In this Book
- Why You Can't Teach United States History without American Indians
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
summary
A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of American history. The nineteen essays gathered in this collaboratively produced volume, written by leading scholars in the field of Native American history, reflect the newest directions of the field and are organized to follow the chronological arc of the standard American history survey. Contributors reassess major events, themes, groups of historical actors, and approaches--social, cultural, military, and political--consistently demonstrating how Native American people, and questions of Native American sovereignty, have animated all the ways we consider the nation's past. The uniqueness of Indigenous history, as interwoven more fully in the American story, will challenge students to think in new ways about larger themes in U.S. history, such as settlement and colonization, economic and political power, citizenship and movements for equality, and the fundamental question of what it means to be an American.
Contributors are Chris Andersen, Juliana Barr, David R. M. Beck, Jacob Betz, Paul T. Conrad, Mikal Brotnov Eckstrom, Margaret D. Jacobs, Adam Jortner, Rosalyn R. LaPier, John J. Laukaitis, K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Robert J. Miller, Mindy J. Morgan, Andrew Needham, Jean M. O'Brien, Jeffrey Ostler, Sarah M. S. Pearsall, James D. Rice, Phillip H. Round, Susan Sleeper-Smith, and Scott Manning Stevens.
Contributors are Chris Andersen, Juliana Barr, David R. M. Beck, Jacob Betz, Paul T. Conrad, Mikal Brotnov Eckstrom, Margaret D. Jacobs, Adam Jortner, Rosalyn R. LaPier, John J. Laukaitis, K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Robert J. Miller, Mindy J. Morgan, Andrew Needham, Jean M. O'Brien, Jeffrey Ostler, Sarah M. S. Pearsall, James D. Rice, Phillip H. Round, Susan Sleeper-Smith, and Scott Manning Stevens.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-6
- Part I. U.S. History to 1877
- 1. Borders and Borderlands
- pp. 9-25
- 7. Indians and the California Gold Rush
- pp. 101-117
- 9. American Indians and the Civil War
- pp. 134-148
- Part II. U.S. History since 1877
- 10. Indian Warfare in the West, 1861–1890
- pp. 151-164
- 11. America’s Indigenous Reading Revolution
- pp. 165-180
- 14. American Indians Moving to Cities
- pp. 210-226
- Part III: Reconceptualizing the Narrative
- Contributors
- pp. 307-310
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469623368
Related ISBN(s)
9781469621203, 9781469621210, 9798890848895
MARC Record
OCLC
907238489
Pages
352
Launched on MUSE
2015-07-23
Language
English
Open Access
No