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.
Bringing the narrative up to the present, The American Yawp enables students to ask their own questions about how the past informs the problems and opportunities we confront today..
Volume II opens in the Gilded Age, before moving through the twentieth century as the country reckoned with economic crises, world wars, and social, cultural, and political upheaval at home. 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.
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
