Kyle Faulkner, the star quarterback at his Texas high school, finds Bobby Faulkner, the only openly gay student at school, badly beaten in the locker room shower. Surviving the beating was only the first hurdle Bobby had to face-- going back to school took a great deal of courage, but he found support from an unexpected source.
The Primary Sources Edition of America Past and Present integrates the social and political dimensions of American history into one rich chronological narrative and includes two to three primary sources per chapter with critical thinking questions for each source. This edition features all of the strengths found in the successful comprehensive text: a compelling narrative, clear organization, and exceptional pedagogy. An attractive four-color design highlighted with numerous maps and photos will engage students and instructors alike.
This text, designed for the survey course in U.S. history, offers a balanced presentation of social and political history, a strong narrative, clear organization and exceptional pedagogy.... This new edition also offers an in-depth look at the settlement of the back country and Spanish borderlands in the eighteenth century; environmental concerns and the revisionist historical perspective of the West; and, in a new final chapter, social, economic, and cultural themes from the late 1960s. -Back cover.
The American Story presents a balanced and manageable overview of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, integrating social and political history into a coherent and compelling narrative. Acknowledging the nation's rich diversity of class, race, gender, and ethnicity, this edition tells the story both of the people who, through their collective and individual endeavors, shaped the past and of the demands that events placed upon them. This text is available in a highly affordable Penguin Academic edition.
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