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America Firsthand: Volume One: Readings from Settlement to Reconstruction
America Firsthand Volume One Readings from Settlement to Reconstruction Author:Robert D. Marcus, David Burner, Anthony Marcus With its distinctive focus on ordinary people, this primary documents reader offers a remarkable range of perspectives on America?s history from those who lived it ? from Jews in the Early Republic to strikers at an auto plant in 1940s Detroit, and from a Civil War battlefield nurse to a 1990s dot.com entrepreneur. Popular Points of View section... more »s expose students to different perspectives on a specific event or topic, and Visual Portfolios invite analysis of the visual record. These features and the collection as a whole save instructors time finding consistently suitable source material on their own.« less