Material Type
Textbook
Description
The American Yawp constructs a coherent and accessible narrative from all the best of recent historical scholarship. Without losing sight of politics and power, it incorporates transnational perspectives, integrates diverse voices, recovers narratives of resistance, and explores the complex process of cultural creation. It looks for America in crowded slave cabins, bustling markets, congested tenements, and marbled halls. It navigates between maternity wards, prisons, streets, bars, and boardrooms. Whitman’s America, like ours, cut across the narrow boundaries that strangle many narratives. Balancing academic rigor with popular readability, The American Yawp offers a multi-layered, democratic alternative to the American past.
Media Format
Downloadable Docs
Accessibility
Visual
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Sponsoring Institution / Retrieved from Organization
Stanford University Press
OER Category
UMSL OER Adopted
Publication Date
2019
Publication Title
Stanford University Press
Rights
In an increasingly digital world in which pedagogical trends are de-emphasizing rote learning and professors are increasingly turning toward active-learning exercises, scholars are fleeing traditional textbooks. Yet for those that still yearn for the safe tether of a synthetic text, as either narrative backbone or occasional reference material, The American Yawp offers a free and online, collaboratively built, open American history textbook designed for college-level history courses. Unchecked by profit motives or business models, and free from for-profit educational organizations, The American Yawp is by scholars, for scholars. All contributors—experienced college-level instructors—volunteer their expertise to help democratize the American past for twenty-first century classrooms.
ISBN
ISBN 9781503608139(v. 1 :ebook) | ISBN 9781503608146(v. 2 :ebook)
Editor
Joseph L. Locke is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston-Victoria. Ben Wright is Assistant Professor of Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.
This OER at UMSL
Prof. Peter Acsay - HIST 1002
Recommended Citation
Locke, Joseph and Wright, Ben, "The American Yawp" (2019). Open Educational Resources Collection. 27.
Available at:
https://irl.umsl.edu/oer/27