This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in American history through readings that reflect a variety of viewpoints. Each issue is framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. The Taking Sides readers feature annotated listings of selected World Wide Web sites. Taking Sides is supported by our student Web site, Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/).
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Lincoln’s Generals
A team of distinguished historians probes beyond popular anecdotes and conventional wisdom to offer a fascinating look at Lincoln’s relationship with his five key generals, McClellan, Hooker, Meade, Sherman and Grant. This brilliant portrait takes us inside the individual relationships that shaped the course of our most costly war.
Lincoln’s Assassins: Their Trial and Execution
An oversized, lavishly illustrated volume for history buffs traces the 1865 military trial of eight people accused of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Lincoln and other high officials. By the author of Manhunt. 50,000 first printing.
Life Lines; Community, Family, and Assimilation among Asian Indian Immigrants
Bacon’s study centers upon the engrossing portraits of five immigrant families, each one a complex tapestry woven from the distinctive voices of family members. Attended by extensive field work among community organizations and analysis of ethnic media, Bacon exposes the interplay between the dense social interactions of family life, the primary locus of the experience of ‘Indianness, ‘ and the stylized rhetoric of ‘Indianness’ that emanates from the world of voluntary associations and the ethnic press. This inventive analysis suggests that the process of assimilation which these families undergo parallels that experienced by anyone who conceives of him or herself as a member of a distinctive community in search of a place in American society.
Women’s America; Refocusing the Past
Women’s America is the most widely used anthology of American women’s history. Organized chronologically, the book is divided into four sections which cover the span of women’s experiences in the U.S. from colonial times to the present. Each of the roughly 90 articles and legal documents presented is prefaced with a brief headnote describing the piece’s significance and historical context. This edition has been extensively revised and contains 34 new documents, including several original essays written specifically for this edition.
