Author: Robert GriffithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antologier
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Major Problems in American History Since 1945
Author: Robert GriffithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antologier
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Major Problems in American History Since 1945
Author: Robert GriffithPublisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
This text introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essys on important topics in U.S. history. The book asks students to evaluate primary surces, test the interpretations and draw their own conclusions.
Major Problems in American History, 1920-1945
Author: Colin GordonPublisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9780547149059
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This collection of primary source documents and essays provides in-depth coverage of the cultural, social, political, economic, and intellectual events of the 1920-1945 era. In keeping with the proven strengths of the Major Problems series, the compelling documents are grouped with important secondary sources, accompanied by chapter introductions, selection headnotes, and suggested readings.
Religion in America Since 1945
Author: Patrick AllittPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231121555
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Discusses the Cold War, communism, Eisenhower, the civil rights movement, African-Americans and religion, Mormons, Vietnam, Catholics, feminism, cults, creationism and evolution, American Islam, home schooling, abortion, homosexuality and religion, and the Christian Right.
Major Problems in American Environmental History
Author: Carolyn MerchantPublisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9780495912422
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series introduces readers to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY presents major themes and controversial issues from native American times to the present, drawn from compelling, readable sources that draw readers into the process of developing their own perspectives on American environmental history. This text presents a carefully selected group of readings organized to allow readers to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions. Each chapter includes introductions, source notes, and suggested readings.
Major Problems in Mexican American History
Author: Zaragosa VargasPublisher: Major Problems in American His
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Experience, 1917-1928: Anita Edgar Jones surveys Mexican life in Chicago, 1928; Mexican immigrants in the Midwest / Z. Vargas -- Mexican Americans in the Great Depression, 1929-1941 -- Mexican Americans and World War II, 1941-1945.
Conflicts in American History
Author: Robert J. AllisonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780816070930
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Edward J. Blum, Ph.D.; Anthony J. Connors, Ph.D.; Brian L. Johnson, Ph.D.; Kent McConnell, Ph.D.; C. Brid Nicholson, Ph.D.; Kimberly K. Porter, Ph.D.; and Zoe Trodd, Ph.D., EditorsFor more than four centuries, new ideas, principles, and events have caused major conflicts in American history, concerning such vital issues as slavery, freedom, democracy, immigration, and equality. It is through these very conflicts that American history is taught, and increasingly, this history is being taught through documents. From introducing slavery and breaking away from England in the colonial period to the Civil War in the 19th century, the civil rights movement in the 20th century, and the war in Iraq today, every era has been marked by conflicts in which Americans have fought passionately for what they believed in. All of these conflicts have defined what America is, and all of them can be studied through historical documents.Conflicts in American History: A Documentary Encyclopedia explores the conflicts, controversies, and ideas that have made American civilization unique and distinctive. Blending narrative essays and primary sources, this comprehensive new eight-volume encyclopedia provides students with the background they need to understand American history and the skills required to read and interpret the important documents that have shaped our nation. Each volume focuses on one distinct chronological era and the conflicts that defined it. Consisting of 15-20 manageable chapters, with each chapter devoted to one specific conflict and containing 10-15 original documents, every volume begins with a general overview essay that introduces the major conflicts, issues, and controversies of the period, as well as k
Major Problems in American Sport History
Author: Steven A. RiessPublisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9780669353808
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Each topic in this text is covered by both secondary readings and a wide variety of primary source documents, including legal decisions, diary entries, newspaper reports, literary accounts, government hearings, and advertisements for athletic equipment.
American Paradox Since 1945 and Griffith Major Problems in American History, Second Edition
Author: Steven M. GillonPublisher: Houghton Mifflin College Division
ISBN: 9780618351503
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Author: Gordon