I think that American Yawp does a fantastic job covering the major events in the history of early America. It sheds light on many of the transformative forces that shaped our understanding of the American past. But I did feel like some specific sections could have been much longer. I also think more is needed about the United States' engagement with the rest of the world from the time of the republic's founding. For instance, why is there next to nothing on American trade with China in the first volume? The early republic quickly became the second largest trading partner to China. I thought in general more could have been discussed about Americans in the world. For instance, I would recommend that there be a section on Americans at sea, which covers their interactions with peoples all over the world---in the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean, or the Pacific Ocean. Overall, I thought the primary sources selected were fantastic and often meshed well with the secondary material. But again I think some more primary sources from Americans in the China trade and much more on the California Gold Rush.
The volume includes just about all of the topics that one expects in a comprehensive US history text. It begins with pre-Columbian America, then looks at Western Europe on the eve of colonization. It treats Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and...read more
Of The People: A History Of The United States, Volume 1: To 1877, With Sources.epub
The volume includes just about all of the topics that one expects in a comprehensive US history text. It begins with pre-Columbian America, then looks at Western Europe on the eve of colonization. It treats Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English colonization, then moves on to the American Revolution, the creation of the American republic, the Market Revolution, the coming of the Civil War, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Of course some historians would make different choices about inclusion. I was surprised to find only passing mention of Northwest Ordinance of 1787. There is no index, which is a flaw.
This is a fairly comprehensive textbook that outlines the history of the United States, beginning with an overview of the forces that led to colonialist expeditions from European nation-states, outlining some general aspects of pre-colonial North...read more
This is a fairly comprehensive textbook that outlines the history of the United States, beginning with an overview of the forces that led to colonialist expeditions from European nation-states, outlining some general aspects of pre-colonial North America, then moving into the process and initial impact of settler-colonialism in North America in detail. The text then discusses the formation of the Unites States as a nation independent from colonial powers, and moves through the major political, cultural, and social developments that the nation experiences over the following 220 years. Each chapter includes key vocabulary terms and a timeline. The chronologically arranged chapters each have an introduction and subsections, and each term in the index is hyperlinked to the section where it is discussed. This textbook does a fine job of covering a broad period of time with a complex history, in my opinion.
Faced with this united front of government, employers, and their own unions, workers developed the technique of quick unofficial strikes independent of and even against the union structure on a far larger scale than ever before. The number of such strikes began to rise in the summer of 1942, and by 1944-the last full year of the war - there were more strikes than in any previous year in American history,14 averaging 5.6 days apiece.15 Jerome Scott and George Homans, two Harvard sociologists studying wildcats reported that "the responsible leaders of the unions were as weak as management in dealing with 'quickies,' and the government, for all its new machinery, almost as weak."16 They described a detailed study of 118 work stoppages in Detroit auto plants in December, 1944, and January, 1945: 2ff7e9595c
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