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Book Synopsis Playing a Part in History by : Margaret Rogerson
Download or read book Playing a Part in History written by Margaret Rogerson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-04-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The York Mystery Plays are a cycle of originally performed on wagons in the city. They date from the fourteenth century and Biblical narrative from Creation to Last Judgment. After nearly four hundred years without a performance, a revival of the York Mysteries began in 1951 when local amateurs led by professional theatre practitioners staged them during the festival of Britain. Playing a Part in History examines the ways in which the revival of these plays transformed them for twentieth- and twenty-first-century audiences. Considering such topics as the contemporary popularity of the plays, the agendas of the revivalists, and major production differences, Margaret Rogerson provides a fascinating comparison of medieval and modern English drama. Drawing extensively on archival material, and newspaper and academic reviews of the plays in recent years, Playing a Part in History is not only an illuminating account of early English drama, but also of the ways in which theatre allows people to interact with the past.
Book Synopsis To Make Men Free by : Heather Cox Richardson
Download or read book To Make Men Free written by Heather Cox Richardson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to promote economic opportunity for all Americans, not just the slaveholding Southern planters who steered national politics. Yet, despite the egalitarian dream at the heart of its founding, the Republican Party quickly became mired in a fundamental identity crisis. Would it be the party of democratic ideals? Or would it be the party of moneyed interests? In the century and a half since, Republicans have vacillated between these two poles, with dire economic, political, and moral repercussions for the entire nation. In To Make Men Free, celebrated historian Heather Cox Richardson traces the shifting ideology of the Grand Old Party from the antebellum era to the Great Recession, revealing the insidious cycle of boom and bust that has characterized the Party since its inception. While in office, progressive Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower revived Lincoln's vision of economic freedom and expanded the government, attacking the concentration of wealth and nurturing upward mobility. But they and others like them have been continually thwarted by powerful business interests in the Party. Their opponents appealed to Americans' latent racism and xenophobia to regain political power, linking taxation and regulation to redistribution and socialism. The results of the Party's wholesale embrace of big business are all too familiar: financial collapses like the Panic of 1893, the Great Depression in 1929, and the Great Recession in 2008. With each passing decade, with each missed opportunity and political misstep, the schism within the Republican Party has grown wider, pulling the GOP ever further from its founding principles. Expansive and authoritative, To Make Men Free is a sweeping history of the Party that was once America's greatest political hope -- and, time and time again, has proved its greatest disappointment.
Book Synopsis Living History by : Hillary Rodham Clinton
Download or read book Living History written by Hillary Rodham Clinton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-04-19 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hillary Rodham Clinton tells her life story, describing her dedication to social causes, her relationship with her husband, and her accomplishments and difficult periods as First Lady.
Book Synopsis Minds on Fire by : Mark Christopher Carnes
Download or read book Minds on Fire written by Mark Christopher Carnes and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year In Minds on Fire, Mark C. Carnes shows how role-immersion games channel students’ competitive (and sometimes mischievous) impulses into transformative learning experiences. His discussion is based on interviews with scores of students and faculty who have used a pedagogy called Reacting to the Past, which features month-long games set during the French Revolution, Galileo’s trial, the partition of India, and dozens of other epochal moments in disciplines ranging from art history to the sciences. These games have spread to over three hundred campuses around the world, where many of their benefits defy expectations. “[Minds on Fire is] Carnes’s beautifully written apologia for this fascinating and powerful approach to teaching and learning in higher education. If we are willing to open our minds and explore student-centered approaches like Reacting [to the Past], we might just find that the spark of student engagement we have been searching for in higher education’s mythical past can catch fire in the classrooms of the present.” —James M. Lang, Chronicle of Higher Education “This book is a highly engaging and inspirational study of a ‘new’ technique that just might change the way educators bring students to learning in the 21st century.” —D. D. Bouchard, Choice
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Tudor History: A Study of Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 by : Tom McAlindon
Download or read book Shakespeare's Tudor History: A Study of Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 written by Tom McAlindon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: An intensive study of Shakespeare's most ambitious and complex achievement in the historical mode. The book offers an account of the play's critical history from 1700 until the 1980s, deals with the aspects of Tudor history relevant to an understanding, and offers close readings of the text structured around what the author believes to be the play's three dominant concepts: time; truth; and grace. In an attempt to correct what he sees as a certain falsification of critical history, the author aligns his account of the play's reception with one of its major preoccupations - the inescapable and informing presence of the past.
Book Synopsis Exploring the History of Childhood and Play through 50 Historic Treasures by : Susan A. Fletcher
Download or read book Exploring the History of Childhood and Play through 50 Historic Treasures written by Susan A. Fletcher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-color trip through the treasures of American Childhood from 1650 to today. Remember the toys you played with when you were growing up? Each of those objects has a story to tell about the history of American childhood and play. Construction toys like Lincoln Logs and Erector Set offer insight into America’s booming urban infrastructure in the early 1910s and 20s, and the important role toys played in preparing children for future careers in engineering and architecture. A stuffed toy monkey from Germany tells the story of young Jewish refugees to the United States during World War II. The board game Candyland has its origins in the dreaded polio epidemic of 1950s. Exploring Childhood and Play Through 50 Historic Treasures brings together a collection of beloved toys and games from the last two centuries to guide readers on a journey through the history of American childhood and play, 1840-2000. Through color photographs and short essays on each object, this book examines childhood against the backdrop of culture, politics, religion, technology, gender, parenting philosophies, and more. The book features ten categories of objects including board and electronic games, dolls, action figures, art toys, optical toys, animal toys, construction sets, and sports. Each essay tells the story of the individual object its historic context, and each passage builds upon one another to create a fascinating survey of how childhood and play changed over the course of two centuries.
Book Synopsis Cambridge History of English Literature 6, Part 2 by : A. W. Ward
Download or read book Cambridge History of English Literature 6, Part 2 written by A. W. Ward and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1969 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of China: Volume 15, The People's Republic, Part 2, Revolutions Within the Chinese Revolution, 1966-1982 by : John K. Fairbank
Download or read book The Cambridge History of China: Volume 15, The People's Republic, Part 2, Revolutions Within the Chinese Revolution, 1966-1982 written by John K. Fairbank and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-11-29 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earliest pre-dynastic period.
Book Synopsis The World and Africa and Color and Democracy (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois) by : W. E. B. Du Bois
Download or read book The World and Africa and Color and Democracy (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois) written by W. E. B. Du Bois and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several works of history. Collected in one volume for the first time, The World and Africa and Color and Democracy are two of W E. B. Du Bois's most powerful essays on race. He explores how to tell the story of those left out of recorded history, the evils of colonialism worldwide, and Africa's and African's contributions to, and neglect from, world history. More than six decades after W. E. B. Du Bois wrote The World and Africa and Color and Democracy, they remain worthy guides for the twenty-first century. With a series introduction by editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and two introductions by top African scholars, this edition is essential for anyone interested in world history.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of China by : John King Fairbank
Download or read book The Cambridge History of China written by John King Fairbank and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shakspeare's Historical Plays by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book Shakspeare's Historical Plays written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The First Part of the History of Henry IV. by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The First Part of the History of Henry IV. written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Centennial History of Grant County, Indiana, 1812 to 1912 by :
Download or read book Centennial History of Grant County, Indiana, 1812 to 1912 written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sal and Amanda Take Morgan's Victory March to the Battle of Cowpens by : Mary Ann Solesbee
Download or read book Sal and Amanda Take Morgan's Victory March to the Battle of Cowpens written by Mary Ann Solesbee and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You must tell my "real" story " That's the challenge General Daniel Morgan, hero of the American Revolution, gives Ben when he meets the general's spirit in an abandoned house near the Pee Dee River. Ben is frightened. "How did this happen?" "I was just trying to help my cousins and my friend Jennifer get ready for the Morgan Victory March to celebrate the Battle of Cowpens. We were all going to get medals and make our Grammy May so proud Did Sal and Amanda, the underground ambassadors of South Carolina, get me into this mess?" Can Ben save the long-lost letter Daniel Morgan wrote from being destroyed? Can he tell everyone the truth about the famous general and set his spirit free? Will the cousins complete the march and earn their medals? Join Sal and Amanda on Morgan's Victory March and find out.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Historical Plays, Poems & Sonnets by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book Shakespeare's Historical Plays, Poems & Sonnets written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Pay for Play written by Ronald A. Smith and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era when college football coaches frequently command higher salaries than university presidents, many call for reform to restore the balance between amateur athletics and the educational mission of schools. This book traces attempts at college athletics reform from 1855 through the early twenty-first century while analyzing the different roles played by students, faculty, conferences, university presidents, the NCAA, legislatures, and the Supreme Court. Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform also tackles critically important questions about eligibility, compensation, recruiting, sponsorship, and rules enforcement. Discussing reasons for reform--to combat corruption, to level the playing field, and to make sports more accessible to minorities and women--Ronald A. Smith candidly explains why attempts at change have often failed. Of interest to historians, athletic reformers, college administrators, NCAA officials, and sports journalists, this thoughtful book considers the difficulty in balancing the principles of amateurism with the need to draw income from sporting events.
