{"product_id":"writing-the-american-past-isbn-9781405163590","title":"Writing the American Past","description":"\u003ci\u003eWriting the American Past\u003c\/i\u003e reproduces dozens of untranscribed, handwritten documents, offering students the opportunity to transcribe, decipher, and interpret primary sources. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eDocuments include diary entries from Massachusetts in the 1690s, a woman detailing the Great Awakening, an eighteenth-century treaty with Native Americans, a journal describing antebellum train travel, and a letter by a slave\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSkillfully teaches students to engage with the raw material of pre-1877 US history: the written document\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn introduction and headnotes to each document contextualize the sources and provide a foundation from which the student can explore the material\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimeline vii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditor’s Introduction: History, Handed Down 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Old World Explores New: 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSettling and Securing Newfoundland in the Early 1600s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Chesapeake: 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndenturing Labor, 1694\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Life in Seventeenth-century New England: 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMassachusetts in the 1690s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Middle Colonies: 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Philadelphia Furrier, 1738\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Lower South and Slave Society: 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlave Resistance and Imperial Contests, 1739\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Social Order in the Eighteenth-century South: 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlavery and Virginia’s Gentry in the 1720s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Great Awakening: 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Letter to George Whitefield, 1746\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Empire and Native Americans: 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Treaty of Lancaster, 1744\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Imperial Crises and the Coming of Revolution: 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Politicization of a Colonial Merchant, 1765\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Fighting the Revolutionary War: 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAWoman on the Homefront, 1776\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Crisis, Constitution, Nation: 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProbate Data and the Problem of Becoming American in the 1780s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The New Republic: 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Massachusetts Federalist in 1800\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Jeffersonian America: 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the Road in 1818\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Revolutions in Time and Space: 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTourism and Travel, 1850\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The Age of Jackson: 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe View from Abroad in 1828\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 The Southern Master Class: 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Elite Woman’s School Experience, 1838\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Lives of the Enslaved: 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Slavery in 1862\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The Modernizing North: 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Businessman’s Letter, 1836\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 The Age of Reform: 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the Need for Temperance, 1824\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Westward Expansion: 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKansas and Free Labor in 1856\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 The Coming of the Civil War: 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBleeding in Kansas, 1856\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Secession: 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA South Carolinian Describes the Event, 1860\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Americans in Civil War: 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Canadian Soldier’s Experience, 1864\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Emancipation: 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Labor of Freedom, 1867\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cb\u003eMark M. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is the author or editor of a dozen previous books including the award-winning \u003ci\u003eMastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South\u003c\/i\u003e (1997) and he has served or currently serves on the editorial boards of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Social History\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Senses and Society\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003ci\u003eWriting the American Past\u003c\/i\u003e reproduces dozens of untranscribed, handwritten primary documents: diary entries from Massachusetts in the 1690s, a woman detailing the Great Awakening, an eighteenth-century treaty with Native Americans, a letter by a slave, all of which capture the essence of the American past and introduce students to the raw material of pre-1877 US history: the written document.  \u003cp\u003eExpertly introduced and edited by Mark M. Smith, this unique textbook offers students the rare opportunity to engage directly with original documents, teaching them how to transcribe, decipher, and interpret primary sources while providing a foundation and a template for understanding the American past.\u003c\/p\u003e  “This volume provides a fascinating set of documents and a superb teaching tool. It introduces students to the intellectual excitement and the practical challenges of archival research.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–Nancy A. Hewitt, Rutgers University, New Brunswick\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWriting the American Past\u003c\/i\u003e gives students a real taste of what it is like to be a historian − deciphering and understanding primary documents in order to interpret the past.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–Tim Lockley, University of Warwick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Writing the American Past\u003c\/i\u003e presents a wide array of primary sources in original form that have never been published before. This collection provides opportunities to explore new facets of American history while preparing students for archival research.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–J. 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