Publisher's Synopsis
Explore a wide array of primary documents, poems, short stories, song lyrics, article excerpts, and news accounts encompassing multicultural and regional perspectives in SPEAKING OF AMERICA: READINGS IN U.S. HISTORY, VOLUME I:TO 1877, an interdisciplinary source reader. The selected readings address important episodes in politics, economics, and foreign policy as well as social and cultural changes. Both famous and ordinary Americans are featured.
