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Loading... American Passages: A History of the United States, Volume 1by Edward L. Ayers, Lewis L. Gould, David M. Oshinsky, Jean R. Soderlund
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I thought this was a good book, and I definitely enjoyed taking a college-level US history course (I took one at Norwalk Community College in CT because it is a requirement for elementary teaching certification and, well, that never came up during my undergrad as a medieval studies major). It's hard to say how much of my enjoyment of this book came from the contents, and how much was from the fact that my professor was totally awesome. If you're on the lookout for a history book, I would recommend this, nonetheless. ( ) no reviews | add a review
With a unique attention to time as the defining nature of history, AMERICAN PASSAGES offers students a view of American history as a complete, compelling narrative. AMERICAN PASSAGES emphasizes the intertwined nature of three key characteristics of time--sequence, simultaneity, and contingency. With clarity and purpose, the authors convey how events grow from other events, people's actions, and broad structural changes (sequence), how apparently disconnected events occurred in close chronological proximity to one another and were situated in larger, shared contexts (simultaneity), and how history suddenly pivoted because of events, personalities, and unexpected outcomes (contingency). No library descriptions found. |
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