American History Textbook is an on-line free textbook beginning at America's founding, Native Americans, and Major Wars through the Clinton Administration.
or “How did Native Americans interpret the arrival of Europeans?” Crafting answers to these questions reveals far greater insights into our history. But how can any textbook encapsulate American history? Should it organize around certain themes or surrender to the impossibility of synthesis and ...
"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to cre...
history—which he contends has overlooked the active presence of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in the United States since before its founding—as well as the hegemonic discourses that have worked to define who counts as American. In its place, Okihiro offers a ...
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His students told us they also see a difference when history is not just taught from a textbook. "I think it's more up to the teachers and the students themselves to start at the textbooks, but then really deep dive into what's actually happening and say...
The US History: The American past in 100 Books is a thorough list covering nearly all of the American experience. The list begins with several general histories (the first book is an excellent US history textbook) before chronologically passing through every period of American history from start ...
history, political philosophy, and the arts of war, government, and diplomacy itself bore eloquent testimony to the high quality of the American intellect.No one, not even the most critical, can run through the writings of distinguished Americans scattered from Massachusetts to Georgia-the Adamses...
In September,1796,on the eve of the presidential election, Washington issued his Farewell Address, another state paper to be treasured and read by generations of Americans to come. In this address he directed the attention of the people to three subjects of lasting interest.He warned them again...
Robb, Don, and Anne Smith. 2010.Ox, house, stick: the history of our alphabet. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge. Children’s book. Robinson, Andrew. 1995.The story of writing. London: Thames and Hudson. Rosen, Michael. 2014.Alphabetical: how every letter tells a story. London: John Murray...