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Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Download Discovering America's Past Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
More than 450 accounts of the myriad customs, beliefs, legends, languages, adventures, and traditions that helped form America, illustrated with over 700 photographs, paintings, and engravings.
Author | : Linda Tarrant-Reid |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 168335429X |
Download Discovering Black America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the first African explorers to the first black president, this illustrated history is an excellent resource and “an epic work” (School Library Journal). Discovering Black America is an unprecedented account of more than 400 years of African American history set against a background of American and global events. It begins with a black sailor aboard the Niña with Christopher Columbus and continues through the colonial period, slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, and civil rights to the first African American president in the White House. With first-person narratives from diaries and journals, interviews, and archival images, Discovering Black America provides an intimate understanding of this extensive history. “Engaging . . . brings to light many intriguing and tragically underreported stories.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Reproductions of historical documents, photographs, and artwork provide a sense of immediacy to this immersive tapestry, which reaches well beyond the milestones typically outlined in history books.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Absolutely gorgeous in design, with a harmonious marriage of text and colorful archival images, this is the kind of book that invites browsing, and its extensive reach will make this a go-to title for report writers.” —School Library Journal “Begins with the first African explorers and seamen arriving in the New World in the fifteenth century, and . . . ends with the presidential election of Barack Obama . . . meticulous footnotes and a bibliography of recommended books...An excellent title for classroom support.” —Booklist “Thoroughly researched and documented...an outstanding resource for students. The primary source documents, photographs, and archival maps that complement this compelling account will engage readers.” —Library Media Connection (highly recommended) An NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780762104345 |
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Organized by geographical region and then broken down by state, "Discover America" features over 3,000 comprehensive place entries detailing America's major towns, quaint villages, and national parks. 1,200+ full-color photos.
Author | : Russell Freedman |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780618663910 |
Download Who was First? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Discusses the possibility that America was discovered by someone other than Columbus.
Author | : Josh Ozersky |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2012-04-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0292723822 |
Download Colonel Sanders and the American Dream Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Attempts to biographize corporate mascot and real human being Harland Sanders better known as Colonel Sanders, the man who started what would become the restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Author | : Lance deHaven-Smith |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0292743793 |
Download Conspiracy Theory in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Asserts that the Founders' hard-nosed realism about the likelihood of elite political misconduct—articulated in the Declaration of Independence—has been replaced by today's blanket condemnation of conspiracy beliefs as ludicrous by definition.
Author | : Dennis J. Stanford |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520275780 |
Download Across Atlantic Ice Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea and introduced the distinctive stone tools of the Clovis culture. Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge that narrative. Their hypothesis places the technological antecedents of Clovis technology in Europe, with the culture of Solutrean people in France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago, and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought."--Back cover.
Author | : Helmut Fischer |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2019-07-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1728316863 |
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Konrad Kemper, the young hero of Discovering America, dreams irrepressibly of America in a refugee camp in postwar Austria. In the process he discovers not only his own quirky America, but encounters a stew of survivors scrambling to move on from the rubble of the war— refugees from Eastern Europe, Austrian townsfolk, and even American soldiers. Konrad’s hard-bitten story combines grit and a comic edge, and finally hope and growing up.
Author | : Willie G. Demings |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2012-04-25 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1468574639 |
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MY VIEW Re-discovering America is my way of allowing the world And all who wishes to see my views on issues and subject Matters here in our country, the world, and perhaps for us A closer look is of necessity. For our views and opinions, and Thoughts are very different at times, but according to Gods Word were falling short and need to examine ourselves both Individually and collectively to get on a course where we can Come in unity, in thoughts and principles to make America a More perfect union, establish justice, and promote the welfare Of our country and the world, therefore, acknowledging our Thoughts and our opinions, please dont let them have dominion Over such a precious gem as our yearning hearts, without truly Acknowledging the Word of God, So dont judge this book by Its looks or cover, but look inside to discover the real U S In I And the true eye on America God bless America GOD SAID I LIVE FOREVER
Author | : Elizabeth Horodowich |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2018-09-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108687245 |
Download The Venetian Discovery of America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Few Renaissance Venetians saw the New World with their own eyes. As the print capital of early modern Europe, however, Venice developed a unique relationship to the Americas. Venetian editors, mapmakers, translators, writers, and cosmographers represented the New World at times as a place that the city's mariners had discovered before the Spanish, a world linked to Marco Polo's China, or another version of Venice, especially in the case of Tenochtitlan. Elizabeth Horodowich explores these various and distinctive modes of imagining the New World, including Venetian rhetorics of 'firstness', similitude, othering, comparison, and simultaneity generated through forms of textual and visual pastiche that linked the wider world to the Venetian lagoon. These wide-ranging stances allowed Venetians to argue for their different but equivalent participation in the Age of Encounters. Whereas historians have traditionally focused on the Spanish conquest and colonization of the New World, and the Dutch and English mapping of it, they have ignored the wide circulation of Venetian Americana. Horodowich demonstrates how with their printed texts and maps, Venetian newsmongers embraced a fertile tension between the distant and the close. In doing so, they played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.