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Writing the American Past: US History to 1877

ISBN: 978-1-4051-6359-0

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184 pages

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Reproduces images of dozens of untranscribed, handwritten primary documents
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 transcribe, decipher, and interpret primary sources
An introduction and headnotes to each document contextualize the sources and provide a foundation from which the student can explore the material