Blaine T. Browne, Robert C. Cottrell

Lives and Times (eBook, ePUB)

Individuals and Issues in American History: To 1877

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed to acquaint students with major issues in American history through the lives of individuals, prominent and otherwise, whose ideas and activities were crucial in shaping the course of the nation's history. Employing a narrative style, each volume consists of thirteen chapters in which the lives of two individuals are examined in the broader context of major historical themes. Readers will find not only a diversity of individuals profiled-including Mary Dyer and Cotton Mather, Andrew Jackson and Tecumseh, and John Brown and Abraham Lincoln-but also themes spanning political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and military history. This combined biographical/thematic approach provides the reader with more extensive biographical information and a fuller examination of key issues than is commonly offered in core texts. Each chapter also offers study questions and a bibliography. Also Available: Lives and Times: Individuals and Issues in American History: Since 1865 by Blaine T. Browne and Robert C. Cottrell

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442205581
• Artikelnr.: 38407792

Autorenporträt

Blaine T. Browne is Emeritus Professor at Broward College and is the author of numerous articles and books including Modern American Lives: Individuals and Issues in American History, Lives and Times: Individuals and Issues in American History, and Uncertain Order: The World in the Twentieth Century. He is coauthor with Robert C. Cottrell of 1968: The Rise and Fall of the New American Revolution (2018). He presently teaches at Oklahoma City University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: A New Birth of Freedom Deferred: Benjamin R. Tillman, Ida B.
Wells
Chapter 2: Final Frontiers, Vanishing Americans: Geronimo, Helen Hunt
Jackson
Chapter 3: Wealth and Social Justice in the Industrial Age: Andrew
Carnegie, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
Chapter 4: Progressive America in the World: Woodrow Wilson, Randolph
Bourne
Chapter 5: Popular Culture in the New Era: Babe Ruth, Louis Armstrong
Chapter 6: Defending Democracy in Hard Times: Floyd Olson, Eleanor
Roosevelt
Chapter 7: Questions of Loyalty in Peace and War: Charles Lindbergh, J.
Robert Oppenheimer
Chapter 8: Defining Dissent in Cold War America: Paul Robeson, Pat McCarran
Chapter 9: New Frontiers in Activism: Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan
Chapter 10: Racial Justice: Thought and Action: James Baldwin, Stokely
Carmichael
Chapter 11: The Agony of Vietnam: Robert McNamara, David Halberstam
Chapter 12: The New Right: Root and Branch: William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald
Reagan
Chapter 13: Uncertain Times: America Enters the 21st Century: George W.
Bush, Barack Obama