Author: William Holman CartwrightPublisher:
ISBN: 9780879860103
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Reinterpretation of American History and Culture
Author: William Holman CartwrightPublisher:
ISBN: 9780879860103
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Reinterpretation of American History and Culture
Author: The Reinterpretation of American History and Culture
Author: William Holman CartwrightPublisher: Washington : National Council for the Social Studies
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
The materials gathered in this volume are part of a continuing 30 year effort to help the social studies teacher develop understandings in United States history related to contemporary social issues, to stimulate student and teacher thinking, and to relate recent historical scholarship to the classroom. This book contains 25 studies by distinguished historians which reinterpret various periods of United States history and related topics. The first section, along with an introduction, describes the state of American history. Part two, presenting five chapters on the topic of race and nationality in American history, covers native, Afro, European, Mexican, and Asian Americans. The third section, on perspectives in the study of American history, includes the topics of women, the American city, war, and intellectual history. In the last section, a substantial part of the book concerned with the reappraisal of the American past, fifteen chapters reinterpret United States history chronologically from the colonial period to 1970. Each author has included extensive references or bibliography.
The Reinterpretation of American Literature
Author: Norman FoersterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History
Author: Frederick MerkPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674548053
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Before this book first appeared in 1963, most historians wrote as if the continental expansion of the United States were inevitable. "What is most impressive," Henry Steele Commager and Richard Morris declared in 1956, "is the ease, the simplicity, and seeming inevitability of the whole process." The notion of inevitability, however, is perhaps only a secular variation on the theme of the expansionist editor John L. O'Sullivan, who in 1845 coined one of the most famous phrases in American history when he wrote of "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions." Frederick Merk rejected inevitability in favor of a more contingent interpretation of American expansionism in the 1840s. As his student Henry May later recalled, Merk "loved to get the facts straight." --From the Foreword by John Mack Faragher
Triumph of Conservatism
Author: Gabriel KolkoPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439118728
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A radically new interpretation of the Progressive Era which argues that business leaders, and not the reformers, inspired the era’s legislation regarding business.
The Age of Reinterpretation
Author: Comer Vann WoodwardPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258425333
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Service Center For Teachers Of History, No. 35.
Voices of the Marketplace
Author: Anne C. RosePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742532632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
In this comprehensive and insightful reinterpretation of antebellum culture, Anne C. Rose analyzes the major shifts in intellectual life that occurred between 1830 and 1860 while exploring three sets of concepts that provided common languages-Christianity, democracy, capitalism. Whereas many interpretations of American culture in this period have emphasized a single theme or have been preoccupied with the ensuing Civil War, Rose considers sharply divergent tendencies in religion and politics and a wide range of reformers, authors, and other public figures.
Vietnam
Author: Michael LindPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439135266
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Michael Lind casts new light on one of the most contentious episodes in American history in this controversial bestseller. In this groundgreaking reinterpretation of America's most disatrous and controversial war, Michael Lind demolishes enduring myths and put the Vietnam War in its proper context—as part of the global conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. Lind reveals the deep cultural divisions within the United States that made the Cold War consensus so fragile and explains how and why American public support for the war in Indochina declined. Even more stunning is his provacative argument that the United States failed in Vietnam because the military establishment did not adapt to the demands of what before 1968 had been largely a guerrilla war. In an era when the United States so often finds itself embroiled in prolonged and difficult conflicts, Lind offers a sobering cautionary tale to Ameicans of all political viewpoints.
Made in America
Author: Claude S. FischerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226251454
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
Our nation began with the simple phrase, “We the People.” But who were and are “We”? Who were we in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the we of those years and the nearly 300 million people living in the radically different America of today? With Made in America, Claude S. Fischer draws on decades of historical, psychological, and social research to answer that question by tracking the evolution of American character and culture over three centuries. He explodes myths—such as that contemporary Americans are more mobile and less religious than their ancestors, or that they are more focused on money and consumption—and reveals instead how greater security and wealth have only reinforced the independence, egalitarianism, and commitment to community that characterized our people from the earliest years. Skillfully drawing on personal stories of representative Americans, Fischer shows that affluence and social progress have allowed more people to participate fully in cultural and political life, thus broadening the category of “American” —yet at the same time what it means to be an American has retained surprising continuity with much earlier notions of American character. Firmly in the vein of such classics as The Lonely Crowd and Habits of the Heart—yet challenging many of their conclusions—Made in America takes readers beyond the simplicity of headlines and the actions of elites to show us the lives, aspirations, and emotions of ordinary Americans, from the settling of the colonies to the settling of the suburbs.