We Who Built America
Author : Carl Wittke
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Page : 568 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Carl Wittke
Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : David Lefer
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 2009-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0316070343
An illustrated history of American innovators -- some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating -- by the author of the bestselling The American Century.
Author : Christopher Clark
Publisher : Bedford Books
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 24,86 MB
Release : 2000
Category : United States
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Based on the original edition authored by Bruce Levine....[et al.] published in 1981.
Author : Carl Frederick WITTKE
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Page : pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : Dan McNichol
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402734687
The year 2006 celebrates the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Interstate System, the most incredible road system in the world. Created by Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose WW II experiences taught him the necessity of a superhighway for military transport and evacuation in wartime, today's Interstate System is what connects our coasts and our borders, our cities and small towns. It's made possible our suburban lifestyle and caused the vast proliferation of businesses from HoJos to Holiday Inns. And if you order something online, most likely it's a truck barreling along an interstate that gets the product to your door. Written by bestselling author Dan McNichol, The Roads that Built America is the fascinating story of the largest engineering project the world has ever known.
Author : Anna Crowley Redding
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,89 MB
Release : 2020
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN : 9780062740328
Today the Declaration of Independence is one of the United States' most heavily guarded treasures, but during the War of 1812 it would have been destroyed if not for one man whose story has nearly been forgotten by time.
Author : Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0190625384
Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in turn, enriched by the bounties of the Enlightenment, the philosophies of liberty and individuality, the tenets of religion, and the doctrines of republicanism and democracy. Crucial to this development were the thinkers who nurtured it, from Thomas Jefferson to Ralph Waldo Emerson, W.E.B. DuBois to Jane Addams, and Betty Friedan to Richard Rorty. The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History traces how Americans have addressed the issues and events of their time and place, whether the Civil War, the Great Depression, or the culture wars of today. Spanning a variety of disciplines, from religion, philosophy, and political thought, to cultural criticism, social theory, and the arts, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen shows how ideas have been major forces in American history, driving movements such as transcendentalism, Social Darwinism, conservatism, and postmodernism. In engaging and accessible prose, this introduction to American thought considers how notions about freedom and belonging, the market and morality -- and even truth -- have commanded generations of Americans and been the cause of fierce debate.
Author : Alan Axelrod
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 2008-02-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781426202155
Offers profiles of the men and women, past and present, who have shaped American history, society, and culture, in a who's who of American politics, arts, science, religion, business, sports, and popular culture.
Author : Hugh Howard
Publisher : Artisan Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781579652753
A thought-provoking tour of the eighteenth-century houses belonging to some of America's most important early leaders looks inside the domestic world of the Founding Fathers to chronicle the private lives, families, culture, interests, and aspirations of Jefferson, Washington, Adams, Hamilton, and others in each of the original thirteen colonies.
Author : Joe R. Feagin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,98 MB
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134474768
How Blacks Built America examines the many positive and dramatic contributions made by African Americans to this country over its long history. Almost all public and scholarly discussion of African Americans accenting their distinctive societal position, especially discussion outside black communities, has emphasized either stereotypically negative features or the negative socioeconomic conditions that they have long faced because of systemic racism. In contrast, Feagin reveals that African Americans have long been an extraordinarily important asset for this country. Without their essential contributions, indeed, there probably would not have been a United States. This is an ideal addition to courses race and ethnicity courses.