Description Embracing an argument-based model for teaching history, the Debating American History series encourages students to participate in a contested, evidence-based discourse about the human past.
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He serves as coeditor of the Debating American History series with David J.
He is a Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, where he teaches US and Latin American History.
Sipress received his Ph D in US History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Causes of the Civil War poses this big question: Why did Civil war erupt in the United States in 1861?About the Author Joel M.
They can then use that analysis to construct answers to the big question that frames the debate and argue in support of their position.
Constitution? or Why did Civil war erupt in the United States in 1861?--and provides abundant primary sources so that students can make their own efforts at interpreting the evidence.
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Each book poses a question that historians debate--How democratic was the U.
Description Embracing an argument-based model for teaching history, the Debating American History series encourages students to participate in a contested, evidence-based discourse about the human past
