Author : Lois Miner Huey
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 14,52 MB
Release : 2010-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 142965628X
Presents engaging, personal war stories from a variety of armed services and ranks. Includes information on weapons, battle sights and sounds, daily life, and living conditions.
Author : Rodger Streitmatter
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 36,78 MB
Release : 2001-08-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0231502710
Streitmatter tells the stories of dissident American publications and press movements of the last two centuries, and of the colorful individuals behind them. From publications that fought for the disenfranchised to those that promoted social reform, Voices of Revolution examines the abolitionist and labor press, black power publications of the 1960s, the crusade against the barbarism of lynching, the women's movement, and antiwar journals. Streitmatter also discusses gay and lesbian publications, contemporary on-line journals, and counterculture papers like The Kudzu and The Berkeley Barb that flourished in the 1960s. Voices of Revolution also identifies and discusses some of the distinctive characteristics shared by the genres of the dissident press that rose to prominence—from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. For far too long, mainstream journalists and even some media scholars have viewed radical, leftist, or progressive periodicals in America as "rags edited by crackpots." However, many of these dissident presses have shaped the way Americans think about social and political issues.
Author : Ed Southern
Publisher : Blair
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 32,12 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780895873583
This book uses 27 firsthand accounts from actual participants to help readers experience what life was like between 1775 and 1782.
Author : Carol Sue Humphrey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 30,15 MB
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : History
ISBN :
This book describes the everyday lives of people during the American Revolution as they adapted to the political and military conflicts of the time. Students studying the American Revolutionary War learn primarily about battles and how independence from the British was achieved. In Voices of Revolutionary America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life, readers get the largely untold story of the American Revolution: the ongoing issues and details of life in the background, behind the battles. This book surveys the entirety of the Revolutionary era, describing topics like marriage, childbirth, learning a trade, cost of living, slavery, and religion in the late 18th century. While some documents from the 1760s and early 1770s are provided to present general information about life, the book focuses on the years of the war from 1775 to 1783 and describes how the prolonged conflict impacted people's day-to-day lives.
Author : Political Spectrum Publishing
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1105542009
VOICES OF REVOLUTION is a unique book with the noble mission of bringing voters to Ron Paul. Over twenty authors united under a common cause in order to challenge YOU, the reader, to take this intellectual journey which is sure to challenge and rattle your core beliefs. These authors are true patriots who understand the ills plaguing America, and are urging others to listen to what they have to say and learn how Americans can restore everything that made this country great, and whose leadership to rally behind: RON PAUL. These Americans come from all walks of life, from young liberals to older conservatives; from artists and blue collar workers to lawyers and war veterans; they share a common goal and a love for America. So, ARE YOU UP TO THE CHALLENGE?
Author : Kendall Haven
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 2000-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0313009813
Riveting accounts of real people tell the story of the American Revolution from diverse characters and viewpoints-from men, women, children, Patriots, Tories, pacifists, African-American slaves, Native Americans, Hessian mercenaries, and more. All major political, social, economic, and military viewpoints are represented. Political debates, military battles and maneuvering, the struggles of civilians, the role of children, and the fates of Tories and Continental soldiers at the end of the war are just some of the themes covered. With each story, Haven includes a variety of learning extensions-objective questions, research projects, hands-on learning activities, and open-ended points to ponder for discussion and debate. A bibliography of resources for further study completes the work. Packed with information, this engaging collection is a wonderful supplement to American History units, a great resource for read-alouds and student reports.
Author : Gary L. Williams
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 2024-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1035869691
Two hundred and fifty years ago, victory in the American Revolution empowered its founding fathers to consider a glorious ‘revolutionary idea’: a democracy of inclusiveness and diversity for all. Yet, America’s revolution never meant to include the enslaved, who lived in small, dark squares of windowless slave houses. At Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s Constitutional Convention of 1787, compromises perpetuated America’s ‘slave society’ based on free labour, benefiting its citizenry to the detriment of America’s slave row. For the next seventy-eight years, ‘America’s democracy’ permitted this vile system of slavery to continue. However, slave revolutions, revolutionary voices, and prayers persisted. As the smoke cleared from the battlefields of the American Civil War, Juneteenth (June 19, 1865) granted America a full Independence Day. The question remains to this very day whether the formerly enslaved and their descendants will ever fully receive the rights, reparations, and benefits of full citizenship in our American democracy. Revolutionary voices must continue to set an example for the entire world of the revolutionary idea that is democracy. The next 250 years will answer this question as America approaches its 500th anniversary.
Author : Mark D. Steinberg
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300101690
Although much has been written about the political history of the Russian revolution, the human story of what the revolution meant to ordinary people has rarely been told. This book gives voice to the experiences, thoughts, and feelings of the Russian people--workers, peasants, soldiers--as expressed in their own words during the vast political, social, and economic upheavals of 1917. The documents in the volume include letters from individuals to newspapers, institutions, or leaders; collective resolutions and appeals; and even poetry. Selected from the State Archive of the Russian Federation in Moscow, nearly all the texts are published here for the first time. In these writings we hear the voices of ordinary Russians seeking to understand the revolution and make sense of the values, ideals, and discontents of their turbulent times. Not only do they speak of their particular needs and desires--for solutions to the economic crisis or an end to the war, for example--they also reveal how relatively unprivileged Russians thought about such questions as political power, freedom, justice, democracy, social class, nationhood, and civic morality. Mark Steinberg provides introductions to the documents, explaining the language of popular revolution in Russia and setting the writings in the context of the history of the time.
Author : Todd W. Braisted
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1614237514
Bergen County saw much of the American Revolution from its own doorstep. Close to British-occupied New York City, this corner of New Jersey was divided by the Revolution. Some people were staunch Loyalists or Patriots, in disagreement with their families and neighbors; others wavered or remained neutral, while still others changed their minds as was expedient. In the end, the years of hostilities led to massive damage and upheaval within the community as men either left home or stayed nearby to fight for or against secession from Great Britain. After the war, their pension applications allow glimpses into their experiences. Compiled and edited by local historian and Revolutionary War expert Todd W. Braisted, these are the stories of the Revolutionary soldiers of Bergen County.
Author : John A. Crespi
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 2009-07-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0824833651
China’s century of revolutionary change has been heard as much as seen, and nowhere is this more evident than in an auditory history of the modern Chinese poem. From Lu Xun’s seminal writings on literature to a recitation renaissance in urban centers today, poetics meets politics in the sounding voice of poetry. Supported throughout by vivid narration and accessible analysis, Voices in Revolution offers a literary history of modern China that makes the case for the importance of the auditory dimension of poetry in national, revolutionary, and postsocialist culture. Crespi brings the past to life by first examining the ideological changes to poetic voice during China’s early twentieth-century transition from empire to nation. He then traces the emergence of the spoken poem from the May Fourth period to the present, including its mobilization during the Anti-Japanese War, its incorporation into the student protest repertoire during China’s civil war, its role as a conflicted voice of Mao-era revolutionary passion, and finally its current adaptation to the cultural life of China’s party-guided market economy. Voices in Revolution alters the way we read by moving poems off the page and into the real time and space of literary activity. To all readers it offers an accessible yet conceptually fresh and often dramatic narration of China’s modern literary experience. Specialists will appreciate the book’s inclusion of noncanonical texts as well as its innovative interdisciplinary approach.
