For the Record: A Documentary History of America

by David E. Shi and Holly A Mayer

Book Overview

For the Record: A Documentary History features nearly 250 primary source selections, both textual and visual, drawn from a broad range of government documents, newspapers, speeches, letters, novels,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393283046
• ISBN13: 9780393283044
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

vol 2- brief documents, heavy on African & European American historical documents

It is a documentary history of reconstruction through contemporary times- 6th Edition, volume 2. It holds many African & European American historical documents that surround the forming of USA. The focus on African Americans was strong, and they have been able to rally a large voice. I only count 3 documents from the late 1880s, that talk of the decimation and suppression of American Indians: one is a chief Joseph, another is a woman Helen (Fiske) Hunt Jackson who advocated for their plight, and then The Dawes Act documented. There's no mention of the modern day American Indian Movement. This book does a good job of supplying the documents and then asking review questions.