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Print Price: $63.99

Format:
Paperback
352 pp.
6.125" x 9.25"

ISBN-13:
9780190299286

Copyright Year:
2017

Imprint: OUP US

Past Forward

Articles from the Journal of American History, Volume 1: From Colonial Foundations to the Civil War

James Sabathne and Jason Stacy

Over the last fifteen years, undergraduate U.S. history courses have made great progress in incorporating primary sources and diverse voices into the survey. However, teachers still struggle to find professional writing by working historians in a format useful to undergraduates. Also, in 2014, the College Board redesigned the AP U.S. History curriculum and assessments to require students to demonstrate a critical approach to historical writing by professional historians. These facts have increased demand among teachers for access to high-quality secondary material by professional historians in a single, convenient publication.

Past Forward: Articles from the Journal of American History selects some of the best articles from The Journal of American History to meet the needs of students and teachers of the U.S. history survey. Exploring all of the required "key concepts" and "historical thinking skills" required in the new AP U.S. History curriculum, the book provides pedagogical and historiographical supports for each article. It also contains concise academic biographies of the authors that highlight their path to practicing history and their major publications, which will draw students deeper into historical discourses.

Readership : AP U.S. History students.

Reviews

"Designed to expose budding historians to the work of professional scholars, Past Forward is exactly what the UP U.S. History Course needs as it launches into a more conceptual, thematic, and skills-based approach. This course expects students to use the skills of a historian; having more access to the work of professional historians will help them develop in this area."
--Stephen Klawiter, Lafayette High School, Wildwood, MO
"Past Forward has excellent secondary sources, a new addition to the AP U.S. History curriculum. The article questions are thoughtful. The beginning of the text--teaching students how to read the articles--is excellent. I would use this all year long. The primary strength of the text is in the Introduction, which teaches students how to read secondary sources. The article questions are also thoughtful and well written."
--Jeanine Alexander, Moorpark High School, Moorpark, CA
"Past Forward does an excellent job of introducing and expanding on historical perspectives that are not regularly presented in traditional textbooks."
--Frank Shoemaker, Lake Travis High School, Austin, TX

Introduction
1. Edmund S. Morgan, Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox
2. Matthew R. Bahar, People of the Door, People of the Dawn: Indian Pirates and the Violent Theft of an Atlantic World
3. Juliana Barr, From Captives to Slaves: Commodifying Indian Women in the Borderlands
4. Terri L. Snyder, Suicide, Slavery, and Memory in North America
5. Gary B. Nash, The Transformation of Urban Politics, 1700-1765
6. Michael McDonnell, Popular Mobilization and Political Culture in Revolutionary Virginia: The Failure of the Minutemen and the Revolution from Below
7. Saul Cornell, Aristocracy Assailed: The Ideology of Backcountry Anti-Federalism
8. Terry Bouton, A Road Closed: The Rural Insurgency in Post-Independence Pennsylvania
9. Harry L. Watson, The Common Rights of Mankind': Subsistence, Shad, and Commerce in the Early Republic South
10. Daniel Walker Howe, The Evangelical Movement and Political Culture in the North During the Second Party System
11. Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin, Limits of Political Engagement in Antebellum America: A New Look at the Golden Age of Participatory Democracy
12. Andrés Reséndez, National Identity on a Shifting Border: Texas and New Mexico in the Age of Transition, 1821-1848
13. Robert E. May, Young American Males and Filibustering in the Age of Manifest Destiny: the United States Army as a Cultural Mirror
14. Stephanie McCurry, The Two Faces of Republicanism: Gender and Proslavery Politics in Antebellum South Carolina
15. Ruth M. Alexander, 'We Are Engaged as a Band of Sisters': Class and Domesticity in the Washingtonian Temperance Movement, 1840-1850
16. Walter Johnson, The Slave Trader, the White Slave, and the Politics of Racial Determination in the 1850s

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James Sabathne teaches AP U.S. History at Hononegah High School in Rockton, Illinois, and is Co-Chair of the College Board AP U.S. History Development Committee. He is a coauthor of Strive for a 5: Preparing for the AP* World History Exam (2013). Jason Stacy is Associate Professor of U.S. History and Social Science Pedagogy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of several books, including Documenting United States History: Themes, Concepts, and Skills for the AP* Course (2015), Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism (2015), and Walt Whitman's Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855 (2008).

Writing History - William Kelleher Storey and Towser Jones
Of the People - James Oakes, Michael McGerr, Jan Ellen Lewis, Nick Cullather, Jeanne Boydston, Mark Summers, and others
Past Forward - James Sabathne and Jason Stacy
American Horizons - Michael Schaller, Robert Schulzinger, John Bezís-Selfa, Janette Thomas Greenwood, Andrew Kirk, Sarah J. Purcell, and others

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