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Book The American Pageant Revisited  Recollections of a Stanford Historian

Download or read book The American Pageant Revisited Recollections of a Stanford Historian written by Thomas Andrew Bailey and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kill Now  Talk Forever

Download or read book Kill Now Talk Forever written by Richard Newby and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principally an abridgement of the transcript of the trial as published in: The Sacco-Vanzetti case. 2nd ed. Mamaroneck, N.Y. : P. P. Appel, 1969; followed by a collection of remarks over the past 80 years about the trial and its significance.

Book Theoretical Perspectives on Historians  Autobiographies

Download or read book Theoretical Perspectives on Historians Autobiographies written by Jaume Aurell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. H. Carr wrote, "study the historian before you begin to study the facts." This book approaches the life, work, ideas, debates, and the context of key 20th- and 21st-century historians through an analysis of their life writing projects viewed as historiographical sources. Merging literary studies on autobiography with theories of history, it provides a systematic and detailed analysis of the autobiographies of the most outstanding historians, from the classic texts by Giambattista Vico, Edward Gibbon and Henry Adams, to the Annales historians such as Fernand Braudel, Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby, to Marxist historians such as Eric Hobsbawm and Annie Kriegel, to postmodern historians such as Carolyn Steedman, Robert A. Rosenstone, Carlos Eire, Luisa Passerini, Elisabeth Roudinesco, Gerda Lerner and Sheila Fitzpatrick, and to "interventional" historians such as Geoff Eley, Jill Ker Conway, Natalie Davis and Gabrielle Spiegel. Using a comparative approach to these texts, this book identifies six historical-autobiographical styles: humanistic, biographic, ego-historical, monographic, postmodern, and interventional. By privileging historians' autobiographies, this book proposes a renewed history of historiography, one that engages the theoretical evolution of the discipline, the way history has been interpreted by historians, and the currents of thought and ideologies that have dominated and influenced its writing in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Book How Scholars Trumped Teachers

Download or read book How Scholars Trumped Teachers written by Larry Cuban and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a century of university history, Larry Cuban tackles the age-old question: What is more important, teaching or research? Using two departments (history and medicine) at Stanford University as a case study, Cuban shows how universities have organizationally and politically subordinated teaching to research for over one hundred years. He explains how university reforms, decade after decade, not only failed to dislodge the primacy of research but actually served to strengthen it. He examines the academic work of research and teaching to determine how each has influenced university structures and processes, including curricular reform. Can the dilemma of scholars vs. teachers ever be fully reconciled? This fascinating historical journey is a must read for all university administrators, faculty, researchers, and anyone concerned with educational reform.

Book Herbert E  Bolton and the Historiography of the Americas

Download or read book Herbert E Bolton and the Historiography of the Americas written by Russell Magnaghi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-08-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comparative approach to the understanding of history is increasingly popular today. This study details the evolution of comparative history by examining the career of a pioneer in this area, Herbert E. Bolton, who popularized the notion that hemispheric history should be considered from pole to pole. Bolton traced the study of the history of the Americas back to 16th century European accounts of efforts to bring civilization to the New World, and he argued that only within this larger context could the histories of individual nations be understood. After American entry into the Spanish-American War in 1898, historians such as Bolton promoted the idea of comparative history, and it remains to this day a significant historiographical approach. Consideration of the history of the Americas as a whole dates back to 16th century European treatises on the New World. Chapter one of this study provides an overview of pre-Bolton formulations of such history. In chapter two one sees the forces that shaped Bolton's thinking and brought about the development of the concept. Chapters three and four focus upon the evolution of the approach through Bolton's history course at the University of California at Berkeley and the reception of the concept among Bolton's contemporaries. Unfortunately, Bolton never fully developed the theoretical side of his arguement; thus, chapter five chronicles the decline of his ideas after his death. The final chapter reveals the survival of the concept, which is now embraced by a new generation of historians who are largely unfamiliar with Bolton's instrumental role in the promotion of comparative history.

Book In the Past Lane

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael G. Kammen
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 019513091X
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book In the Past Lane written by Michael G. Kammen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Kammen is a major American historian, whose books have received the Bancroft and Parkman prizes. This book collects his essays on American culture, of which he is one of the major historians.

Book Lies My Teacher Told Me

    Book Details:
  • Author : James W. Loewen
  • Publisher : The New Press
  • Release : 2018-07-17
  • ISBN : 162097455X
  • Pages : 491 pages

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 2018-07-17 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself." —Howard Zinn A new edition of the national bestseller and American Book Award winner, with a new preface by the author Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important—and successful—history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship and was heralded on the front page of the New York Times. For this new edition, Loewen has added a new preface that shows how inadequate history courses in high school help produce adult Americans who think Donald Trump can solve their problems, and calls out academic historians for abandoning the concept of truth in a misguided effort to be "objective." What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education." In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, and the Iraq War, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should—and could—be taught to American students.

Book Lies My Teacher Told Me

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.

Book Beyond the Covenant Chain

Download or read book Beyond the Covenant Chain written by Daniel K. Richter and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the Western view of the Iroquois was clouded by the myth that they were the supermen of the frontier--"the Romans of this Western World," as De Witt Clinton called them in 1811. Only in recent years have scholars come to realize the extent to which Europeans had exaggerated the power of the Iroquois. First published in 1987, Beyond the Covenant Chain was one of the first studies to acknowledge fully that the Iroquois never had an empire. It remains the best study of diplomatic and military relations among Native American groups in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century North America. Published in paperback for the first time, it features a new introduction by Richter and Merrell. Contributors include Douglas W. Boyce, Mary A. Druke-Becker, Richard L. Haan, Francis Jennings, Michael N. McConnell, Theda Perdue, and Neal Salisbury.

Book Whiteness and Racialized Ethnic Groups in the United States

Download or read book Whiteness and Racialized Ethnic Groups in the United States written by Sherrow O. Pinder and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, about the genealogy of whiteness, racialized ethnic groups, and the future of race relations in the United States, is for undergraduate or graduate courses including political science, ethnic studies, American Studies, and multicultural and gender studies. Also, it ...

Book The Politics of Race and Ethnicity in the United States

Download or read book The Politics of Race and Ethnicity in the United States written by Sherrow O. Pinder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-14 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to examine and analyze Americanization, De-Americanization, and racialized ethnic groups in America and consider the questions: who is an American? And what constitutes American identity and culture?

Book The Amateur Hour

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan Zimmerman
  • Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Release : 2020-10-27
  • ISBN : 1421439093
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book The Amateur Hour written by Jonathan Zimmerman and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who wants to change college teaching will have to start here.

Book The Stanford Magazine

Download or read book The Stanford Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stanford

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 980 pages

Download or read book Stanford written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California History

Download or read book California History written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Program of the Annual Meeting   American Historical Association

Download or read book Program of the Annual Meeting American Historical Association written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some programs include also the programs of societies meeting concurrently with the association.

Book Determinism and American Foreign Relations During the Franklin D  Roosevelt Era

Download or read book Determinism and American Foreign Relations During the Franklin D Roosevelt Era written by Wayne S. Cole and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have labored to describe, explain, and evaluate President Roosevelt's place in history. In this book, based on a lifetime of experience, research, and reflection, Wayne S. Cole advances fresh, thoughtful, and thought provoking new perspectives on the man and his times. Cole breaks from the 'Great Man' and 'Devil' theories of history and advances a frankly determinist interpretation that invites neither adoration nor disdain for that sphinx on the American political scene.