American Passages A History of the United States, Volume 2 Since 1865 4th Edition

American Passages A History of the United States, Volume 2 Since 1865 4th Edition

ISBN-13: 9780547166353

ISBN-10: 0547166354

PREFACE

Like other teachers of history, we have seen our students intrigued by the powerful

stories of this nation’s past. But textbooks often bear little resemblance to our

favorite works of history or to the best kinds of teaching. Textbooks tend to replace

the concrete with the abstract, the individual with the aggregate, the story

with the summary. They can remove entire regions and ethnic groups from the

fl ow of American history and relegate them to separate chapters, isolated and frozen

in time. They can give away the end of the story too easily, squandering

drama.