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The Best American History Essays 2008
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Author :. Organization of American Historians Publisher :Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 13 :9780230605909 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (59 download)
Book Synopsis The Best American History Essays 2008 by : . Organization of American Historians
Download or read book The Best American History Essays 2008 written by . Organization of American Historians and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third annual volume from the Organization of American Historians, containing the best American history articles published between the summers of 2006 and 2007, provides a quick and comprehensive overview of the top work and the current intellectual trends in the field of American history. With contributions from a diverse group of historians, this collection appeals both to scholars and to lovers of history alike.
Book Synopsis Sistemnyi podkhod k upravleniiu vodnymi resursami by : Асит К. Высшас
Download or read book Sistemnyi podkhod k upravleniiu vodnymi resursami written by Асит К. Высшас and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis These Truths: A History of the United States by : Jill Lepore
Download or read book These Truths: A History of the United States written by Jill Lepore and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths,” Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation’s truths, or belied them. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. “A nation born in contradiction… will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history,” Lepore writes, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. With These Truths, Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come.
Book Synopsis The Best American History Essays on Lincoln by : Organization of American Historians
Download or read book The Best American History Essays on Lincoln written by Organization of American Historians and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume in the Best American History Essays series brings together classic writing from top American historians on one of our greatest presidents. Ranging from incisive assessments of his political leadership, to explorations of his enigmatic character, to reflections on the mythos that has become inseparable from the man, each of these contributions expands our understanding of Abraham Lincoln and shows why he has been such an object of enduring fascination.Contributions include:* James McPherson on Lincoln the military strategist* Richard Hofstadter on the Lincoln legend* Edmund Wilson on his contribution to American letters* John Hope Franklinon the Emancipation Proclamation* James Horton on Lincoln and race* David M. Potter on the secession* Richard Current on Lincoln's political genius* Mark Neely on Lincoln and civil liberties.
Book Synopsis Major Problems in American History Since 1865 by : Jon Gjerde
Download or read book Major Problems in American History Since 1865 written by Jon Gjerde and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2011 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series introduces readers to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. This collection serves as a primary anthology for introductory U.S. history, covering the subject's entire chronological span. Comprehensive topical coverage includes politics, economics, labor, gender, culture, and social trends. The Third Edition features greater focus on visual and cultural sources throughout. Several chapters now include images, songs and poems to give readers a better "feel" for the time period and events under discussion.
Book Synopsis Right Center Left by : Leo P. Ribuffo
Download or read book Right Center Left written by Leo P. Ribuffo and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past fifteen years, Leo Ribuffo has been among the leading disputants writing on the most pressing issues of American religion and politics. He is a scholar and a writer in the tradition of Warren Susman: deliberate and provocative at the same time. This collection of his best work reaffirms what his many readers already know, that his is a unique and refreshing voice that is sure to cause controversy. This book contains seven essays (all revised for this volume) and an introduction on "the complexity of American history" that is, in itself, an important statement. Right Center Left challenges clichZs about men, women, and movements across the American political and cultural spectrum. Ribuffo ranges from New England during the Reformation, to Madison Avenue during the 1920s, to Hollywood during the Depression, to Eastern Europe during the Cold War. On the right, nativists like Josiah Strong and Henry Ford are explained in historical context. On the left, American Communism looks more complicated than either orthodox critics or recent revisionists suppose. In the center, Hallie Flanagan's Federal Theatre Project reveals the limits of the New Deal, ad man Bruce Barton emerges as a shrewd corporate capitalist instead of a naive positive thinker, President Gerald R. Ford appears as a thoughtful Cold Warrior instead of a chronic bumbler, and President Jimmy Carter governs as an able lay theologian instead of a provincial source of national "malaise." What unites these essays is Leo Ribuffo's unique style, clarity of mind and purpose, and revealing insights into the minds of the bigots and the hucksters who pervade American history.
Book Synopsis The Best American Essays by : Robert Atwan
Download or read book The Best American Essays written by Robert Atwan and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles the best literary essays of the year originally published in American periodicals
Book Synopsis The Glorious American Essay by : Phillip Lopate
Download or read book The Glorious American Essay written by Phillip Lopate and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith—selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate "Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages." —Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances The essay form is an especially democratic one, and many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves—sometimes critically—to American values. We see the Puritans, the Founding Fathers and Mothers, and the stars of the American Renaissance struggle to establish a national culture. A grand tradition of nature writing runs from Audubon, Thoreau, and John Muir to Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard. Marginalized groups use the essay to assert or to complicate notions of identity. Lopate has cast his net wide, embracing critical, personal, political, philosophical, literary, polemical, autobiographical, and humorous essays. Americans by birth as well as immigrants appear here, famous essayists alongside writers more celebrated for fiction or poetry. The result is a dazzling overview of the riches of the American essay.
Book Synopsis The Story of America by : Jill Lepore
Download or read book The Story of America written by Jill Lepore and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-07 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the origins of dozens of writings, speeches, and other printed pieces from American history--from paper ballots and the Constitution to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" and Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address.
Book Synopsis In Sight of America by : Dr. Anna Pegler-Gordon
Download or read book In Sight of America written by Dr. Anna Pegler-Gordon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When restrictive immigration laws were introduced in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, they involved new requirements for photographing and documenting immigrants--regulations for visually inspecting race and health. This work is the first to take a comprehensive look at the history of immigration policy in the United States through the prism of visual culture. Including many previously unpublished images, and taking a new look at Lewis Hine's photographs, Anna Pegler-Gordon considers the role and uses of visual documentation at Angel Island for Chinese immigrants, at Ellis Island for European immigrants, and on the U.S.-Mexico border. Including fascinating close visual analysis and detailed histories of immigrants in addition to the perspectives of officials, this richly illustrated book traces how visual regulations became central in the early development of U.S. immigration policy and in the introduction of racial immigration restrictions. In so doing, it provides the historical context for understanding more recent developments in immigration policy and, at the same time, sheds new light on the cultural history of American photography.
Book Synopsis Major Problems in American History Since 1945 by : Robert Griffith
Download or read book Major Problems in American History Since 1945 written by Robert Griffith and published by Wadsworth. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essys on important topics in U.S. history. The book asks students to evaluate primary surces, test the interpretations and draw their own conclusions.
Book Synopsis The American Revolution Reborn by : Patrick Spero
Download or read book The American Revolution Reborn written by Patrick Spero and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Revolution Reborn parts company with the American Revolution of our popular imagination and renders it as a time of intense ambiguity and frightening contingency. With an introduction by Spero and a conclusion by Zuckerman, this volume heralds a substantial and revelatory rebirth in the study of the American Revolution.
Download or read book Facing Empire written by Kate Fullagar and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reid, Daniel K. Richter, Rebecca Shumway, Sujit Sivasundaram, Nicole Ulrich
Book Synopsis The Best American Essays 2015 by : Robert Atwan
Download or read book The Best American Essays 2015 written by Robert Atwan and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an anthology of the best literary essays published in 2014, selected from American periodicals.
Book Synopsis Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory by : Mike Wallace
Download or read book Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory written by Mike Wallace and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about why history matters. It shows how popularized historical images and narratives deeply influence Americans' understanding of their collective past. A leading public historian, Mike Wallace observes that we are a people who think of ourselves as having shed the past but also avid tourists who are on a "heritage binge," flocking by the thousands to Ellis Island, Colonial Williamsburg, or the Vietnam Memorial.Wallace probes into the trivialization of history that pervades American culture as well as the struggles over public memory that provoke stormy controversy. The recent imbroglio surrounding the National Air and Space Museum's proposed Enola Gay exhibit was reported as centering on why the U.S. government decided to use the A-Bomb against Japan. Wallace scrutinizes the actual plans for the exhibit and investigates the ways in which the controversy drew in historians, veterans, the media, and the general public.Whether his subject is multimillion dollar theme parks owned by powerful corporations, urban museums, or television docudramas, Mike Wallace shows how their depictions of history are shaped by assumptions about which pasts are worth saving, whose stories are worth telling, what gets left out, and who is authorized to make the decisions. Author note: Mike Wallace is Professor of History at John Jay College, City University of New York. He is the co-author, with Edwin G. Burrows, of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of the American Essay by : Christy Wampole
Download or read book The Cambridge History of the American Essay written by Christy Wampole and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the country's beginning, essayists in the United States have used their prose to articulate the many ways their individuality has been shaped by the politics, social life, and culture of this place. The Cambridge History of the American Essay offers the fullest account to date of this diverse and complex history. From Puritan writings to essays by Indigenous authors, from Transcendentalist and Pragmatist texts to Harlem Renaissance essays, from New Criticism to New Journalism: The story of the American essay is told here, beginning in the early eighteenth century and ending with the vibrant, heterogeneous scene of contemporary essayistic writing. The essay in the US has taken many forms: nature writing, travel writing, the genteel tradition, literary criticism, hybrid genres such as the essay film and the photo essay. Across genres and identities, this volume offers a stirring account of American essayism into the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Forbidden Citizens written by Martin Gold and published by The Capitol Net Inc. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Described as 'one of the most vulgar forms of barbarism, ' by Rep. John Kasson (R-IA) in 1882, a series of laws passed by the United States Congress between 1879 and 1943 resulted in prohibiting the Chinese as a people from becoming U.S. citizens. Forbidden citizens recounts this long and shameful legislative history"--Page 4 of cover.
