American Lives

  • American Lives: To 1876
    American Lives: To 1876
    By Willard Sterne Randall, Nancy Ann Nahra

    Then he took a teaching job in his parent's home town of Warren , Connecticut , living with an uncle , while he attended Warren Academy and prepared for Yale . He supported himself by working on his uncle's farm and running a singing ...

  • American Lives
    American Lives
    By Willard Sterne Randall, Nancy Ann Nahra

    "American Lives "is a collection of succinct biographical essays on both renowned and lesser-known figures in American History.

  • American Lives: Cultural Differences, Individual Distinction : an Anthology of American Autobiography
    American Lives: Cultural Differences, Individual Distinction : an Anthology of American Autobiography
    By Amy A. Kass

    Along with the overall introduction, these questions guide teachers and students in examining the meaning of living an American life, including their own.

  • American Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Writing
    American Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Writing
    By Robert F. Sayre

    Representing canonical and non-canonical writers, slaves and slave-owners, generals and conscientious objectors, scientists, immigrants, and Native Americans, the pieces in this collection make up a rich gathering of American "songs of ...

  • American Lives: Looking Back at the Children of the Great Depression
    American Lives: Looking Back at the Children of the Great Depression
    By John A. Clausen

    In the culmination of the now-famous Berkeley Longitudinal Studies, Clausen assesses what he has learned about the lives of 300 men and women studied since their adolescence in the early 1930s to determine why some were successful in their ...