A Documentary History of the United States | Complete Guide
Author(s): Robert J. Norick, ed.Language Arts: Topic(s) American history and culture, United States History, History of the American Revolution, Primary Sources, Civil War, United States Civil War, Confederacy, The Confederacy, Social Studies, History, Research Skills. Grades: 11-12. INTRODUCTION In one of the most useful and important collections of primary sources for the general reader A Documentary History of the United States, Richard D. Heffner has brought together the documents. This text offers the students the content of history (speeches, letters, court decisions and legislation) and invites them to draw their own conclusions, rather than be told what conclusions to draw about history. This book begins with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the two basic documents of American government and then takes a chronological look at each of the most significant crises and turning points in American history. This anthology is so powerful in its diversity of vo...