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Author : Mary Cross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography
ISBN : OCLC:1193363465
Author : Mary Cross
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610690867
To what extent does a person's own success result in social transformation? This book offers 100 answers, providing thought-provoking examples of how American culture was shaped within a crucial time period by individuals whose lives and ideas were major agents of change. 100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America provides a two-volume encyclopedia of the individuals whose contributions to society made the 20th century what it was. Comprising contributions from 20 academics and experts in their field, the thought-provoking essays examine the men and women who have shaped the modern American cultural experience—change agents who defined their time period as a result of their talent, imagination, and enterprise. Organized chronologically by the subjects' birthdates, the essays are written to be accessible to the general reader yet provide in-depth information for scholars, ensuring that the work will appeal to many audiences.
Author : Mary K. Mannix,Fred Burchsted
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838912966
Profiling more than 1400 print and electronic sources, this book helps connect librarians and researchers to the most relevant sources of information in genealogy and biography.
Author : Peter Dreier
Publisher : Nation Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781568586946
A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women's suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas for granted— because the radical ideas of one generation are often the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers who challenged the status quo of their day. Unfortunately, most Americans know little of this progressive history. It isn't taught in most high schools. You can't find it on the major television networks. In popular media, the most persistent interpreter of America's radical past is Glenn Beck, who teaches viewers a wildly inaccurate history of unions, civil rights, and the American Left. The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century, a colorful and witty history of the most influential progressive leaders of the twentieth century and beyond, is the perfect antidote.
Author : Jamie J. Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216041184
This two-volume work celebrates 50 notable achievements of African Americans, highlighting black contributions to U.S. history and examining the ways black accomplishments shaped American culture. This two-volume encyclopedia offers a unique look at the African American experience, from the arrival of the first 20 Africans at Jamestown through the launch of the Black Lives Matter movement and the Ferguson Protests. It illustrates subjects such as the Jim Crow period, the Brown v. Board of Education case that overturned segregation, Jackie Robinson's landmark integration of major league baseball, and the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States. Drawing from almost 400 years of U.S. history, the work documents the experiences and impact of black people on every aspect of American life. Presented chronologically, the selected events each include at least one primary source to provide the reader with a first-person perspective. These range from excerpts of speeches given by famous African American figures, to programs from the March on Washington. The remarkable stories collected here bear witness to the strength of a group of people who chose to survive and found ways to work collectively to force America to live up to the promise of its founding.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:1022574630
Author : Publishing Fulcrum Publishing,Robert C. Baron,Samuel Scinta
Publisher : Fulcrum Pub
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1555917003
If you had to select 100 Americans who most affected life in the 20th century, who would you choose? Millenium 2000---20th Century America: 100 Influential People takes a look at 100 Americans who greatly influenced life during the century that brought the United States to the world's center stage, a century that has been called the "American century." From Woodrow Wilson, Martin Luther King Jr., and Jane Addams to Frank Lloyd Wright, Ella Fitzgerald, and the Wright Brothers, this group includes leaders from all sectors of American life. A short biography offers detail on the successes, breakthroughs, and occasional failures of these 100 luminaries. This thought-provoking look at 20th century America is sure to be reviewed, discussed, and debated as we approach the next 100 years.
Author : Jim R. McClellan
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : United States
ISBN : 0072283831
Offers an examination of incidents from the Civil War through the 20th Century, important to the development of the American Nation. This book features primary and secondary source materials on approximately 30 selected moments in American history. It is designed for use in introductory courses in American history.
Author : Ian Whitelaw
Publisher : Vital Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1907802002
Author : Carl Jensen
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609803063
Exuberantly written, highly informative, Jensen's Stories That Changed America examines the work of twenty-one investigative writers, and how their efforts forever changed our country. Here are the pioneering muckrakers, like Upton Sinclair, author of the fact-based novel The Jungle, that inspired Theodore Roosevelt to sign the Pure Food and Drug Act into law; "Queen of the Muckrakers" Ida Mae Tarbell, whose McClure magazine exposés led to the dissolution of Standard Oil's monopoly; and Lincoln Steffens, a reporter who unearthed corruption in both municipal and federal governments. You'll also meet Margaret Sanger, the former nurse who coined the term "birth control"; George Seldes, the most censored journalist in American history; Nobel Prize-winning novelist John Steinbeck; environmentalist Rachel Carson; National Organization of Women founder Betty Friedan; African American activist Malcolm X; consumer advocate Ralph Nader; and Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters whose Watergate break-in coverage brought down President Richard Nixon. The courageous writers Jensen includes in this deftly researched volume dedicated their lives to fight for social, civil, political and environmental rights with their mighty pens.
Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780795337321
A chronological compilation of twentieth-century world events in one volume—from the acclaimed historian and biographer of Winston S. Churchill. The twentieth century has been one of the most unique in human history. It has seen the rise of some of humanity’s most important advances to date, as well as many of its most violent and terrifying wars. This is a condensed version of renowned historian Martin Gilbert’s masterful examination of the century’s history, offering the highlights of a three-volume work that covers more than three thousand pages. From the invention of aviation to the rise of the Internet, and from events and cataclysmic changes in Europe to those in Asia, Africa, and North America, Martin examines art, literature, war, religion, life and death, and celebration and renewal across the globe, and throughout this turbulent and astonishing century.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography
ISBN : UOM:39015053400118
Brief biographies of 100 eminent Indians.
Author : Claude S. Fischer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226251454
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.
Author : P. Scott Corbett,Volker Janssen,John M. Lund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1738998436
Printed in color. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Author : John Updike
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0395843677
Including one new story and an Index by author of every story that has ever appeared in the series, this new volume offers a "spectacular tapestry of fictional achievement" ("Entertainment Weekly").