A Student's Guide to U.S. History: U.S. History Guide

A Student's Guide to U.S. History: U.S. History Guide

by Wilfred M. McClay
A Student's Guide to U.S. History: U.S. History Guide

A Student's Guide to U.S. History: U.S. History Guide

by Wilfred M. McClay

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Overview

Get an Indispensable Education in American History in One Sitting!

How do you even begin to study U.S. history today? Historians now present a fractured view of American society. If any guiding national narrative remains, it is a tale of exploitation and oppression.

But the acclaimed historian Wilfred M. McClay is here to correct these problems. This slim guide shows you how to study the history of our country... and why. If you have ever found studying American history tedious or irrelevant, you won’t after reading McClay’s short and compulsively readable introduction. And if you have ever wondered how to challenge narratives of American oppression without whitewashing the past, this is the perfect place to start.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781882926459
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date: 09/30/2000
Series: Guides to Major Disciplines
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 102
Sales rank: 718,662
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Wilfred M. McClay is the G. T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty at the University of Oklahoma. His book Land of Hope, a one-volume history of America, has drawn widespread acclaim; the Wall Street Journal's Daniel Henninger calls it "the most balanced, nuanced history of the United States I have read in the past fifty years." McClay is also the author of The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America, which the Organization of American Historians honored as that year’s best book in American intellectual history.

Table of Contents

What This Guide Is, and Isn't1
History as Laboratory4
History as Memory11
Rethinking American History19
American Myths and Narratives22
Your History Is America's History--Sometimes31
A Gallery of Windows35
America and Europe36
Capitalism39
The City43
Equality45
Founding49
Frontier50
Immigration51
Liberty54
Nation and Federation58
Nature61
Pluralism64
Redeemer Nation70
Religion73
Revolution77
Self-Making79
The South83
Caveats86
An American Canon91
Student Self-Reliance Project: Embarking on a Lifelong Pursuit of Knowledge?95
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