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51 matches found, viewing page 2 of 3, goto page < 1 2 3 > next page Search Again| Girls: A History of Growing Up Female in America Colman, Penny 2000 191 p. Ages: 12-Adult ISBN: 0439222346 | 
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- A fascinating look at a seldom-studied topic. The book explores the roles of girls (and women) in Native American society, colonial communities, and up through modern times. Among the girls are pioneers, former slaves , mill workers, children of farmers, and immigrants who often speak for themselves through parts of letters, diary entries, and memories.
| Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales Hamilton, Virginia 1995 112 p. Ages: 7-12 ISBN: 0590473697 |
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- Virginia Hamilton, who previously won a Newbery Medal and a MacArthur Foundation, tells 17 stories, drawn from a variety of sources, of pugnacious and heroic female characters in a collection that demonstrates the breadth of African-American cultural tradition. Her Stories won the 1996 Coretta Scott King Award. The heroines are strong, competent, and sometimes bigger than life, like the "coal black and tree tall" Annie Christmas. The tales in Her Stories have been crafted to blend together smoothly while remaining true to their original tone.
The book is divided into five sections: (1) Her Animal Tales, (2) Her Fairy Tales, (3) Her Supernatural, (4) Her Folkways and Legends, and (5) Her True Tales. Each section contains an average of four stories, accompanied by informative and entertaining background historical data. (Adapted from Amazon reviews.)
| Hero Tales: A Family Treasury of True Stories from the Lives of Christian Heroes Dave and Neta Jackson 2001 Ages: 6-Adult ISBN: 1556617127 |
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- These volumes include a short biography and sketch of heroes/heroines, along with three different episodes from their lives (each two-three pages). After each episode there is a saying related to a value, a scripture, and some questions for you to think about together.
Fascinating glimpses into the lives of people who were taking their faith seriously.
Vol. 1: Gladys Aylward (missionary to China), William and Catherine Booth (Salvation Army founders), David Livingston, Martin Luther, Menno Simons, Mary Slessor (missionary to Calabar--southern Nigeria), William Tyndale, Harriet Tubman, and more.
Vol. 2: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Elizabeth Fry (Friend ministering in prisons), Festo Kivengere (Uganda), Eric Liddell, Watchman Nee (China), John Newton, John Perkins, Amanda Smith (African-American ministering in England, India, and the U.S.), Corrie ten Boom, David Zeisberger (minister among Native Americans), and more.
Vol. 3: Mary McLeod Bethune (African-American educator), William Bradford, George Washington Carver, Betty Greene (missionary pilot), Lottie Moon (China), Luis Palau (South America), St. Patrick, Rochunga Pudaite (India), Mother Teresa, and more.
Vol. 4: Ricky and Sherialyn Byrdsong, Ben Carson (African-American surgeon), Eliza Davis George (Liberia), C. S. Lewis, Samson Occom (Native American), Panditi Ramabai (India), Joy Ridderhof (Gospel Recordings), Romulo Saune (Peru), John and Betty Stam (China), and more.
| A History of Us Hakim, Joy 2002 10 Vol Set Ages: 9-Adult ISBN: 0195152603 |
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- "Illustrations from the period, dates, key historical figures and geographical development of the country are included. Hakim adds to American History studies by including materiathat illustrates daily life, social attitudes, contemporary concerns and dilemmas, political climate and trivia. Using sidebars Hakim raises questions to stimulate an analysis of how the facts presented relate to various aspects of history. ... A 1999 Parents' Choice Silver Honor Winner." (Eileen Kuhl,Parents' Choice)
| A History of Us: Sourcebook and Index : Documents That Shaped the American Nation Hakim, Joy 2002 Volume 11 Ages: 9-Adult ISBN: 0195127722 |
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- Sourcebook for A History of US.
| Home At Last Elya, Susan Middleton 2002 Ages: 4-9 |
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- This book is dedicated to students learning English as a second language and their teachers, and all immigrant mothers. Ana (8) and her mother, father, and infant twin brothers move to the U.S. from Mexico. This colorful story, accented with some simple Spanish sentences that are translated in the text, helps the reader "walk in the shoes" of new immigrants among us: in our neighborhoods, shops, and schools.
| How to Turn War into Peace: A Child's Guide to Conflict Resolution Armstrong, Louise 1979 30 p. Ages: 4-6 |
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- Uses pictures of children in conflict while playing on the beach to explain terms dealing with making war and peace.
| Indian School: Teaching White Man's Way Cooper, Michael C. 1999 102 p. Ages: 12-Adult ISBN: 0395920841 |
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- Starting in 1879 children were forced to leave their tribes the and become students at government schools for native Americans. Examines these schools and tells the student's stories. With photos.
| The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp Denenberg, Barry 1999 156 p. Ages: 12-Adult ISBN: 0590485318 |
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- Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of hisexperiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, CA, during WWII. (My Name Is America series)
| Journey Home Uchida, Yoshcko 1992 128 p. Ages: 9-12 ISBN: 0689716419 |
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- During WWII Yuki's family is forced to leave their home in California and enter the concentration camp, Topaz. What will happen then?
| The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka'iulani of Hawai'I Stanley, Fay Ill. Diane Stanley 1991 40 p. Ages: 4-8 ISBN: 0688180205 |
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- Expected to one day become queen, Princess Ka'iulani is sent to England to be educated, only to have foreigners threaten her family's right to rule. Her courageous plea to President Grover Cleveland postpones the end of Hawaii's independence, but the islands are annexed by the United States in 1897. The princess dies only 2 years later at the age of 23. American history as it is not often taught in schools. Includes wonderfully detailed and colorful illustrations.
| Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Got Wrong Loewen, James 2000 480 p. Ages: 14-Adult ISBN: 0684870673 |
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- In these entertaining pages, Loewen takes a region-by-region tour of the United States, pointing out historical oddments as he travels. For example, a massacre of white pioneers by Indians commemorated in Almo, Idaho, never took place, Loewen continues; neither did many other such events. Indeed, he insists, "throughout the entire West between 1842 and 1859, of more than 400,000 pioneers crossing the plains, fewer than 400, or less than .1 percent, were killed by American Indians." And if you were to visit Helen Keller's Georgia birthplace, over which a Confederate flag flies, you would get the impression that Keller had been an unreconstructed daughter of the Old South, whereas she was in fact an early supporter of the NAACP. And so on.
| Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Loewen, James 1996 384 p. Ages: 14-Adult ISBN: 0684818868 |
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- After surveying twelve leading high school American history texts, Loewen concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past. Loewen reveals that:
-The United States dropped three times as many tons of explosives in Vietman as it dropped in all theaters of World War II, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
-Ponce de Leon went to Florida mainly to capture Native Americans as slaves for Hispaniola, not to find the mythical fountain of youth.
-Woodrow Wilson, known as a progressive leader, was in fact a white supremacist who personally vetoed a clause on racial equality in the Covenant of the League of Nations .
-The first colony to legalize slavery was not Virginia but Massachusetts.
From the truth about Columbus's historic voyages to an honest evaluation of our national leaders, Loewen revives our history, restoring to it the vitality and relevance it truly possesses. Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship
| Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Doreen Rappaport 2001 32 p. Ages: 4-8 ISBN: 0786807148 |
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- Each two-page spread begins with a short paragraph about King, followed by a powerful sample of his own words. The text emphasizes his courage, commitment, and sacrifice, without sensationalizing his death in Memphis: "On his second day there, he was shot. He died." The book concludes with a reassuring reminder that his words are immortal. Readers are advised to use "Martin Luther King" as the search term to find more than 200 websites dedicated to King and the civil rights movement.
| Molly's Pilgrim Cohen, Barbara 1983 32 p. Ages: 6-9 ISBN: 0688162800 |
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- Told to make a doll like a pilgrim for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly's mother dresses the doll as she herself dressed before leaving Russia for religious freedom--embarrassing Molly.
| Music, Music for Everyone Williams, Vera 1985 32 p. Ages: 5-8 ISBN: 0688078117 |
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- Four children from differing ethnic backgrounds find a way to contribute to a neighborhood celebration. Also available in Spanish.
| Peace Scholars: Learning through Literature. Grade 3 Peace Education Foundation Ages: 18-Adult |
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- Uses engaging children’s literature to teach peacemaking skills such as social skills, multicultural respect, and win/win solutions. Titles used include: A Bargain for Frances, Big Al, The Butter Battle Book, A Chair for My Mother, Everybody Cooks Rice, Horton Hears a Who, Knots on a Counting Rope, Loudmouth George and the Sixth Grade Bully, Trees of Cranes... and Teaching Peace cassette.
| Peace Treaty Moore, Ruth Nolton 1976 153 p. Ages: 9-12 |
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- A young Moravian boy, captured by native Americans near Fort Duquesne, realizes he can use his faith to promote peace.
| A People's History of the United States: 1492-present Zinn, Howard 2003 752 p. Ages: 14-Adult ISBN: 0060528370 |
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- This revised and updated edition turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American Indians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency. Addressing his trademark reversals of perspective, Zinn--a teacher, historian, and social activist for more than 20 years--explains, "My point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn Columbus in absentia. It is too late for that; it would be a useless scholarly exercise in morality. But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiroshima and Vietnam, to save Western civilization; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save socialism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all)--that is still with us. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth."
| A Place at the Table Ages: 18-Adult | 
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- "A Place at the Table" tells the story of our nation's struggle to ensure liberty and justice for all. One element sets the video apart from most historical documentaries: It is narrated entirely by young people. The book component explores this history in greater depth, while the teachers' guide provides 13 detailed lesson plans for use in the middle and upper grades. The kit includes the video, the 144-page text, and a teacher’s guide.
Curriculum Kits available free at: www.tolerance.org/teach/expand/res/index.jsp
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