Exploring Our Country's History

Exploring Our Country's History
Author: Phyllis J. Perry
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1998-08-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313079706

Simulate integrated units of study on U.S. history with this guide. Perry provides recommended fiction and nonfiction books that help you illuminate different eras in U.S. history along with discussion starters, multidisciplinary activity suggestions, and topics for further investigation. Projects for individuals and groups help students develop skills in research, oral and written language, science, math, geography, and the arts. Additional resources are listed with each section. Grades K-5.

Atlas of Our Country's History

Atlas of Our Country's History
Author: Nyrom Staff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-01-31
Genre: Atlases
ISBN: 9780782508727

Includes a variety of maps. The section that deals with the history of the United States also makes use of illustrated time frames. Has many facts about the United States and the states.

Free the Land

Free the Land
Author: Edward Onaci
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2020-04-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469656159

On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States. Many concluded that Black Americans' best remaining hope for liberation was the creation of a sovereign nation-state, the Republic of New Afrika (RNA). New Afrikan citizens traced boundaries that encompassed a large portion of the South--including South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana--as part of their demand for reparation. As champions of these goals, they framed their struggle as one that would allow the descendants of enslaved people to choose freely whether they should be citizens of the United States. New Afrikans also argued for financial restitution for the enslavement and subsequent inhumane treatment of Black Americans. The struggle to "Free the Land" remains active to this day. This book is the first to tell the full history of the RNA and the New Afrikan Independence Movement. Edward Onaci shows how New Afrikans remade their lifestyles and daily activities to create a self-consciously revolutionary culture, and argues that the RNA's tactics and ideology were essential to the evolution of Black political struggles. Onaci expands the story of Black Power politics, shedding new light on the long-term legacies of mid-century Black Nationalism.

A People's History of the United States

A People's History of the United States
Author: Howard Zinn
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 764
Release: 2003-02-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780060528423

Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.

Exploring the World of Sports

Exploring the World of Sports
Author: Phyllis J. Perry
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1998-03-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313079714

Motivate students to read by using a topic they love-sports-and extend learning across the curriculum! Discussion starters, multidisciplinary activities, and topics for further research follow each reading suggestions. Perry describes subject-specific fiction and nonfiction materials that help students make the transition from fiction to expository text. There are also additional print and nonprint sources. Grades K-5.

Commission on Negro History and Culture

Commission on Negro History and Culture
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Special Subcommittee on Arts and Humanities
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1968
Genre: African Americans
ISBN:

Considers S. 2979, and similar H.R. 12962, to establish the Commission on Negro History and Culture.