Ancient History-Based Writing Lessons [Student Book] (Sixth Edition)
Author: Lori Verstegen
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Published: 2021
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ISBN-13: 9781623413446
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Author: Lori Verstegen
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Published: 2021
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ISBN-13: 9781623413446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark M. Smith
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-03-09
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1405163593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWriting the American Past reproduces dozens of untranscribed, handwritten documents, offering students the opportunity to transcribe, decipher, and interpret primary sources. Documents include diary entries from Massachusetts in the 1690s, a woman detailing the Great Awakening, an eighteenth-century treaty with Native Americans, a journal describing antebellum train travel, and a letter by a slave Skillfully teaches students to engage with the raw material of pre-1877 US history: the written document An introduction and headnotes to each document contextualize the sources and provide a foundation from which the student can explore the material
Author: Alan Taylor
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2006-07-05
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0812219104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow is American history written? Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alan Taylor answers this question in this collection of his essays from The New Republic, where he explores the writing of early American history.
Author: Michael Kraus
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9780806115191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Higham
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas A. Mason
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013-10-11
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 075911904X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWriting Local History Today guides local historians through the process of researching, writing, and publishing their work. Mason & Calder present step-by-step advice to guide aspiring authors to a successful publication and focus not only on how to write well but also how to market and sell their work. Highlights include: Discussion of how to identify an audience for your writing project Tips for effective research and planning Sample documents, such as contracts and requests for proposals Discussion of how to use social media to leverage your publication Discussion of the benefits and drawbacks to self-publishing An essay by Gregory Britton, the editorial director of John Hopkins University Press, about financial pitfalls in publishing This guide is useful for first-time authors who need help with this sometimes daunting process, or for previously published historians who need a quick reference or timely tip.
Author: Nicolas Barreyre
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2014-03-14
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0520279298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this stimulating and highly original study of the writing of American history, twenty-four scholars from eleven European countries explore the impact of writing history from abroad. Six distinguished scholars from around the world add their commentaries. Arguing that historical writing is conditioned, crucially, by the place from which it is written, this volume identifies the formative impact of a wide variety of institutional and cultural factors that are commonly overlooked. Examining how American history is written from Europe, the contributors shed light on how history is written in the United States and, indeed, on the way history is written anywhere. The innovative perspectives included in Historians across Borders are designed to reinvigorate American historiography as the rise of global and transnational history is creating a critical need to understand the impact of place on the writing and teaching of history. This book is designed for students in historiography, global and transnational history, and related courses in the United States and abroad, for US historians, and for anyone interested in how historians work.
Author: Bernard Bailyn
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780874517200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBailyn, a professor at Harvard and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, writes of the impossibility of teaching history without bias, and that history itself is constantly open to new interpretations and viewpoints.
Author: American Heritage Publishing Staff
Publisher: Ibooks
Published: 2003-08-01
Total Pages: 864
ISBN-13: 9781596870666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor almost 50 years, American Heritage magazine has been telling America's story in fresh and vivid articles that have come to represent the best of responsible popular history. In this compre-hensive and informative book, the editors of American Heritage have combed through every issue to find the most entertaining and illuminating pieces. The result -- by turns stirring, moving, funny, evocative, horrifying -- is an unusually revealing informal history of American civilisation from the first settlements to the close of the twentieth century. "A Sense of History" proves that the best history is always the best reading. And the authors are numbered among the foremost historians, novelists, and public figures of recent years.
Author: Matthew Christopher Hulbert
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2019-02-05
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 0807170895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFilms possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge at Gettysburg, the proliferation and destruction of plantation slavery in the American South, Custer’s fateful decision to divide his forces at Little Big Horn, and the onset of immigration and industrialization that saw Old World lifestyles and customs dissolve amid rapidly changing environments. Balancing historical nuance with passion for cinematic narratives, Writing History with Lightning confronts how movies about nineteenth-century America influence the ways in which mass audiences remember, understand, and envision the nation’s past. In these twenty-six essays—divided by the editors into sections on topics like frontiers, slavery, the Civil War, the Lost Cause, and the West—notable historians engage with films and the historical events they ostensibly depict. Instead of just separating fact from fiction, the essays contemplate the extent to which movies generate and promulgate collective memories of American history. Along with new takes on familiar classics like Young Mr. Lincoln and They Died with Their Boots On, the volume covers several films released in recent years, including The Revenant, 12 Years a Slave, The Birth of a Nation, Free State of Jones, and The Hateful Eight. The authors address Hollywood epics like The Alamo and Amistad, arguing that these movies flatten the historical record to promote nationalist visions. The contributors also examine overlooked films like Hester Street and Daughters of the Dust, considering their portraits of marginalized communities as transformative perspectives on American culture. By surveying films about nineteenth-century America, Writing History with Lightning analyzes how movies create popular understandings of American history and why those interpretations change over time.