Provides a history of the United States from pre-Columbian Native American civilizations to the Clinton administration

Product Description: A companion primary-source reader for America: A Narrative History.For The Record, Fourth Edition, includes a rich collection of 225 primary sources, both textual and visual, with just the right amount of pedagogy. The. Fourth Edition includes a number of documents designed to highlight the new theme of religion in the Eighth Edition of America: A Narrative History...read more

Looking across three centuries of want and prosperity, war and peace, this work introduces a cast of practitioners and proponents of the simple life, among them Thomas Jefferson, Scott and Helen Nearing, Jimmy Carter and Jane Addams. It finds that nothing is simple about our mercurial devotion to the ideal of plain living and high thinking. Though we may hedge a bit in practice and are now and then driven by motives no deeper than nostalgia, this work stresses that the diverse efforts to avoid anxious social striving and compulsive materialism have been essential to the nation's spiritual health.

Product Description: For The Record: A Documentary History of America is a rich resource with over 300 primary source readings from diaries, journals, newspaper articles, speeches, government documents, and novels. This ancillary has been updated to mirror Tindall and Shi's America: A Narrative History's contents, making it easy to assign readings that enrich discussions in the text...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For The Record: A Documentary History of America is a rich resource with over 300 primary source readings from diaries, journals, newspaper articles, speeches, government documents, and novels. This ancillary has been updated to mirror Tindall and Shi's America: A Narrative History's contents, making it easy to assign readings that enrich discussions in the text...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Noted historian-cum-university president genially shares his discoveries; When David Emory Shi, a leading historian and writer, left the classrooms of Davidson College for the president's office of Furman University in 1994, he took with him his interest in the past, in people, and in the process of becoming educated...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Assembled by a highly successful textbook author and an accomplished scholar and teacher, For the Record is a new and exciting two-volume primary source reader for American history survey courses. Variety and substance are the text's defining qualities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In 1985, David Shi's The Simple Life received much critical acclaim and generated widespread popular interest. "The first history of the idea of the simple life in American," said Walter Harding in The thoreau Society Bulletin, "and an excellent one it is...read more

Product Description: Yale University Press, 1981, Very good., Clean, tight, in dust jacket. Light wear. 314 pages. [Biography, Matthew Josephson] Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.