TY  - BOOK
AU  - Locke,Joseph L.
AU  - Wright,Ben
ED  - Open Textbook Library
TI  - The American Yawp Vol. I: To 1877
T2  - Open textbook library
SN  - 9781503608139
AV  - D20 
PB  - Open Textbook Library
KW  - History
KW  - Textbooks
N1  - 1. The New World -- 2. Colliding Cultures -- 3. British North America -- 4. Colonial Society -- 5. The American Revolution -- 6. A New Nation -- 7. The Early Republic -- 8. The Market Revolution -- 9. Democracy in America -- 10. Religion and Reform -- 11. The Cotton Revolution -- 12. Manifest Destiny -- 13. The Sectional Crisis -- 14. The Civil War -- 15. Reconstruction
N2  - 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
UR  - https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/777
ER  -