Download or read book Americanization as a War Measure Vol 18 written by Conference on Americanization a Measure and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Americanization as a War Measure, Vol. 18: Report of a Conference Called by the Secretary of the Interior, and Held in Washington, April 3, 1918 You are men of iron and steel, and wood and copper. You are men who deal with these material things which go to make up the great prosperity of this country, but fundamentally each one of you is a religious leader. Each one of you has in his soul a mystical quantity which represents your Americanism. There is something bigger and finer in everyone of us than the individual himself. That thing that is finer is the thing that prompts us to do the work that we are doing; and why are we working; why are we strivmg; why are we fighting on the other side to-day? Because of a divine dissatisfaction within our own souls. We are compelled to move on and on by something that we know not of. That is the essence of Americanism.' Take out of our hearts the belief that the Battle Hymn of the Republic is true, that God's truth is marching on, and you defeat America; but until you take that from us, I care not what the battles of the world may show - the spirit of America, the real America can not be beaten in battle. I want to get into your hearts, if I can at this time, a passion for Americanism, not only because Americanism is the Spirit of our country, but because Americanism is the most advanced spirit that has come to man's spirit from above. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Americanization as a War Measure written by Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education (ED). and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the suggestion of the National Committee of One Hundred, the Advisory Council on Americanization to the United States Bureau of Education, the Secretary of the Interior called a conference on Americanization as a War Measure, which was held on April 3, 1918. Among those in attendance were governors, State officers, officials of commercial and industrial organizations and corporations, representatives of National and State Councils of Defense, and educators. On February 12, 1918, the Council of National Defense, at the request of the Bureau of Education of the Department of the Interior, sent to the State councils advance sheets of one of its bulletins, asking them to appoint a committee on Americanization, to perform two important functions: First, to assist the United States Bureau of Education in carrying out its national program. Second, to conduct and put through a State program for Americanization, for education. That bulletin contained an outline of the fundamental points in this National and State program. The Bureau of Education has now prepared a follow-up bulletin containing the first steps in that program. Those steps consist in the establishment of a war information service, for the purpose of bringing full knowledge of the aims and ideals in this war, of the relation of America to all other races and all matters that concern the alien and the foreign born in America, home to the individual aliens so that they will no longer be a prey to anti-American propaganda, and to ignorance and fear. During the conference reported on here, it was resolved "That the honorable the Secretary of the Interior appoint a committee of nine members, representative of those in attendance at this meeting, including governors, chairmen of State Defense Councils, officials of commercial organizations and industrial corporations, and representatives of the workers of the nation, who shall ask a hearing before a joint session of the Senate and House Committees on Education for the purpose of furthering legislation that will give Federal direction and leadership to the movement for teaching the English language to the illiterates and non-English speaking persons of foreign origin residing in the United States and which will promote through the public schools, the systematic instruction of such persons in American ideals, standards, and citizenship." (Contains 1 footnote.) [Best copy available has been provided.].
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Download or read book Americanizing the West written by Frank Van Nuys and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The arrival of immigrants on America's shores has always posed a singular problem: once they are here, how are these diverse peoples to be transformed into Americans? The Americanization movement of the 1910s and 1920s addressed this challenge by seeking to train immigrants for citizenship, representing a key element of the Progressives' "search for order" in a modernizing America. Frank Van Nuys examines for the first time how this movement, in an effort to help integrate an unruly West into the emerging national system, was forced to reconcile the myth of rugged individualism with the demands of a planned society. In an era convulsed by world war and socialist revolution, the Americanization movement was especially concerned about the susceptibility of immigrants to un-American propaganda and union agitation. As Van Nuys convincingly demonstrates, this applied as much to immigrants in the urbanizing and industrializing West as it did to those occupying the ethnic enclaves of cities in the East. In Americanizing the West he tells how hundreds of bureaucrats, educators, employers, and reformers participated in this movement by developing adult immigrant education programs-and how these attempts contributed more toward bureaucratizing the West than it did to turning immigrants into productive citizens. He deftly ties this history to broader national developments and shows how Westerners brought distinctive approaches to Americanization to accommodate and preserve their own sense of history and identity. Van Nuys shows that, although racism and social control agendas permeated Americanization efforts in the West, Americanizers sustained their faith in education as a powerful force in transforming immigrants into productive citizens. He also shows how some westerners-especially in California-believed they faced a "racial frontier" unlike other parts of the country in light of the influx of Hispanics and Asians, so that westerners became major players in the crafting of not only American identity but also immigration policies. The mystique of the white pioneer past still maintains a powerful hold on ideas of American identity, and we still deal with many of these issues through laws and propositions targeting immigrants and alien workers. Americanizing the West makes a clear case for regional distinctiveness in this citizenship program and puts current headlines in perspective by showing how it helped make the West what it is today.
Download or read book Planning A Tragedy The Americanization of the War in Vietnam written by Larry Berman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1983-08-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Takes an historically important decision, places it in its immediate stream of policy development, perceptions and events and adds what was missing from the Pentagon Papers."—Richard E. Neustadt, Harvard University "A thoroughly researched and highly perceptive study of the decisions that turned the tribal struggle in Vietnam into an American war. Berman's book fully documents the role of domestic policy in our tragic involvement. As one who watched the process at firsthand. I commend Professor Berman's book for its fairness and insight."— George W. Ball
Download or read book Economic and Social History of the World War Leland W G Introduction to the American official sources for the economic and social history of the world war 1926 written by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Economics and History and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Introduction to the American Official Sources for the Economic and Social History of the World War written by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Economics and History and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "List of editors, publishers and plan of series": 18 p. at end. Includes bibliographies.
Download or read book Book Review Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Americanization of Social Science written by David Haney and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly readable introduction to and overview of the postwar social sciences in the United States, The Americanization of Social Science explores a critical period in the evolution of American sociology’s professional identity from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. David Paul Haney contends that during this time leading sociologists encouraged a professional secession from public engagement in the name of establishing the discipline’s scientific integrity. According to Haney, influential practitioners encouraged a willful withdrawal from public sociology by separating their professional work from public life. He argues that this separation diminished sociologists’ capacity for conveying their findings to wider publics, especially given their ambivalence towards the mass media, as witnessed by the professional estrangement that scholars like David Riesman and C. Wright Mills experienced as their writing found receptive lay audiences. He argues further that this sense of professional insularity has inhibited sociology’s participation in the national discussion about social issues to the present day.
Download or read book Culture Wars in American Education written by Michael R. Olneck and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture Wars in American Education: Past and Present Struggles Over the Symbolic Order radically questions norms and values held within US Education and analyses why and how culture wars in American education are intense, consequential, and recurrent. Applying the concept of “symbolic order,” this volume elaborates ways in which symbolic representations are used to draw boundaries, allocate status, and legitimate the exercise of authority and power within American schooling. In particular, the book illustrates the “terms of inclusion” by which full membership in the national community is defined, limited, and contested. It suggests that repetitive patterns in the symbolic order, for example, the persistence of the representation of an individualistic basis of American society and polity, constrain the reach of progressive change. The book examines the World War I era Americanization movement, the World War II era Intercultural Education movement, the late-twentieth-century Multicultural Education movement, continuing right-wing assaults on Ethnic Studies and Critical Race Theory in the first decades of the twenty-first century, and historical and contemporary conflicts over the incorporation of languages other than Standard English into approved instructional approaches. In the context of continuing culture wars in the United States and across the globe, this book will be of interest to graduate students and scholars in critical studies of education, history of education, sociology of education, curriculum theory, Multicultural Education, and comparative education, as well as to educators enmeshed in contemporary tensions and conflicts.
Download or read book Handbook of Reading Research Volume III written by Michael L. Kamil and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 1438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Volume III, as in Volumes I and II, the classic topics of reading are included--from vocabulary and comprehension to reading instruction in the classroom--and, in addition, each contributor was asked to include a brief history that chronicles the legacies within each of the volume's many topics. However, on the whole, Volume III is not about tradition. Rather, it explores the verges of reading research between the time Volume II was published in 1991 and the research conducted after this date. The editors identified two broad themes as representing the myriad of verges that have emerged since Volumes I and II were published: (1) broadening the definition of reading, and (2) broadening the reading research program. The particulars of these new themes and topics are addressed.
Download or read book The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin written by Gordon S. Wood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-05-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I cannot remember ever reading a work of history and biography that is quite so fluent, so perfectly composed and balanced . . .” —The New York Sun “Exceptionally rich perspective on one of the most accomplished, complex, and unpredictable Americans of his own time or any other.” —The Washington Post Book World From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic—and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes—comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career that would have otherwise remained mysterious. In place of the genial polymath, self-improver, and quintessential American, Gordon S. Wood reveals a figure much more ambiguous and complex—and much more interesting. Charting the passage of Franklin’s life and reputation from relative popular indifference (his death, while the occasion for mass mourning in France, was widely ignored in America) to posthumous glory, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin sheds invaluable light on the emergence of our country’s idea of itself.
Download or read book Library Journal written by Melvil Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Issued also separately.
Download or read book Subject Catalog of the World War I Collection written by New York Public Library. Reference Department and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Americanization and Its Limits written by Jonathan Zeitlin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of Americanization in European and Japanese industry after World War II. The contributors analyze the creative role of local actors in selectively adapting US technology and management methods to suit local conditions, and in creating hybrid forms combining foreign and indigenous practices in unforeseen, yet remarkably competitive ways.
Download or read book Education and Learning in America written by Catherine Reef and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the progress and development of education throughout U.S. history, from the changing theories of education and the differences between urban and rural education to the movements of progressivism and traditionalism to standardized testing.
