Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Book Recommendations

A People's History of the United States is a 1980 non-fiction book by late American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn. In the book, Zinn seeks to present American history through the eyes of the common people rather than political and economic elites. A People's History has become a major success and was a runner-up in 1980 for the National Book Award.
 


A Graphic Adaptation

Jonathan Hennessey; Art by Aaron McConnell
 


A People's History of American Empire is a 2008 graphic history by Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, and Paul Buhle. The book combines material from Zinn's history book A People's History of the United States and his autobiography You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train with new material from other sources, most notably George Lipsitz's A Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s and Jim Zwick's Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire: Anti-Imperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War.[1] Various historic subjects are covered as well as Zinn's own history of involvement in activism and historic events. The book was the last of Zinn's books that was published within his lifetime.
 

Monday, September 19, 2011

Imagine Columbus' Perspective...

Imagine being out at sea for two months, you have borrowed a lot of money and supplies to make this voyage, your crew is starting to turn on you, and your not entirely sure that you won't fall off the end of the Earth.  Then... you finally see land... how would you feel?





Sunday, September 18, 2011

European Exploration and Settlement


Chapter 2
OBJECTIVES
     Student will... 
          • identify the motives behind the European exploration of the Americas. 
          • describe the differences between Spanish, French, English, and Dutch
            settlements in the Americas. 
          • explain how European exploration and settlement of the Americas
            affected indigenous peoples and West Africans.

Happy Constitution Day