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Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience
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Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience gives instructors, students, and general readers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of African Americans’ cultural and political history, economic development, artistic expressiveness, and religious and philosophical worldviews in a critical framework. It offers sound interdisciplinary analysis of selected historical and contemporary issues surrounding the origins and manifestations of White supremacy in the United States. By placing race at the center of the work, the book offers significant lessons for understanding the institutional marginalization of Blacks in contemporary America and their historical resistance and perseverance.

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History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Eastern Kentucky University
Author:
Gwendolyn Graham
Joshua Farrington
Norman W. Powell
Date Added:
09/22/2020
U.S. History
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 U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.Senior Contributing AuthorsP. Scott Corbett, Ventura CollegeVolker Janssen, California State University, FullertonJohn M. Lund, Keene State CollegeTodd Pfannestiel, Clarion UniversityPaul Vickery, Oral Roberts UniversitySylvie Waskiewicz

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U.S. History
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
Rice University
Provider Set:
OpenStax College
Date Added:
02/27/2020
U.S. History, Preface, Preface
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U.S. History is designed for a two-semester American history sequence. It is traditional in coverage, following a roughly chronological outline, and using a balanced approach that includes political, economic, social, and cultural developments. At the same time, the book includes a number of innovative and interactive features designed to enhance student learning. Instructors can also customize the book, adapting it to the approach that works best in their classroom.

Subject:
Social Science
Material Type:
Module
Date Added:
02/27/2020
U.S. History, Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763, An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution
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By the end of this section, you will be able to:Analyze the role slavery played in the history and economy of the British EmpireExplain the effects of the 1739 Stono Rebellion and the 1741 New York Conspiracy TrialsDescribe the consumer revolution and its effect on the life of the colonial gentry and other settlers

Subject:
Social Science
Material Type:
Module
Date Added:
02/27/2020