100 People Who Changed America
Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780439709996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShort biographies of American personalities.
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100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America [2 volumes]
Author: Mary Cross
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2013-01-07
Total Pages: 1162
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo what extent does a person's own success result in social transformation? This book offers 100 answers, providing thought-provoking examples of how American culture was shaped within a crucial time period by individuals whose lives and ideas were major agents of change. 100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America provides a two-volume encyclopedia of the individuals whose contributions to society made the 20th century what it was. Comprising contributions from 20 academics and experts in their field, the thought-provoking essays examine the men and women who have shaped the modern American cultural experience—change agents who defined their time period as a result of their talent, imagination, and enterprise. Organized chronologically by the subjects' birthdates, the essays are written to be accessible to the general reader yet provide in-depth information for scholars, ensuring that the work will appeal to many audiences.
100 People who Changed 20th-century America
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America provides a two-volume encyclopedia of the individuals whose contributions to society made the 20th century what it was. Comprising contributions from 20 academics and experts in their field, the thought-provoking essays examine the men and women who have shaped the modern American cultural experience - change agents who defined their time period as a result of their talent, imagination, and enterprise. Organized chronologically by the subjects' birthdates, the essays are written to accessible to the general reader yet provide in-depth information for scholars, ensuring that the work will appeal to many audiences. --from back cover.
100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America [2 Volumes]
Author: Mary Cross
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2013-01-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1610690850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides thought-provoking examples of how American culture was shaped within a crucial time period by individuals whose lives and ideas were major agents of change.
100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America [2 volumes]
Author: Mary Cross
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2013-01-07
Total Pages: 1162
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo what extent does a person's own success result in social transformation? This book offers 100 answers, providing thought-provoking examples of how American culture was shaped within a crucial time period by individuals whose lives and ideas were major agents of change. 100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America provides a two-volume encyclopedia of the individuals whose contributions to society made the 20th century what it was. Comprising contributions from 20 academics and experts in their field, the thought-provoking essays examine the men and women who have shaped the modern American cultural experience—change agents who defined their time period as a result of their talent, imagination, and enterprise. Organized chronologically by the subjects' birthdates, the essays are written to be accessible to the general reader yet provide in-depth information for scholars, ensuring that the work will appeal to many audiences.
100 Famous Americans who Changed American History
Author: Samuel Willard Crompton
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780836857689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Benjamin Franklin to Bill Gates, 100 Famous Americans Who Changed American History offers a lively, informative presentation of Americans who have influenced the course of American history. Learn about Thomas Jefferson, who helped give voice to many American ideals, and Frederick Douglass, a former slave who became an important early champion for African Americans. Find out how Eleanor Roosevelt lifted the spirits of a nation, how Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the Moon, and much more! Book jacket.
100 American Women Who Changed the World
Author: Publications International
Publisher: Publications International, Limited
Published: 2019-02-15
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781640306530
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead about the inspiring women who changed the course of history. Includes women in eight different categories: arts and entertainment; journalists, writers, and poets; civil rights leaders; abolitionists, suffragettes, and activists; athletes; scientists; politicians; and pioneers and icons. Accompanying full-color photographs capture the spirit of each woman and the significance of her contributions.
These Truths: A History of the United States
Author: Jill Lepore
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2018-09-18
Total Pages: 773
ISBN-13: 0393635252
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths,” Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation’s truths, or belied them. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. “A nation born in contradiction… will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history,” Lepore writes, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. With These Truths, Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come.
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
Author: Tom Pendergast
Publisher: Saint James Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 632
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains essays that provide information on various elements of popular culture in the United States during the twentieth century, covering the major areas of film, music, print culture, social life, sports, television and radio, and art and performance. Arranged alphabetically from A-to-D.
100 Greatest African Americans
Author: Molefi Kete Asante
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2010-06-28
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 161592423X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 1619, when Africans first came ashore in the swampy Chesapeake region of Virginia, there have been many individuals whose achievements or strength of character in the face of monumental hardships have called attention to the genius of the African American people. This book attempts to distill from many wonderful possibilities the 100 most outstanding examples of greatness. Pioneering scholar of African American Studies Molefi Kete Asante has used four criteria in his selection: the individual''s significance in the general progress of African Americans toward full equality in the American social and political system; self-sacrifice and the demonstration of risk for the collective good; unusual will and determination in the face of the greatest danger or against the most stubborn odds; and personal achievement that reveals the best qualities of the African American people. In adopting these criteria Professor Asante has sought to steer away from the usual standards of popular culture, which often elevates the most popular, the wealthiest, or the most photogenic to the cult of celebrity. The individuals in this book - examples of lasting greatness as opposed to the ephemeral glare of celebrity fame - come from four centuries of African American history. Each entry includes brief biographical information, relevant dates, an assessment of the individual''s place in African American history with particular reference to a historical timeline, and a discussion of his or her unique impact on American society. Numerous pictures and illustrations will accompany the articles. This superb reference work will complement any library and be of special interest to students and scholars of American and African American history.
