The American Promise: A Concise History, Combined Volume

The American Promise: A Concise History, Combined Volume
Author: James L. Roark
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 1090
Release: 2013-10-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1457657910

The American Promise: A Concise History is a brief, inexpensive narrative with a clear political, chronological narrative that makes teaching and learning American history a snap. Streamlined by the authors themselves to create a truly concise book, the fifth edition is nearly 15 percent shorter than the fourth compact edition, yet it includes more primary sources than ever—including a new visual sources feature. It is also enhanced by LearningCurve, our easy-to-assign adaptive learning system that will ensure students come to class prepared.

The American Promise, Volume 1

The American Promise, Volume 1
Author: James L. Roark
Publisher: Bedford Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-06-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781319292782

The American Promise has long been a course favorite. Students value The American Promise for its readability, clear chronology, and lively voices of ordinary Americans, while instructors rely upon the rich content, the many documents and features, and the overall support for teaching their class their way. The American Promise provides superior formats for every use--the print book allows for a seamless reading experience while LaunchPad provides the right space for active learning assignments and dynamic course management tools that measure and analyze student progress. LaunchPad comes with a wealth of primary sources and special critical thinking activities to help students progress toward achieving learning outcomes; LearningCurve, the adaptive learning tool that students love to use to test their understanding of the text and instructors love to assign to prepare students for class; and a suite of instructor resources from videos to test banks that make teaching simpler and more effective.

Warfare in the American Homeland

Warfare in the American Homeland
Author: Joy James
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2007-07-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780822339236

DIVA collection of writings by prisoners and scholars that documents the extension of the violence and the repression of the prison establishment into the larger society. /div

Freedom Dreams

Freedom Dreams
Author: Robin D.G. Kelley
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2002-06-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807009784

Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of Surrealism, the transformative potential of radical feminism, and of the four-hundred-year-old dream of reparations for slavery and Jim Crow. From'the preeminent historian of black popular culture' (Cornel West), an inspiring work on the power of imagination to transform society.

Captivity & Sentiment

Captivity & Sentiment
Author: Michelle Burnham
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1584650168

Examines how traditional dichotomies give way to emergent cultural forms in the literature of captivity.