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Readings in US History (First Edition)

Author : Wladimir Miszczenko

Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing

Page : 291 pages

File Size : 38,63 MB

Release : 2020-07-27

Category : Culture

ISBN : 9781516507337

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Book Description

The selections in Major Events and Daily Lives: Readings on United States History Since 1865 introduce students to new perspectives on history and major historical events by exploring everyday issues that have impacted the American people's daily lives. The readings address familiar and relatable topics, while shedding light on the events, culture, and consciousness of times past. Topics include the myth and the reality of the Wild West, women's roles in the 1890s, advertising in the Golden Age of radio, popular music during World War II, and the invention of mass-produced baby food. The second edition features new articles that address the rise of baseball as an American pastime, golf during the Great Depression, xenophobia in the 1920s, comic books and propaganda during World War II, and more. These windows into the lives of average Americans enhance readers' understanding of not only the effects of history, but the part each of us plays in making it. Enjoyable and informative, Major Events and Daily Lives demonstrates the power of often-overlooked details in the historical story. It is an ideal supplemental reader for courses in post-Civil War American history and society.



U.S. History

Author : P. Scott Corbett

Publisher :

Page : 1886 pages

File Size : 10,11 MB

Release : 2024-09-10

Category : History

ISBN :

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U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.



A History of Our Time

Author : William Henry Chafe

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 484 pages

File Size : 31,92 MB

Release : 1987

Category : History

ISBN : 9780195042047

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The second edition of this widely-used anthology includes contemporary articles on the Cold War and the politics of the 1950s and 1960s as well as new discussions of the counterculture, conservatism under the Reagan administration, and the emergence of a new breed of poverty.



A People's History of the United States

Author : Howard Zinn

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 764 pages

File Size : 18,24 MB

Release : 2003-02-04

Category : History

ISBN : 9780060528423

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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.



Teaching What Really Happened

Author : James W. Loewen

Publisher : Teachers College Press

Page : 289 pages

File Size : 39,47 MB

Release : 2018-09-07

Category : Education

ISBN : 0807759481

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“Should be in the hands of every history teacher in the country.”— Howard Zinn James Loewen has revised Teaching What Really Happened, the bestselling, go-to resource for social studies and history teachers wishing to break away from standard textbook retellings of the past. In addition to updating the scholarship and anecdotes throughout, the second edition features a timely new chapter entitled "Truth" that addresses how traditional and social media can distort current events and the historical record. Helping students understand what really happened in the past will empower them to use history as a tool to argue for better policies in the present. Our society needs engaged citizens now more than ever, and this book offers teachers concrete ideas for getting students excited about history while also teaching them to read critically. It will specifically help teachers and students tackle important content areas, including Eurocentrism, the American Indian experience, and slavery. Book Features: An up-to-date assessment of the potential and pitfalls of U.S. and world history education. Information to help teachers expect, and get, good performance from students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Strategies for incorporating project-oriented self-learning, having students conduct online historical research, and teaching historiography. Ideas from teachers across the country who are empowering students by teaching what really happened. Specific chapters dedicated to five content topics usually taught poorly in today’s schools.



Native America

Author : Michael Leroy Oberg

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 408 pages

File Size : 16,73 MB

Release : 2015-06-23

Category : History

ISBN : 1118714334

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This history of Native Americans, from the period of first contactto the present day, offers an important variation to existingstudies by placing the lives and experiences of Native Americancommunities at the center of the narrative. Presents an innovative approach to Native American history byplacing individual native communities and their experiences at thecenter of the study Following a first chapter that deals with creation myths, theremainder of the narrative is structured chronologically, coveringover 600 years from the point of first contact to the presentday Illustrates the great diversity in American Indian culture andemphasizes the importance of Native Americans in the history ofNorth America Provides an excellent survey for courses in Native Americanhistory Includes maps, photographs, a timeline, questions fordiscussion, and “A Closer Focus” textboxes that providebiographies of individuals and that elaborate on the text, exposing students to issues of race, class, and gender





The United States

Author : Link Hullar

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 41,43 MB

Release : 2014-08-26

Category : History

ISBN : 1118807049

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This third edition of The United States: A Brief NarrativeHistory remains a basic, readable, and highly affordable core textfor the introductory survey of United States history. While notintended as the only resource for students enrolled in suchcourses, it remains the most concise U.S. survey on themarket—its length, approach, and price encouraging the use ofsupplementary readings, novels, research projects, and primarydocuments (many of which are available on the Internet) all for aprice that falls well below the list price of a traditional surveytext. In addition to taking the engaging narrative all the way upthrough the second decade of the twenty-first century, the newedition features new maps. Loyal users will appreciate that factthat the book retains its cultural literacy approach, its livelynarrative style, and highly effective highlighting of the names,terms, and concepts common to an educated person’sunderstanding of American history. Finally, its appendices comprisea useful, annotated text of The Declaration of Independence, theConstitution of the United States, and a list of U.S.Presidents.



Readings in Reading Instruction

Author : Richard David Robinson

Publisher : Allyn & Bacon

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 40,32 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Lecture

ISBN : 9780205410583

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This brief, thought-provoking collection evaluates historical perspectives in reading to show how current reading practices have developed over time and provides an understanding of the development of significant issues in the field of literacy education. Richard Robinson carefully chose 46 selections with several aims in mind: to include the historical perspective so often neglected in other texts; to explain the evolution of reading practices and ideas across time as well as in terms of pedagogical development; and to illustrate the developing nature of literacy education.



Lies My Teacher Told Me

Author : James W. Loewen

Publisher : The New Press

Page : 491 pages

File Size : 28,45 MB

Release : 2018-07-17

Category : History

ISBN : 162097455X

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"Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself." —Howard Zinn A new edition of the national bestseller and American Book Award winner, with a new preface by the author Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important—and successful—history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship and was heralded on the front page of the New York Times. For this new edition, Loewen has added a new preface that shows how inadequate history courses in high school help produce adult Americans who think Donald Trump can solve their problems, and calls out academic historians for abandoning the concept of truth in a misguided effort to be "objective." What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education." In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should—and could—be taught to American students.