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A History of US: Book 11: Sourcebook and Index (History of Us)
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Designed to accompany Joy Hakim's ten-volume A History of US or as a stand-alone reference, this collection of great American documents is ideal for all students of American history. Filled with primary sources, the Sourcebook and Index traces the gradual unfolding of ideas of freedom in America through letters, declarations, proclamations, court decisions, speeches, laws, acts, the Constitution, and other writings. Updated with a complete listing of the constitutional amendments and a listing of the presidents with key information about them, the Sourcebook and Index is arranged chronologically, beginning with the Magna Carta and ending with Ronald Reagan's 1988 speech at Moscow State University. Each document is introduced and placed in historical context. Difficult vocabulary is defined in the margins along with explanatory notes and commentary that aids in understanding the meaning and historical importance of each document. Neatly cross-referenced with key sections of A History of US, the Sourcebook and Index is an easy-to-use collection of the documents most essential to understanding American history. Included are some of the many voices whose words have moved the nation: Ben Franklin, Tom Paine, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson, St. John de Crevecoeur, George Washington, Sagoyewatha, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Chief Joseph, Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Ronald ReaganCustomer Reviews:
Easy to read, concise information.......2007-05-12
Makes reading about American History fun.......2006-11-10
90% twaddle or fluff, 10% fact and not very well written.......2006-08-30
review for the sourcebook A History of US.......2005-10-19
A supplemental collection of documents that shaped America.......2003-08-14
This sourcebook presents excerpts from many of the documents recommended on state frameworks and that support the National History Standards. At the beginning of each excerpt there is a note on where you can find the document or topic discussed in the series (e.g., John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address does with Chapter 17, Book 10, "All the People"), a headnote that provides background on the document and discusses why it is important, the text if the document, and definitions in the margins that will help readers understand unfamiliar word or unusual meanings as well as identifying historical figures mentioned in the documents. I especially appreciate the later because having co-edited a collection of great speeches I was quite proud of the annotations we provided and Hollinshead and Mintz are doing something similar here. The focus is on helping young readers tease out a document's assumptions, uncover its meaning, and assess its historical significance. For example, there are only two lines from "Magna Carta" but the analysis emphasizes the ideas of preserving rights, obeying the law of the land, and extending rights to all citizens.
By devoting an entire volume to such documents Hakim is able to get well beyond the few documents of state that often end up in the back of an American history textbook (i.e., the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc.). Here you will find the Articles of Confederation, the Homestead Act, and the Civil Rights Act. The Gettysburg Address is short enough to make its way into most textbooks but students will also find words from Lincoln's "House Divided," debate with Stephen Douglas, and Second Inaugural Address. When the authors works in John Marshall Harlan's dissenting opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson you know that they have done their homework and gone beyond the obvious possibilities. There are easily a dozen other impressive additions, from John C. Calhoun's speech on the Compromise of 1850 and Franklin D. Roosevelt's message to Congress on "The Four Freedoms" to Thomas Jefferson's "Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom" and Martin Luther King, Jr's letter from Birmingham City Jail.
Among the reasons why I would prefer a CD-Rom to a book in this matter is that you would not only be able to include many more documents, but you would also be able to provide them in their entirety. Even a relatively short speech such as Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!" is edited (and there is no reason you cannot either provide both complete and edited versions of the longer works and/or allow teachers to edit them themselves before making copies). However, I am well aware that my preference for primary documents may well be greater than your average student of American history. Even if you are not using Hakim's series, American history teachers can certainly use this volume to help expose their students to some of the most powerful words in our nation's history.
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A History of US: Book 11: Sourcebook and Index (A History of Us)
Joy Hakim Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0195189035 |
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Designed to accompany Joy Hakim's ten volume A History of US or as a stand alone reference, this collection of great American documents is ideal for all students of American history. Filled with primary sources, the Sourcebook and Index traces the gradual unfolding of ideas of freedom in America through letters, declarations, proclamations, court decisions, speeches, laws, acts, the Constitution, and other writings.Customer Reviews:
History the fun way.......2007-03-09
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A History of US: Book 11: Sourcebook and Index: Documents that Shaped the American Nation (Hakim, Joy. History of Us (1999), Bk. 11,)
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Features a complete index and vocabulary to the series, as well as a collection of 94 primary sources relating the U.S. history that will make every history lover ecstatic. This sourcebook traces the development of the fundamental ideals on which our society is based: free speech and a free press, religious toleration, due process of law, racial equality, and government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Beginning with the Magna Carta and concluding with a speech delivered by President Ronald Reagan at Moscow State University in 1988--celebrating the spread of American ideals of freedom at the end of the Cold War--this sourcebook allows students to analyze the charter documents of American freedom. These include our society's basic constitutional documents, such as the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, landmark Supreme Court decisions from Marbury v. Madison to the Pentagon Papers case, the most influential presidential addresses, and documents illuminating the experience of the diverse groups that make up our society.Customer Reviews:
A supplemental collection of documents that shaped America.......2003-08-14
This sourcebook presents excerpts from many of the documents recommended on state frameworks and that support the National History Standards. At the beginning of each excerpt there is a note on where you can find the document or topic discussed in the series (e.g., John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address does with Chapter 17, Book 10, "All the People"), a headnote that provides background on the document and discusses why it is important, the text if the document, and definitions in the margins that will help readers understand unfamiliar word or unusual meanings as well as identifying historical figures mentioned in the documents. I especially appreciate the later because having co-edited a collection of great speeches I was quite proud of the annotations we provided and Hollinshead and Mintz are doing something similar here. The focus is on helping young readers tease out a document's assumptions, uncover its meaning, and assess its historical significance. For example, there are only two lines from "Magna Carta" but the analysis emphasizes the ideas of preserving rights, obeying the law of the land, and extending rights to all citizens.
By devoting an entire volume to such documents Hakim is able to get well beyond the few documents of state that often end up in the back of an American history textbook (i.e., the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc.). Here you will find the Articles of Confederation, the Homestead Act, and the Civil Rights Act. The Gettysburg Address is short enough to make its way into most textbooks but students will also find words from Lincoln's "House Divided," debate with Stephen Douglas, and Second Inaugural Address. When the authors works in John Marshall Harlan's dissenting opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson you know that they have done their homework and gone beyond the obvious possibilities. There are easily a dozen other impressive additions, from John C. Calhoun's speech on the Compromise of 1850 and Franklin D. Roosevelt's message to Congress on "The Four Freedoms" to Thomas Jefferson's "Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom" and Martin Luther King, Jr's letter from Birmingham City Jail.
Among the reasons why I would prefer a CD-Rom to a book in this matter is that you would not only be able to include many more documents, but you would also be able to provide them in their entirety. Even a relatively short speech such as Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!" is edited (and there is no reason you cannot either provide both complete and edited versions of the longer works and/or allow teachers to edit them themselves before making copies). However, I am well aware that my preference for primary documents may well be greater than your average student of American history. Even if you are not using Hakim's series, American history teachers can certainly use this volume to help expose their students to some of the most powerful words in our nation's history.
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HISTORY OF US BOOK 11 SOURCEBOOK & INDEX 3E HUS
HAKIM Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OKNVPM |
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A History of Us: Book 11: Sourcebook and Index
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A History of US: Book 11: Sourcebook and Index (History of Us)
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A History of US: Book 11: Sourcebook and Index: Documents that Shaped the American Nation (Hakim, Joy. History of Us (1999), Bk
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Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes
Stephen Howe Manufacturer: Verso ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1859848737 |
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A vigorous challenge to the Afrocentric rewriting of African history. For centuries, racist, colonial and Eurocentric bias has blocked or distorted knowledge of Africans, their histories and cultures. The challenge to that bias has been one of the greatest intellectual transformations of the late twentieth century. But alongside this challenge has arisen a counter mythology, proclaiming the innate superiority of African-descended peoples. In this provocative study, Stephen Howe powerfully argues that this Afrocentric movement is guilty of reproducing all the central features of the outmoded Euro-racist scholarship. Offering a mostly fictional history of Africa and its diaspora, centered on bizarre ideas about ancient Egypt, Howe argues that Afrocentrism is a symptom of, rather than a cure for, desperate political and economic problems. In Afrocentrism, Howe traces the sources and ancestries of the movement, and closely analyses the writings of its leading proponents including Molefi Asante and the legendary Senegalese historian Cheikh Anta Diop. Martin Bernal's contribution is also assessed. Hard-hitting yet subtle and scholarly in its appraisal of Afrocentric ideas, and based on wide-ranging research in the histories both of Afro-America and of Africa itself, Afrocentrism not only demolishes the mythical "history" taught by black ultra-nationalists but suggests paths towards a true historical consciousness of Africa and its diaspora.Customer Reviews:
The narcissistic romance of modern academia and ITS mythical past and imagined homes needs to be effectively dismantled.......2006-06-02
Afrocentric Classic.......2004-06-23
Laughable! Entirely Laughable!.......2004-03-27
I was absolutely shocked!!! The book is a REVIEW!!! It contains no new theories, paradigms or models. It is merely an exercise in Polemic and ridicule - One does not need to go to school to write a book like this! One only needs to be devoted to a Western framework!
African myths? Ha! They still havent been able to denounce the Afrocentric thesis - Lefkowitz lost all her arguments (including the one with J.H Clarke) - this book is merely something to comfort the bruised western ego!!!
These are the facts:
1. If any African Americans want to identify with Africa on the basis of Historicity - how is that anybody's problem?
2. If these African Americans devote themselves to the study and research and propagation of what they see to be their homeland - whose problem is that?
3. As for the parroted examples he gave as debunkings of Afrocentrism - they are nothing new! Its the same old story white people have been telling for 200 years and it still is LUDICROUS!
There are so many idiocies contained in Howes book but I want to address one that particularly tickled my fancy -
"It is not possible to decide if Egypt was black or white" "Egypt was neither black nor white"
So what was Egypt then? Brown? He says that the Egyptians were merely Egyptians! What nonsense! So are the Yoruba merely Yoruba? NO - they are affixed within the global frameworks as blacks. Are the Zulus merely Zulus and neither black nor white? NO. So whats this about the Egyptians being neither black nor white? Are the Scots, the Irish, the Danes neither black nor white? - Howes particular assertion at this point is what revealed to me that his main agenda was not to promote the so-called non-racial aspect of the Egyptians but to merely deny their possibility of being black.
This one will be debunked in time also - no doubt about that; the book is crap.
Oh - and I note he got the approval of Appiah on this one - Appiah by the way, is someone who is also entirely irrelevant to the conversation in Africa today; a charge he brought against Asante and the others. In fact; one might even say that Asante has more relevance in Africa than Appiah -
And again - the jests he pokes at the derivations of the name of several Afrocentric scholars is needless to say, a bit tiring.
A Devastating Critique.......2003-02-14
biased and racist.......2002-08-10
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Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes
Stephen HOWE Manufacturer: Verso ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OPMQVM |
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