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9780028232188: The American Journey
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ISBN 10: 0028232186 ISBN 13: 9780028232188
Editorial: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1997

Sinopsis

The American Journey is a superb, readable presentation of American history, from pre-exploration to the present. Its unparalleled author team, including the National Geographic Society, ensures accuracy in every detail of the narrative, maps, and charts.FeaturesAccessible Reading and Reading Strategies Are a Priority Exclusive! Foldablesstudent-made three-dimensional graphic organizersare a unique strategy that helps students read effectively and also can be used as assessment or study tools. A Guide to Reading, Reading Checks, and a Summary in every chapter keep students on track as they learn to read for information and process what theyve read. The extensive use of graphics, maps, and photography creates a visual/verbal approach that appeals to all your students.Relevance is Part of Every Lesson TIME Notebooks allow students to step into the past, learning about everyday life in various periods and the hot topics of different eras. What Life Was Like and Hands-On History fully engage students in learning and give them an understanding of parallels between earlier generations and their own.National Geographic Brings its Unequalled Expertise to Every Page Brand-new, colorful, easy-to-read maps help students understand the where and why of history. Geography and History features show students how geography and events intertwine to create the history of a location or nation.Continual Practice in Social Studies Skills The program emphasizes skill developmentfrom reading maps to analyzing primary and secondary sources to exploring the connections between history and geography, economics, government, citizenship, and current events.Abundant Opportunities for Students to Demonstrate Proficiency The Princeton Review Standardized Test Practice provides systematic, ongoing test preparation. As your students learn, they are simultaneously preparing to demonstrate their knowledge of American history in standardized test formats.

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The American Journey is a superb, readable presentation of American history, from pre-exploration to the present. Its unparalleled author team, including the National Geographic Society, ensures accuracy in every detail of the narrative, maps, and charts.FeaturesAccessible Reading and Reading Strategies Are a Priority Exclusive! Foldablesstudent-made three-dimensional graphic organizersare a unique strategy that helps students read effectively and also can be used as assessment or study tools. A Guide to Reading, Reading Checks, and a Summary in every chapter keep students on track as they learn to read for information and process what theyve read. The extensive use of graphics, maps, and photography creates a visual/verbal approach that appeals to all your students.Relevance is Part of Every Lesson TIME Notebooks allow students to step into the past, learning about everyday life in various periods and the hot topics of different eras. What Life Was Like and Hands-On History fully engage students in learning and give them an understanding of parallels between earlier generations and their own.National Geographic Brings its Unequalled Expertise to Every Page Brand-new, colorful, easy-to-read maps help students understand the where and why of history. Geography and History features show students how geography and events intertwine to create the history of a location or nation.Continual Practice in Social Studies Skills The program emphasizes skill developmentfrom reading maps to analyzing primary and secondary sources to exploring the connections between history and geography, economics, government, citizenship, and current events.Abundant Opportunities for Students to Demonstrate Proficiency The Princeton Review Standardized Test Practice provides systematic, ongoing test preparation. As your students learn, they are simultaneously preparing to demonstrate their knowledge of American history in standardized test formats.

Biografía del autor

Joyce Appleby is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England which was awarded the 1979 Berkshire book prize.

In addition to being a best selling textbook author, ALAN BRINKLEY is the Allan Nevins Professor of History and former Provost at Columbia University. He is the author of Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the 1983 National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War; and Liberalism and its Discontents. His most recent books are "John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963" and "The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century" both published recently. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard and taught previously at MIT, Harvard, and the City University Graduate School before joining the Columbia faculty In 1991. In 1998-1999, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He won the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Award at Harvard in 1987 and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia in 2003. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the board of trustees of the National Humanities Center and Oxford University Press, and chairman of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of Torino (Italy). He was the 1998-1999 Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

James M. McPherson is a distinguished Civil War historian. He won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for his book BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM: THE CIVIL WAR ERA. His other publications include MARCHING TOWARD FREEDOM: BLACKS IN THE CIVIL WAR, Second Edition (1991); ORDEAL BY FIRE: THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION, Third Edition (2001); ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION (1991); FOR CAUSE AND COMRADES: WHY MEN FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR (1997), which won the Lincoln Prize in 1998; CROSSROADS OF FREEDOM: ANTIETAM (2002); HALLOWED GROUND: A WALK AT GETTYSBURG (2003); and TRIED BY WAR: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF (2008), which won the Lincoln Prize for 2009. Professor McPherson served as president of the American Historical Association (2003-2004).

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Editorial
McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
Año de publicación
1997
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ISBN 10 
0028232186
ISBN 13 
9780028232188
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Número de páginas
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