Past Forward Articles from the Journal of American History, Volume 1: From Colonial Foundations to the Civil War

Over the last fifteen years, undergraduate U.S. history courses have made great progress in incorporating primary sources and diverse voices into the survey. However, teachers still struggle to find professional writing by working historians in a format useful to undergraduates. Also, in 2014, the College Board redesigned the AP U.S. History curriculum and assessments to require students to demonstrate a critical approach to historical writing by professional historians. These facts have increased demand among teachers for access to high-quality secondary material by professional historians in a single, convenient publication.

Past Forward: Articles from the Journal of American History selects some of the best articles from The Journal of American History to meet the needs of students and teachers of the U.S. history survey. Exploring all of the required "key concepts" and "historical thinking skills" required in the new AP U.S. History curriculum, the book provides pedagogical and historiographical supports for each article. It also contains concise academic biographies of the authors that highlight their path to practicing history and their major publications, which will draw students deeper into historical discourses.

James Sabathne teaches AP U.S. History at Hononegah High School in Rockton, Illinois, and is Co-Chair of the College Board AP U.S. History Development Committee. He is a coauthor of Strive for a 5: Preparing for the AP* World History Exam (2013).

Jason Stacy is Associate Professor of U.S. History and Social Science Pedagogy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of several books, including Documenting United States History: Themes, Concepts, and Skills for the AP* Course (2015), Walt Whitman's Selected Journalism (2015), and Walt Whitman's Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855 (2008).

Introduction

1. Edmund S. Morgan, Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox

2. Matthew R. Bahar, People of the Door, People of the Dawn: Indian Pirates and the Violent Theft of an Atlantic World

3. Juliana Barr, From Captives to Slaves: Commodifying Indian Women in the Borderlands

4. Terri L. Snyder, Suicide, Slavery, and Memory in North America

5. Gary B. Nash, The Transformation of Urban Politics, 1700-1765

6. Michael McDonnell, Popular Mobilization and Political Culture in Revolutionary Virginia: The Failure of the Minutemen and the Revolution from Below

7. Saul Cornell, Aristocracy Assailed: The Ideology of Backcountry Anti-Federalism

8. Terry Bouton, A Road Closed: The Rural Insurgency in Post-Independence Pennsylvania

9. Harry L. Watson, The Common Rights of Mankind': Subsistence, Shad, and Commerce in the Early Republic South

10. Daniel Walker Howe, The Evangelical Movement and Political Culture in the North During the Second Party System

11. Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin, Limits of Political Engagement in Antebellum America: A New Look at the Golden Age of Participatory Democracy

12. Andrés Reséndez, National Identity on a Shifting Border: Texas and New Mexico in the Age of Transition, 1821-1848

13. Robert E. May, Young American Males and Filibustering in the Age of Manifest Destiny: the United States Army as a Cultural Mirror

14. Stephanie McCurry, The Two Faces of Republicanism: Gender and Proslavery Politics in Antebellum South Carolina

15. Ruth M. Alexander, 'We Are Engaged as a Band of Sisters': Class and Domesticity in the Washingtonian Temperance Movement, 1840-1850

16. Walter Johnson, The Slave Trader, the White Slave, and the Politics of Racial Determination in the 1850s