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Selected testimonies to living history-speeches, letters, poems, songs-offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn.
New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her 35-year prison sentence); Naomi Klein, speaking from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Liberty Square;...
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Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories -- from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address -- to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print.
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Never before published, an extraordinarily inspiring and radical conversation between Howard Zinn and PBS/NPR journalist Ray Suarez, wherein American history is turned upside down-published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Zinn's death
Truth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of never-before-published conversations with Howard Zinn, conducted by the distinguished broadcast journalist Ray Suarez in 2007, that covers the course...
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A primary source is a document or record that provides a firsthand account of an event, a time period, or a particular subject. Primary sources are created at the time an event occurs. Find out more in Primary Sources, one of the titles in the Social Studies Essential Skills series. Social Studies Essential Skills provides insight into key social studies concepts that students must know to develop a greater understanding of content.
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"This fascinating reference book teaches students about the key events in American history as revealed through primary documents. These documents, including laws, Supreme Court rulings, treaties, and presidential speeches, give readers a firsthand look at our history from colonial times to the present. Organized chronologically, this handsome book includes images of most of the documents as well as textual excerpts. Each key moment is prefaced with...
11) American primer
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University of Chicago Press
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1966
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2 v. (994 p.)
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English
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Scholastic
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1999
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172 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
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English
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A collection of thirty-nine contemporary documents tracing the history of the United States, including such areas as human rights, the environment, and immigration. Includes commentary, photographs, and engravings.
19) Liberty's daughters: the revolutionary experience of American women, 1750-1800 : with a new preface
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Cornell University Press
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c996
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xxii, 384 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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English
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