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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797298303321

Titolo

Why you can't teach United States history without American Indians / / edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith [and four others] ; contributors, Chris Andersen [and twenty one others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4696-2336-6

Edizione

[1st edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Disciplina

970.004/97

Soggetti

Indians of North America - History - Study and teaching

United States History Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

These papers emerged from the symposium, "Why you can't teach U.S. history without American Indians," held at the Newberry Library on May 3 and 4, 2013.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover --  Contents --  Acknowledgments --  Introduction --  PART I: U.S. History to 1877 --  1 Borders and Borderlands --  2 Encounter and Trade in the Early Atlantic World --  3 Rethinking the "American Paradox": Bacon's Rebellion, Indians, and the U.S. History Survey --  4 Recentering Indian Women in the American Revolution --  5 The Empty Continent: Cartography, Pedagogy, and Native American History --  6 The Doctrine of Discovery, Manifest Destiny, and American Indians --  7 Indians and the California Gold Rush --   8 Why You Can't Teach the History of U.S. Slavery without American Indians -- 9 American Indians and the Civil War --

PART II: U.S. History since 1877 --  10 Indian Warfare in the West, 1861-1890 --  11 America's Indigenous Reading Revolution --  12 "Working" from the Margins: Documenting American Indian Participation in the New Deal Era --  13 Positioning the American Indian Self-Determination Movement in the Era of Civil Rights --  14 American Indians Moving to Cities --  15 Beyond the Judeo-Christian Tradition? Restoring American Indian Religion to Twentieth-Century U.S. History



-- 16 Powering Modern America: Indian Energy and Postwar Consumption --

PART III: Reconceptualizing the Narrative --  17 Teaching American History as Settler Colonialism --  18 Federalism: Native, Federal, and State Sovereignty --  19 Global Indigeneity, Global Imperialism, and Its Relationship to Twentieth-Century U.S. History --  Contributors --  Index.