Description "I too am not a bit tamed--I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."--Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American History textbook.
He is also Editor of the Teaching United States History Blog..
He is the coeditor of Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era (2013) and abolitionseminar.org, a NEH-funded resource for K-12 teachers.
Ben Wright is Assistant Professor of Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.
He is the author of Making the Bible Belt: Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion (2017).
Locke is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston-Victoria.
About the author Joseph L.
Rather than asserting a fixed narrative of American progress, The American Yawp gives students a starting point for asking their own questions about how the past informs the problems and opportunities that we confront today.
The American Yawp traces the development of colonial society in the context of the larger Atlantic World and investigates the origins and ruptures of slavery, the American Revolution, and the new nation\'s development and rebirth through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Volume I begins with the indigenous people who called the Americas home before chronicling the collision of Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans. History survey.
The fully peer-reviewed edition of The American Yawp will be available in two print volumes designed for the U.
S.
It navigates between maternity wards, prisons, streets, bars, and boardrooms.
It looks for America in crowded slave cabins, bustling markets, congested tenements, and marbled halls.
Without losing sight of politics and power, The American Yawp incorporates transnational perspectives, integrates diverse voices, recovers narratives of resistance, and explores the complex process of cultural creation.
The Yawp highlights the dynamism and conflict inherent in the History of the United States, while also looking for the common threads that help us make sense of the past.
Long before Whitman and long after, Americans have sung something collectively amid the deafening roar of their many individual voices. History classroom and beyond.
Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their own students--an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jumping-off point for discussions in the U.
S.
Description "I too am not a bit tamed--I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."--Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American History textbook
