eBook PDF Download Digital Library
Author: Sean Sheehan
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9781410917867
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Olympic Games, normally a celebration of internationalism and friendly competition through sport, reflected troubling times when they were held in Germany in 1936. Find out more in this thought provoking title.
Author: Patricia Levy
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781410917904
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Looks at milestones such as the advent of compact discs, the Chernobyl disaster, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the Gulf War, and the breakup of Yugoslavia.
Author: Patricia Levy
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781410917911
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The two events that define the years between the early 1990s and 2001, the World Wide Web and the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. on September 11, were both unthinkable at the beginning of that century. Find out more in this thought provoking title.
Author: Patricia Levy
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Published: 2005-07-01
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9781410917850
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Looks at the important global developments in science, politics, and society from 1919 to 1936.
Author: Pat Levy
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781410917898
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reflects on the important political, economic, social and technological developments of the last century, up until the world changing events of September 11, 2001. Suggested level: secondary.
Author: Lynda G. Adamson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1997-09-15
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 0313089957
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Identifying thousands of historical fiction novels, biographies, history trade books, CD-ROMs, and videotapes, this book helps you locate resources on American history for students. Each book presents information in two sections. In the first part, titles are listed according to grade levels within eras and further organized according to product type. The books cover American history from North America Before 1600 and The American Colonies, 1600-1774 to The Mid-Twentieth Century, 1946-1975 and Since 1975. The second section has annotated bibliographies that describe each title and includes publication information and awards won. The focus is on books published since 1990, and all have received at least one favorable review. Some books with more illustration than text will be valuable for enticing slow or reticent readers. An index helps users find resources by author, title, or biographical subject.
Author: Jacqueline Edmondson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2007-09-30
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 0313087296
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In an era far removed from the African American celebrity athletes of today, Olympic great Jesse Owens achieved fame by running faster and jumping farther than anyone in the world. Author Jacqueline Edmondson explores Owens' struggles and hard-earned accomplishments, as well as how he paved the way for future generations of athletes, including color-line shatterer Jackie Robinson. It is difficult to imagine a time when African Americans were not part of professional sports in the United States. So many admired and beloved African-American athletes are national heroes today: Michael Jordan, Venus and Serena Williams, Tiger Woods, Florence Griffin-Joyner, Shaquille O'Neal, Muhammad Ali, to name a few. No such celebrity athletes appeared on magazine covers when Jesse Owens was a boy in the 1920s, no African American stars for him to hope to emulate. As the first American in track and field to win four gold medals in a single Olympic Games, Owens' athletic accomplishments were achieved despite seemingly insurmountable odds. This insightful biography tells the life story of a boy who grew up in poverty in the Deep South, won Olympic gold in Hitler's Germany by running faster and jumping farther than anyone in the world, and achieved fame and sometimes fortune in the midst of the Great Depression and a nation deeply divided by race. Yet while Owens broke world records in track and gained attention from the general public, few athletes could understand his experiences, including the overt racial discrimination he faced-even fewer who understood the complexities his fame brought. Author Jacqueline Edmondson explores Owens' struggles and hard-earned accomplishments, as well as how he paved the way for future generations of athletes, including color line shatterer, Jackie Robinson. A timeline, photos, and extensive bibliography of print and electronic sources supplement this biography of one of the greatest Olympic athletes in American history.
Author: Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher: Peace Hill Press
Published: 2005-06-17
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1942968035
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fourth book in the four-volume narrative history series for elementary students will transform your study of history. The Story of the World has won awards from numerous homeschooling magazines and readers' polls—over 150,000 copies of the series in print! Where was the Crystal Palace? Who was the Sick Man of Europe? And how did cow fat start a revolution? Now more than ever, other countries and customs affect our everyday lives—and our children need to learn about the people who live all around the world. Susan Wise Bauer has provided a captivating guide to the history of modern nations all around the world. Written in an engaging, straightforward manner, the final volume of the popular Story of the World series weaves world history into a storybook format, covering major historical events in the years 1850-2000. From the Middle East and China to Africa and the Americas—find out what happened all around the world in the last century and a half. Designed as a read-aloud project for parents and children to share together, The Story of the World includes the stories of each continent and people group. Each Story of the World volume provides a full year of history study when combined with the Activity Book, Audiobook, and Tests—each available separately to accompany each volume of The Story of the World Text Book. Volume 4 Grade Recommendation: Grades 3-8.
Author: Kendall Heitzman
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2019-12-15
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0826522572
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Yasuoka Shōtarō (1920–2013) was perfectly situated to become Japan's premier chronicler of the Shōwa period (1926–89). Over fifty years as a writer, Yasuoka produced stories, novels, plays, and essays, as well as monumental histories that connected his own life to those of his ancestors. He was also the only major Japanese writer to live in the American South during the Civil Rights Movement, when he spent most of an academic year at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. In 1977, he translated Alex Haley's Roots into Japanese. For a long period, Yasuoka was at the center of the Japanese literary establishment, serving on prize committees and winning the major literary prizes of the era: the Akutagawa, the Noma, the Yomiuri, and the Kawabata. But what makes Yasuoka fascinating as a writer is the way that he consciously, deliberately resisted accepted narratives of modern Japanese history through his approach to personal and collective memory. In Enduring Postwar, the first literary and biographical study of Yasuoka in English, Kendall Heitzman explores the element of memory in Yasuoka's work in the context of his life and evolving understanding of postwar Japan.
