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Series
Publisher
Schlager Group Inc
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The four-volume set covers more than 130 iconic primary source documents from the Revolutionary era to the present day. Each entry offers the full text of the document in question as well as an in-depth, analytical essay that places the document in its historical context. Among the documents included in the set are Revolutionary era standards such as Patrick Henry's "Liberty or Death" speech, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution....
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A new nation needs a written plan of government. When the United States declared its independence from Britain, it needed a new government. Its first plan created a weak national government that did not work well. So, Americans wrote a second plan, the U.S. Constitution. This new plan worked, and it has become a model for governments around the world. Find out what the U.S. Constitution says and what it means for our lives.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period, this encyclopedia traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Brown ruling that overturned Plessy , the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African-American culture on the American cultural landscape. --publisher...