Lives and Times

Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed to acquaint students with major issues in American history through the lives of individuals, prominent and otherwise, whose ideas and activities were crucial in shaping the course of the nation's history. Employing a narrative style, each volume consists of thirteen chapters in which the lives of two individuals are examined in the broader context of major historical themes. Readers will find not only a diversity of individuals profiled-including Mary Dyer and Cotton Mather, Andrew Jackson and Tecumseh, and John Brown and Abraham Lincoln-but also themes spanning political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and military history. This combined biographical/thematic approach provides the reader with more extensive biographical information and a fuller examination of key issues than is commonly offered in core texts. Each chapter also offers study questions and a bibliography.

Also Available: Lives and Times: Individuals and Issues in American History: Since 1865 by Blaine T. Browne and Robert C. Cottrell

Autorentext
Blaine T. Browne is professor of history at Broward College. Robert C. Cottrell is professor of history at California State University. Together, they have co-authored Uncertain Order: The World in the Twentieth Century, Lives and Legacies: Biographies in Western Civilization, and Modern American Lives: Biographies in American History since 1945.

Zusammenfassung
Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed to acquaint students with major issues in American history through the lives of individuals, prominent and otherwise, whose ideas and activities were crucial in shaping the course of the nation's history. Employing a narrative style, each volume consists of thirteen chapters in which the lives of two individuals are examined in the broader context of major historical themes. Readers will find not only a diversity of individuals profiledincluding Mary Dyer and Cotton Mather, Andrew Jackson and Tecumseh, and John Brown and Abraham Lincolnbut also themes spanning political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and military history. This combined biographical/thematic approach provides the reader with more extensive biographical information and a fuller examination of key issues than is commonly offered in core texts. Each chapter also offers study questions and a bibliography.

Also Available: Lives and Times: Individuals and Issues in American History: Since 1865 by Blaine T. Browne and Robert C. Cottrell

Inhalt
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Orthodoxy and Dissent in Puritan England: Mary Dyer, Cotton Mather
Chapter 2: The American Mind in the Eighteenth Century: Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin
Chapter 3: Revolutionaries: Thomas Paine, Mercy Otis Warren
Chapter 4: Republicans, Federalists, Virginians: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall
Chapter 5: Popular Culture in Antebellum America: David Crockett, Stephen Foster
Chapter 6: Clash of Civilizations: Native Americans and the New Republic: Tecumseh, Andrew Jackson
Chapter 7: Slavery in Theory and Practice: George Fitzhugh, Harriet Tubman
Chapter 8: Reforming Self and Society: Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller
Chapter 9: Defining Women's Roles: Catharine Esther Beecher, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Chapter 10: Manifest Destinies: William Walker, Brigham Young
Chapter 11: Abolitionists: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln
Chapter 12: Uncivil War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Nathan Bedford Forrest
Chapter 13: A New Birth of Freedom Deferred: Benjamin R. Tillman, Ida B. Wells