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Depicts the hardships of the pioneers as they made their way westward from Missouri across the prairie and over the mountains to the Pacific coast.
A stunning, full-color volume that examines 82 pieces in the University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery's American collection and their connections to American history, culture, literature, and politics. Seeing America is the first-ever catalog of the University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery's American collection. Founded in 1913, the Memorial Art Gallery was created in conjunction with the University of Rochester so that it would function within a scholarly milieu, yet at the same time perform service as a community museum. From its conception it has been an ardent advocate for American art, which so many counterpart institutions snubbed untilat least the 1930s, and more often until w...
American novelist Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) led a short but turbulent life. His writing was almost purely autobiographical, poignantly capturing his experiences and pursuits. Wolfe had a gift for illuminating his life so that the reader could almost visualize his painful youth and tumultuous manhood. Now, for the first time, in Looking Homeward, Morton Teicher lets us see all of the real-life people and places behind the fiction of Thomas Wolfe in a collection of 245 snapshots that chronicle this great writer's life in a way that mere words cannot. Wolfe's family and friends took a remarkable number of photographs, and Teicher has spent decades collecting these images. With photos ranging fro...
Illustrates and describes the lifestyles of the great Indian tribes that inhabited the continental United States
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Celebrate the history, cultures, and traditions of over 12 Native American peoples! This classic, easy-to-read picture book is the perfect introduction to the first Americans, including the Seminole, Iroquois, Sioux, Hopi, and many more.
Bring the riches of high-quality literature into the upper elementary classroom with delightful activities that span the curriculum and center on such stimulating themes as storytelling, great books, research technology, American history, conflict, and fantasy. Organized by grade level, this book provides everything you need to fully integrate literature into the curriculum-from bibliographic information, suggested grade level, student objectives, and a synopsis of the story to model lessons and suggestions for integration into other areas. With numerous selections from countries around the world, this volume is also a perfect resource for multicultural studies. Grades 4-6.
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