A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
ISBN: 1595230327 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Larry Schweikart, Michael Allen Publisher: Sentinel Trade Number of Pages: 960
For the past three decades many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way Americas past is taught These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism sexism and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of Americas patriots and the achievements of "dead white men" As a result more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin A Patriots History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases In this groundbreaking book Americas discovery founding and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue personal liberty and private property that make this nation uniquely successful This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of Americas true and proud history
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
ISBN: 0060838655 Binding: Paperback Edition: Later printing Author(s): Howard Zinn Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Number of Pages: 768
Known for its lively clear prose as well as its scholarly research A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women factory workers African-Americans Native Americans working poor and immigrant laborers
This PS edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book including author interviews recommended reading and more
48 Liberal Lies About American History: (That You Probably Learned in School)
ISBN: 1595230564 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Larry Schweikart Publisher: Sentinel Trade Number of Pages: 336
A historian debunks four-dozen PC myths about our nations past
Over the last forty years history textbooks have become more and more politically correct and distorted about our countrys past argues professor Larry Schweikart The result he says is that students graduate from high school and even college with twisted beliefs about economics foreign policy war religion race relations and many other subjects
As he did in his popular A Patriots History of the United States Professor Schweikart corrects liberal bias by rediscovering facts that were once widely known He challenges distorted books by name and debunks forty-eight common myths A sample:
The founders wanted to create a wall of separation between church and state Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation only because he needed black soldiers Truman ordered the bombing of Hiroshima to intimidate the Soviets with atomic diplomacy Mikhail Gorbachev not Ronald Reagan was responsible for ending the Cold War Americas past though not perfect is far more admirable than you were probably taught
ISBN: 076790818X Binding: Paperback Edition: First Edition Author(s): Bill Bryson Publisher: Broadway Number of Pages: 560
One of the worlds most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer
In A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well most of it In In A Sunburned Country he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer Now in his biggest book he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand -- and if possible answer -- the oldest biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us To that end he has attached himself to a host of the worlds most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists anthropologists and mathematicians travelling to their offices laboratories and field camps He has read (or tried to read) their books pestered them with questions apprenticed himself to their powerful minds A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest and it is a sometimes profound sometimes funny and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge as only Bill Bryson can render it Science has never been more involving or entertaining
Cracking the AP U.S. History Exam, 2010 Edition (College Test Preparation)
ISBN: 0375429522 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Princeton Review Publisher: Princeton Review Number of Pages: 432
This comprehensive AP guide from the test-prep experts brings you everything you need to prepare for the AP US History Exam Inside Cracking the AP US History Exam 2010 Edition youll find proven techniques and strategies as well as:
2 full-length AP US History practice tests with detailed explanations Essential review of all key historical eras and timelines covered on the exam Targeted strategies for mastering the multiple-choice question section Detailed guides to writing great AP essays for the document-based and free response questions Terms and concepts organized by time period and category And much more
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
ISBN: 1594488959 Binding: Hardcover Edition: 1 Author(s): David Aaronovitch Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover Number of Pages: 400
An absorbing probing look at the conspiracy theories that operate on the sidelines of history and the reasons they continue to play such a seditious role from an award-winning journalist
Our age is obsessed by the idea of conspiracy We see it everywhere- from Pearl Harbor to 911 from the assassination of Kennedy to the death of Diana In this age of terrorism we live in the role of conspiracy is a serious one one that can fuel radical or fringe elements to violence
For David Aaronovitch there came a time when he started to see a pattern among these inflammatory theories these theories used similarly murky methods with which to insinuate their claims: they linked themselves to the supposed conspiracies of the past (it happened then so it can happen now); they carefully manipulated their evidence to hide its holes; they relied on the authority of dubious academic sources Most important they elevated their believers to membership of an elite- a group of people able to see beyond lies to a higher reality But why believe something that entails stretching the bounds of probability so far Surely it is more likely that men did actually land on the moon in 1969 than that thousands of people were enlisted to fabricate an elaborate hoax
In this entertaining and enlightening book -aimed at providing ammunition for those who have found themselves at the wrong end of a conversation about moon landings or the twin towers-Aaronovitch carefully probes and explodes a dozen of the major conspiracy theories In doing so he examines why people believe them and makes an argument for a true skepticism: one based on a thorough knowledge of history and a strong dose of common sense
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
ISBN: 140016592X Binding: Audio CD Edition: Unabridged,MP3 - Unabridged CD Author(s): David Aaronovitch Publisher: Tantor Media Number of Pages:
An absorbing probing look at the conspiracy theories that operate on the sidelines of history and the reasons they continue to play such a seditious role
Cracking the AP World History Exam, 2010 Edition (College Test Preparation)
ISBN: 0375429530 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Princeton Review Publisher: Princeton Review Number of Pages: 416
Scoring high on the AP World History Exam is very different from earning straight A's in school The Princeton Review doesnt try to teach you everything there is to know about World historyonly the strategies and information youll need to get your highest score In Cracking the AP World History Exam 2010 Edition well teach you how to
-Use our preparation strategies and test-taking techniques to raise your score -Focus on the topics most likely to appear on the test -Test your knowledge with review questions for each topic covered
This book includes 2 full-length practice AP World History tests All of our practice questions are just like those youll see on the actual exam and we explain how to answer every question
ISBN: 1416594981 Binding: Hardcover Edition: Author(s): Kate Walbert Publisher: Scribner Number of Pages: 256
National Book Award finalist Kate Walbert's A Short History of Women is a profoundly moving portrayal of the complicated legacies of mothers and daughters chronicling five generations of women from the close of the nineteenth century through the early years of the twenty-firstThe novel opens in England in 1914 at the deathbed of Dorothy Townsend a suffragette who starves herself for the cause Her choice echoes in the stories of her descendants interwoven throughout: a brilliant daughter who tries to escape the burden of her mother's infamy by immigrating to America just after World War I to begin a career in science; a niece who chooses a conventional path -- marriage children suburban domesticity -- only to find herself disillusioned with her husband of fifty years and engaged in heartbreaking and futile antiwar protests; a great-granddaughter who wryly articulates the free-floating anxiety of the times while getting drunk on a children's playdate in post-911 Manhattan In a kaleidoscope of voices and with a richness of imagery emotion and wit Walbert portrays the ways in which successive generations of women have responded to what the Victorians called "The Woman Question"As she did in her critically acclaimed The Gardens of Kyoto and Our Kind Walbert induces "a state in which the past seems to hang effortlessly amid the present" (The New York Times) A Short History of Women is her most ambitious novel a thought-provoking and vividly original narrative that crisscrosses a century to reflect the tides of time and the ways in which the lives of our great-grandmothers resonate in our own
