Mississippi: Conflict & Change
Title | Mississippi: Conflict & Change PDF eBook |
Author | James W. Loewen |
Publisher | Pantheon |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1974-01-01 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 9780394709291 |
SUMMARY: A textbook which traces the history of Mississippi from prehistoric times until today, covering all areas of social life and concentrating on recent developments, especially the civil rights struggle and the search for social justice.
Mississippi: Conflict & Change
Title | Mississippi: Conflict & Change PDF eBook |
Author | James W. Loewen |
Publisher | Pantheon |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
A textbook which traces the history of Mississippi from prehistoric times until today, covering all areas of social life and concentrating on recent developments, especially the civil rights struggle and the search for social justice.
Civil Rights, Culture Wars
Title | Civil Rights, Culture Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Charles W. Eagles |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2017-02-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469631164 |
Just as Mississippi whites in the 1950s and 1960s had fought to maintain school segregation, they battled in the 1970s to control the school curriculum. Educators faced a crucial choice between continuing to teach a white supremacist view of history or offering students a more enlightened multiracial view of their state's past. In 1974, when Random House's Pantheon Books published Mississippi: Conflict and Change (written and edited by James W. Loewen and Charles Sallis), the defenders of the traditional interpretation struck back at the innovative textbook. Intolerant of its inclusion of African Americans, Native Americans, women, workers, and subjects like poverty, white terrorism, and corruption, the state textbook commission rejected the book, and its action prompted Loewen and Sallis to join others in a federal lawsuit (Loewen v. Turnipseed) challenging the book ban. Charles W. Eagles explores the story of the controversial ninth-grade history textbook and the court case that allowed its adoption with state funds. Mississippi: Conflict and Change and the struggle for its acceptance deepen our understanding both of civil rights activism in the movement's last days and of an early controversy in the culture wars that persist today.
Mississippi
Title | Mississippi PDF eBook |
Author | James W. Loewen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Mississippi |
ISBN |
Teaching What Really Happened
Title | Teaching What Really Happened PDF eBook |
Author | James W. Loewen |
Publisher | Teachers College Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2018-09-07 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0807759481 |
“Should be in the hands of every history teacher in the country.”— Howard Zinn James Loewen has revised Teaching What Really Happened, the bestselling, go-to resource for social studies and history teachers wishing to break away from standard textbook retellings of the past. In addition to updating the scholarship and anecdotes throughout, the second edition features a timely new chapter entitled "Truth" that addresses how traditional and social media can distort current events and the historical record. Helping students understand what really happened in the past will empower them to use history as a tool to argue for better policies in the present. Our society needs engaged citizens now more than ever, and this book offers teachers concrete ideas for getting students excited about history while also teaching them to read critically. It will specifically help teachers and students tackle important content areas, including Eurocentrism, the American Indian experience, and slavery. Book Features: An up-to-date assessment of the potential and pitfalls of U.S. and world history education. Information to help teachers expect, and get, good performance from students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Strategies for incorporating project-oriented self-learning, having students conduct online historical research, and teaching historiography. Ideas from teachers across the country who are empowering students by teaching what really happened. Specific chapters dedicated to five content topics usually taught poorly in today’s schools.
Mississippi
Title | Mississippi PDF eBook |
Author | James W. Loewen |
Publisher | Random House Incorporated |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1982-02-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780394710082 |
A chronicle of Mississippi history that addresses the problems and issues that have plagued the state.
The Battle of Carthage, Missouri
Title | The Battle of Carthage, Missouri PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth E. Burchett |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2012-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 078649283X |
The Battle of Carthage, Missouri, was the first full-scale land battle of the Civil War. Governor Claiborne Jackson's rebel Missouri State Guard made its way toward southwest Missouri near where Confederate volunteers collected in Arkansas, while Colonel Franz Sigel's Union force occupied Springfield with orders to intercept and block the rebels from reaching the Confederates. The two armies collided near Carthage on July 5, 1861. The battle lasted for ten hours, spread over several miles, and included six separate engagements before the Union army withdrew under the cover of darkness. The New York Times called it "the first serious conflict between the United States troops and the rebels." This book describes the events leading up to the battle, the battle itself, and the aftermath.