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Writing American Past
Overview
Writing the American Past reproduces dozens of untranscribed, handwritten documents, offering students the opportunity to transcribe, decipher, and interpret primary sources.
- Documents 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
- Skillfully teaches students to engage with the raw material of pre-1877 US history: the written document
- An introduction and headnotes to each document contextualize the sources and provide a foundation from which the student can explore the material
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781405163590
- ISBN-10: 1405163593
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- Publish Date: March 2009
- Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
- Page Count: 184
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