Reacting to the past is an award-winning series of immersive role-playing games that actively engage students in their own learning. Students assume the roles of historical characters and practice critical thinking, and argument, primary source analysis, both written and spoken. A new way to learn history―by living it a norton original in the reacting to the Past series, Red Clay, 1835: Cherokee Removal and the Meaning of Sovereignty envelops students in the treaty negotiations between the Cherokee National Council and representatives of the United States at Red Clay, Tennessee.
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The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears The Penguin Library of American Indian History
. This journey of exile became known as the Trail of Tears. In its trauma and tragedy, the cherokee diaspora has come to represent the irreparable injustice done to Native Americans in the name of nation building?and in their determined survival, it represents the resilience of the Native American spirit.
In the early nineteenth century, the U. S.
Frederick Douglass, Slavery, and the Constitution, 1845 Reacting to the Past
Students assume the roles of historical characters to practice critical thinking, primary source analysis, and both written and spoken argument. Reacting to the past is an award-winning series of immersive role-playing games that actively engage students in their own learning. Calhoun’s view of slavery as a “positive good.
Finally, and the central question: are americans more beholden to the Constitution, its original protections of the slaveholders’ power, players address the US Constitution, or to some “higher law”? .
Kentucky, 1861: Loyalty, State, and Nation First Edition Reacting to the Past
Students assume the roles of historical characters and practice critical thinking, and argument, primary source analysis, both written and spoken. Reacting games are flexible enough to be used across the curriculum, from first-year general education classes and discussion sections of lecture classes to capstone experiences and honors programs.
A new way to learn history―by living it a norton original in the Reacting to the Past series, State, 1861: Loyalty, Kentucky, and Nation pulls students into the secession crisis following Lincoln’s 1860 election.
The Constitutional Convention of 1787: Constructing the American Republic First Edition Reacting to the Past
. A new way to learn history―by living it a norton original in the Reacting to the Past series, The Constitutional Convention of 1787: Constructing the American Republic brings to life the debates that most profoundly shaped American government. As representatives to the Convention, students must investigate the ideological arguments behind possible structures for a new government and create a new constitution.
Reacting to the past is an award-winning series of immersive role-playing games that actively engage students in their own learning.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask
What is the real story of thanksgiving?—why are tribal languages important?—What do you think of that incident where people died in a sweat lodge?White/Indian relations are often characterized by guilt and anger. I had a profoundly well-educated princetonian ask me, 'Where is your tomahawk?' I had a beautiful woman approach me in the college gymnasium and exclaim, 'You have the most beautiful red skin.
I took a friend to see Dances with Wolves and was told, 'Your people have a beautiful culture. '.
Global Politics: A New Introduction
The book engages directly with the issues in global politics that students are most interested in, helping them to understand the key questions and theories and also to develop a critical and inquiring perspective. The third edition of global politics: A New Introduction continues to provide a completely original way of teaching and learning about world politics.
Global politics: examines the most significant issues in global politics – from war, security, terrorism, ethnicity and what we can do to change the world; offers chapters written to a common structure, general responses and broader issues; integrates theory and practice throughout the text, gender, an illustrative example, postcolonialism, which is ideal for teaching and learning, nationalism and authority to poverty, inequality, peacebuilding, violence, development, human rights, and features a key question, by presenting theoretical ideas and concepts in conjunction with a global range of historical and contemporary case studies.
. Completely revised and updated throughout, populism, including the Syrian war and the refugee crisis, the third edition offers up-to-date examples engaging with the latest developments in global politics, citizen journalism, racism and Black Lives Matter, fossil fuel divestment, and drone warfare.
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature translated from the French
She turns her into what she calls "a sort of female hero, like the legendary ‘Nanny of the maroons, schooled in the sorcery and magical ritual of obeah, an epic heroine, ’" who, is arrested for healing members of the family that owns her. Caraf books:caribbean and african literature Translated from FrenchThis book has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agencY.
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God is Red: A Native View of Religion, 30th Anniversary Edition
Fulcrum Group. Used book in Good Condition. First published in 1972, Vine Deloria Jr. S god is red remains the seminal work on Native religious views, asking new questions about our species and our ultimate fate.
The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation
Oxford university Press USA. The version of the american dream that dominates our own time--what Cullen calls "the Dream of the Coast"--is one of personal fulfillment, of fame and fortune all the more alluring if achieved without obvious effort, which finds its most insidious expression in the culture of Hollywood.
Used book in Good Condition. The american dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, its history, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, or what it actually means. Fulcrum Group. At the core of these ideals lies the ambiguous concept of the American Dream, class, a concept that for better and worse has proven to be amazingly elastic and durable for hundreds of years and across racial, and other demographic lines.
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A Short History of the United States: From the Arrival of Native American Tribes to the Obama Presidency
Reminithis accessible and lively volume contains the essential facts about the discovery, growth, settlement, and development of the American nation. A much-needed, concise history of the United States of America by National Book Award winner Robert V. Beginning with the earliest travelers to landing the americas, A SHORT HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES is a kind of highlight reel of U.
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