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Author: James W. Loewen
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1595583262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCriticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.
Author: Franciscan Sisters Of Adoration
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9781230052779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...about three hundred, sailed from Cowes, England, on board Coining the Ark and the Dove, on St. Cecilia's Day (November 22, ) Colonists They were accompanied by four Jesuits, one of whom, Father White, has left us a description of the voyage. It was a long and stormy four months' voyage by way of the West Indies, but came to a happy end when the storm-beaten vessels glided peacefully into Chesapeake Bay. The little Company landed on the northern bank of the Potomac near its mouth, on the festival of the Annunciation (March 25) 1634. Father White celebrated Holy Mass in an Indian wigwam on the very soil where Spanish Jesuits, half a century before, had Founded 8 offered tne same holy sacrifice for the first time in that wild region. Next, a large cross was erected, and St. Mary's solemnly founded in the very shadow, as it were, of the future Mount Vernon (George Washington's home), and the future political center of the nation (the capital city--Washington). When was the first Holy Mass in America celebrated? In French America? (Book I, pp. 33, 84. See Father Segura, Book I, p. 46). At the request of King Charles I, the new colony received the name of Maryland in honor of Queen Henrietta Marie (daughtheSNames ter of Henry IV o1 France, and a Roman Catholic). The Maryland newly founded town was called St. Mary's in honor of the StMary's essed Virgin Mary on whose festival the colonists had landed. (Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary in America, Book I, p. 97). The chief Object in the settlement of the colony of Maryland Purpose was to provide an asylum for the oppressed Catholics of England. From the time of the Reformation (Book I, pp. 44, 72), the English Catholics had been cruelly persecuted. They longed for a refuge where they might...
Author: Celeste W. Rakes
Publisher: Bright Ideas Press
Published: 2007-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781892427106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas S. Kidd
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2019-04-01
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1433644444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican History volume 2 gives a wide overview of America’s history from the end of the Civil War era, to the political and cultural struggles of contemporary times. Thomas S. Kidd employs lessons learned from his own scholarly expertise and history classes to weave together a compelling narrative of the defeats and triumphs that have defined the American national experience. Unlike many textbooks of modern American history, religion and faith remain central aspects of the book’s coverage, through present-day America. It gives detailed treatment of episodes such as America’s military conflicts, the Civil Rights movement, and the culture wars of the past half-century. Professor Kidd also considers the development of America’s obsession with entertainment, from the rise of the first movies, to the social media age. American History volume 2 will help students wrestle with the political and cultural changes that have dramatically transformed contemporary American life
Author: James A. Henretta
Publisher: Bedford/st Martins
Published: 2009-01-22
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ISBN-13: 9780312592059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas S. Kidd
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2019-04-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1433644428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican History volume 1 surveys the broad sweep of American history from the first Native American societies to the end of the Reconstruction period, following the Civil War. Drawing on a deep range of research and years of classroom teaching experience, Thomas S. Kidd offers students an engaging overview of the first half of American history. The volume features illuminating stories of people from well-known presidents and generals, to lesser-known men and women who struggled under slavery and other forms of oppression to make their place in American life. The role of Christianity in America is central in this book. Americans’ faith sometimes inspired awakenings and the search for an equitable society, but at other times it justified violence and inequality. Students will come away from American History volume 1 better prepared to grapple with the challenges presented by the history of America’s founding, the problem of slavery, and our nation’s political tradition.
Author: Eric Foner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016-09-15
Total Pages: 23
ISBN-13: 039328316X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGive Me Liberty! is the #1 book in the U.S. history survey course because it works in the classroom. A single-author text by a leader in the field, Give Me Liberty! delivers an authoritative, accessible, concise, and integrated American history. Updated with powerful new scholarship on borderlands and the West, the Fifth Edition brings new interactive History Skills Tutorials and Norton InQuizitive for History, the award-winning adaptive quizzing tool.
Author: James A. Henretta
Publisher: Bedford/st Martins
Published: 2009-01-22
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ISBN-13: 9780312592233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alan C. Elliott
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-06-14
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1000949303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the historic ramifications of a handful of essential events that shaped the American past. It describes the causes of a select number of epoch-making events and examines the short- and long-term consequences of these critical turning point moments.
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.
