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High school library media specialists will want to add Peter Levy's ^I100 Key Documents in American Democracy^R to their American history collections. -- ^B^XHarriet Selverstone^L^B^XLibrary Media Specialist and Department Chair^L^B^XNorwalk High School Library Media Center^L At last there is a book of historical documents that students can not only learn from but be stimulated by. ^I100 Key Documents in American History^R takes the student along the fascinating path of democratic challenge in American history...This is a book that will surely stand the test of time and remain a standard of how documents should be used to educate and stimulate students of those outstanding individuals who made American history. -- Dr. Colin J. Davis^LDepartment of History^LUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham As a long time history professor, I have used a variety of teaching materials in my countless U.S. History survey courses...Finally someone has arranged in one well constructed and thoughtfully conceived text the kind of trenchant documents I have been searching for many years...My advice to other fellow teachers is go out and get a copy of this impeccable and richly endowed collection of American history documents...I can think of no better or more comparable set of documetns for use in the American survey courses than Professor Levy's impeccable book. -- Timothy Coogan^LDepartment of History^LRutgers University, Newark ^I100 Key Documents^R is a marvelous collection of the best American statements about democaracy. These writings are remarkably wide-ranging, spanning the early colonies to the end of the last decade, and covering challenges to American democracy from women's rights to religious freedom, from Native American displacement to Japanese American internment, from slavery to unionizing introduction. This book should be extremely useful in American history surveys and other courses concerned with questions of American democracy. -- Cheryl Greenberg^LDirector, American Studies^LAssociate Professor, History Department^LTrinity College Graced by Levy's lucid headnotes and useful bibliographies, and arranged in an intelligent and accessible manner, ^I100 Key Documents^R can--and ought to--stand at the center of any course on American history, society, and government. Indeed, having ^I100 Key Documents^R at hand makes for a ready reference on the meaning of America and an essential reminder of what it means to be an American. -- Randall M. Miller^LProfessor of History^LSt. Joseph's University, Philadelphia

Table of Contents

Colonial America The Early Republic Antebellum Reform The Civil War and Reconstruction Westward and Industrial Expansion The Progressive Era Modernizing America World War II and the Cold War Recent America Appendix A: Declaration of Independence Appendix B: Constitution of the United States (including amendments) Index

About the Author

PETER B. LEVY is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Political Science at York College. He is the editor of Let Freedom Ring (Praeger, 1992) and America in the Sixties (Greenwood, 1998).

Reviews

This one-volume collection of documents on the development and meaning of democracy fills an important need for source material….100 Key Documents in American Democracy is a unique and inspiring work that will prove useful for high-school, public, and undergraduate libraries and is highly recommended.
*Reference Books Bulletin*

^B100 Key Documents In American Democracy^R spans the length and breadth of the American experience and the ongoing struggle to achieve the political ideas upon which the nation is founded. Each document is organized with a fact box, an up-to-date commentary based on recent scholarship, and a list of suggested readings.
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