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

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International 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

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