Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 0765629038
Size: 66.21 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
View: 413
Book Description: This book is ideal for any introductory American history instructor who wants to make the subject more appealing. It's designed to supplement a main text, and focuses on "personalized history" presented through engaging biographies of famous and less-well-known figures from the colonial period to 1877. Historical patterns and trends appear as they are seen through individual lives, and the selection of the profiled individuals reflects a cultural awareness and a multicultural perspective.
American Stories From 1865
Author: Jason Ripper
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 0765629046
Size: 39.14 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
View: 3417
Book Description: This book is ideal for any introductory American history instructor who wants to make the subject more appealing. It's designed to supplement a main text, and focuses on "personalized history" presented through engaging biographies of famous and less-well-known figures from the colonial period to 1877. Historical patterns and trends appear as they are seen through individual lives, and the selection of the profiled individuals reflects a cultural awareness and a multicultural perspective.
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 0765629046
Size: 39.14 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
View: 3417
Book Description: This book is ideal for any introductory American history instructor who wants to make the subject more appealing. It's designed to supplement a main text, and focuses on "personalized history" presented through engaging biographies of famous and less-well-known figures from the colonial period to 1877. Historical patterns and trends appear as they are seen through individual lives, and the selection of the profiled individuals reflects a cultural awareness and a multicultural perspective.
American Stories
Author: Helene Barbara Weinberg
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393364
Size: 60.37 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 222
View: 3279
Book Description: They also consider the artists' responses to foreign prototypes, travel and training, changing exhibition venues, and audience expectations. The persistence of certain themes--childhood, marriage, the family, and the community; the attainment and reinforcement of citizenship; attitudes toward race; the frontier as reality and myth; and the process and meaning of making art--underscores evolving styles and standards of storytelling. Divided into four chronological sections, the book begins with the years surrounding the American Revolution and the birth of the new republic, when painters such as Copley, Peale, and Samuel F.B. Morse incorporated stories within the expressive bounds of portraiture. During the Jacksonian and pre-Civil War decades from about 1830 to 1860, Mount, Bingham, Lilly Martin Spencer, and others painted genre scenes featuring lighthearted narratives that growing audiences for art could easily read and understand.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393364
Size: 60.37 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 222
View: 3279
Book Description: They also consider the artists' responses to foreign prototypes, travel and training, changing exhibition venues, and audience expectations. The persistence of certain themes--childhood, marriage, the family, and the community; the attainment and reinforcement of citizenship; attitudes toward race; the frontier as reality and myth; and the process and meaning of making art--underscores evolving styles and standards of storytelling. Divided into four chronological sections, the book begins with the years surrounding the American Revolution and the birth of the new republic, when painters such as Copley, Peale, and Samuel F.B. Morse incorporated stories within the expressive bounds of portraiture. During the Jacksonian and pre-Civil War decades from about 1830 to 1860, Mount, Bingham, Lilly Martin Spencer, and others painted genre scenes featuring lighthearted narratives that growing audiences for art could easily read and understand.
American Stories
Author: Paul ARON
Publisher: Lyons Press
ISBN: 9781493042326
Size: 45.47 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
View: 1632
Book Description: American Stories follows the evolution of our founding stories and myths and how they spread far and wide throughout our history. All of these stories have one thing in common: they are all a lot of fun to read.
Publisher: Lyons Press
ISBN: 9781493042326
Size: 45.47 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
View: 1632
Book Description: American Stories follows the evolution of our founding stories and myths and how they spread far and wide throughout our history. All of these stories have one thing in common: they are all a lot of fun to read.
The Oxford Book Of American Short Stories
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199744394
Size: 33.80 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 873
View: 4155
Book Description: Presents a collection of fifty-nine familiar and unfamiliar stories by such writers as John Cheever, Ray Bradbury, Flannery O'Connor, Edmund White, and Richard Wright.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199744394
Size: 33.80 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 873
View: 4155
Book Description: Presents a collection of fifty-nine familiar and unfamiliar stories by such writers as John Cheever, Ray Bradbury, Flannery O'Connor, Edmund White, and Richard Wright.
All American Stories
Author: C. G. Draper
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
ISBN:
Size: 54.91 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 120
View: 2077
Book Description: All American Stories, by C. G. Draper, introduces students to the genre of the short story with classic tales by famous American authors. This three-level series features adaptations of classic stories, which progress in both conceptual and language difficulty within each level. In addition to building reading and vocabulary skills, students also learn to identify and appreciate literary techniques including metaphor, personification, irony, suspense, and mood. Each Student Book contains: An introductory unit that defines the elements of a short story and presents an accessible model. Pre-reading activities to provide background information and activate prior knowledge. Reading Strategies and Key Words to increase understanding and enjoyment. Exercises and activities to build skills in comprehension, word analysis, writing, the elements of literature, and critical thinking.
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
ISBN:
Size: 54.91 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 120
View: 2077
Book Description: All American Stories, by C. G. Draper, introduces students to the genre of the short story with classic tales by famous American authors. This three-level series features adaptations of classic stories, which progress in both conceptual and language difficulty within each level. In addition to building reading and vocabulary skills, students also learn to identify and appreciate literary techniques including metaphor, personification, irony, suspense, and mood. Each Student Book contains: An introductory unit that defines the elements of a short story and presents an accessible model. Pre-reading activities to provide background information and activate prior knowledge. Reading Strategies and Key Words to increase understanding and enjoyment. Exercises and activities to build skills in comprehension, word analysis, writing, the elements of literature, and critical thinking.
American Stories
Author: Calvin Trillin
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780395647295
Size: 62.56 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 294
View: 5535
Book Description: Compiles twelve of the author's favorite nonfiction narratives that have appeared in "The New Yorker," capturing the spirit and rich detail of American living
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780395647295
Size: 62.56 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 294
View: 5535
Book Description: Compiles twelve of the author's favorite nonfiction narratives that have appeared in "The New Yorker," capturing the spirit and rich detail of American living
Time It Was
Author: Karen Manners Smith
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131550927X
Size: 60.80 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
View: 467
Book Description: What was it like to live through the Sixties? The writers of these 27 memoirs offer the essence of life and youth in the period. In first-person narratives that range from poignant reminiscences to dramatic adventures, the writers convey what it felt like to land a helicopter in the middle of a firefight in Vietnam, to be beaten and jailed for trying to integrate restaurants in the American South, to run for cover when soldiers opened fire on a campus peace rally in Ohio. Other stories describe the writers' experiences organizing farm workers with Cesar Chavez, campaigning to elect Barry Goldwater, striking for Free Speech at Berkeley, living in a commune, joining the women's liberation movement, becoming caught up in a religious cult, or camping in the rain at Woodstock.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131550927X
Size: 60.80 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
View: 467
Book Description: What was it like to live through the Sixties? The writers of these 27 memoirs offer the essence of life and youth in the period. In first-person narratives that range from poignant reminiscences to dramatic adventures, the writers convey what it felt like to land a helicopter in the middle of a firefight in Vietnam, to be beaten and jailed for trying to integrate restaurants in the American South, to run for cover when soldiers opened fire on a campus peace rally in Ohio. Other stories describe the writers' experiences organizing farm workers with Cesar Chavez, campaigning to elect Barry Goldwater, striking for Free Speech at Berkeley, living in a commune, joining the women's liberation movement, becoming caught up in a religious cult, or camping in the rain at Woodstock.
American Stories
Author: Michael Brissenden
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702248452
Size: 52.34 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
View: 4414
Book Description: From the desolate coal-mining hollers of West Virginia to Washington, DC's ghettos and the Mormon communities of Utah, this engrossing journalistic account travels the country with unprecedented scope to grapple with political issues and to tell the stories of the players, the hopeful true believers, the skeptics, the winners, and the losers. Following the long and fractious political process that will either deliver Barack Obama a chance to be a truly transformative president or place him alongside one-term leaders such as Jimmy Carter, this chronicle also observes the Republican Party tear itself apart to find a fitting opponent for Obama. It analyzes whether America's first black president will meet the enormous expectations of his voters and the rest of the world. With wry humor and cutting insight, this book explores an extraordinary moment in United States history and shares tales of people, identity, and culture.
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702248452
Size: 52.34 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
View: 4414
Book Description: From the desolate coal-mining hollers of West Virginia to Washington, DC's ghettos and the Mormon communities of Utah, this engrossing journalistic account travels the country with unprecedented scope to grapple with political issues and to tell the stories of the players, the hopeful true believers, the skeptics, the winners, and the losers. Following the long and fractious political process that will either deliver Barack Obama a chance to be a truly transformative president or place him alongside one-term leaders such as Jimmy Carter, this chronicle also observes the Republican Party tear itself apart to find a fitting opponent for Obama. It analyzes whether America's first black president will meet the enormous expectations of his voters and the rest of the world. With wry humor and cutting insight, this book explores an extraordinary moment in United States history and shares tales of people, identity, and culture.
The Best American Short Stories 2020
Author: Curtis Sittenfeld
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 1328484106
Size: 27.27 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
View: 3150
Book Description: “To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time,” recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. “They were windows into emotions I had and hadn’t had, into other settings and circumstances and observations and relationships.” Decades later, Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the stories for this year’s edition. The result is a striking and nuanced collection, bringing to life awkward college students, disgraced public figures, raunchy grandparents, and mystical godmothers. To read these stories is to experience the transporting joys of discovery and affirmation, and to realize that story writing in America continues to flourish. THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2020 INCLUDES T. C. BOYLE • EMMA CLINE • MARY GAITSKILL ANDREA LEE • ELIZABETH McCRACKEN • ALEJANDRO PUYANA WILLIAM PEI SHIH • KEVIN WILSON and others
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 1328484106
Size: 27.27 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
View: 3150
Book Description: “To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time,” recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. “They were windows into emotions I had and hadn’t had, into other settings and circumstances and observations and relationships.” Decades later, Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the stories for this year’s edition. The result is a striking and nuanced collection, bringing to life awkward college students, disgraced public figures, raunchy grandparents, and mystical godmothers. To read these stories is to experience the transporting joys of discovery and affirmation, and to realize that story writing in America continues to flourish. THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2020 INCLUDES T. C. BOYLE • EMMA CLINE • MARY GAITSKILL ANDREA LEE • ELIZABETH McCRACKEN • ALEJANDRO PUYANA WILLIAM PEI SHIH • KEVIN WILSON and others
