Author: Henry AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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The Tendency of History
Author: Henry AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
... The tendency of history
Author: Henry AdamsThe Tendency of History
Author: Henry ADAMS (Author of "The Tendency of History.")Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Forty years ago: the tendency of history
Author: Henry AdamsWhy Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone)
Author: Sam WineburgPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022635735X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A look at how to teach history in the age of easily accessible—but not always reliable—information. Let’s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percent of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All of it is pernicious. With the Internet at our fingertips, what’s a teacher of history to do? In Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone), professor Sam Wineburg has the answers, beginning with this: We can’t stick to the same old read-the-chapter-answer-the-question snoozefest. If we want to educate citizens who can separate fact from fake, we have to equip them with new tools. Historical thinking, Wineburg shows, has nothing to do with the ability to memorize facts. Instead, it’s an orientation to the world that cultivates reasoned skepticism and counters our tendency to confirm our biases. Wineburg lays out a mine-filled landscape, but one that with care, attention, and awareness, we can learn to navigate. The future of the past may rest on our screens. But its fate rests in our hands. Praise for Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) “If every K-12 teacher of history and social studies read just three chapters of this book—”Crazy for History,” “Changing History . . . One Classroom at a Time,” and “Why Google Can’t Save Us” —the ensuing transformation of our populace would save our democracy.” —James W. Lowen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and Teaching What Really Happened “A sobering and urgent report from the leading expert on how American history is taught in the nation’s schools. . . . A bracing, edifying, and vital book.” —Jill Lepore, New Yorker staff writer and author of These Truths “Wineburg is a true innovator who has thought more deeply about the relevance of history to the Internet—and vice versa—than any other scholar I know. Anyone interested in the uses and abuses of history today has a duty to read this book.” —Niall Ferguson, senior fellow, Hoover Institution, and author of The Ascent of Money and Civilization
The course and tendency of history since the overthrow of the empire of Napoleon i, by G.G. Gervinus, tr. from his 'Introduction to the history of the nineteenth century' by M. Sernau assisted by J.M. Stephens, to vindicate prof. Gervinus from his Engl. translator in H.G. Bohn's One shilling ser
Author: Georg Gottfried GervinusPublisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
End of History and the Last Man
Author: Francis FukuyamaPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416531785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and the Last Man is a modern classic.
Main Trends in History
Author: Geoffrey BarracloughPublisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The American Idea
Author: David Rohrer LeeperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The American Idea Being a Short Study of the Tendency of Political, History (Classic Reprint)
Author: David Rohrer LeeperPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780428786960
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Excerpt from The American Idea Being a Short Study of the Tendency of Political, History Curtis, W. E Land of the Nihilist. De Tocqueville, Democracy in America. Draper, Civil Policy of America. The Intellectual Development Of Europe. F iske, American Political Ideas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.