Over sixty new documents support updated scholarship and themes in the parent text including enhanced coverage of political culture and economy, the environment, westward expansion, and gender and ethnicity.
New voices ranging from a Puritan clergyman to a women’s suffrage worker and a famous astronomer have been added to this edition to provide students with a broader assortment of viewpoints and perspectives.
Revised document groupings reflect structural changes in the parent text in the mid-19th century, the long Progressive Era, and the age of liberalism and civil rights.