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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America, Meacham shows us how what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature have won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, and others, and illuminating the courage of such influential citizen activists...
Publisher
[Pueblo City-County Library District]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Students in grades 4-12 were invited to participate, with this directive: Forty-one Medal of Honor recipients came to Pueblo last year for their annual convention. If you took part in this convention in any way or attended an event with a Medal of Honor recipient, what impact did that experience have on you? Or if you did not participate, what does it mean to you to live in Pueblo, the Home of Heroes?
Publisher
[Pueblo City-County Library District]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Students in grades 4-12 were invited to participate. This year's essay should answer the question: "What does it mean to you to pledge allegiance to the U.S. flag?" Pueblo Home of Heroes Association judges were Mary and Nathan Cape, Kevin Cover, Ray LeMasters, Gary and Karen Micheli, and Jim and Paulette Stuart.
11) 1st annual Home of Heroes celebration essay contest, winning essays 2009: What freedom means to me
Publisher
[Pueblo City-County Library District]
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
x, 212 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Being insulated by two immense oceans makes it hard for Americans to appreciate the concerns of more exposed countries. American democracy's rapid rise also fools many into thinking the same liberal system can flourish anywhere, and having populated a vast continent with relative ease impedes Americans' understanding of conflicts between different peoples over other lands. Paul R. Pillar ties the American public's misconceptions about foreign threats...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
viii, 354 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Popular narratives of American history conceal as much as they reveal. They present a national identity based on harvesting the treasures that lay in wait for European colonization. In Whose Ruins tells another story: winding through the US landscape, from Native American earthworks in West Virginia to the Manhattan Project in New Mexico, this history is a tour of sites that were mined for an empire's power. Showing the hidden costs of ruthless economic...
Author
Publisher
Winters Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
198 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In honoration of Navy SEAL Danny Dietz, the Dietz family with the author Jeremy Dunlap consider the values of love, family and a good heart that were all part of the difference Danny made in the world. Danny Dietz joined the Navy at 19 and was killed at age 25. This is a different kind of Navy SEAL book. There are no mentions of major military operations. There are no harrowing battle scenes ... This is a book of essays focused on the values of an...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxv, 352 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"One summer evening in 1916 in Blanchester, Ohio, a sixteen-year-old farm boy was riding his horse past the town cemetery. The horse reared back and whinnied, and Eugene Exman saw God. For the rest of his life, he struggled to recreate that moment. Through a treasure of personal letters and papers, God the Bestseller explores Exman's personal quest. A journey that would lead him in the late 1920s to the Harper religious books department, which he...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xi, 344 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Mexicans in the Making of America examines the impact of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants on U.S. culture, politics, and economy since the 1848 U.S.-Mexican War, when the United States seized the northern half of Mexico--the present-day states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas (annexed in 1846), Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma. From the moment the United States signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo...
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