Download or read book Teach Yourself Instant Reference History of the U S A written by Teach Yourself and published by McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable volume contains more than 1,000 entries on the people, politics, and events that have shaped the United States. Helpful cross-references and time lines are included.
Download or read book History of the USA written by Helicon Publishing Ltd. Staff and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2000 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and accessible overview of the entire history of the USA in over 500 bitesized entries. The text covers the key people, places and events in an easy-to-use A-Z format.
Download or read book Lies My Teacher Told Me written by James W. Loewen and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.
Download or read book Why Learn History When It s Already on Your Phone written by Sam Wineburg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at how to teach history in the age of easily accessible—but not always reliable—information. Let’s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percent of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All of it is pernicious. With the Internet at our fingertips, what’s a teacher of history to do? In Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone), professor Sam Wineburg has the answers, beginning with this: We can’t stick to the same old read-the-chapter-answer-the-question snoozefest. If we want to educate citizens who can separate fact from fake, we have to equip them with new tools. Historical thinking, Wineburg shows, has nothing to do with the ability to memorize facts. Instead, it’s an orientation to the world that cultivates reasoned skepticism and counters our tendency to confirm our biases. Wineburg lays out a mine-filled landscape, but one that with care, attention, and awareness, we can learn to navigate. The future of the past may rest on our screens. But its fate rests in our hands. Praise for Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) “If every K-12 teacher of history and social studies read just three chapters of this book—”Crazy for History,” “Changing History . . . One Classroom at a Time,” and “Why Google Can’t Save Us” —the ensuing transformation of our populace would save our democracy.” —James W. Lowen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and Teaching What Really Happened “A sobering and urgent report from the leading expert on how American history is taught in the nation’s schools. . . . A bracing, edifying, and vital book.” —Jill Lepore, New Yorker staff writer and author of These Truths “Wineburg is a true innovator who has thought more deeply about the relevance of history to the Internet—and vice versa—than any other scholar I know. Anyone interested in the uses and abuses of history today has a duty to read this book.” —Niall Ferguson, senior fellow, Hoover Institution, and author of The Ascent of Money and Civilization
Download or read book Instant American History written by Irwin Unger and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first Asian migration across the Bering Strait to Sherman's famous march to the sea, this visually engaging book gives you everything you really need to know about American history from Independence to Reconstruction. It explores the essential facts that everyone should know and reveals the surprising, fascinating side of history. Get the lowdown on the Founding Fathers; Learn why the War of 1812 was fought, and how it set the United States on the road to Coca-Colonialism, and more. Plus INSTANT AMERICAN HISTORY is crammed with special features including chapter summaries, lists of who's who, biographical and little-known facts, and a host of photos, cartoons, and vintage illustrations.
Download or read book Teach Yourself Instant Reference written by Helicon and published by . This book was released on 2001-02-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference guide arranged in alphabetical order that provides a broad overview of the history, ideas and important people associated with the field of philosophy.
Download or read book A Crash Course in Early American History written by Quantum Scientific Quantum Scientific Publishing and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-11-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Crash Course in Early American History" is a "down and dirty" quick walk through history! The book begins with the early Spanish settlers and moves forward through the end of the Civil War. This book is perfect for anyone who has an interest in history, but not a lot of time to spend learning it!
Download or read book The Great Book of American Trivia written by Bill O'Neill and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slept through high school history? Need a more entertaining refresher than a dusty textbook? Want to learn more about America and its interesting history? Pick up The Great Book of American Trivia, the ultimate compendium of American trivia and little-known facts. A quick read packed with information from cover to cover. Here you will find out: Which US president survived an assassination attempt - and didn't even pause his speech? What holiday's origin story was actually just a tall tale to unite a country at war? Where in the world can you find an American mountain range - that isn't in America? How did an earthquake lead to the Trail of Tears? What First Lady gossip shook up an entire presidential cabinet? Whether you know nothing about America's past or you consider yourself an expert, you'll learn something new and find yourself entertained as you discover or relive the nation's troubles, mistakes, triumphs, and challenges. Dig in now and start learning the interesting stories that shaped America into what it is today.
Download or read book Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts written by Samuel S. Wineburg and published by Critical Perspectives on the P. This book was released on 2001 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether he is comparing how students and historians interpret documentary evidence or analyzing children's drawings, Wineburg's essays offer rough maps of how ordinary people think about the past and use it to understand the present. These essays acknowledge the role of collective memory in filtering what we learn in school and shaping our historical thinking.
Download or read book American History in No Time written by Dungeness Press and published by . This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American History In No Time is an easy way to learn the basics. It is a short overview divided into small sections that can be read in around five minutes each. The entire book can be read in just a few hours.
Download or read book American History in No Time written by Randolph G. Russell and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of America is an amazing story, but all too unfamiliar. American History in No Time is the quickest way to learn the basics from pre-Columbian times to the present. It is also the perfect refresher. Divided into small sections that can be read in around five minutes each. The entire book can be read in just a few hours.
Download or read book The Middle East since 1945 written by Stewart Ross and published by Teach Yourself. This book was released on 2024-11-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much needed new editionprovides a complete and essential guide to this fast developing, ever changing and often tense region. This book, fully updated for 2024, examines the origins and development of the events which have dominated the headlines for the last seven decades. Covering everything from religion and politics in the aftermath of the Second World War to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, terrorism, war in Iraq and Syria and the extraordinary economic growth of the Gulf states, it will change the way you think about the region and provide balance and clarity.
Download or read book Don t Know Much About American History written by Kenneth C. Davis and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents, in question and answer format, a history of the United States from the exploration of Christopher Columbus to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Download or read book An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States 10th Anniversary Edition written by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.” Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.
Download or read book City on a Hill written by Abram C. Van Engen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, original history of America’s national narratives, told through the loss, recovery, and rise of one influential Puritan sermon from 1630 to the present day In this illuminating book, Abram Van Engen shows how the phrase “City on a Hill,” from a 1630 sermon by Massachusetts Bay governor John Winthrop, shaped the story of American exceptionalism in the twentieth century. By tracing the history of Winthrop’s speech, its changing status throughout time, and its use in modern politics, Van Engen asks us to reevaluate our national narratives. He tells the story of curators, librarians, collectors, archivists, antiquarians, and often anonymous figures who emphasized the role of the Pilgrims and Puritans in American history, paving the way for the saving and sanctifying of a single sermon. This sermon’s rags-to-riches rise reveals the way national stories take shape and shows us how those tales continue to influence competing visions of the country—the many different meanings of America that emerge from its literary past.
Download or read book Sams Teach Yourself R in 24 Hours written by Andy Nicholls and published by Sams Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the open source R programming language and its immense library of packages, you can perform virtually any data analysis task. Now, in just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you can learn all the skills and techniques you'll need to import, manipulate, summarize, model, and plot data with R; formalize analytical code; and build powerful R packages using current best practices. Each short, easy lesson builds on all that's come before: you'll learn all of R's essentials as you create real R solutions. R in 24 hours, Sams Teach Yourself covers the entire data analysis workflow from the viewpoint of professionals whose code must be efficient, reproducible and suitable for sharing with others.
Download or read book U S History written by P. Scott Corbett and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printed in color. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
