02569nam 2200493 450 991054209080332120170822115057.01-4976-4518-2(CKB)3710000000232345(EBL)1800233(SSID)ssj0001340332(PQKBManifestationID)11866485(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001340332(PQKBWorkID)11381374(PQKB)11665836(MiAaPQ)EBC1800233(EXLCZ)99371000000023234520190313d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA student's guide to U.S. history /Wilfred M. McClayWilmington, Delaware :ISI Books,[2000]©20001 online resource (160 p.)ISI Guides to the Major DisciplinesDescription based upon print version of record.Cover; Title; Contents; What This Guide Is, and Isn't; History as Laboratory; History as Memory; Rethinking American History; American Myths and Narratives; Your History Is America's History-Sometimes; A Gallery of Windows; America and Europe; Capitalism; The City; Equality; Founding; Frontier; Immigration; Liberty; Nation and Federation; Nature; Pluralism; Redeemer Nation; Religion; Revolution; Self-Making; The South; Caveats; An American Canon; Student Self-Reliance Project: Embarking on a Lifelong Pursuit of Knowledge?; CopyrightNo nation in modern history has had a more powerful sense of its own distinctiveness than the United States. Yet few Americans understand the immensely varied sources of that sense and the fascinating debates that have always swirled around our attempts to define "America" with greater precision. All too many have come to regard the study of their national history as tedious, just as they fail to embrace the past as something in which they must be consciously grounded. In this introduction to the study of American history, Wilfred M. McClay invites us to experience the perennial freshness and ISI Guides to the Major DisciplinesStudent's guide to United States historyUnited StatesHistoryOutlines, syllabi, etcElectronic books.973McClay Wilfred M.957485MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910542090803321A student's guide to U.S. history2611933UNINA