Women and the American Experience
Author: Nancy Woloch
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780070715417
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Author: Nancy Woloch
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780070715417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nancy Woloch
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780070715493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnother new addition to the Overture Books programme, known for their outstanding authorship, scholarship, beautiful trade-like design and inexpensive price. Overture Books offer a unique opportunity for professors looking for an alternative to large survey texts. This concise volume reflects an enormous range of contemporary scholarship and can act as a core text for courses in US women's history, or as a supplement in a US history survey course. The book's style is a vivid, lively and exciting account of women's history.
Author: Melanie Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1641772131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe all know the story of Thanksgiving. Or do we? This uniquely American holiday has a rich and little known history beyond the famous feast of 1621. In Thanksgiving, award-winning author Melanie Kirkpatrick journeys through four centuries of history, giving us a vivid portrait of our nation's best-loved holiday. Drawing on newspaper accounts, private correspondence, historical documents, and cookbooks, Thanksgiving brings to life the full history of the holiday and what it has meant to generations of Americans. Many famous figures walk these pages—Washington, who proclaimed our first Thanksgiving as a nation amid controversy about his Constitutional power to do so; Lincoln, who wanted to heal a divided nation sick of war when he called for all Americans—North and South—to mark a Thanksgiving Day; FDR, who set off a debate on state's rights when he changed the traditional date of Thanksgiving. Ordinary Americans also play key roles in the Thanksgiving story—the New England Indians who boycott Thanksgiving as a Day of Mourning; Sarah Josepha Hale, the nineteenth-century editor and feminist who successfully campaigned for Thanksgiving to be a national holiday; the 92nd Street Y in New York City, which founded Giving Tuesday, an online charity established in the long tradition of Thanksgiving generosity. Kirkpatrick also examines the history of Thanksgiving football and, of course, Thanksgiving dinner. While the rites and rituals of the holiday have evolved over the centuries, its essence remains the same: family and friends feasting together in a spirit of gratitude to God, neighborliness, and hospitality. Thanksgiving is Americans' oldest tradition. Kirkpatrick's enlightening exploration offers a fascinating look at the meaning of the holiday that we gather together to celebrate on the fourth Thursday of November. With Readings for Thanksgiving Day designed to be read aloud around the table.
Author: Susan C. Pearce
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0814768261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is a national portrait of immigrant women who live in the United States today, featuring the voices of these women as they describe their contributions to work, culture, and activism.
Author: Mary Beth Norton
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780801483479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the lives of colonial women, particularly during the Revolutionary War years, arguing that eighteenth-century Americans had very clear notions of appropriate behavior for females and the functions they were expected to perform, and that most women suffered from low self-esteem, believing themselves inferior to men.
Author: Nancy Brown Diggs
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780791436240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores how Japanese women living in the United States see themselves and how they see American women.
Author: Andrea L. Press
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1991-03
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780812212860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen's inclinations to identify with television characters varies with their assessment of the realism of these characters and their social world.
Author: Gerda Lerner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 0195072588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis anthology of female experience in America, draws on the letters, diaries, speeches, and biographies of women from Colonial days to the early days of the women's movement. There are chapters on childhood, marriage, motherhood, single life, housewifery, old age and death.
Author: Ellen Skinner
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780205809349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen and the National Experience, 3/e provides students with inexpensive collections of thought-provoking primary sources. Combining classic and unusual sources, this anthology explores the private voices and public lives of women throughout U.S. history, and also lets students experience what historians really do and how history is written.
Author: Susan Willis
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780299108946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on Zola Neale Hurston, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Toni Cade Bambara, this book explores both the ways in which black women's fictions have been shaped by the history of the United states, and the ways in which they intervene in that history. She sees the transition from an agrarian to an urban society as the critical moment of that history, and argues that writings by black women articulate that change in their content as well as form. ISBN 0-299-10890-2 : $19.95.