Prepare for your history exams or learn more about key events in American history with BarCharts' updated and expanded American History 1 QuickStudy (R) guide. Detailing the discovery and settlement of the New World up through the Civil War and Reconstruction, this guide features timelines grouped by historical theme to give you a concise outline ......
Patriotism, Diplomacy and the Paris Peace Conference, 1918-1919
In this study of the American historians who accompanied President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 Professor Nielson focuses on a development unique in its time (and now taken for granted): for the first time a president used the expertise of professional scholars as the basis for far reaching decisions on the immediate issues ......
This long-awaited sequel to Richard Hofstadter and Wilson Smith's classic anthology American Higher Education: A Documentary History presents one hundred and seventy-two key edited documents that record the transformation of higher education over the past sixty years.The volume includes such seminal documents as Vannevar Bush's 1945 report to ......
"This edited volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the complex realities of American higher education, including its history, financing, governance, and relationship with the states and federal government. For this fifth edition, existing chapters were revised extensively to reflect contemporary realities, and new chapters were added"--
"This edited volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the complex realities of American higher education, including its history, financing, governance, and relationship with the states and federal government. For this fifth edition, existing chapters were revised extensively to reflect contemporary realities, and new chapters were added"--
First published in 1999, American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century offered a comprehensive introduction to the central issues facing American colleges and universities. This thoroughly revised edition brings the classic volume up to date. The contributors have rewritten every chapter to address major changes in higher ......
The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance
The discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the subsequent decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics captured the imaginations of nineteenth-century American writers and provided a focal point for their speculations on the relationships between sign, symbol, language, and meaning. Through fresh readings of classic works by Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, ......
The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance
''This is major scholarship, both as it contributes to American history of ideas and as it offers a brilliant new interpretation of major nineteenth-century American writers.''--J. Hillis Miller
Engage all students by acting out this leveled script about American heroes. Assign differentiated roles based on students' individual reading capabilities, so all students can perform, build fluency, and feel successful.
