Our Land, Our Time Joseph Robert Conlin. A History of the United States to 1877 Our Land Our Team Joseph R. Conlin 100 CORONADO PUBLISHERS San Diego Chicago Orlando Dallas Joseph R. Conlin is Professor of History at the California.
Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.
A True History of the United States was inspired by a course that Sjursen taught to cadets at West Point, his alma mater.
"Incorporates key themes that help students develop a sound understanding of American history."--Publisher description.
Offering an abbreviated, accessible, and lively narrative history of the United States, this erudite volume contains the essential facts about the discovery, settlement, growth, and development of the American nation and its institutions.
Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the struggles for workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights during the nineteenth and twentieth ...
For her writings, see Ida B. Wells-Barnett, The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-lynching Crusader, ed. Mia Bay and Henry Louis Gates Jr. (New York: Penguin Books, 2014). Frederick Douglass, Letter, in Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors: ...
In short, vivid chapters the book brings to life hundreds of individuals whose stories are part of the larger American story.
Weinstein and Gattell: “When Indian warfare broke out on the frontier,” Berkeley “called for restraint.” Williams and Freidel: In , Berkeley opened up the frontier to settlement, sending explorers and an army.
Here is one striking example of the class anger and spirit of popular rebellion at the time, from a letter that Joseph Clarke, the adopted child of Joseph Hawley, a well-known Massachusetts politician, sent to an unknown friaod.
Bay, where the immigrants were Asian and not European, the examinations were lengthier and deportation rates higher (at least five times that of Ellis Island). As far back as the Page Law of 1875, which had made Chinese immigration very ...