Bøger af James West Davidson

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson's vividly told A Little History of the United States. In 300 fast-moving pages, Davidson guides his readers through 500 years, from the first contact between the two halves of the world to the rise of America as a superpower in an era of atomic perils and diminishing resources. In short, vivid chapters the book brings to life hundreds of individuals whose stories are part of the larger American story. Pilgrim William Bradford stumbles into an Indian deer trap on his first day in America; Harriet Tubman lets loose a pair of chickens to divert attention from escaping slaves; the toddler Andrew Carnegie, later an ambitious industrial magnate, gobbles his oatmeal with a spoon in each hand. Such stories are riveting in themselves, but they also spark larger questions to ponder about freedom, equality, and unity in the context of a nation that is, and always has been, remarkably divided and diverse.

A combination of detailed instruction and text (based on actual adventures) of all the techniques of canoe camping and wilderness cruising. You learn how to "find a river," navigate, cope with accidents and much more. With 65 drawings and 11 maps.

Examines a variety of topics including oral evidence, photographs, ecological data, films and television programs, church and town records, census data, and novels. This book introduces readers, step by step, to the detective work and analytical approaches historians use when they are actually doing history.

In July 1903, Leonidas Hubbard set out to explore the uncharted interior of Labrador by canoe, accompanied by Dillon Wallace. Bad luck and bad judgment led the expedition into disaster. Reconstructing the story from the long-lost journals and diaries of the 1903 and 1905 expeditions, this book traces the explorers' routes.

Examines a broad variety of topics including oral evidence, photographs, ecological data, films and television programs, church and town records, census data, and novels. This book introduces readers to the detective work and analytical approaches historians use when they are actually doing history.

In 'They Say,' James West Davidson recounts the first thirty years in the passionate life of Ida B. Wells-as well as the story of the great struggle over the meaning of race in post-emancipation America. Davidson captures the breathtaking and often chaotic changes that swept the South as Wells grew up in Holly Springs, Mississippi: the spread of education among free blacks, the rise of political activism, and the bitter struggles for equality in the face ofentrenched social custom.