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Two Tickets to Freedom
Traces the search for freedom by a black man and wife who traveled to Boston and eventually to England after their escape from slavery in Georgia.
Two Tickets to Freedom
Traces the search for freedom by a black man and wife who traveled to Boston and eventually to England after their escape from slavery in Georgia.
Ezra Jack Keats
Each book in the "Family Ties" series explores a particular aspect of how families stay together, play together, learn together, grow together, and resolve conflicts together. The series celebrates the differences among various cultures, both here and abroad, while emphasizing the similarities among them all. Readers learn how our values emerge and are expressed through holidays, food, stories, and especially through what we are taught by parents and teachers.
It Happened in Chelm
The inhabitants of the mythical mid-European town of Chelm consult their Town Council of seven wise men when their shops are robbed by bandits in the night.
Walt Whitman and the World
Celebrating the various ethnic traditions that melded to create what we now call American literature, Whitman did his best to encourage an international reaction to his work. But even he would have been startled by the multitude of ways in which his call has been answered. By tracking this wholehearted international response and reconceptualizing American literature, Walt Whitman and the World demonstrates how various cultures have appropriated an American writer who ceases to sound quite so narrowly American when he is read into other cultures' traditions.
Walt Whitman Looks at the Schools
Originally published in 1897, this early works is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Contents include; The function of Latin, Chansons De Geste, The Matter of Britain, Antiquity in Romance, The making of English and the settlement of European Prosody, Middle High German Poetry, The 'Fox, ' The 'Rose, ' and the minor Contributions of France, Icelandic and Provencal, The Literature of the Peninsulas, and Conclusion..... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwor
From Biblical Book to Musical Megahit
Many churchgoers will recognize the name William Bradbury, a nineteenth-century American composer of popular hymns still sung at Sunday services. Bradbury’s name may also bring to mind Esther, the Beautiful Queen, his choral setting of a text based on the biblical Book of Esther. The uncomplicated score became enormously popular almost immediately after its initial publication in 1856. In From Biblical Book to Musical Megahit: William B. Bradbury’s “Esther, the Beautiful Queen,” Juanita Karpf traces the work’s rich performance and reception history. Bradbury emphatically stated that he intended Esther to be sung as an unadorned religious and educational piece. Yet many music direct...
America's Public Schools
In this update to his landmark publication, William J. Reese offers a comprehensive examination of the trends, theories, and practices that have shaped America’s public schools over the last two centuries. Reese approaches this subject along two main lines of inquiry—education as a means for reforming society and ongoing reform within the schools themselves. He explores the roots of contemporary educational policies and places modern battles over curriculum, pedagogy, race relations, and academic standards in historical perspective. A thoroughly revised epilogue outlines the significant challenges to public school education within the last five years. Reese analyzes the shortcomings of ...
Walt Whitman
Portrays Walt Whitman in the social, political, and cultural context of his day.
Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Women Reformers
An interesting academic study of the influence of certain 19th-century women reformers on Walt Whitman, as evidenced by his poetry, prose, and correspondence.
