Description
- Provides students with over 60 documents on the American Civil War and Reconstruction
- Includes presidential addresses, official reports, songs, poems, and a variety of eyewitness testimony concerning significant events ranging from 1833-1879
- Contains an informative introduction focused on the kinds of materials available and how historians use them
- Each chapter ends with questions designed to help students engage with the material and to highlight key issues of historical debate
About the Author
Stanley Harrold is Professor of History at South Carolina State University and coauthor (with Darlene Clark Hine and William C. Hine) of the textbook African American Odyssey, Third Edition (2006). His most recent books include The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves (2004), Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865 (2003),and American Abolitionists (2001). He is coeditor (with Randall Miller) of the series "Southern Dissent", and his articles have appeared in Civil War History, Journal of Southern History, Radical History Review, and Journal of the Early Republic.
Reviews
"This book is a useful tool that will find its way onto many syllabi in the upcoming years, including mine." (H-Net Reviews, 1 April 2011)
"Harrold provides an excellent introduction with not only the historical facts, but also a solid discussion of the historiography. The introduction alone makes it valuable in the classroom. For instructors looking for a good set of primary documents to use in their upper-division Civil War courses, Harrold has provided a great service. Highly recommended." (Choice, November 2008)
Book Information
ISBN 9781405156646
Author Stanley Harrold
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 363g
Dimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 13mm