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From These Beginnings: A Biographical Approach to American History, Volume I

May 15, 2016
This is definitely a nice, new approach to a textbook for learning history. Instead of writing down facts and dates and impersonal stories of conquest and death, Roderick Nash and Gregory Graves have set out to accomplish a new style of history told through biography. Each chapter is immensely researched and carefully selected to show a period of the United States's past.

In the first volume, the one in question, it is not a surprise that the chapters are dominated by white males. However, the authors are kind enough to include Abigail Adams, Tecumsuh, and Frederick Douglass to the line-up to engage readers in the subordination of all three groups: women, Native Americans, and African Americans, respectively.

It is also not a general surprise that many of the chapters overlap their history dates as there were many people acting at the same time in influential ways across the beginning years of the United States. It's often hard, at least for me, to keep the dates in an orderly fashion due
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Nash, Roderick Frazier

NASH, Roderick Frazier. American, b. 1939. Genres: Environmental sciences/Ecology, History, Biography. Career: Professor Emeritus of History and Environmental Studies, and Chairman of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara (joined faculty, 1966). Publications: (with M. Curti) Philanthropy in the Shaping of American Higher Education, 1965; Wilderness and the American Mind, 1967, 3rd. ed. 1982; (ed.) The American Environment: Readings in the History of Conservation, 1968, 3rd ed. (as American Environmentalism), 1990; (with M. Borden, O. Graham and R. Oglesby) The American Profile, 1970: Portrait of a Nation, 2 vols., 1972; (ed.) The American Culture: The Call of the Wild 1900-1916, 1970; The Nervous Generation: American Thought 1917-1930, 1970; (ed. and coauthor) Grand Canyon of the Living Colorado, 1970; (ed.) Environment and Americans: The Problem of Priorities, 1972; From These Beginnings: A Biographical Approach to American History, 1973, 3rd ed. 1984, 4th ed. 1991; The Big Drops: Ten Legendary Rapids, 1978, 1988; The Righ

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Includes the names: Roderick F Nash, Roderick Frazier Nash, Professor Roderick Nash

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Birthdate
1939
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Country (for map)
USA
Birthplace
Manhattan, New York, USA
Places of residence
New York City, New York, USA
Crested Butte, Colorado, USA
Education
University of Wisconsin, Madison (MS, PhD)
Harvard University (BA)
Occupations
Environmental Studies Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
member, board of directors, Yosemite Institute
member, advisory committee, U.S. National Park Service
professional river guide
Awards and honors
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (2001)

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