Underside of American History: Other Readings, Volume 1 to 1877 - Softcover

The United States was forged in the crucible of conflict--conflict of ideas, conflict of economic and political systems conflict of peoples with different cultural backgrounds, different needs, and different ambitions. The part of the American past, that has remained hidden-- the "underside" of American history--is forcing itself into public consciousness, and historians have begun to examine the past in order better to understand and deal with the conflicts and stresses of the present. This book is intended to supplement existing textbooks, presents a selection of untraditional reading in American history. These reading deal in various ways with a variety of oppressed groups in America, they offer vivid testimony to the fact that much of today's unrest has its roots deep in the nation's past. This Volume I begins with the colonial period through the Reconstruction.