Shaped by the West, Volume 2: A History of North America from 1850

Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America's expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde provide a nuanced look at the past, balancing topics in society and politics and representing all kinds of westerners-black and white, native and immigrant, male and female, powerful and powerless-from more than twenty sta...