“The Sixties” Terry H. Anderson, born December 8, 1946, is a professor of Texas A&M University on recent United States history, veteran of the Vietnam War and author of the book “The Sixties” which focuses on that period, more specifically on the civil right movements. Anderson reminds the readers that the 60s was much more important than what we realize. The 60s are not just a style, overused slogans, or a theme in high school spirits day. He reminds everyone the importance of the civil right movements and what was gained during those times. With a strong background in history, Anderson narrates the sixties from one movement to another, building up the excitement of each to another giving the reader a very realistic idea of that time and analyses people’s ideas from that.
The War of 1812: An Essential History by Carl Benn Osprey Publishing, 2002, 122 pages, $35 The average American male has a firm although possibly rudimentary grasp on several of the more prominent wars of our nation’s history, their causes, their important events and their resolution. Most of them can site important dates and events such as D-Day or Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River. Few however can tell me you much about the build up, events during, and resolution of the War of 1812. Dr. Carl Benn curator of the Museum of the City of Toronto and professor and the cities university is author of several books on several different facets of the conflict hopes to remedy this lack of understanding and knowledge problem with his latest work. With this mission keenly in the forefront of his mind he artfully uses The War of 1812 as both a concise form of entertainment and a vessel for true understanding of the significance of this conflict.
Pp. vi, 181. Cloth, $11.95; paper, $6.95.) In a deep understanding and interesting about the Constitution and the judicial branch of the United States, Francis N, Stites studied about the famous Chief Justice John Marshall and his career within the encourage of his scholars, colleagues, and his lovely family. John Marshall was too famous to Americans, especially to anyone who has known about the golden age of Marshall Court.
It was a massive undertaking but well worth the time and effort for the future of the states and for the knowledge that was able to be given to the world. Ambrose did a fantastic job of explaining what seemed to be every detail of available information in order to create this masterpiece. Ambrose put his all into every page to try to make it flow and be as exciting as he could make it. Even though there were a few pages I would completely stop paying attention too as I read over the page, there were others parts that really grabbed my attention. This book was required to be read and reviewed, and I only finished the first 200 pages, since I’m a huge procrastinator (shocking I know) but I do plan on finishing this book.
1776 David McCullough 1776 by David McCullough is a historical book written about a conflict between two nations which is Great Britain and America colonies in 1776. There are numerous people in the world reading this material source to understand American history. In this review, I would like to express my personal opinions about the book 1776 as well as David McCullough. 1776 is considered as a historical drama which begins with King George III’s declaration to war with America and conversely ends with the great victory of America in Trenton. George III, King of England, stressed very clear his commitment to defeat the rebellion through his speech toward Parliament in London on October 26, 1775.
It was a great speech because of all the writing techniques that he used and ethos, pathos, and logos, used in the speech. This speech does not only bring us emotion, but authority and reasoning also it brings us face-to-face with the problems that our country had. This speech woke many people and urged them to change their ways. Of course, the problem continued and really still has not been solved completely, but we seem to have taken a big step since the last “March on Washington”. Martin Luther King is watching to see if we succeed his
It is a historically accurate novel which is the kind of books I enjoy most. I was a little hesitant on reading The Battle of Britain because I have not studied the air force excessively, however I learned very much about the air force furthermore The Battle of Britain. Richard Overy successfully delivered his message to the reader with real life scenarios to entertain the reader, historical accurate dates along with historical accurate information, by applying his knowledge with his writing skills Richard cleverly put together admirable sentences/paragraphs to educate the
Adam Borjon Professor K. Mitchell English 256 June 1, 2009 Interpretation of a View From the Inside Luis Rodriguez is a very powerful author, his words and books can capture so much in very little time. As a reader, one can experience many different feelings through out the course of his books. These emotions are transferred from his personal experiences, then into his books, then placed into the readers mind in a very creative fashion. Luis Rodriguez is able to maintain this creative appeal with his ability to cross poetry and first hand accounts into a descriptive flowing piece of words. As a reader, it is hard to lose interest because of his ability to entrance the reader into his thoughts.
Growing up in a time that was predominately print rather than computer, Carr is quick to favor print reading. While he provides ample support for his argument, I don’t necessarily stand beside him, solely because I was raised in a different time then him. This, of course, meant we were raised with different experiences. While he was learning to read books in print in his time, I was learning to read both books and Internet sources in mine. I don’t, however, dispute his argument; in fact I agree with some of things he says.
History textbooks—including world history textbooks—are full of developments in the past, and in this sense they clearly catalog change. But they rarely step back to analyze change, creating a sense that history involves one thing after another in fairly pell-mell fashion. Even scholarly monographs, dealing with change, sometimes become so engrossed in narrative story lines that the actual evaluations of change do not stand out. Then there is the teaser approach (common, I think, particularly in treatments of the early modern period): here's a past pattern, richly detailed, but in conclusion a "by the way, this situation would change greatly later on"—yet no explicit treatment of the actual process of change. Here again is a series of invitations to use the classroom to model the assessment of change, applying materials from the historians' treatments but adding some definite highlights.