Offering a complete review of American history, civics, and culture, this unique collection provides both current and future citizens with the basics of the United States' common traditions and values in order to properly exercise their duties and obligations to vote responsibly. Amply illustrated and containing material not found in other sources, this book features a complete historical timeline of the United States; details of each presidential election, including vote totals and short profiles of each president; color flags of all states; history and care of the United States flag; maps showing statehood dates, Native American tribe locations, major cities, and time zones; text of the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, the Northwest Ordinance, and the United States Constitution, including all amendments; and explanations of the three branches of government, the electoral college, the federal budget, and presidential succession.
American Challenge: A New History of the United States
... “Capabilities of the Chinese People's Liberation Army to Carry Out Military Action in the Event of a Regional Military Conflict,” Science Applications International Corporation, March 2009, prepared for the U.S.-China Economic and ...
In The World's Newest Profession Christopher McKenna offers a history of management consulting in the twentieth century.
The fifteen summary essays included in this volume allow professional historians, history teachers, and students to grasp in a convenient and accessible form what historians have been writing about.
White Male Converts The road to Islam for Sheikh Hamza Yusuf started from the site of a nearfatal car accident when he was a young man. It got him thinking about religion, life, and mortality: “I really wanted to look at all these ...
... Y. Lacroix , The Competitiveness of European International Financial Centres ( Bangor : Institute of European Finance , 1993 ) ; G. Dufey and I. H. Giddy , The International Money Market ( Englewood Cliffs , NJ : Prentice Hall ...
This volume presents an eminent historian's progress over thirty years in trying to understand the American Revolution.
The authors outline the major ideas that have shaped the development of theory, research, and policy in the area of communities and crime.
The American Challenge, Vol II: A New History of the United States
Meet your Sisters in Time in these exciting historical novels for ages 8 to 12. You’ll love the stories of fictional girls—not that different than girls of today—written into actual events of U.S. history.