Origins and appeal -- Before A people's history -- In high school classrooms : a case study of high school teaching and learning, 1986-2002 -- "Dear Mr. Zinn" : student voices -- Not just for kids -- Teachers : a people's pedagogy -- ...
This book exposes the flaws among prevalent theories and the strength of those alternatives that were dismissed or ignored.
Essays examine the significance of the frontier in American history, the bases of a western identity, and the themes that connect the twentieth-century West to its more distant past
Arguing for highway investments to be motivated by economic rather than political factors, this book makes a carefully-reasoned and well-documented case for a new approach to highways that is sure to inform future decisions and policies for ...
... neglected groups—blacks, women, laborers, and others—it is difficult to recapture the sense of intellectual excitement produced by the works of E. P. Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm, and other British practitioners of “history from below.
In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself.
Kanalu Young, himself a descendent of the Kaukau Ali'i, argues that the Native Hawai'ian past can be better understood by approaches which are grounded in concepts derived from Native Hawai'ian language and oral tradition.
For five decades John M. Murrin has been the consummate historian's historian. This volume brings together his seminal essays on the American Revolution, the United States Constitution, and the early American Republic.
Guide presents a collection of essays which offer a new view of Columbus and the impact of his arrival in the Americas. A list of resources is included. Elementary through high school.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Russians, The Power Game, and The New Russians shows how America has lost ground, and reveals how innovators are creating new strategies to win in the new global game.
Education Now: How Rethinking America's Past Can Change Its Future