Wisconsin History Highlights

Wisconsin History Highlights

Author: Jon Kasparek

Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780870203589

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Wisconsin History Highlights encourages middle and high school students, including National History Day participants, to use Wisconsin topics and resources as they research American history. The book guides students on their way, drawing them in with the topics most likely to spur their curiosity and enthusiasm. Wisconsin History Highlights introduces students to essential skills for historical research, including locating primary and secondary materials, choosing and narrowing a topic, and avoiding plagiarism. The text includes nine chapters: Discovering the Past; Immigration; Agriculture; Industry; Environment; Social Issues; Government; Tourism; and Arts, Entertainment, and Sports. Each chapter has a variety of concise historical vignettes about specific events, people, or places in Wisconsin history, and within each vignette, students will find hints to get started with research on that or a related topic. The chapters contain many illustrations of sample source materials, and each closes with a detailed bibliography of available primary and secondary resources. Students will find ample guidance in many places, from the helpful introductory material, the table of contents, and the topical chapters to the thorough index, which together make Wisconsin History Highlights an essential tool for expanding students' conceptions of history and refining their research skills.


Historical Highlights

Historical Highlights

Author: Arthur W. Pease

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2019-01-11

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1480959960

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Historical Highlights Jersey City Police Department By: Arthur W. Pease This book focuses on the specific history of Jersey City Police Department. Starting with the earliest facts and articles, this book provides a very easy to follow timeline. It presents facts about the department and its members throughout time, such as information about the first minorities and first female officer of the department to stories about how policemen risked their lives in order to save others. This interesting history will shed a new light on how brave and inspiring the police force can be.


Events that Changed the Course of History: The Story of the Transcontinental Railway 150 Years Later

Events that Changed the Course of History: The Story of the Transcontinental Railway 150 Years Later

Author: Anyone Pierucci

Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company

Published: 2020-01-14

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1620235528

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In the 21st century, it’s easy to get from New York to California — take a road trip, board a plane, or hop on a train; you’ll be there in no time. The continental United States is separated by mere hours. But back in the 19th century, a journey from New York to California required voyaging around the entire continent by sea in disease- and vermin-infested ships or trekking across great stretches of unknown wilderness by covered wagon, a perilous journey that could take up to a year. But the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 changed everything. Travel was no longer relegated to the very rich or the very courageous. The average American could now make the coast-to-coast expedition in a matter of days for less than $150. It may seem like a railroad that spanned the massive continent was an obvious solution, but it wasn’t as simple as just laying some tracks. Such a feat was a high-risk business venture that most couldn’t envision ever being completed. The transcontinental railway was possible because of dreamers like Asa Whitney and Theodore Judah, the cutthroat businessmen who invested monetarily, and the millions of laborers who invested their own blood, sweat, and tears. into an unimaginably immense and momentous display of human ingenuity. Events That Changed the Course of History: The Story of the Transcontinental Railway 150 Years Later follows the transcontinental railway’s history, from the creation of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific companies (and the backroom dealing that made them possible) to the Credit Mobilier scandal and strikes on the front lines that threatened to upend the entire project. The transcontinental railway changed the course of history, setting us on a path to expansion that opened the door to the West like never before. Take a journey and learn more about the unimaginably immense and momentous display of human ingenuity that forever changed American life.


Highlights From Welsh History

Highlights From Welsh History

Author: Emrys Roberts

Publisher: Y Lolfa

Published: 2017-10-27

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 1784614823

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A book full of fascinating, little-known facts about Wales. Stories about the huge contribution of this small nation to the world are presented, such as the most advanced laws in the Middle Ages, Britain's only effective royal dynasty and its most effective prime minister.


Events That Changed History

Events That Changed History

Author: Prof. Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi

Publisher: Prof. Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi

Published: 2019-01-01

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 9948249224

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This book is the second part of a comprehensive academic and research project initiated by H.E. Prof. Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi. In the first part of the project, Eternal Imprints: Figures That Made History and Others That Changed the Future of Their Countries, first published in 2016, he wrote about personalities who achieved great accomplishments to influence their countries and the world. The second part of the project looks at historical events that triggered major shifts, both positive and negative, and changed the history of regions and countries, or humanity itself. In Events That Changed History, the author revisits events that made history from the perspective that history will never repeat itself. However, its events may share similarities. Therefore, a retrospective narrative of the past is in fact an attempt to better understand the present, and not a tendency to ponder on and seek refuge in the past. The book examines twenty issues and events relevant to different periods of history, which fall within categories such as politics, the military, the economy and technology. Some of these events took place in the Arab region and others outside it. Not content with analyzing events of the distant past, the author also covers a wide range of events from recent times, including the establishment of the UAE Federation in December 1971, the October War of 1973, the building of Aswan High Dam in 1970 and the attacks of September 11, 2001. The book also reviews historical events in which the past, present and future interplay. These events are closely linked to the sweeping changes the contemporary world is witnessing, which have implications for the future. This book is an invitation from an intellectual who is concerned with issues relevant to both his homeland and world; an invitation to comprehensively, and not selectively, re-read both our history and that of the world from an open and enlightened perspective, in order to narrate historical events the way they happened. It is our responsibility to help the new generation understand the past and present, and not to be an accomplice in deceiving and confusing them, which is a heinous historical crime that distorts awareness and poisons the mind.


Media and Events in History

Media and Events in History

Author: Espen Ytreberg

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2022-10-21

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1509545425

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The most intense hopes and fears of our collective lives centre around large-scale events – from competitions, celebrations and festivals to environmental disasters, pandemics and terror attacks. The media are a crucial part of this process: they enable the planning, resource allocation and circulation of the vital information needed to mount major events. They are also where traces of events are stored for history. In short, large-scale and collective events have been, and still are, mediated. Starting from nineteenth-century industrialisation, Media and Events in History explains how contemporary life has become saturated with events. It discusses how they have come to involve extensive infrastructures, forms of control and anticipation, attention and participation, contingency and transformation, and articulations of the past and the future. Synthesising and developing insights from history, media studies, philosophy and the social sciences, Ytreberg surveys the rise of event-planning via mediation, and exposes the historical driving forces behind ‘media events’, global ‘mega-events’ and ‘pseudo-events’. Revealing the importance of events in history, this eye-opening book will be of interest to students of media studies, history, historical sociology and cultural history, as well as the general reader.


Old Testament Exegesis

Old Testament Exegesis

Author: Douglas K. Stuart

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780664223151

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In this completely updated revision of an extremely successful book, Stuart provides a step-by-step guide to writing an exegetical paper on the Old Testament. This book takes into account the latest advances in methodology as well as resources. Illustrations.