Life In These United States

Author : Reader's Digest,Reader's Digest Editors,Robert Dolezal,Of Readers Digest Editors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0895778556

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Life in These United States by Reader's Digest,Reader's Digest Editors,Robert Dolezal,Of Readers Digest Editors Pdf

The American spirit is alive and well in this collection of heartwarming, often hilarious anecdotes about life in big cities, small towns, and hidden hamlets from coast to coast. Selected from thousands of contributions submitted to Reader's Digest each year, these delightful glimpses of our national preoccupations, regional points of pride, and down-home wisdom capture the idiosyncracies, interests, and ideals of ordinary people. 200+ color illustrations.

Author : Lacour-Gayet Robert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : National characteristics, American
ISBN : OCLC:1301970734

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Everyday Life in the United States Before the Civil War, 1830-1860 by Lacour-Gayet Robert Pdf

Author : David E. Kyvig
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313006920

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Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1939 by David E. Kyvig Pdf

During the 1920s and 1930s, changes in the American population, increasing urbanization, and innovations in technology exerted major influences on the daily lives of ordinary people. Explore how everyday living changed during these years when use of automobiles and home electrification first became commonplace, when radio emerged, and when cinema, with the addition of sound, became broadly popular. Find out how worklife, domestic life, and leisure-time activities were affected by these factors as well as by the politics of the time. Details of matters such as the creation of the pickup truck, the development of radio programming, and the first mass use of cosmetics provide an enjoyable read that brings the period clearly into focus. Centering its attention on the broad masses of the population, this animated reference resource emphasizes the wide variety of experiences of people living through The Roaring Twenties and The Great Depression. Readers will be surprised to discover that some of the assumptions we have about the lives of average Americans during these eras are historically inaccurate. A final chapter provides a unique look at six American communities and gives a vivid sense of the diversity of American experience over the course of these tumultuous years.

Author : Pandita Ramabai,Ramabai Sarasvati
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253215710

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Pandita Ramabai's American Encounter by Pandita Ramabai,Ramabai Sarasvati Pdf

"... [A] rare and remarkable insight into an Indian woman's take on American culture in the 19th century, refracted through her own experiences with British colonialism, Indian nationalism, and Christian culture on no less than three continents.... a fabulous resource for undergraduate teaching." —Antoinette Burton In the 1880s, Pandita Ramabai traveled from India to England and then to the U.S., where she spent three years immersed in the milieu of progressive social reform movements of the day. Born into a Brahmin family and widowed while still young, she converted to Christianity while in England. In India, she was an activist for the education of women and the improvement of the status of widows. Abroad, she was iconized as a champion of the "oppressed Hindu woman." The Peoples of the United States is Ramabai's comprehensive description of American life, ranging from government to economy, education to domestic activity. As an account of a Western society by an Indian woman and a feminist, it reverses the established equation of male, Orientalist travel narratives. First published in Marathi in 1889, it is offered here in an elegant and engaging English translation by Meera Kosambi, who also provides a critical introduction and extensive annotations.

Author : Moses Grandy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : UOM:69015000002697

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Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy by Moses Grandy Pdf

This book is a slave narrative, written by former slave, Moses Grandy.

Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0060528427

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A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Pdf

Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.

Author : Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore,Thomas J. Sugrue
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393264463

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These United States by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore,Thomas J. Sugrue Pdf

President Franklin Roosevelt told Americans in a 1936 fireside chat, “I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.” These United States builds on this foundation to present a readable, accessible history of the United States throughout the twentieth century—an ongoing and inspiring story of great leaders and everyday citizens marching, fighting, voting, and legislating to make the nation’s promise of democracy a reality for all Americans. In the college edition of These United States, Gilmore and Sugrue seamlessly weave insightful analysis with all of the support tools needed by students and instructors alike, including paired primary source documents, review questions, key terms, maps, and figures in a dynamic four-color design.

Author : John Soares,Irwin Unger
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 0136142354

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These United States: The Questions of Our Past: Volume I: To 1877 by John Soares,Irwin Unger Pdf

This study resource includes commentary, definitions, identifications, map exercises, short-answer exercises, and essay questions.

Author : Christine A. Ogren,Marc A. VanOverbeke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319756141

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Rethinking Campus Life by Christine A. Ogren,Marc A. VanOverbeke Pdf

This edited volume explores the history of student life throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Chapter authors examine the expanding reach of scholarship on the history of college students; the history of underrepresented students, including black, Latino, and LGBTQ students; and student life at state normal schools and their successors, regional colleges and universities, and at community colleges and evangelical institutions. The book also includes research on drag and gender and on student labor activism, and offers new interpretations of fraternity and sorority life. Collectively, these chapters deepen scholarly understanding of students, the diversity of their experiences at an array of institutions, and the campus lives they built.

Author : Michael S. Sherry
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469660714

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The Punitive Turn in American Life by Michael S. Sherry Pdf

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that "the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime," and police forces, arms makers, policy makers, and crime experts heeded this call to arms, bringing weapons and practices from the arena of war back home. The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have moved to the center of American life and become imbued with militarized language and policies. Michael S. Sherry argues that, by the 1990s, the "war on crime" had been successfully broadcast to millions of Americans at an enormous cost--to those arrested, imprisoned, or killed and to the social fabric of the nation--and that the currents of vengeance that ran through the punitive turn, underwriting torture at home and abroad, found a new voice with the election of Donald J. Trump. By 2020, the connections between war-fighting and crime-fighting remained powerful, evident in campaigns against undocumented immigrants and the militarized police response to the nationwide uprisings after George Floyd's murder. Stoked by "forever war," the punitive turn endured even as it met fiercer resistance. From the racist system of mass incarceration and the militarization of criminal justice to gated communities, public schools patrolled by police, and armies of private security, Sherry chronicles the United States' slide into becoming a meaner, punishment-obsessed nation.

Author : Elizabeth Ferrer
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780295747644

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Latinx Photography in the United States by Elizabeth Ferrer Pdf

Whether at UFW picket lines in California’s Central Valley or capturing summertime street life in East Harlem Latinx photographers have documented fights for dignity and justice as well as the daily lives of ordinary people. Their powerful, innovative photographic art touches on family, identity, protest, borders, and other themes, including the experiences of immigration and marginalization common to many of their communities. Yet the work of these artists has largely been excluded from the documented history of photography in the United States. Through individual profiles of more than eighty photographers from the early history of the photographic medium to the present, Elizabeth Ferrer introduces readers to Latinx portraitists, photojournalists, and documentarians and their legacies. She traces the rise of a Latinx consciousness in photography in the 1960s and '70s and the growth of identity-based approaches in the 1980s and '90s. Ferrer argues that in many cases a shared sense of struggle has motivated photographers to work purposefully, driven by a deep sense of resistance, social and political commitments, and cultural affirmation, and she highlights the significance of family photos to their approaches and outlooks. Works range from documentary and street photography to narrative series to conceptual projects. Latinx Photography in the United States is the first book to offer a parallel history of photography, one that no longer lies at the margins but rather plays a crucial role in imagining and creating a broader, more inclusive American visual history.

Author : Alfred Judson Henry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Lightning
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210272055

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Loss of Life in the United States by Lightning by Alfred Judson Henry Pdf

Author : Eugenia Kaledin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313090417

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Daily Life in the United States, 1940-1959 by Eugenia Kaledin Pdf

Examine the everyday lives of ordinary Americans from the 1940s and 1950s and discover how very different the two decades were. World War II affected Americans and the way they behaved, not only in the 1940s, but also in the years that followed when the depression that preceded the war was replaced with an economic boom. Explore how women's roles and lives changed during these two very distinct decades, how politics and political decisions impacted all walks of life, and what the advent of growing technology, much of it developed during the war, meant to the general population. What was it like to be a woman suddenly earning her own money while men were off fighting? How did children and teenagers contribute to the war effort? How did housing change in postwar America? What pastimes were popular during these two decades and how did they reflect the times? These questions and others are explored in detail, encouraging students, teachers, and interested readers to recognize the tremendous shift in society between the war years and the atomic age that immediately followed. This text presents the 1940s as a time of social problems that existed alongside community commitment to the war, while the 1950s are presented as a time when exciting social change such as the beginning of the civil rights movement and the building of Levittowns occurred. After the war ordinary people began to question long-accepted ideas. The exploration of these everyday details provides a rich look at two very important decades in our country's history.

Author : United States. Life-Saving Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924070537059

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Annual Report of the United States Life-Saving Service by United States. Life-Saving Service Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population,Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309264143

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U.S. Health in International Perspective by National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population,Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries Pdf

The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved dramatically over the past century, Americans live shorter lives and experience more injuries and illnesses than people in other high-income countries. The U.S. health disadvantage cannot be attributed solely to the adverse health status of racial or ethnic minorities or poor people: even highly advantaged Americans are in worse health than their counterparts in other, "peer" countries. In light of the new and growing evidence about the U.S. health disadvantage, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a panel of experts to study the issue. The Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries examined whether the U.S. health disadvantage exists across the life span, considered potential explanations, and assessed the larger implications of the findings. U.S. Health in International Perspective presents detailed evidence on the issue, explores the possible explanations for the shorter and less healthy lives of Americans than those of people in comparable countries, and recommends actions by both government and nongovernment agencies and organizations to address the U.S. health disadvantage.