Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence, Volume II: Since 1865, 8th Edition

William Bruce Wheeler, Lorri Glover

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Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence, Volume II: Since 1865 8th Edition by William Bruce Wheeler/Lorri Glover

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Overview

This primary source reader in the popular DISCOVERING series contains a six-part pedagogical framework that guides students through the process of historical inquiry and explanation. The text emphasizes historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data. Each chapter is organized around the same pedagogical framework: The Problem, Background, The Method, The Evidence, Questions to Consider, and Epilogue. Volume II of the Eighth Edition integrates new documents and revised coverage throughout. For example, there are new chapters on the controversial decision to flood the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite in the early twentieth century, and the rise of the religious right in the late twentieth century.

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William Bruce Wheeler

William Bruce Wheeler received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1967. He is co-author of DISCOVERING THE GLOBAL PAST (2012), DISCOVERING THE AMERICAN PAST (2012), and DISCOVERING THE WESTERN PAST (2008). He has also written books on Tennessee history and the Tellico Dam.

Lorri Glover

Lorri Glover received her Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1996 and is the John Francis Bannon, S.J., Professor of History at Saint Louis University. She is the author of several books, most recently FOUNDERS AS FATHERS: THE PRIVATE LIVES AND POLITICS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARIES (Yale University Press, 2014) and is the newest co-author of DISCOVERING THE AMERICAN PAST, 8th Edition (Cengage Learning, 2016).

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A new Chapter 2, “Rose Cohen Comes to America,” brings to life the transformative experience of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by using the autobiography of a Russian Jewish girl who came of age in New York City working in the garment industry.
A new Chapter 3, “John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Future of American Public Lands,” introduces students to environmental history by having them enter early twentieth century debates about the damming of the Tuolumne River and the flooding of the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park to provide safe and reliable water to the city of San Francisco.
A new Chapter 10, “The Religious Revolution in Post-World War II America: The Pivotal Role of Southern California,” surveys the rise of religious conservatism in the 1950s and 1960s and its role in American politics.
A new Chapter 11, “The War on Drugs and the Rise of the Prison State,” tries to untangle why the United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world.
A new Chapter 12, “History Skills in Action,” offers students guidance on the process of designing a research paper, giving them the opportunity to practice applying what they’ve learned in the text.
All the chapters have been revised, some dramatically.

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Each chapter is organized around the same proven pedagogical framework: The Problem, Background, The Method, The Evidence, Questions to Consider, and Epilogue.
By following this pattern, and using a variety of sources such as letters, maps, statistics, drawings, song lyrics, photography, laws, and cartoons, students learn to examine sources critically, the way historians do.

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1. The Road to True Freedom: African American Alternatives in the New South.
2. Rose Cohen Comes to America: Living and Remembering the Immigrant Experience.
3. John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Future of American Public Lands.
4. Homogenizing a Pluralistic Nation: Propaganda During World War I.
5. The “New” Woman: Debating Women’s Roles in the 1920s.
6. Understanding Rural Poverty in the Great Depression.
7. The American Judicial System and Japanese Internment During World War II: Korematsu v. United States.
8. The 1960 Student Campaign for Civil Rights.
9. A Generation in War and Turmoil: The Agony of Vietnam.
10. The Religious Revolution in Post-World War II America: The Pivotal Role of Southern California.
11. The War on Drugs and the Rise of the Prison State.
12. History Skills in Action: Designing Your Own Project.