The book's clear and helpful presentation speaks directly to students, sparking their curiosity and inviting them to “do history” as well as read about it.
Making America: A History of the United States
Making in America describes ways to strengthen this connection, including public-private collaborations, new government-initiated manufacturing innovation institutes, and industry/community college projects.
An extended essay on social change based on case studies of a wide range of participants in the emerging corporate culture of the early 1900s. Zunz is in the history department at the U. of Virginia.
Shortly after the Mendez ruling, Governor Earl Warren signed an Assembly bill to repeal sections of the California Education Code that allowed school boards to establish separate schools for Native Americans and students of Asian ...
(Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2010), 272–75; Daniel K. Williams, God's Party: The Making of the Christian Right (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 187–211. Elizabeth Nash et al., “Laws Affecting Reproductive Health and ...
About half were admitted directly from their ships and another half were detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station.21 While popularly called the “Ellis Island of the West,” the immigration station on Angel Island was in fact very ...
This book covers both the famous and the unsung who worked and fought to acquire greater prosperity and freedom for themselves and for their nation.
Over time, because of the systems Hamilton set up and the ideas he left, his vision won out. Here is the story that epitomizes the American dream—a poor immigrant who made good in America.
In Washington, I had the pleasure of working alongside Adam Entous, Susan Glasser, Ryan Lizza, Jane Mayer, Osita Nwanevu, Nicholas Schmidle, and Margaret Talbot. Since moving back to America, I have had the good fortune to join two ...