People of the United States in 20th Century
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Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 1972
Category : United States
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Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 1972
Category : United States
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Author : Christopher P. Loss
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 0691148279
This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth century, and chronicles its transformation into a key mediating institution between citizens and the state. Framed around the three major federal higher education policies of the twentieth century--the 1944 GI Bill, the 1958 National Defense Education Act, and the 1965 Higher Education Act--the book charts the federal government's various efforts to deploy education to ready citizens for the national, bureaucratized, and increasingly global world in which they lived. Loss details the myriad ways in which academic leaders and students shaped, and were shaped by, the state's shifting political agenda as it moved from a preoccupation with economic security during the Great Depression, to national security during World War II and the Cold War, to securing the rights of African Americans, women, and other previously marginalized groups during the 1960s and '70s. Along the way, Loss reappraises the origins of higher education's current-day diversity regime, the growth of identity group politics, and the privatization of citizenship at the close of the twentieth century. At a time when people's faith in government and higher education is being sorely tested, this book sheds new light on the close relations between American higher education and politics.
Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 2003-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780060528423
Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.
Author : CBS News
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 33,75 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography
ISBN : 0684870932
The one hundred most influential people of the twentieth century, as selected by the editors of Time magazine and featured in a series of documentaries produced by CBS.
Author : Irene Barnes Taeuber
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Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 1972
Category : United States
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Author : Stanley I. Kutler
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
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Essays collected in six parts: the American people; politics; global America; science, technology, and medicine; the economy; and culture.
Author : Richard Rubin
Publisher : ibooks
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 2010-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1588240150
This book deals with American history since 1880—a period when the United States was transformed from a relatively small, remote, and isolated outpost to the planet’s richest, most powerful, and most influential nation. It is also, not coincidentally, a period that produced some of the world’s most unforgettable characters—and some of its best stories. History is not fixed, not two-dimensional, not black-and-white; it is always open to interpretation, always subject to speculation, always riddled with mystery. Only one thing is certain about history: All of it was essential to creating the world we live in today. In that regard, every story you will read in this book, and any other history book, is your story, too. What happens to you today has a great deal to do with what happened to other people a century ago; what you do tomorrow is influenced, whether you know it or not, by what other people did yesterday. In learning about history, we invariably learn a lot about ourselves, too.
Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
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Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Oscar Handlin
Publisher : Books on Demand
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Minorities
ISBN : 9780783741062
Author : Peter Dreier
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1568586949
A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women's suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas for granted -- because the radical ideas of one generation are often the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers who challenged the status quo of their day. Unfortunately, most Americans know little of this progressive history. It isn't taught in most high schools. You can't find it on the major television networks. In popular media, the most persistent interpreter of America's radical past is Glenn Beck, who teaches viewers a wildly inaccurate history of unions, civil rights, and the American Left. The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century, a colorful and witty history of the most influential progressive leaders of the twentieth century and beyond, is the perfect antidote.