Great Events from History
Author: John L. Loos
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers the entire history of North America.
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Great Events from History--worldwide Twentieth Century Series: 1945-1971
Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 584
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreat Events from History II.: 1982-1991
Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis reference resource presents "entirely original articles, treating twentieth century events never before covered. The current five volumes of Human Rights address 462 topics in the history of human rights, both instances of human rights denial and human rights advances."--From page v of Publisher's note.
Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares
Author: Nancy Langston
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780295974569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLangston (environmental studies, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) documents the Forest Service's mismanagement of the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington and its use of practices, such as fire prevention and insect eradication, that led to ecological disaster in the area's forests. She argues that our expectations and ideas of
Emily Post
Author: Laura Claridge
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 0812967410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn an engaging book that sweeps from the Gilded Age to the 1960s, award-winning author Laura Claridge presents the first authoritative biography of Emily Post, who changed the mindset of millions of Americans with Etiquette, a perennial bestseller and touchstone of proper behavior. A daughter of high society and one of Manhattan’s most sought-after debutantes, Emily Price married financier Edwin Post. It was a hopeful union that ended in scandalous divorce. But the trauma forced Emily Post to become her own person. After writing novels for fifteen years, Emily took on a different sort of project. When it debuted in 1922, Etiquette represented a fifty-year-old woman at her wisest–and a country at its wildest. Claridge addresses the secret of Etiquette’s tremendous success and gives us a panoramic view of the culture from which it took its shape, as its author meticulously updated her book twice a decade to keep it consistent with America’s constantly changing social landscape. Now, nearly fifty years after Emily Post’s death, we still feel her enormous influence on how we think Best Society should behave.
Exploring History through Young Adult Literature
Author: Paula Greathouse
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2024-06-17
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1475873514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGiving students opportunities to read like historians has the potential to move their thinking and understanding of history in monumental ways. In Exploring History through Young Adult Literature: High School, Volume 2 each chapter presented in this volume provides high school readers with approaches and activities for pairing a young adult novel with specific historical events, eras, or movements. Chapters include suggested instructional activities for before, during, and after reading as well as extension activities that move beyond the text. Each chapter concludes with a final discussion on how the spotlighted YA text can inspire students to be moved to take informed action within their communities or beyond. Through the reading and study of the young adult novels students are guided to a deeper understanding of history while increasing their literacy practices.
Ripples Of Hope
Author: Joshua Gottheimer
Publisher: Civitas Books
Published: 2009-04-21
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 078674765X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRipples of Hope brings together the most influential and important civil rights speeches from the entire range of American history-from the colonial period to the present. Gathered from the great speeches of the civil rights movement of African Americans, Asian Americans, gays, Hispanic Americans, and women, Ripples of Hope includes voices as diverse as Sister Souljah, Spark Matsui, and Harvey Milk, which, taken as a whole, constitute a unique chronicle of the modern civil rights movement. Featuring a foreword by President Bill Clinton and an afterword by Mary Frances Berry, this collection represents not just a historical first but also an indispensable resource for readers searching for an alternative history of American rhetoric. Edited and with an introduction by former Clinton speechwriter Josh Gottheimer, the stirring speeches that make up this volume provide an important perspective on our nation's development, and will inform the future debate on civil rights.
Handbook of French Popular Culture
Author: Pierre L. Horn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1991-05-21
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0313368821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout the world, there has been much scholarly and general interest in French popular culture, but very little has been written on the subject in English. The authors of this book address that lack in a series of highly readable and well-documented essays describing French life styles, attitudes, and entertainments as well as the writers and performers currently favored by the French public. Several chapters explore French tastes in popular literature and other reading matter, including comics, cartoons, mystery and spy fiction, newspapers and magazines, and science fiction. Film, popular music, radio, and television are also discussed in detail, and influences from other cultures--particularly American imports--are assessed. The remaining essays examine French sports, the use of leisure time, the French style of eating and drinking, and relations between men and women and their attitudes toward romantic love. Each chapter provides up-to-date historical and bibliographic information that will enable the reader to pursue subjects of particular interest. Written by an international group of specialists, this handbook offers the benefits of broad coverage, a variety of viewpoints, and solid scholarship.
A Buried Past
Author: Yuji Ichioka
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0520313534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
