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Author : Liza Schafer
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 0590494740
Ben Franklin...Harriet Tubman...Lewis and Clark.... Share their inspiring stories through these fact-based, original plays. Includes background information, discussion questions, extension activities, and literature links. For use with Grades 4-8.
Author : Steven Skiena,Charles B. Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107041370
In this fascinating book, Steve Skiena and Charles Ward bring quantitative analysis to bear on ranking and comparing historical reputations by aggregating the traces of millions of opinions, just as Google ranks webpages. They present rankings of more than one thousand of history's most significant people in science, politics, entertainment, and all areas of human endeavor.
Author : Maria Fleming
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0590535501
Designed to offer non-specialist teachers a wide range of open-ended photocopiable activities for specified levels of ability, this book is part of the Essentials series. This book on area and perimeter contains a variety of games, open-ended investigations, puzzles and real-life problems.
Author : Samuel Willard Crompton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American History
ISBN : OCLC:1023743549
Author : Bruce Felton,Mark Fowler
Publisher : Scarborough House
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015021652501
Author : Helen Ainslie Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:B4505677
Author : Connie Roop,Peter Roop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : PSU:000061499843
"A perfect introduction to some of the people who built, changed, and challenged our nation. Tales of famous Americans is sure to delight young readers"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Dorie McCullough Lawson
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780767909044
An elegantly designed, beautifully composed volume of personal letters from famous American men and women that celebrates the American Experience and illuminates the rich history of some of America’s most storied families. Posterity is at once an epistolary chronicle of America and a fascinating glimpse into the hearts and minds of some of history’s most admired figures and storied families. Spanning more than three centuries, these letters contain enduring lessons—in life, love, character and compassion—that will surprise and enlighten. Included here are letters from Thomas Jefferson to his daughter, warning her of the evils of debt; General Patton on D-Day to his son, a cadet at West Point, about what it means to be a good soldier; W.E.B. Du Bois to his daughter about character beneath the color of skin; Oscar Hammerstein about why, after all his success, he doesn’t stop working; Woody Guthrie, writing from a New Jersey asylum, to nine-year-old Arlo about universal human frailty; Eleanor Roosevelt chastising her grown son for his Christmas plans; and Groucho Marx as a dog to his twenty-five-year-old son. Here are renowned Americans in their own words and in their own times, seen as they were seen by their children. Here are our great Americans as mothers and fathers.
Author : Various
Publisher : Simon Spotlight
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442494409
Emerging readers will love this Ready-to-Read value pack of six Ready-to-Read books for the price of four! For an added bonus, take a peek inside for tips to help your child become a reading star! Perfect for emerging readers, the Childhood of Famous Americans and Stories of Famous Americans series illustrates the incredible true stories of great Americans such as Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin. Plus, check the inside of the packaging for a bonus set of tips to help your reading star soar to new heights. Included in this Ready-to-Read value pack are: Abe Lincoln and the Muddy Pig Albert Einstein John Adams Speaks for Freedom George Washington’s First Victory Ben Franklin and His First Kite Thomas Jefferson and the Ghost Riders
Author : Beatrice Gormley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780689820250
Traces the life of the author of the well-loved stories of the March sisters, "Little Women" and its sequels.
Author : PBS
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780316417549
A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series. What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100 best-loved novels, determined by a rigorous national survey. Subsequent episodes will air in September and October. Celebrities and everyday Americans will champion their favorite novel and in the finale in late October, America's #1 best-loved novel will be revealed. The Great American Read: The Book of Books will present all 100 novels with fascinating information about each book, author profiles, a snapshot of the novel's social relevance, film or television adaptations, other books and writings by the author, and little-known facts. Also included are themed articles about banned books, the most influential book illustrators, reading recommendations, the best first-lines in literature, and more. Beautifully designed with rare images of the original manuscripts, first-edition covers, rejection letters, and other ephemera, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is a must-have book for all booklovers.
Author : Debby Applegate
Publisher : Image
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385513975
No one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed destined to be overshadowed by his brilliant siblings—especially his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who penned the century’s bestselling book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But when pushed into the ministry, the charismatic Beecher found international fame by shedding his father’s Old Testament–style fire-and-brimstone theology and instead preaching a New Testament–based gospel of unconditional love and healing, becoming one of the founding fathers of modern American Christianity. By the 1850s, his spectacular sermons at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights had made him New York’s number one tourist attraction, so wildly popular that the ferries from Manhattan to Brooklyn were dubbed “Beecher Boats.” Beecher inserted himself into nearly every important drama of the era—among them the antislavery and women’s suffrage movements, the rise of the entertainment industry and tabloid press, and controversies ranging from Darwinian evolution to presidential politics. He was notorious for his irreverent humor and melodramatic gestures, such as auctioning slaves to freedom in his pulpit and shipping rifles—nicknamed “Beecher’s Bibles”—to the antislavery resistance fighters in Kansas. Thinkers such as Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Twain befriended—and sometimes parodied—him. And then it all fell apart. In 1872 Beecher was accused by feminist firebrand Victoria Woodhull of adultery with one of his most pious parishioners. Suddenly the “Gospel of Love” seemed to rationalize a life of lust. The cuckolded husband brought charges of “criminal conversation” in a salacious trial that became the most widely covered event of the century, garnering more newspaper headlines than the entire Civil War. Beecher survived, but his reputation and his causes—from women’s rights to progressive evangelicalism—suffered devastating setbacks that echo to this day. Featuring the page-turning suspense of a novel and dramatic new historical evidence, Debby Applegate has written the definitive biography of this captivating, mercurial, and sometimes infuriating figure. In our own time, when religion and politics are again colliding and adultery in high places still commands headlines, Beecher’s story sheds new light on the culture and conflicts of contemporary America.
Author : Edward Eggleston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781627931533
Continuing the biographical approach to teaching history found in his Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans, Eggleston draws a more in-depth picture of the development of the United States using the stories of the living and breathing Americans who made it all happen.
Author : Kevern Verney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136475276
This volume is an authoritative introduction to the history of African Americans in US popular culture, examining its development from the early nineteenth century to the present. Kevern Verney examines: * the role and significance of race in all major forms of popular culture, including sport, film, television, radio and music * how the entertainment industry has encouraged racism through misrepresentations and caricatured images of African Americans. African Americans have made a unique contribution to the richness and diversity of US popular culture. Rooted in African society and traditions, black slaves in America created a dynamic culture which continues to evolve. Present day hip-hop and rap music are still shaped by the historical experience of slavery and the ongoing will to oppose oppression and racism. Any student of African-American history or cultural studies will find this a fascinating and highly useful book.
Author : James Parton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1440075697
Excerpt from Famous Americans: Of Recent Times Yet it came about in the most natural way. We catch our first glimpse of the boy when he sat in a little log school-house, without windows or floor, one of a humming score of shoeless boys, where a good-natured, irritable, drinking English school master taught him to read, write, and cipher as far as Practice. This was the only school he ever attended, and that was all he learned at it. His widowed mother, with her seven young chil dren, her little farm, and two or three slaves, could do no more for him. Next, we see him a tall, awkward, slender stripling of thirteen, still barefoot, clad in homespun butternut of his mother's making, tilling her fields, and going to mill with his bag Of corn strapped upon the family pony: At fourteen, in the year 1791, a place was found for him in a Richmond drug-store, where he served as errand-boy and youngest clerk for one year. 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.