America Firsthand, Volume I

by Anthony Marcus; John M. Giggie; David Burner

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America Firsthand, Volume I

Readings from Settlement to Reconstruction

ISBN-10: 0-312-65640-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-65640-9
Paper Text, 368 pages

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Authors

Anthony Marcus
John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York
John M. Giggie
University of Alabama
David Burner
late of the State University of New York at Stony Brook

Voices and images of America, ready for the classroom

This distinctive, class-tested primary source reader tells America’s story through the words and other creative expressions of the ordinary and extraordinary Americans who shaped it. Now featuring the contributions of new co-author John M. Giggie, an award-winning teacher and scholar from the University of Alabama, America Firsthand offers a remarkable range of first-person perspectives that bring the past vividly to life — from an African American minister’s message of racial liberation, to the prison notes of suffragists, to a writer’s recollections of Sputnik. “Points of View” sections provide varied vantage points on important topics, and “Visual Portfolios” draw students into interpreting the visual record. This carefully crafted, ready-to-go collection saves instructors time and effort in finding consistently engaging and informative sources.

“This is the best reader I have ever worked with — innovative and appealing to students, who feel they are getting ‘the real story.’ I like that it blends documents with visual sections, as it supports my efforts to teach with as many historical sources as possible.”
— Abby Chandler, University of Massachusetts Lowell