Explores American History through the theme of equality. With its inclusive view of American history, Created Equal, Brief Edition emphasizes social history–including the lives, labors, and legacies of women, immigrants, working people, and minorities in all regions of the country–while deliverin. G the fundamental elements of political and economic history. In the new edition of Created Equal, the authors have preserved the chronological framework and strong narrative thread, the engaging and illuminating stories of everyday people and events, and the Interpreting History features of the previous edition, but have sharpened the presentation, prose, and pedagogy by incorporating additional examples and end of chapter review material. Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Subjects.

Explores American History through the theme of equality. With its inclusive view of American history, Created Equal, Brief Edition emphasizes social history—including the lives, labors, and legacies of women, immigrants, working people, and minorities in all regions of the country—while delivering the fundamental elements of political and economic history. In the new edition of Created Equal, the authors have preserved the chronological framework and strong narrative thread, the engaging and illuminating stories of everyday people and events, and the Interpreting History features of the previous edition, but have sharpened the presentation, prose, and pedagogy by incorporating additional examples and end of chapter review material. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. About the Author: Jacqueline Jones teaches American history at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History and Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas. She was born in Christiana, Delaware, a small town of 400 people in the northern part of the state.

The local public school was desegregated in 1955, when she was a third grader. That event, combined with the peculiar social etiquette of relations between blacks and whites in the town, sparked her interest in American history. She attended the University of Delaware in nearby Newark and went on to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she received her Ph.D.

Components of the Package: MyHistoryLab with Pearson eText -- Valuepack Access Card -- for US History, 2-semester. Pearson Education. Created Equal: A History of the United States, Brief Edition, Combined Volume, 3rd Edition By Jacqueline A. Jones, Peter H. Wood, Thomas Borstelmann, Elaine. Study Created Equal: A History of the United States, Brief Edition, Volume 2 (3rd Edition) discussion and chapter questions and find Created Equal: A History of the. Available in: Hardcover. This lively text for undergraduates incorporates traditional narratives of American history into a new interpretation that.

Her scholarly interests have evolved over time, focusing on labor, women’s, African American, and southern history. In 1999 she received a MacArthur Fellowship. One of her biggest challenges has been to balance her responsibilities as teacher, historian, wife, and mother (of two daughters). She is currently working on a book of essays that illustrate, through the biographies of several individuals, the fluidity of racial ideologies in America, from the colonial period to the present. She is the author of several books, including Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War (2008); Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks (1980); Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and Family Since Slavery (1985), which won the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize; The Dispossessed: America’s Underclasses Since the Civil War (1992); and American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor (1998). In 2001 she completed a memoir that recounts her childhood in Christiana: Creek Walking: Growing Up in Delaware in the 1950s. Adobe Engineering Sonoma on this page. Wood was born in St.

Louis (before the famous arch was built). He recalls seeing Jackie Robinson play against the Cardinals, visiting the courthouse where the Dred Scott case originated, and traveling up the Mississippi to Hannibal, birthplace of Mark Twain. Free Download Gantz 2010 here.

Summer work on the northern Great Lakes aroused his interest in Native American cultures, past and present. He studied at Harvard (B.A., 1964; Ph.D., 1972) and at Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar (1964–1966). His pioneering book Black Majority (1974), concerning slavery in colonial South Carolina, won the Beveridge Prize of the American Historical Association. He taught early American history at Duke University from 1975 to 2008. The topics of his articles range from the French explorer LaSalle to Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon. He coedited Powhatan’s Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast, now in its second edition. His demographic essay in that volume provided the first clear picture of population change in the eighteenth-century South.