Demonstrates how to draw the symbols, heroes, and monuments that embody the spirit of America.
Visit 30 famous, man-made American landmarks -- from the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor to the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii. Captions accompany easy-to-color illustrations.
This book describes results from the 1994 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessment in U.S. history, conducted at grades 4, 8, and 12. Included in this report card are...
BASIC (294) PROFICIENT (325) (355) Fourth-grade students performing at the Basic level should be able to identify and describe a few of the most familiar people, places, events, ideas, and documents in American history.
From the Alamo and Gettysburg to Mount Rushmore and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Monuments is celebrated architectural historian Judith Dupré’s sweeping tribute to classic American landmarks. But included too are...
... landmarks can be used to set the scene and make effective illustrations . Robert Fawcett's assignment was to show inter- views taking place in several major American ... learn to draw by drawing Sometimes a picture really stumps me and I must ...
... draw wider conclusions about such socio-political aspects and set the monuments in a broader context. So although ... historical aspects to contribute to the field of cultural memory. Nevertheless, I regard my study, both from the ...
This richly illustrated collection of fourteen essays examines the ways in which Confederate memorials - from Monument Avenue to Stone Mountain - and the public rituals surrounding them testify to the tenets of the Lost Cause, a ...
... America's heroes . One is the Lincoln Memorial Another is the Washington Monument Each one honors an American symbol President 2. Draw a line from the word to its meaning . President picture , place , or thing that stands for something ...