A fascinating supplement to American history courses.Your students will explore how words on paper have altered the course of events. Each selection includes its setting in the historical context, a glossary, and a range of questions to prompt critical thinking.Among the dozens of documents are: Common Sense A 1789 slave narrative Dialogue among 19th -century factory girls The Gettysburg Address The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act The Jungle Wilson’s Fourteen Points FDR’s “The Four... Read full description

A fascinating supplement to American history courses.

Your students will explore how words on paper have altered the course of events. Each selection includes its setting in the historical context, a glossary, and a range of questions to prompt critical thinking.

Among the dozens of documents are:

• Common Sense
• A 1789 slave narrative
• Dialogue among 19th -century factory girls
• The Gettysburg Address
• The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
• The Jungle
• Wilson’s Fourteen Points
• FDR’s “The Four Freedoms”
• The Tonkin Gulf Resolution

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