Talking American History
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Talking American History
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Author : Ron Briley
language : en
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Release Date : 2020-07-02
Talking American History written by Ron Briley and has been published by Sunstone Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-02 with History categories.
Offering an alternative to encyclopedic textbooks that confirm Henry Ford’s complaint that the study of history is just “one damned thing after another,” it provides an informal and conversational narrative history of the American experience from the Colonial period to the present day. Above all, history is a story, and the story of America is a complicated and contested tale. Rather than simply the exceptionalism of a shining city upon a hill, the American saga includes a dark stain of prejudice and nativism still present within the national fabric. Beginning with the assault upon Native lands and culture along with the introduction of racial slavery, patterns of exploitation and greed fostering gender, racial, and class inequality are an essential part of America’s story. Themes of prejudice and inequality, however, are offset by the promise of social justice and an egalitarian America outlined by Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Seneca Falls Declaration of Principles, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s The Four Freedoms, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” oratory. While considering topics such as Presidential leadership, Talking American History emphasizes the efforts of American reformers, dreamers, freedom fighters, dissenters, radicals, and workers to move the nation toward the democratic promise laid out in its founding documents. The framework is a traditional political history narrative told from a progressive perspective. This is an interpretation with which not all readers will agree, but the intention is to facilitate dialogue and debate that are imperative for the survival of American democracy.
Speaking History
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Author : S. Armitage
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Speaking History written by S. Armitage and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with History categories.
This oral history reader, designed to supplement texts on the second half of the U.S. history survey, features the words of ordinary people who describe how they shaped, viewed, and remembered American history.
Speaking Of America
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Author : Laura A. Belmonte
language : en
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Release Date : 2003-11
Speaking Of America written by Laura A. Belmonte and has been published by Cengage Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11 with History categories.
Designed to expose students to a variety of sources on United States history from the colonial era to the present day. The collection includes speeches, letters, paintings, artifacts, poems, short stories, photographs, lyrics, book excerpts, articles, and news accounts encompassing multicultural and regional perspectives. The selected readings address important episodes in politics, economics, and foreign policy, as well as social and cultural changes, and come from both famous and "ordinary" Americans.
Speaking American
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Author : Richard W. Bailey
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2012-01-23
Speaking American written by Richard W. Bailey and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Speaking American shows what the English language looked like from various points on the American continent at crucial points in its linguistic history.
America A Concise History And Talking Back To Civilization And Women S Rights
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Author : Frederick E. Hoxie
language : en
Publisher: Bedford/st Martins
Release Date : 2002-07-22
America A Concise History And Talking Back To Civilization And Women S Rights written by Frederick E. Hoxie and has been published by Bedford/st Martins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-22 with History categories.
Speaking Of America
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Author : Laura A. Belmonte
language : en
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
Release Date : 2007
Speaking Of America written by Laura A. Belmonte and has been published by Wadsworth Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
SPEAKING OF AMERICA is a two-volume, interdisciplinary source reader that exposes college students to a variety of sources on United States history, from the colonial era to the present day. The collection includes a wide array of primary documents, poems, short stories, song lyrics, monograph and article excerpts, and news accounts encompassing multicultural and regional perspectives. The selected readings address important episodes in politics, economics, and foreign policy as well as social and cultural changes. Both famous and ordinary Americans are featured.
I Hear America Talking
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Author : Stuart Berg Flexner
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 1979
I Hear America Talking written by Stuart Berg Flexner and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Teaching What Really Happened
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Author : James W. Loewen
language : en
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Release Date : 2018-09-07
Teaching What Really Happened written by James W. Loewen and has been published by Teachers College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-07 with Education categories.
“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.
All The People
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Author : Joy Hakim
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1995-03-23
All The People written by Joy Hakim and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-03-23 with United States categories.
A History of US is the story of the history of the United States written especially for all ages to enjoy. From the hunting and fishing tribes that first crossed the Bering Strait to the civil rights movement and 20th-century attempts to define America, the 10 books in the series make history an exciting adventure story.
White Trash
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Author : Nancy Isenberg
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2016-06-21
White Trash written by Nancy Isenberg and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-21 with History categories.
The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2016: 100 recommended books A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016 Globe & Mail 100 Best of 2016 “Formidable and truth-dealing . . . necessary.” —The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” —O Magazine In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash. “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity. We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.