books by John Mack Faragher

books by John Mack Faragher

books:

John Mack Faragher

Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (The Lamar Series in Western History)

John Mack Faragher

Yale University Press, 1988

Faragher Brings it all to Life
John Mack Faragher has brought the central Illinois frontier prairie to life in his "Sugar Creek". In the style of Michener, he begins by offering an early picture of the landscape and its earliest inhabitants. His grasp on historical happenings will stay with me ...

A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American ...

John Mack Faragher

W. W. Norton, 2006

Acadian perspective
A Great and Noble Scheme is a scholarly and incisive disertation. It is an extremely detailed history of the trials of our Acadian forefathers. I have studied the Acadian history for many years and read countless readings. Nothing I have read approaches all the ...

Out of Many: A History of the American People, Volume II (Chapters 16-31) (5th Edition)

John Mack Faragher, Daniel Czitrom, ...

Prentice Hall, 2005

Great text- easy read- nonbiased info
As a mid-30s woman who never got into history, I was afraid of this class... the text was excellent- a wonderful experience helping anyone to understand what REALLY happened. Very easy reading with notes on origin of conflicts that were never out in the open (Bay of ...

Out of Many, Teaching and Learning Classroom Edition, Volume 1 (5th Edition) (Myhistorylab)
John Mack Faragher, Mari Jo Buhle, ...

Prentice Hall, 2008

Organized around the theme of American communities, Out of Many is a blend of social and political history that reveals the geographical, racial, and economic diversity of the United States, with a special focus on the country?s regions. Instead of looking at the country as a homogenous whole, the authors break down the country into ...

Out of Many, Volume 2 (6th Edition) (MyHistoryLab Series)
John Mack Faragher, Mari Jo Buhle, ...

Prentice Hall, 2008

Organized around the theme of American communities, Out of Many is a blend of social and political history that reveals the geographical, racial, and economic diversity of the United States, with a special focus on the country?s regions, especially the West. Instead of looking at the country as a homogenous whole, the authors break ...

Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner: "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" and Other Essays

Frederick Jackson Turner

Yale University Press, 1999

Turner's "Frontier Thesis" Unfiltered
This is a very useful collection of ten essays by University of Wisconsin/Harvard University historian Frederick Jackson Turner written through out his career. Edited and introduced by John Mack Faragher, this book is a very fine entrée point to the thought of Turner. ...

The American West: A New Interpretive History (The Lamar Series in Western History)

Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher

Yale University Press, 2000

A very good book, whose point of view will irritate many
On its own terms, this book is a huge success. It synthesizes the past 30 years of serious historical research which revolutionized the presentation of the history of the American West by rescuing the experiences of groups who had been relatively ignored by standard ...

Out of Many, Volume 1 (6th Edition) (MyHistoryLab Series)

John Mack Faragher, Mari Jo Buhle, ...

Prentice Hall, 2008

Too Concise
This was the required text for my college U.S. history class. In my opinion the information throughout the book is too concise. There seems to be an anti white American bias throughout the text that could have been toned down a bit. The book does offer many ...

Out of Many: A History of the American People, Combined Edition (Chapters 1-31) (5th Edition)

Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (An Owl Book)

John Mack Faragher

Holt Paperbacks, 1993

Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone lived from 1734 to 1820. I knew almost nothing about Boone before reading this biography, and so cannot critique the book on its historical or biographical accuracy. My only complaint is that it is not longer. This seems an excellent book to begin a ...

Out of Many: Teaching and Learning Classroom Edition, Combined Volume (Revised printing) (4th Edition)

John Mack Faragher, Mari Jo Buhle, ...

Prentice Hall, 2005

Just Ok
I found certain chapters very well written and in depth, but if you read through the whole book you find that alot of paragraphs and chapters have contradicting information or tones that make it too obvious it was written by many writers. But you should get this book ...

Out of Many: A History of the American People, Volume I (Chapters 1-16) (5th Edition)

Out of Many, Vol. 1, Brief Fourth Edition
John Mack Faragher, Susan H. Armitage, ...

Prentice Hall, 2003

Out of Many, Combined Volume (6th Edition) (MyHistoryLab Series)
John Mack Faragher, Mari Jo Buhle, ...

Prentice Hall, 2008

Organized around the theme of American communities, Out of Many is a blend of social and political history that reveals the geographical, racial, and economic diversity of the United States, with a special focus on the country?s regions, especially the West. Instead of looking at the country as a homogenous whole, the authors break ...

Out of Many: A History of the American People, Volume 2, Media and Research Update (4th Edition)

John Mack Faragher, Susan H. Armitage, ...

Prentice Hall, 2004

Good book.
Bought for a class, so didnt have a choice. The material was easy to read and well written.