How History Gets Things Wrong

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262537990
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Book Synopsis How History Gets Things Wrong by : Alex Rosenberg

Download or read book How History Gets Things Wrong written by Alex Rosenberg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired. To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong. Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history on the best-seller list? Don't. Narrative history is always, always wrong. It's not just incomplete or inaccurate but deeply wrong, as wrong as Ptolemaic astronomy. We no longer believe that the earth is the center of the universe. Why do we still believe in historical narrative? Our attachment to history as a vehicle for understanding has a long Darwinian pedigree and a genetic basis. Our love of stories is hard-wired. Neuroscience reveals that human evolution shaped a tool useful for survival into a defective theory of human nature. Stories historians tell, Rosenberg continues, are not only wrong but harmful. Israel and Palestine, for example, have dueling narratives of dispossession that prevent one side from compromising with the other. Henry Kissinger applied lessons drawn from the Congress of Vienna to American foreign policy with disastrous results. Human evolution improved primate mind reading—the ability to anticipate the behavior of others, whether predators, prey, or cooperators—to get us to the top of the African food chain. Now, however, this hard-wired capacity makes us think we can understand history—what the Kaiser was thinking in 1914, why Hitler declared war on the United States—by uncovering the narratives of what happened and why. In fact, Rosenberg argues, we will only understand history if we don't make it into a story.

The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374313628
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (743 download)

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Book Synopsis The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez by : Adrianna Cuevas

Download or read book The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez written by Adrianna Cuevas and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 Pura Belpré Honor Book NYPL Best Book of 2020 2020 Evanston Public Library Great Books for Kids In this magical middle-grade debut novel from Adrianna Cuevas, The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez, a Cuban American boy must use his secret ability to communicate with animals to save the inhabitants of his town when they are threatened by a tule vieja, a witch that transforms into animals. All Nestor Lopez wants is to live in one place for more than a few months and have dinner with his dad. When he and his mother move to a new town to live with his grandmother after his dad’s latest deployment, Nestor plans to lay low. He definitely doesn’t want to anyone find out his deepest secret: that he can talk to animals. But when the animals in his new town start disappearing, Nestor's grandmother becomes the prime suspect after she is spotted in the woods where they were last seen. As Nestor investigates the source of the disappearances, he learns that they are being seized by a tule vieja—a witch who can absorb an animal’s powers by biting it during a solar eclipse. And the next eclipse is just around the corner... Now it’s up to Nestor’s extraordinary ability and his new friends to catch the tule vieja—and save a place he might just call home.

Cuba in My Pocket

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374314683
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (743 download)

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Book Synopsis Cuba in My Pocket by : Adrianna Cuevas

Download or read book Cuba in My Pocket written by Adrianna Cuevas and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of 2021 Pura Belpré Honor Book The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez, a sweeping, emotional middle grade historical novel about a twelve-year-old boy who leaves his family in Cuba to immigrate to the U.S. by himself, based on the author's family history. “I don’t remember. Tell me everything, Pepito. Tell me about Cuba.” When the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 solidifies Castro’s power in Cuba, twelve-year-old Cumba’s family makes the difficult decision to send him to Florida alone. Faced with the prospect of living in another country by himself, Cumba tries to remember the sound of his father’s clarinet, the smell of his mother’s lavender perfume. Life in the United States presents a whole new set of challenges. Lost in a sea of English speakers, Cumba has to navigate a new city, a new school, and new freedom all on his own. With each day, Cumba feels more confident in his new surroundings, but he continues to wonder: Will his family ever be whole again? Or will they remain just out of reach, ninety miles across the sea? A Kirkus Best Children's Book of the Year "...Cuevas’ latest is a triumph of the heart...A compassionate, emotionally astute portrait of a young Cuban in exile." —Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW "Cuevas’ intense and immersive account of a Cuban boy’s experience after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion brings a specific point in history alive." —Booklist, STARRED REVIEW "Cuevas packs this sophomore novel with palpable emotions and themes of friendship, love, longing, and trauma, attentively conveying tumultuous historical events from the lens of one young refugee." — Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW

History Stories for Children

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Publisher : Christian Liberty Press
ISBN 13 : 9781932971071
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis History Stories for Children by : Christian Liberty PR

Download or read book History Stories for Children written by Christian Liberty PR and published by Christian Liberty Press. This book was released on 2007-08-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History Stories for Children exposes children to a wide variety of wholesome stories based upon famous historical events and personalities from the Bible, America and around the world. Students sharpen their reading skills while they learn about King David, Alexander the Great, George Washington and many others. The stories within this volume can be used to enhance a wide variety of unit or topical studies. Grade 3.

366

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ISBN 13 : 9781848310056
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis 366 by : W. B. Marsh

Download or read book 366 written by W. B. Marsh and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On every day of the year, something momentous happened in history, whether it was a rainy 25 February, a sweltering 2 July, or your father's birthday. New York-born W.B. Marsh and Bruce Carrick present a leap year of historical stories by turns amazing, horrifying, touching and tearful. Spanning the history of man's life in earth and every corner of the inhabited world, they paint a picture of infinite richness and minute, enthralling detail. Read about the birth of the national anthem 'The Star-Spangled Banner', Napoleon Bonaparte's rise to power in France, the story of the Statue of Liberty, the Atlanta premiere of Gone With The wind and much, much more. It's the ideal book for anyone hooked on history.

Texas History Stories

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Texas History Stories by : Elbridge Gerry Littlejohn

Download or read book Texas History Stories written by Elbridge Gerry Littlejohn and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the stories of thirteen heroes or events in nineteenth-century Texas history, including Cabeza de Vaca, Sam Houston and the Alamo.

The Truth about Stories

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Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 0887846963
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (878 download)

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Book Synopsis The Truth about Stories by : Thomas King

Download or read book The Truth about Stories written by Thomas King and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.

A Man Comes from Someplace

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004370978
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis A Man Comes from Someplace by : Judith Pearl Summerfield

Download or read book A Man Comes from Someplace written by Judith Pearl Summerfield and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story in history of a multi-generational Jewish family from a lost world, a shtetl in Ukraine before WWI. Explores narrative as cultural study, cultural performance, meta-narrative, and auto-ethnography. Story as antidote to trauma, the insistence that we know the past, and remember those who came before.

Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation

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Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648890555
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Book Synopsis Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation by : Emily Williams

Download or read book Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation written by Emily Williams and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1866, Alexander Dunlop, a free black living in Williamsburg Virginia, did three unusual things. He had an audience with the President of the United States, testified in front of the Joint Congressional Committee on Reconstruction, and he purchased a tombstone for his wife, Lucy Ann Dunlop. Purchases of this sort were rarities among Virginia’s free black community—and this particular gravestone is made more significant by Dunlop’s choice of words, his political advocacy, and the racialized rhetoric of the period. Carved by a pair of Richmond-based carvers, who like many other Southern monument makers, contributed to celebrating and mythologizing the “Lost Cause” in the wake of the Civil War, Lucy Ann’s tombstone is a powerful statement of Dunlop’s belief in the worth of all men and his hopes for the future. Buried in 1925 by the white members of a church congregation, and again in the 1960s by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the tombstone was excavated in 2003. Analysis, conservation, and long-term interpretation were undertaken by the Foundation in partnership with the community of the First Baptist Church, a historically black church within which Alexander Dunlop was a leader. “Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation” examines the story of the tombstone through a blend of object biography and micro-historical approaches and contrasts it with other memory projects, like the remembrance of the Civil War dead. Data from a regional survey of nineteenth-century cemeteries, historical accounts, literary sources, and the visual arts are woven together to explore the agentive relationships between monuments, their commissioners, their creators and their viewers and the ways in which memory is created and contested and how this impacts the history we learn and preserve.

Stories from English History

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Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Book Synopsis Stories from English History by : Hilda T. Skae

Download or read book Stories from English History written by Hilda T. Skae and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Stories from English History' is an engaging and educational book for children that brings the past to life. With fascinating tales spanning from Ancient Britain to the King of Spain, young readers will be transported through time to witness the struggles and triumphs of English history. From heroic feats to political intrigue, this book has it all. Follow the journey of a boy who would be king, discover the bravery of the Black Prince, and witness the daring act of singeing the King of Spain's beard. Perfect for history buffs of all ages, 'Stories from English History' is a must-read for anyone curious about the events that shaped England into the country it is today.

Stories from the History of Rome

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Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781377404950
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Book Synopsis Stories from the History of Rome by : Emily Beesly

Download or read book Stories from the History of Rome written by Emily Beesly and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Archive Stories

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822387042
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Archive Stories by : Antoinette Burton

Download or read book Archive Stories written by Antoinette Burton and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-25 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them—about the effect that the researcher’s race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or bureaucracy might have on the histories that are ultimately written. This provocative collection initiates a vital conversation about how archives around the world are constructed, policed, manipulated, and experienced. It challenges the claims to objectivity associated with the traditional archive by telling stories that illuminate its power to shape the narratives that are “found” there. Archive Stories brings together ethnographies of the archival world, most of which are written by historians. Some contributors recount their own experiences. One offers a moving reflection on how the relative wealth and prestige of Western researchers can gain them entry to collections such as Uzbekistan’s newly formed Central State Archive, which severely limits the access of Uzbek researchers. Others explore the genealogies of specific archives, from one of the most influential archival institutions in the modern West, the Archives nationales in Paris, to the significant archives of the Bakunin family in Russia, which were saved largely through the efforts of one family member. Still others explore the impact of current events on the analysis of particular archives. A contributor tells of researching the 1976 Soweto riots in the politically charged atmosphere of the early 1990s, just as apartheid in South Africa was coming to an end. A number of the essays question what counts as an archive—and what counts as history—as they consider oral histories, cyberspace, fiction, and plans for streets and buildings that were never built, for histories that never materialized. Contributors. Tony Ballantyne, Marilyn Booth, Antoinette Burton, Ann Curthoys, Peter Fritzsche, Durba Ghosh, Laura Mayhall, Jennifer S. Milligan, Kathryn J. Oberdeck, Adele Perry, Helena Pohlandt-McCormick, John Randolph, Craig Robertson, Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, Jeff Sahadeo, Reneé Sentilles

History Through Stories

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Publisher : Storytelling School
ISBN 13 : 9781907359446
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (594 download)

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Book Synopsis History Through Stories by : Chris Smith

Download or read book History Through Stories written by Chris Smith and published by Storytelling School. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a complete approach to learning and improving literacy using storytelling, from Storytelling Schools, which offers resources and training for teachers.

Between History and Myth

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022614092X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis Between History and Myth by : Bruce Lincoln

Download or read book Between History and Myth written by Bruce Lincoln and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval accounts of how Norway was unified by its first king provide a lively, revealing, and wonderfully entertaining example of this process. Taking the story of how Harald Fairhair unified Norway in the ninth century as its central example, Bruce Lincoln illuminates the way a state's foundation story blurs the distinction between history and myth and how variant tellings of origin stories provide opportunities for dissidence and subversion as subtle - or not so subtle - modifications are introduced through details of character, incident, and plot structure.

How to Write Compelling Stories from Family History

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ISBN 13 : 9781734065206
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (652 download)

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Book Synopsis How to Write Compelling Stories from Family History by : Annette Gendler

Download or read book How to Write Compelling Stories from Family History written by Annette Gendler and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have a box of mementos you'd love to turn into a book? Discover where to start and how to choose a format to bring your ancestry to life. Have you inherited the responsibility of preserving your family history? Do you wish you could transform your old photos and artifacts into entertaining tales? Want to record all those great remember-when's but worry your writing will bore your relatives to tears? Author and writing instructor Annette Gendler has helped countless eager writers over her many years of teaching at StoryStudio Chicago. Now she'll show you how you can turn your treasured family saga into a captivating narrative you'll be proud to share. How to Write Compelling Stories from Family History is a concise guide for converting your heirlooms and oral anecdotes into engaging prose. Following Annette Gendler's step-by-step instructions, you'll learn how to decide which memories are best suited to chronicle your loved ones' unique journeys through life, and what makes them an absorbing read. Supported with personal examples and writing prompts at the end of each chapter, you'll quickly be giving voice to your ancestors' adventures. You'll discover: - How to prioritize all those photos, letters, diaries, and official documents- Sample passages and an extensive reading list to inspire your creativity - Ways to craft stories that won't put your readers to sleep - Tips for dealing with negativity, missing materials, or too much information - Methods for conducting research to ensure accuracy, and much, much more! How to Write Compelling Stories from Family History is a must-have resource for anyone interested in preserving their lineage. If you like actionable advice, no-frills-added instructions, and guidance from a memoir specialist, then you'll love Annette Gendler's easy approach.

History Stories for Children

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ISBN 13 : 9781930092341
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (923 download)

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Book Synopsis History Stories for Children by : John W. Wayland

Download or read book History Stories for Children written by John W. Wayland and published by . This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Their Stories, Our History

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ISBN 13 : 9781554460595
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis Their Stories, Our History by : Jan Haskings-Winner

Download or read book Their Stories, Our History written by Jan Haskings-Winner and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: