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Searching for the American dream : how a sense of place shapes the study of history.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of contents; introduction; part i; chapter one; chapter two; chapter three; part ii; jim cullen and the american dream; a journey from home; alec ross and the state department; there is too much passivity in our modern lives; felicity ross and teach for america; the world as your classroom; kristina stevick and cry innocent; history as ensemble-made theatre; miriam bader and the tenement museum; place-based education at the tenement museum; michelle leblanc and the old south meeting house; making history personal; joan schaffner and animal law.
- Americans working on behalf of the underdogsallie phillips and king street cats; australia meets and embraces american animal protection; stephen cunniff and the new england center for homeless veterans; a workshop in homelessness; tahir duckett and organized labor; giving life to the words in textbooks; alice peisch, alli o'leary and the massachusetts state house; the importance of staying connected, or why too much time in the state house office may lead to defeat at the polls; it is a pleasure to go to work each day; cassandra atherton, kat ellinghaus and the university.
- 'All the world's a stage'getting there; jen barton, jessica mccrum, vanessa condemi and the student experience; from uwa to cambridge; a student's perspective; we did it as a group; contributors; bibliography.