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Book Synopsis The Penguin Encyclopedia of American History by : Robert A. Rosenbaum
Download or read book The Penguin Encyclopedia of American History written by Robert A. Rosenbaum and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2003 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deftly written single volume reference will tell you everything you need to know about American History. From Abington to Zimmerman, from Jamestown to Enron, this concise accessible volume spans American history from its beginnings through to 2002. Its 1,500 entries include articles on every presidential election through to 2000, on every presidential administration through to Clinton's, on the U.S. Supreme Court and its landmark cases and on all the key events and concepts that have shaped American History.
Book Synopsis The Penguin Encyclopedia of American History by : Robert A. Rosenbaum
Download or read book The Penguin Encyclopedia of American History written by Robert A. Rosenbaum and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Abington to Zimmerman, from Jamestown to Enron, this concise, accessible volume spans American history from its beginnings through 2002. Its 1,500 entries include articles on every presidential election through 2000, on every presidential administration through Clinton's, on the U.S. Supreme Court and its landmark cases, and on all the key events and concepts that have shaped American History.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of American History by : Richard Brandon Morris
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American History written by Richard Brandon Morris and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Penguin Dictionary of Contemporary American History, 1945 to the Present by : Stanley Hochman
Download or read book The Penguin Dictionary of Contemporary American History, 1945 to the Present written by Stanley Hochman and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1997 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Penguin Dictionary of Contemporary American History provides easy access to political, social, and cultural events and trends that have shaped America in the past half century. With more than 700 entries, numerous cross-references, and a detailed index, it covers personalities, fads, movements, and happenings in politics, international relations, literature, art, science, sports, entertainment, and a host of other fields. Students, teachers, and writers will find this an invaluable reference not only for specific information but also for its examination of matters that are part of our history but not yet in most history texts."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author :New York Public Library Publisher :MacMillan Publishing Company ISBN 13 :9780028613222 Total Pages :518 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (132 download)
Book Synopsis The New York Public Library American History Desk Reference by : New York Public Library
Download or read book The New York Public Library American History Desk Reference written by New York Public Library and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the comprehensive yet quick-answer guide to one of the most popular topics in home reference: American history. With succinct, clearly written topical overviews, timelines, and capsule biographies, accompanied by sidebars and illustrations, this single volume incorporates all major events and contributions from the earliest inhabitants of North America to the present age. 90 illustrations. 10 maps.
Download or read book Empires Apart written by Brian Landers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, commanding, and thought-provoking narrative history of the competing Russian and American empires. The American road to empire started when the first English settlers landed in Virginia. Simultaneously, the first Russians crossed the Urals and the two empires that would dominate the twentieth century were born. Empires Apart covers the history of the Americans and Russians from the Vikings to the present day. It shows the two empires developed in parallel as they expanded to the Pacific and launched wars against the nations around them. They both developed an imperial 'ideology' that was central to the way they perceived themselves. Soon after, the ideology of the Russian Empire also changed with the advent of Communism. The key argument of this book is that these changes did not alter the core imperial values of either nation; both Russians and Americans continued to believe in their manifest destiny. Corporatist and Communist imperialism changed only the mechanics of empire. Both nations have shown that they are still willing to use military force and clandestine intrigue to enforce imperial control. Uniquely, Landers shows how the broad sweep of American history follows a consistent path from the first settlers to the present day and, by comparing this with Russia's imperial path, demonstrates the true nature of American global ambitions.
Book Synopsis The Progressive Movement, Revised Edition by : Tim McNeese
Download or read book The Progressive Movement, Revised Edition written by Tim McNeese and published by Infobase Holdings, Inc. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduced in the last decade of the 19th century as a direct response to the changes brought about by industrialization, the progressive movement helped reform the political process in the United States. Progressives believed that monopolies and political machines should be eliminated, people should be more involved in the political process, and the U.S. government should play a more prominent role in dealing with America's social ills, including poverty and child labor. This eBook brings the incredible story of the progressive movement to life thanks to its striking blend of rich photographs, concise text, and helpful features such a chronology, a bibliography, and suggestions for further reading.
Book Synopsis The Progressive Movement by : Tim McNeese
Download or read book The Progressive Movement written by Tim McNeese and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduced in the last decade of the 19th century as a direct response to the changes brought about by industrialization, the progressive movement helped reform the political process in the United States. This book brings the story of the progressive movement to life with photographs, concise text, and helpful features.
Download or read book Bums No More written by Brian M. Endsley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the 1959 Dodgers, a team that rose above its disastrous first season on the West Coast for an out-of-nowhere World Series title. One of baseball's greatest underdog champions, the '59 Dodgers were a rag-tag team made of long shots salvaged from the minor leagues and over-the-hill ballplayers who reached back for one final triumph. After surviving a thrilling three team pennant race, they met fellow long shots the Chicago White Sox in an underdog World Series. Here, the team's story is recounted in detail, with game-by-game highlights, and set against the cultural backdrop of the civil rights movement, the Cold War, and the rock and roll cultural revolution.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Days by : Steven Carol
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Days written by Steven Carol and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-08-19 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of Days uses daily events as a lens through which to view the broad panorama of history. Includes over six thousand entries for every day of the year, designed to both fascinate and educate. Within its pages, you can learn that that Bjarni Herjulfson was the first European "discoverer" of record to locate North America, Paul Revere did not complete his famous ride, the Battle of Bunker's Hill was never fought there, Francis Hopkinsonnot Betsy Rossdesigned our first flag, and the US did not buy Florida. Covers over 3000 years of history and a huge number of subjects illustrating geography, politics, international relations, economic, social events and popular culture. an important reminder of human frailties and triumphs, lending insight and perspective into the complex modern world. While other compilations are mostly specialty works, dealing with a specific subject or time period, this work is far broader in scope, yet detailed in content. Can be used as a basis for a fun game, can be used as a motivational tool in the business world to inspire employees and can be used as a classroom motivation to start the day. This is an exceedingly practical and accessible volume, an indispensable reference for anyone that seeks a deeper understanding of both American and World history. All told, Encyclopedia of Days is a fun way to recall history and to learn some aspects of history that will amaze you. As such this unique reference belongs in everyone's home library.
Book Synopsis Finding the Left Arm of God by : Brian M. Endsley
Download or read book Finding the Left Arm of God written by Brian M. Endsley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the L.A. Dodgers’ volatile fortunes during Sandy Koufax’s transformation from a wild left-hander with a losing record on the verge of quitting the game, to an artist with exquisite control of the baseball—a veritable Mozart on the mound. From the Dodgers’ sudden plunge into the baseball wilderness in 1960, to their return to pennant contention in Koufax’s breakout year of 1961, through their catastrophic 1962 season—precipitated by Koufax’s freak midseason finger injury—to their redemption in 1963 with their second World Championship on the West Coast, the narrative is set against the backdrop of John F. Kennedy’s fleeting New Frontier presidency.
Book Synopsis The American Heritage Encyclopedia of American History by : John Mack Faragher
Download or read book The American Heritage Encyclopedia of American History written by John Mack Faragher and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 1998-10-16 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the new standard in American history. The most authoritative single-volume encyclopedia of American history in twenty-five years, this groundbreaking reference has been a major undertaking prepared under the guidance of an advisory board of six prominent historians from around the country and of General Editor John Mack Faragher of Yale University. More than 125 contributors, all experts in their fields, present the best in recent scholarship, spanning the pre-Columbian period through the 1990s. The result is substantially different from anything that has come before. * Nearly 3,000 alphabetically arranged entries and essays * Complete and authoritative treatment of traditional subjects * Full coverage of topics at the forefront of American history scholarship today--women, African Americans, Native Americans, family life, urban history, and popular culture * 400 black-and-white illustrations throughout * Appendixes and time charts of American history * Comprehensive cross-references and index for ease of reference, as well as innovative "topic guides" to facilitate deeper exploration and study * Sponsored by American Heritage magazine, the nation's premier history publication
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of American History by : Richard B. Morris
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American History written by Richard B. Morris and published by Collins Reference. This book was released on 1996-09-19 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh edition of the Encyclopedia of American History updates this indispensable and classic reference book to cover the history of the United States from pre-Columbian times through the first year of the Clinton Administration. Unequaled in the amount of information contained within a single volume, and designed to be read as a narrative, the Encyclopedia chronicles all the essential facts of American history, from government and politics to science, thought and culture. The Encyclopedia is divided onto four parts: Part 1: "THE BASIC CHRONOLOGY" presents the main political and military events in the history of the United States, beginning with the era of discovery. It has been updated to reflect newly discovered facts and modern perspectives on domestic and foreign affairs. Part 2: "THE TOPICAL CHRONOLOGY" records the nonpolitical aspects of American life and has been extensively revised to include a newly titled section "Land, Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment," as well as updated sections dealing with the American economy. A few of the topics covered in this section are the fine arts, religion, medicine, education, television and radio, immigration, population, United States expansion and Supreme Court decisions. Part 3: "NOTABLE AMERICAN BIOGRAPHIES" contains profiles of 450 influential Americans from all walks of life and their outstanding achievements. Part 4:"THE STRUCTURE OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT" includes tables of U.S Presidents and their cabinets, party strength in Congress from 1789, and Supreme Court justices, as well as the complete texts of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Jeffrey B. Morris, is professor of law at the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center of Touro College. Associate editor for the last two revised editions of the Encyclopedia of American History, Morris is the author of over a dozen books, including Federal Justice in the Second Circuit and To Administer Justice on Behalf of All the People: The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 1965-1990. He has been professor of political science at City College of the City University of New York and the University of Pennsylvania and visiting professor of law at the Brooklyn Law School. From 1976 to 1981 Morris served as the chief research associate to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger in Burger's role as head of the federal court system. Richard B. Morris, (1904-1989) was Gouverneur Morris Professor of History at Columbia University and past president of the American Historical Association. Morris wrote more than 40 books spanning legal, labor, diplomatic, political and social history, including The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence, The Forging of the Union 1781-1789, Witnesses at the Creation, Government and Labor in Early America and Studies in The History of American Law. He lectured throughout the world, serving as Fulbright Research Professor at the Sorbonne and Distinguished Professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute of the Free University of Berlin.
Book Synopsis Koufax Throws a Curve by : Brian M. Endsley
Download or read book Koufax Throws a Curve written by Brian M. Endsley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conclusion of the Sandy Koufax Era was a wild roller coaster ride for the LA Dodgers. Overly dependent on the fragile left arm of their to-be Hall of Fame left-hander, they careened from their worst season since World War II in 1964 after losing Koufax to an injury in mid–August, to a World Series Championship in 1965 on the strength of his shutout performance on short rest in Game 7 with the Twins, to an ignominious World Series collapse to the Orioles in 1966 after he single-handedly saved the Dodgers’ 1966 regular season in the final game. In the last two seasons of his career, Koufax averaged an impressive 27 complete games, 27 wins and 350 strikeouts. Yet 16 days after winning his second straight unanimous Cy Young Award, he shocked Major League Baseball by announcing he was going to retire. Like a supernova that had lit up the sports world for six years, he flamed out and was gone by age 30.
Book Synopsis The Great American History Fact-finder by : Pam Cornelison
Download or read book The Great American History Fact-finder written by Pam Cornelison and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over 2,000 entries covering the who, what, where, when and why of U.S. history."--Thumbnail.
Book Synopsis The Future Revisited by : Francoise Schiltz
Download or read book The Future Revisited written by Francoise Schiltz and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Future Revisited examines Hollywood adaptations of Jules Verne stories and is an interdisciplinary study that offers a fresh perspective on film history, French literature, science fiction and America in the 1950s. It is a fascinating and authoritative account of how the stories of Jules Verne, a distinguished French novelist better known around the world as the father of science fiction and an accurate predictor of much of the twentieth century, found particular resonance with US filmmakers in the 1950s. Schiltz looks at four of the most popular films - Around the World in 80 Days, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth and Mysterious Island - and argues that there were many parallels between Verne's technological adventures and postwar America, with its themeparks, shopping malls, Levittowns and plethora of consumer goods. Just as nineteenth-century readers of Verne's books could experience travel from the comfort of their seats, viewers of these films could be swept away on an imaginary flight, a voyage in a submarine, or a trek to the earth’s core, all in spectacular widescreen and with ground-breaking special effects. Yet the pleasures offered were ambivalent: encounters with exotic places and cultures might have led the audience to question common assumptions such as gender roles; seeing futuristic domestic spaces could highlight the confusion of attitudes to private and public life in suburbia, and the films’ blending of nostalgia and progress might draw attention to society’s tug-of-war between innovation and conformity.
Book Synopsis Vox Populi by : Ingeborg van der Geest
Download or read book Vox Populi written by Ingeborg van der Geest and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and engaging book examines the rise of populism across the globe. Combining insights from linguistics, argumentation theory, rhetoric, legal theory and political theory it offers a fully integrated characterization of the form and content of populist discourse.
