Product Description: Intended for high school and undergraduate students, this work provides an engaging overview of the abolitionist movement that allows readers to consider history more directly through more than 20 primary source documents.• Includes a concise introduction that summarizes the critical points in the history of slavery and abolition• Provides carefully selected key documents that represent the full range of American thoughts on slavery• Supplies useful annotations that guide the reader's analysis and shows how historians deconstruct documents• Presents information and materials that help readers to understand the forces that supported and opposed slavery, thereby giving students a better grasp of American history in genera...read more

Product Description: Abraham Geiger ist vor allem als Reformrabbiner und damit als zentrale impulsgebende Persönlichkeit der jüdischen Reformbewegung des 19. Jahrhunderts bekannt. Er gehört aber auch zu den Gründungsgestalten der Wissenschaft des Judentums...read more

Product Description: Following the 1870 Forster Elementary Education Act, Albert Road Board School in Leicestershire opened on September 2, 1878 with an average role of 500 children. Drawn from the first-hand accounts of the headmasters in the school log books, this book details the diseases and ailments suffered; the struggle of local families to feed and clothe their children, especially during difficult times of strike and war; the introduction of vaccinations and the school health inspector; the arrival of the telephone and electric lighting; and comments about the curriculum, staff, and leisure activities...read more

Product Description: Unabridged Edition to Include: The Horse of Wood - The Sack of Troy - Aeneas and Anchises - Of The Voyage of Aeneas - The Shipwreck - Carthage - Dido - The Funeral Games of Anchises - The Burning of the Ships - The Coming to Italy - In Italy - The Plots of Juno - The Gathering of the Chiefs - King Evander - The Arms of Aeneas - Nisus and Euryalus - The Battle at the Camp - The Battle on the Shore - The Council - The Deeds and Death of Camilla - The Broken Treaty - The Death of Turnus - Afterward...read more

Product Description: Community projects often falter after the interviews are completed. This final book of the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit explains the importance of processing and archiving oral histories and takes the reader through all the steps required for good archiving and for concluding the oral history project so that it is preserved and accessible for future generations...read more

Product Description: Die zwölf Aufsätze dieses Bandes gehen in der Gelehrtenforschung methodologisch neue Wege: Generationelle und migrationelle Ansätze, die Geographie des Wissens («Knowledge and Space») und vor allem die Kategorien des französischen Soziologen Pierre Bourdieu wie Habitus, Lebensstil und Machtkapital haben die Autoren dazu inspiriert, Professoren und Universitäten des 19...read more

Product Description: As the world becomes smaller and air travel more commonplace, do we always remember those amazing people whose bravery and vision has made it possible for us to travel around to the far ends of the earth? In this unique collection of inspirational stories from Amazing People Worldwide, take a fascinating flight through the lives of some of the world's most celebrated aviators! From the great dreams of Joseph Montgolfier, inventor of the hot-air balloon, to the incredible innovations of the Wright Brothers, whose work on bicycles inspired them to invent a system of controlling aircraft; the principle of which is still used today...read more

Product Description: This expansive, multivolume reference work provides a broad, multidisciplinary examination of the Civil War period ranging from pre-Civil War developments and catalysts such as the Mexican-American War to the rebuilding of the war-torn nation during Reconstruction.

Product Description: 2016 revised edition. Barron's, 5-Steps and the others are great resources for reviewing at the end of the year, but Tamm's Textbook Tools workbooks accompany students all year long. They are filled with assignments that follow the Bentley text throughout the year, all 38 chapters...read more

Product Description: Central America before the Spanish Conquest has often been considered by North American archaeologists as a “backwater” of peripheral importance located between the advanced ancient civilizations of South America and Mesoamerica (Mexican–Maya country)...read more

Product Description: Learn About The Wives And Families Of The First American Astronauts In A Fraction Of The Time It Takes To Read The Actual Book!!! Today only, get this 1# Amazon bestseller for just $2.99. Regularly priced at $9.99. Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device It is clear that the main objective of this book was to explain what it was like for the astronaut’s wives and their families...read more

Product Description: Marcus Beyer befasst sich mit dem Institut für Internationale Beziehungen der DDR (IIB) und der Frage nach dessen Aufgaben im Herrschaftsapparat der SED. Das IIB präsentierte sich als eine die außenpolitische Praxis beratende Forschungseinrichtung, de facto bestand seine Hauptaufgabe in der Absicherung der ideologischen Deutungsmacht der Parteiführung...read more

Product Description: Please explain why you think about and write history as you do? Collecting together the responses to this question from 15 of the world’s foremost historians and theorists, Authoring the Past represents a powerful reflection on and intervention in the historiographical field...read more

Product Description: At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States was faced with a new and radically mixed population, one that included freed African Americans, former reservation Indians, and a burgeoning immigrant population.  In The Autobiography of Citizenship, Tova Cooper looks at how educators tried to impose unity on this divergent population, and how the new citizens in turn often resisted these efforts, reshaping mainstream U...read more