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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870446474
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Visiting Our Past written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial survey of some of America's historic sites and monuments.
Author : United Stestes. National Geographic Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Visiting Our Past written by United Stestes. National Geographic Society and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visiting our Past written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visiting our Past written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clint Smith
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316492914
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book How the Word Is Passed written by Clint Smith and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives. Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves. It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. It is the story of Angola, a former plantation-turned-maximum-security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Black men who work across the 18,000-acre land for virtually no pay. And it is the story of Blandford Cemetery, the final resting place of tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers. A deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history, How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our country's most essential stories are hidden in plain view—whether in places we might drive by on our way to work, holidays such as Juneteenth, or entire neighborhoods like downtown Manhattan, where the brutal history of the trade in enslaved men, women, and children has been deeply imprinted. Informed by scholarship and brought to life by the story of people living today, Smith's debut work of nonfiction is a landmark of reflection and insight that offers a new understanding of the hopeful role that memory and history can play in making sense of our country and how it has come to be. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Winner of the Stowe Prize Winner of 2022 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism A New York Times 10 Best Books of 2021
Author : Megan Borgert-Spaniol
Publisher : Checkerboard Library
ISBN 13 : 9781532115417
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Time Travel written by Megan Borgert-Spaniol and published by Checkerboard Library. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will examine the history of time travel, Project Pegasus, famous time travel literature, time slippage, Einstein's theory of relativity and more before deciding for themselves!
Author : Wayne P. Anderson
Publisher : AKA-Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1942168373
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Travels Into Our Past: America's Living History Museums & Historical Sites written by Wayne P. Anderson and published by AKA-Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ANOTHER VENTURE BOUND BOOK! Whether you are seeking a new travel adventure, enjoy immersing yourself in history with a light touch, or are just looking for a good tale, the Andersons' first volume of Travels Into Our Past: America's Living History Museums & Historical Sites will be a satisfying reading experience. When you delve into the pages of this book, you'll find yourself on an investigation of your ancestors' legacy on the different farms at Old World Wisconsin, each originally settled by a Norwegian, Dane, German, Pole, Finn, and a rich Yankee. Discover the Arabia Steamboat Museum near Kansas City and learn the unusual story of the ship which sank in the Missouri River in 1856. Because of one of the many course changes of the "Big Muddy," the Arabia was later found buried deep in a farmer's field and was excavated with its cargo, a virtual "floating Wal-Mart." In Fort Smith, Arkansas, you'll read of a fire that became known as "the night of the lingerie parade." Living history museums are an engaging and interactive way to learn about various facets of our vast country's relatively short history through demonstrations, preserved structures and re-enacted events. The Andersons share over fifty of their memorable experiences at these story-telling historical sites.
Author : Timothy Gruenewald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947602151
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Rethinking America's Past written by Timothy Gruenewald and published by . This book was released on 2019-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While visitors to art and history museums may be there to simply enjoy the curated objects, the question of what is included (and excluded) in these collections and who has the power over this process echoes the struggle for inclusion that is so central to the African American experience. Since its inception, the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection® has played an important role in this struggle, seeking out objects that give voice to previously excluded experiences, and providing an alternative to the limits of institutional collections.Among the first scholarly books dedicated to a private African American collection, Rethinking America's Past: Voices from the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection both chronicles the reach of this important cultural collection and contributes to its project by sharing selected objects and stories with a broader audience. Essays range in subject from iconic African American artists, such as Loïs Mailou Jones and Beauford Delaney, to important historical figures such as FrederickDouglas and Martin Luther King, to individuals whose experiences might be lost to history but for the found objectsthat preserve their stories. Rethinking America's Past demonstrates how the African American story, from slaverythrough the present, is represented and can be actively remembered through the act of collecting.Rethinking America's Past will appeal to audiences interested in African American history as well as art history, but its real power is in linking the two, showing how important collections are in constructing and repairing historical narratives, and how in the words of editor Tim Gruenewald, "Collecting overlooked aspects of our past and sharing such collectionsenables a deeper understanding of the present moment, and facilitates a more inclusive and just future."
Author : Patrick O'Keeffe
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408850818
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Visitors written by Patrick O'Keeffe and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One warm July night, when thoughts of Ireland are far from James Dwyer's mind, a homeless man with a sunburnt face, who smells like dry wood, comes to the screen door of his Michigan apartment. Walter has two messages. The first is that an old lady is lying in the middle of his street. But when James goes to look there's nobody to be seen. The second, while apparently more ordinary, is ultimately more troubling: a childhood friend wants him to visit. Kevin Lyons, the wayward older son of a neighbouring builder James knew long ago as a boy in Tipperary, now lives in the USA too, and wants to reconnect with his past. But James, who has spent years establishing the foundations of his American life, has put that past behind him. As the day of the visit approaches, James slowly re-examines the mysteries of that time: what happened to Aunt Tess, who went away to become a nurse in Dublin; what Kevin's father was really doing late at night by candlelight in his makeshift office in the yard; what became of Kevin's red-haired sister Una, who young Jimmy fell for in a big way and whether, after all these years, people like Kevin ever really change. The Visitors is a captivating story of the interwoven fates of two families, of the gap between childhood and the adult world, between a river in Ireland (and all that happened there) and another in America, and of the shocking revelations that come with crossing the divide.
Author : Leslie Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870446481
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Visiting Our Past written by Leslie Adams and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Staume
Publisher : Agio Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1897435290
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (974 download)
Download or read book The Atheist Afterlife written by David Staume and published by Agio Publishing House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Atheist Afterlife describes an afterlife that is consistent with known law and requires nothing more than physics. It demonstrates that an afterlife is possible based on reason, and supports the probability of an afterlife with an original and testable support for dualism - the proposition that our mind and body are separate."--Back cover.
Author : Simon Wills
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473842735
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Voyages from the Past written by Simon Wills and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the days of sail to the majestic ocean liners of the twentieth century, this is a history of British sea travel from a passenger's point of view. Each chapter narrates one traveller's voyage based on their first-hand description, and the day-to-day details of their experience. Their stories, some previously unpublished, illustrate the evolution of journeys by sea, exploring three and a half centuries of maritime travel. Simon Wills transports readers from Elizabethan times to the eve of the Second World War, on voyages to destinations all over the world. The passengers featured in this book came from all walks of life, and travelled for many different reasons. There were emigrants seeking a new life abroad, such as the pilgrims on the Mayflower, and others hoping to be reunited with their families like Phoebe Amory on the ill-fated Lusitania in 1915. The author Henry Fielding travelled to improve his health, whilst the wealthy George Moore crossed the Atlantic on Brunel's Great Western to do business. Yet, whether travelling in steerage or first class, every passenger could experience trials and tribulations at sea – from delayed sailing schedules and poor diet, to the greater hazards of disease, enemy action, and shipwreck. This engaging collection of stories illustrates the excitements, frustrations, and dangers of sea travel for our forebears. Family historians will perhaps identify with a voyage taken by an ancestor, while those with an interest in maritime or social history can explore how passenger pursuits, facilities, and experiences at sea have developed over time.
Author : Ontario. Legislative Assembly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sessional Papers - Legislature of the Province of Ontario written by Ontario. Legislative Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313356130
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book East Asia's Haunted Present written by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by leading scholars from Japan, China, South Korea, and the United States examines how and why bitter historical memories have resurfaced in recent years as freshly virulent and contentious issues between Japan and its neighbors—especially China and South Korea. Moreover, it seeks to identify what set of conditions and what sequence of measures will enable these modern nations to manage, palliate, and exorcise the wrongs of the past in a spirit of reconciliation, so that the dangerous growth of nationalist resentments and revanchism can be checked. Comfort women ... the Yasukuni Shrine ... the history textbook controversies ... The single sorest issue confronting East Asia today is the growing animosity and conflict between Japan and its neighbors—especially China and South Korea—over their respective and collective memories of Japan's pre-1945 militaristic aggression, oppression, and atrocities. Even as East Asia has established itself as one of the most vibrant economic regions of the world, the strident nationalisms that have emerged here in the post-Cold War period have exacerbated historical grievances and heightened the international tensions that separate Japan from China and South Korea, blocking the development of an international system based on comity and cooperation.
Author : Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture and Food
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Annual Report written by Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture and Food and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Davide Delfino
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803270799
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Understanding and Accessibility of Pre-and Proto-Historical Research Issues: Sites, Museums and Communication Strategies written by Davide Delfino and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museums are increasingly seen as the place where scientific research and heritage education meet; 8 papers here consider the mediation of language from research usage to public usage, making a museum visit an educational experience, universal accessibility, local community involvement, and use of media and new technologies for public outreach.
Author : Faith Ester
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 166421691X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 download)
Download or read book I Survived written by Faith Ester and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a voice for those that are abused with no voice, an encouraging voice to keep the faith. The whole point of writing this book is to help others to dig deep and find yourself regardless of the circumstances you to can survive.
