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Author : Mary Howitt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Vignettes of American History written by Mary Howitt and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosalynn Shropshire-West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615244365
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Black Vignettes written by Rosalynn Shropshire-West and published by . This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are books written solely for enlightenment, and there are books written solely for entertainment. The reader will find Black Vignettes: Essays of African American History and Culture to be a seamless blending of both. It is a delightfully eclectic mix of people, places, events, occurrences and culturally significant topics not found in ordinary United States history books. But all that is contained herein has a substantial importance to black history and culture. Few of the essays contained in Black Vignettes are very long. The brevity of the essays and variety of topics found within these pages will engross even the most severe cases of attention deficit disorder. - P.O.W.E.R. Magazine International
Author : Mary Howitt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Vignettes of American History written by Mary Howitt and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jerry Gildemeister
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book An American Vignette written by Jerry Gildemeister and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James A. Crutchfield
Publisher : J. Crutchfield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781934314012
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)
Download or read book America's Yesteryears written by James A. Crutchfield and published by J. Crutchfield Publishers. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award winning historical writer James A. Crutchfield chronicles obscure, yet highly important, episodes from America's past in this far-ranging volume. Arranged in chronological order by year, the vignettes portray the events that signaled change and defined our country, and they cover all aspects of our history-social life, religion, warfare, the frontier army, inventions, exploration, and more. Each episode is depicted in a brief, yet comprehensive, paragraph and is often accompanied by an illustration. Between the first entry recounting Columbus's landfall in the New World on October 12, 1492, and the last episode describing the first running of the Pony Express on April 3, 1860, are narratives of more than 450 events and 170 illustrations, all of which help the reader gain a perspective on America's storied past. The volume is literally an "almanac" of early American history.
Author : Bernard Bailyn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 132400584X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades written by Bernard Bailyn and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliance of a master historian shines through this “elegant and engaging memoir” of a lifetime’s work (Richard Aldous, Wall Street Journal). Over a remarkable career Bernard Bailyn has reshaped our understanding of the early American past. Inscribing his superb scholarship with passion and imagination honed by a commitment to rigor, Bailyn captures the particularity of the past and its broad significance in precise, elegant prose. His transformative work has ranged from a new reckoning with the ideology that powered the opposition to British authority in the American Revolution, to a sweeping account of the peopling of America, and the critical nurturing of a new field, the history of the Atlantic world. Illuminating History is the most personal of Bailyn’s works. It is in part an intellectual memoir of the significant turns in an immensely productive and influential scholarly career. It is also alive with people whose actions touched the long arc of history. Among the dramatic human stories that command our attention: a struggling Boston merchant tormented by the tensions between capitalist avarice and a constrictive Puritan piety; an ordinary shopkeeper who in a unique way feverishly condemned British authority as corrupt and unworthy of public confidence; a charismatic German Pietist who founded a cloister in the Pennsylvania wilderness famous for its strange theosophy, its spartan lifestyle, and its rich musical and artistic achievement. And the good townspeople of Petersham, whose response in 1780 to a draft Massachusetts constitution speaks directly to us through a moving insistence on individual freedoms in the face of an imposing central authority. Here is vivid history and an illuminating self-portrait from one of the most eminent historians of our time.
Author : US Army Military History Institute
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Vignettes of Military History written by US Army Military History Institute and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Kenny Williams
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890961933
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Dueling in the Old South written by Jack Kenny Williams and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the social custom of pistol dueling in the antebellum South documents the rules for its conduct, its causes, and its typical participants. Also included is a popular dueling code from the year 1838 by John Lyde Wilson, one-time governer of South Carolina.--From publisher description.
Author : Alberto Ledesma
Publisher : Mad Creek Books
ISBN 13 : 9780814254400
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (544 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer written by Alberto Ledesma and published by Mad Creek Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From undocumented to "hyper documented," Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer traces Alberto Ledesma's struggle with personal and national identity from growing up in Oakland to earning his doctorate degree at Berkeley, and beyond.
Author : Edward Eggleston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1627931538
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (279 download)
Download or read book A First Book of American History written by Edward Eggleston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the biographical approach to teaching history found in his Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans, Eggleston draws a more in-depth picture of the development of the United States using the stories of the living and breathing Americans who made it all happen.
Author : US Army Military History Research Collection
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Vignettes of Military History written by US Army Military History Research Collection and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Seymour Morris, Jr.
Publisher : Broadway Books
ISBN 13 : 0307587614
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book American History Revised written by Seymour Morris, Jr. and published by Broadway Books. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “American History Revised is as informative as it is entertaining and humorous. Filled with irony, surprises, and long-hidden secrets, the book does more than revise American history, it reinvents it.”—James Bamford, bestselling author of The Puzzle Palace, Body of Secrets, and The Shadow Factory This spirited reexamination of American history delves into our past to expose hundreds of startling facts that never made it into the textbooks, and highlights how little-known peopleand events played surprisingly influential roles in the great American story. We tend to think of history as settled, set in stone, but American History Revised reveals a past that is filled with ironies, surprises, and misconceptions. Living abroad for twelve years gave author Seymour Morris Jr. the opportunity to view his country as an outsider and compelled him to examine American history from a fresh perspective. As Morris colorfully illustrates through the 200 historical vignettes that make up this book, much of our nation’s past is quite different—and far more remarkable—than we thought. We discover that: • In the 1950s Ford was approached by two Japanese companies begging for a joint venture. Ford declined their offers, calling them makers of “tin cars.” The two companies were Toyota and Nissan. • Eleanor Roosevelt and most women’s groups opposed the Equal Rights Amendment forbidding gender discrimination. • The two generals who ended the Civil War weren’t Grant and Lee. • The #1 bestselling American book of all time was written in one day. • The Dutch made a bad investment buying Manhattan for $24. • Two young girls aimed someday to become First Lady—and succeeded. • Three times, a private financier saved the United States from bankruptcy. Organized into ten thematic chapters, American History Revised plumbs American history’s numerous inconsistencies, twists, and turns to make it come alive again.
Author : Betty Swan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781441586636
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (866 download)
Download or read book From the Slave Ship to the Spaceship written by Betty Swan and published by . This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Slave Ship to the Spaceship promotes African American social studies by creating a vast collection of topics that incorporate over five hundred skits, narratives and poems. It is Betty Swan's hope that everyone from pre-K to adult will be inspired to learn more about African American contributions, culture and struggles. One can walk in the footsteps of greatness through these reenactments.
Author : David Colbert
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 067976724X
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Eyewitness to America written by David Colbert and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1998-07-28 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Jefferson complains about haggling over the Declaration of Independence ... Jack London guides us through the rubble of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ... Langston Hughes visits the Scottsboro Boys on death row ... Andy Warhol paints the scene at Studio 54 ... John Seabrook receives e-mail from Bill Gates. Three hundred eyewitnesses -- some famous, some anonymous -- give their personal accounts of the great moments that make up our past, from Columbus to cyberspace, and infuse them with a freshness and urgency no historian can duplicate. David Colbert has brought together a multitude of voices to create a singularly rich American narrative. Here are the vivid impressions of men and women who were witnesses to and participants in these and other dramatic moments: the first colony in Virginia, the Salem witch trials, the Boston Tea Party, the Oklahoma land rush, the Scopes Trial, the bombing of Nagasaki, the lunch-counter sit-ins at the outset of the civil rights movement, New York City's Stonewall Riot, the fall of Saigon, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots. With unparalleled and thrilling immediacy, these excerpts from diaries, private letters, memoirs, and newspapers paint a fascinating picture of the evolving drama of American life.
Author : Edward Eggleston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A First Book in American History written by Edward Eggleston and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marylou Colver
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781540206848
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Lake Oswego Vignettes written by Marylou Colver and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With tales of a mayor who knew the town s cows by name and a singing pig drunk on moonshine, Marylou Colver captures the quirky anecdotes of Lake Oswego s past. In the twentieth century, visionary real estate developers touted Oregon s Lake Oswego as an ideal place to live where you play, a reputation the city maintains today. But this playful paradise is a far cry from the small town developed by iron company entrepreneurs in the nineteenth century. Colver, founder of the Lake Oswego Preservation Society, chronicles the transition from gritty to pretty by recounting the people and events that shaped Lake Oswego. From bathing suit bans to a robot circus, enjoy the legacy of unusual facts, some recently discovered, that inspired Lake Oswego Vignettes."
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Vignettes of Military History written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
