person's decisions relate to an important issue raised in the chapter. This feature dramatizes the theme that historical events are not inevitable but are the result of real people making real choices.The chapter-ending Individual Voices feature presents a primary source in an accessible way, allowing students to explore a primary source as a historian would. Each source is either written by or related to the person in that chapter's Individual Choices feature. A variety of sources are used, including personal letters, poems, speeches, political statements, and newspaper articles. Brief introductions set the context for the primary source, and color-coded Exploration Points in the margin pose provocative questions and provide interesting facts about what the source reveals.

Product Description: Prepared by Carol Berkin of Baruch College, City University of New York and Betty Anderson of Boston University. This book teaches students both basic and history-specific study skills such as how to read primary sources, research historical topics, and correctly cite sources...read more

A thought-provoking study of the vital part played by women during the Revolutionary War details their diverse roles raising funds, disseminating propaganda, managing businesses and homes, and serving as nurses, spies, warriors, and saboteurs, profiling such figures as Phillis Wheatley, Dicey Langston, Margaret Corbin, and Abigail Adams. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.