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Major Problems in American Military History: Documents and Essays (Major Problems in American History Series)
$78.95
Great book to see how the primary sources about specific topics can be reflected on by historians to create interesting essays.

The book is organized into chapters about specific periods in American military history. The first portion of each chapter includes a series of primary source documents describing the time period or some particular issue (the creation of a distinct American Air Force, for example). The second portion of the chapter includes essays written by today's historians analyzing the issue or event described in the documents.

To help those of us just learning about the issues described in each chapter, the chapters begin with an introduction to provide a more global look at the issues to be presented. The document and essay sections each also have a brief introduction to describe the passages.

Hitting.com Video Analysis & Questions and Answers
$23.60
Diagnose your own hitting mechanics! Major League hitting Instructor Dave Hudgens teaches you to see and understand key elements of your swing in slow motion and freeze frame analysis. Q&A System gives detailed instruction of 18 specific hitting problems. Approx 95 minutes in length.

Major Problems in American History: Volume 1: To 1877
$78.95
Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. This collection serves as the primary anthology for the introductory survey course, covering the subject's entire chronological span. Comprehensive topical coverage includes politics, economics, labor, gender, culture, and social trends. The Second Edition features integrated coverage of women in Volume I, as well as a streamlined chronology in Volume II. Key pedagogical elements of the Major Problems format have been retained: 14 to 15 chapters per volume, chapter introductions, headnotes, and suggested readings.

Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction (Major Problems in American History Series)
$78.95
This book deserves 5 stars for drawing together a large, diverse group of primary source documents, and related articles by noted historians. The book helps to explain why the North and the South were so far apart, before, during, and after the Civil War. If Michael Perman had written this book, instead of editing and commenting on the source documents, the rating would be lower, because the source documents are sometimes difficult to understand. However, this does not detract from the fact that Perman has done an outstanding job of presenting conflicting opinions. The documents make it obvious why the North and South were at the opposite end of many issues. After reading this book, you will have a better understanding of why the South seceded, why the Civil War started and lasted as long as it did, and why Reconstruction was both a success and a failure. You will understand why the South lost the war and won the peace.

I recommend this book as an adjunct to any study of the Civil War and the Reconstruction period. Even though it is not always easy to understand the primary source documents, Perman's editorial comments, in each chapter, are excellent summaries. They make it easy to understand the meat of the discussion in each document.

This is not light reading. Buy it if you want to truly understand all of the things they did not teach you in high school. For me, high school greatly simplified the period of US history from about 1800 to 1960. With this book, you can begin to understand why African Americans view this period as an African American holocaust, and why the North and South were so far apart that they hated each other for generations.