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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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James W Loewen
Why do so many Americans have little grasp of the ideas that shaped their nation? In this groundbreaking book, Loewen not only exposes the villain--textbooks that are embarrassing combinations of blind patriotism and outright lies--but reinstates suppressed information in a fascinating chronology. 26 photos.
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Students Guide to History
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Jules R Benjamin
"A Student's Guide to History" provides the practical help students need to be effective in their history courses. In addition to introducing students to the nature of the discipline, the guide covers a broad range of skills, from note-taking and test-taking to approaching different types of writing assignments. The book's accessible page design, ...
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A study of history
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Arnold Joseph Toynbee
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Ancient Times: From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor
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Susan Wise Bauer, Jim Weiss (Read by)
This engaging, read-aloud guide to other lands weaves world history into a storybook format. 40 illustrations.
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Modern Researcher
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Jacques Barzun
This classic introduction to the techniques of research and the art of expression is used widely in history courses, but is also appropriate for writing and research methods courses in other departments. Barzun and Graff thoroughly cover every aspect of research, from the selection of a topic through the gathering, analysis, writing, revision, and ...
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Cracking the AP European History Exam
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Kenneth Pearl
This book includes two full-length simulated AP European History tests, as well as practice questions in the review chapters. Every answer is fully explained.
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The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of Modern History
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Professor John Tosh
A revised edition of this best-selling and widely-adopted introduction to the practice of history. Featuring a new introductory preface by John Tosh, which covers developments in the last decade, the book continues to provide the best possible introduction to the practice of history. Clearly structured throughout to lead the student progressively ...
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In Defense of History
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Richard J Evans
A master practitioner gives readers an entertaining and instructive tour of the historian's workshop and, along the way, a spirited defense of the search for historical truth.
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The idea of history
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R. G. Collingwood
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Cracking the AP World History Exam
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Monty Armstrong, David Daniel, Abby Kanarek
Completely updated for the 2008 Advanced Placement tests, these books include two full-length practice AP tests, with practice questions just like those found on the actual exams, and full explanations on how to answer every question.
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The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present
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Fritz Richard Stern (Editor)
This is a book by historians about history, personal reflections on an ancient but ever varying discipline. As the present work will show, modern historians have written in a variety of genres, but the multiplicity of style cannot obscure the two basic tendencies which have affected all modern historians: the transformation of history into an ...
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Historical Thinking
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Samuel S Wineburg
Whether he is comparing how students and historians interpret documentary evidence or analyzing children's drawings, Wineburg's essays offer rough maps of how ordinary people think about the past and use it to understand the present. These essays acknowledge the role of collective memory in filtering what we learn in school and shaping our ...
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Five Steps to a 5: AP World History
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Peggy J Martin
For the more than one million students taking the AP exams each year Features include: Boxed quotes offering advice from students who have aced the exams and from AP teachers and college professors Sample tests that closely simulate real exams Review material based on the contents of the most recent tests Icons highlighting important facts, ...
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5 Steps to a 5 AP U.S. History
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Stephen Armstrong, Edward McBride
This revised edition of "5 Steps to a 5: AP U.S. History" is fully updated with chapters on George W. Bush's first term and the 2004 election. It also includes new sections on the Clinton era, international relations, and U.S. foreign policy.
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The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
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Marc Bloch
Reflection on the nature and uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of those who write it.
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The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide
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Conal Furay
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History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History
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Dana Lindaman, Kyle Ward
By juxtaposing starkly contrasting versions of the historical events people take for granted, "History Lessons" affords readers a sometimes hilarious, often sobering look at what the world learns about America's past.
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History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past
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Gary B Nash, Charlotte A Crabtree, Ross E Dunn
An examination of the current "culture wars" being waged on campuses and in schools throughout the United States. Nash, Crabtree, and Dun--all of them academics--were asked by the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop national standards for the study of history in high schools. When they published their study in 1994, however, it ...
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Cracking the AP World History Exam
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Princeton Review
Providing students with insight into taking the AP World History Exam by reviewing the subject matter, this guide also includes practice questions and answers.
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How to study history
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Norman F Cantor
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Preface to History
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Carl G Gustavson
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The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893
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Norman Bolotin, Christine Laing
A dazzling photographic history of the fair.
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The History Handbook
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Carol Berkin, Betty S Anderson
This affordable book teaches students both basic and history-specific study skills such as how to read primary sources, research historical topics, and correctly cite sources. The handbook also explores the use of technology in history courses, giving tips on how to conduct Internet research, evaluate the credibility of online materials, and ...
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On the Teaching and Writing of History: Responses to a Series of Questions
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Bernard Bailyn, Edward C Lathem (Editor)
Bailyn, a professor at Harvard and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, writes of the impossibility of teaching history without bias, and that history itself is constantly open to new interpretations and viewpoints.
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The Death of Christian Culture
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John Senior
First published in 1978, this hard-hitting exposition discusses the root causes of how and why Christian culture is dying. It investigates literature, culture, history, and religion in an attempt to show that education is increasingly about bureaucratic training and less about scholarly truth. A warning that cultural and artistic treasures of ...
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