Product Description: The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources...read more

Product Description: This Third Edition of TAKING SIDES: UNITED STATES HISTORY SINCE 1945 presents current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript...read more

Product Description: This anthology brings together the late Barry A. Crouch's most important articles on the African American experience in Texas during Reconstruction. Grouped topically, the essays explore what freedom meant to the newly emancipated, how white Texans reacted to the freed slaves, and how Freedmen's Bureau agents and African American politicians worked to improve the lot of ordinary African American Texans...read more

Taking Sides volumes present current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with Learning Outcomes, an Issue Summary, an Introduction, and an Exploring the Issue section featuring Critical Thinking and Reflection, Is There Common Ground?, and Additional Resources. Taking Sides readers also offer a Topic Guide and an annotated listing of Internet References for further consideration of the issues. An online Instructor’s Resource Guide with testing material is available for each volume. Using Taking Sides in the Classroom is also an excellent instructor resource. Visit www.mhhe.com/takingsides for more details.

A debate-style reader provides an introduction to a series of controversial issues in American history, followed by arguments presenting opposing viewpoints on the topic.

Product Description: This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in global issues through readings that reflect a variety of viewpoints. Each issue is framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript...read more

Provides a variety of debates on such topics as the Great Awakening and the American Revolution, Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, antebelleum reform, slavery, the industrial revolution, and the Cuban missile crisis.

Provides a variety of debates on such topics as the Great Awakening and the American Revolution, Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, antebelleum reform, slavery, the industrial revolution, and the Cuban missile crisis.

Provides articles that debate such topics as the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan, Watergate, and the end of the Cold War. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Examines some leading issues from the perspective of sharply opposing points of view to show clearly the controversies of a given issue. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This debate-style reader introduces students to controversies in American history. The readings, arguments of leading historians, reflect a variety of viewpoints and are presented in yes and no pairs. The book encourages students to analyze opposing viewpoints and reach considered judgements...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)