Download or read book A Pocketful of History written by Jim Noles and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Mint's Fifty State Quarters Program-its most ambitious program to date-has been a huge popular success. When the final state quarters are released in 2008, many thousands of individuals will have collected one commemorative quarter for each state in the Union. But what can we learn about our country's history and culture from 12.50 worth of quarters? A Pocketful of History tells the intriguing story behind each state's quarter: how each state chose its quarter's design; what is important about the people, scenes, or themes depicted on the coin; and what the collection tells us about how we view ourselves and our heritage. A Pocketful of History will guide readers on a fascinating journey through America's rich history of change.

Download or read book 50 State Quarters Collector s Folder 1999 2008 written by and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a coin collector's dream folder, with a space for every state's newly designed quarters--arranged according to the year each was minted--along with dozens of fascinating facts. When Congress passed the "50 States Commemorative Coin Program Act" in 1997, which led to the creation of quarters honoring every state in the union, its members especially hoped that young people and their families would collect these memorable tokens. This handy folder will help youngsters realize that goal and hold onto these special keepsakes, which are being released over ten years in the order in which the states ratified the Constitution. In addition to the slots for the quarters, kids will find a description of the Commemorative Coin Program; a history of the United States Quarter Dollar; a list of state capitals, nicknames, mottoes, and more; details on how the 50 designs were chosen; and an account of how coins are manufactured by the U.S. Mint and distributed by the Federal Reserve Bank.

Download or read book A Pocketful of History written by James L. Noles and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at the fifty state quarters and what they tell us about a changing America

Download or read book A Pocketful of History written by Jim Noles and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is all around us - even in the spare change jangling in your purse or pocket. For the past decade' the U.S. Mint has offered America a pocketful of history through its popular 50 State Quarters Program. A Pocketful of History tells the sto...

Download or read book The Inside Story of the State Quarters written by Q. David Bowers and published by Whitman Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular debate around contemporary U.S. immigration tends to conjure images of men waiting on the side of the road for construction jobs, working in kitchens or delis, driving taxis, and sending money to their wives and families in their home countries, while women are often left out of these pictures. Immigration and Women is a national portrait of immigrant women who live in the United States today, featuring the voices of these women as they describe their contributions to work, culture, and activism. Through an examination of U.S. Census data and interviews with women across nationalities, we hear the poignant, humorous, hopeful, and defiant words of these women as they describe the often confusing terrain where they are starting new lives, creating architecture firms, building urban high-rises, caring for children, cleaning offices, producing creative works, and organizing for social change. Highlighting the gendered quality of the immigration process, Immigration and Women interrogates how human agency and societal structures interact within the intersecting social locations of gender and migration. The authors recommend changes for public policy to address the constraints these women face, insisting that new policy must be attentive to the diverse profile of today’s immigrating woman: she is both potentially vulnerable to exploitative conditions and forging new avenues of societal leadership.

Download or read book A Guide Book of Washington and State Quarter Dollars written by Q. David Bowers and published by Whitman Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of our nation's most popular modern coin. It features colorful historical research, secrets to being a smart buyer, and a comprehensive section on each state quarter from 1999 to date.

Download or read book Standing Liberty Quarters written by J. H. Cline and published by Zyrus Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.H. Cline's completely revised edition includes the history of the design of the Standing Liberty quarter series and the sculptor/artist who created it. Find the most current information on mintages, rarity and relative values, and new findings.

Download or read book Quarterbacking History written by Robert Irwin Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Official United States Mint 50 State Quarters Handbook written by Tricia Boczkowski and published by Whitman Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A primer to the history of the U.S. Mint, the quarter, and the 50 states.

Download or read book Quarterama written by Garrett Burke and published by . This book was released on 2010-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy an entertaining and educational tour inside America's phenomenally popular 50 State Quarters and the upcoming National Park Quarters. Discover the hidden stories and inspirations behind your favorite pocket change. This lavishly illustrated 160 page gift book includes a built-in coin album for collecting all 1999-2009 quarters

Download or read book 50 State Quarters written by Checker Bee Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Colorful illustrations and a detailed look at the first 10 State Quarters -- Fun facts about U.S History and coin collecting -- A page devoted to each state and to the golden Dollar Coin -- An activity section full of games and puzzles -- Coin holders that attach to each state's page

Download or read book Hubris written by Michael Isikoff and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real story behind the investigation of Iraq, and the basis for the MSNBC documentary of the same name hosted by Rachel Maddow Filled with news-making revelations that made it a New York Times bestseller, Hubris takes us behind the scenes at the White House, CIA, Pentagon, State Department, and Congress to show how George W. Bush came to invade Iraq--and how his administration struggled with the devastating fallout. Hubris connects the dots between Bush's expletive-laden outbursts at Saddam Hussein, the bitter battles between the CIA and the White House, the fights within the intelligence community over Saddam's supposed weapons of mass destruction, the outing of an undercover CIA officer, and the Bush administration's misleading sales campaign for war. Written by veteran reporters Michael Isikoff and David Corn, this is an inside look at how a president took the nation to war using faulty and fraudulent intelligence. It's a dramatic page-turner and an intriguing account of conspiracy, backstabbing, bureaucratic ineptitude, journalistic malfeasance, and arrogance.

Download or read book Quarters written by John Gilbert McCurdy and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Americans declared independence in 1776, they cited King George III "for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us." In Quarters, John Gilbert McCurdy explores the social and political history behind the charge, offering an authoritative account of the housing of British soldiers in America. Providing new interpretations and analysis of the Quartering Act of 1765, McCurdy sheds light on a misunderstood aspect of the American Revolution. Quarters unearths the vivid debate in eighteenth-century America over the meaning of place. It asks why the previously uncontroversial act of accommodating soldiers in one's house became an unconstitutional act. In so doing, Quarters reveals new dimensions of the origins of Americans' right to privacy. It also traces the transformation of military geography in the lead up to independence, asking how barracks changed cities and how attempts to reorder the empire and the borderland led the colonists to imagine a new nation. Quarters emphatically refutes the idea that the Quartering Act forced British soldiers in colonial houses, demonstrates the effectiveness of the Quartering Act at generating revenue, and examines aspects of the law long ignored, such as its application in the backcountry and its role in shaping Canadian provinces. Above all, Quarters argues that the lessons of accommodating British troops outlasted the Revolutionary War, profoundly affecting American notions of place. McCurdy shows that the Quartering Act had significant ramifications, codified in the Third Amendment, for contemporary ideas of the home as a place of domestic privacy, the city as a place without troops, and a nation with a civilian-led military.

Download or read book Search Save State Quarters written by Whitman Publishing and published by Whitman Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Each Search & Save volume consists of a 64-page book bound with a Whitman Classic Coin Album page for storing and displaying a coin collection. Richly illustrated and entertaining, Search & Save volumes are intended for beginning to intermediate hobbyists, and as a fun way to introduce newcomers to active coin collecting. In 1999 American started a 10-year celebration of the states that make up our great nation. The 50 State Quarters Program commemorated each state in the order that is joined the Union. Five new quarter dollar coins were issued every year from 1999 through 2008. Each has a unique reverse design symbolic of its state's history, traditions, culture, or natural environment. In late 2007, Congress approved another coinage series for the quarter dollar, to start in 2009. The new program gave us quarters for the District of Columbia and the five U.S. territories: the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands."--Amazon.com.

Download or read book A Guide Book of Washington Quarters 2nd Edition written by Q. David Bowers and published by Whitman Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of our nation's most popular modern coin. It features colorful historical research, secrets to being a smart buyer, and a comprehensive section on each state quarter from 1999 to date.

Download or read book State Quarters 1999 2009 Collector s Folder written by Warman's and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The State Quarter program has made coin collecting cool. What other activity requires treasure hunting skills and knowledge of history, and delivers a decade of excitement, the thrill of hunting for errors, and an interest in U.S. history, and state pride? Treat yourself and your favorite fan of State Quarters to this beautiful three-panel coin folder, with 60 slots and intriguing anecdotes about these history-making coins.

Download or read book These Truths A History of the United States written by Jill Lepore and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths,” Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation’s truths, or belied them. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. “A nation born in contradiction… will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history,” Lepore writes, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. With These Truths, Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come.