Author: Wayne A. Wiegand
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0190248009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Challenges conventional thinking and top-down definitions, instead drawing on the library user's perspective to argue that the public library's most important function is providing commonplace reading materials and public space. Challenges a professional ethos about public libraries and their responsibilities to fight censorship and defend intellectual freedom. Demonstrates that the American public library has been (with some notable exceptions) a place that welcomed newcomers, accepted diversity, and constructed community since the end of the 19th century. Shows how stories that cultural authorities have traditionally disparaged- i.e. books that are not "serious"- have often been transformative for public library users.
Author: Edward Sylvester Ellis
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vol. 9 contains questions, plan for study, civil government handbook, manual of civil service, etc.
Author: Edward Eggleston
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-04-29
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 1627931538
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Reinhold Niebuhr
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-01-22
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0226583996
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“[Niebuhr] is one of my favorite philosophers. I take away [from his works] the compelling idea that there’s serious evil in the world, and hardship and pain. And we should be humble and modest in our belief we can eliminate those things. But we shouldn’t use that as an excuse for cynicism and inaction. I take away . . . the sense we have to make these efforts knowing they are hard.”—President Barack Obama Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of age as a world power, The Irony of American History is more relevant now than ever before. Cited by politicians as diverse as Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Niebuhr’s masterpiece on the incongruity between personal ideals and political reality is both an indictment of American moral complacency and a warning against the arrogance of virtue. Impassioned, eloquent, and deeply perceptive, Niebuhr’s wisdom will cause readers to rethink their assumptions about right and wrong, war and peace. “The supreme American theologian of the twentieth century.”—Arthur Schlesinger Jr., New York Times “Niebuhr is important for the left today precisely because he warned about America’s tendency—including the left’s tendency—to do bad things in the name of idealism. His thought offers a much better understanding of where the Bush administration went wrong in Iraq.”—Kevin Mattson, The Good Society “Irony provides the master key to understanding the myths and delusions that underpin American statecraft. . . . The most important book ever written on US foreign policy.”—Andrew J. Bacevich, from the Introduction
Author: Donald G. Davis
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Library of Congress
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents a portait of America's social and cultural history between 1600 and 1900, told through letters, diaries, memoirs, tracts, and other articles and first-hand accounts found in the collections of the Library of Congress.
Author: New York Public Library
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Published: 2003-11-05
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Organized by cultural and social categories, a compendium of information about American history contains succinct overviews, detailed timelines, and capsule biographies that detail major events.
Author: Diane Patrick
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discover ancient African civilizations. Explore the devastating Middle Passage and see the famous March on Washington. Find the answers to your questions about African American history . . . Did blacks fight in the Revolutionary War? See page 18. What was the Underground Railroad? See page 30. Who were the Buffalo Soldiers? See page 59. What is the NAACP? See page 64. What was the Harlem Renaissance? See page 77. How did the civil rights movement begin? See page 112. What was the Black Power movement? See page 131. What is affirmative action? See page 146.
Author: Scott E. Casper
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →CD-ROM contains: Digital image archive of books, magazines, manuscripts, technologies, and readers to accompany text.