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American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity
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American Encounters provides a narrative of the history of American art that focuses on historical encounters among diverse cultures, upon broad structural transformations such as the rise of the middle classes and the emergence of consumer and mass culture, and on the fluid conversations between "high" art and vernacular expressions. The text emphasizes the intersections among cultures and populations, as well as the exchanges, borrowings, and appropriations that have enriched and vitalized our collective cultural heritage.

Subject:
Art History
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Washington University Libraries
Author:
Angela L Miller
Bryan J Wolf
Janet Catherine Berlo
Jennifer L Roberts
Date Added:
06/15/2022
American Government
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Word Count: 101870

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Subject:
History
Political Science
Social Science
U.S. History
Material Type:
Textbook
Date Added:
01/26/2024
Battle on the Ballot: Political Outsiders in US Presidential Elections
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In 2016, a billionaire businessman and the first woman nominated by a major party ran against each other for president of the United States. In very different ways, both candidates approached the presidency as outsiders, reaching beyond the traditional boundaries of US presidential politics. As outsiders, the 2016 candidates are noteworthy, but not unique; indeed, the 2016 race resonates with the legacies of outsiders who have come before. This exhibition explores the rich history of select individuals, parties, events, and movements that have influenced US presidential elections from the outside—outside Washington politics, outside the two-party system, and outside the traditional conception of who can be an American president.

Subject:
Political Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Reading
Provider:
Digital Public Library of America
Provider Set:
DPLA Exhibitions
Date Added:
09/01/2016
Constitutionality of a Central Bank
Read the Fine Print
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Students learn about McCulloch v. Maryland, a case decided in 1819 over (1) whether the state of Maryland had the right to tax the Second Bank of the United States and (2) whether Congress had violated the Constitution in establishing the Bank. Students also review the expressed powers of Congress identified in the Constitution and analyze how Congress implements the necessary and proper (elastic) clause to enact its expressed powers. Finally, students use their knowledge of McCulloch v. Maryland and the necessary and proper clause to consider the constitutionality of the Federal Reserve System.

Subject:
Economics
History
Social Science
U.S. History
Material Type:
Lesson
Lesson Plan
Reading
Provider:
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Provider Set:
Economic Lowdown Lessons
Author:
Mary Suiter
Scott Wolla
Date Added:
09/11/2019
The Human Experience: From Human Being to Human Doing
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An Introduction to the Humanities

Short Description:
This multimedia reader examines how people use a humanities lens to make sense of what they experience, as well as share their experiences with the rest of the world. The information is presented using a pedagogical approach called reverse teaching, which introduces artifacts in their historical, social, political, personal, and other contexts. Along with the narrative, questions for creative and critical thinking prompt the reader to practice self-exploration.

Word Count: 36397

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Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
OpenSLCC
Author:
Anita Y. Tsuchiya
Claire Adams
Date Added:
07/31/2020
Our Story: An Ancillary to US History
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From Pre Contact to Post Factual America

Short Description:
A US history ancillary/textbook that examines some traditional some non-traditional aspects of American social, cultural, gender, racial, political, and military history. Most chapters include content provided by community college students.

Long Description:
Historians talk about change over time, but change is not linear. Rather nebulous and with unforeseen consequences. The historian Dr. Nancy Hewitt talks about a complexity of change over time. While change can positively affect one group sometimes that same change negatively affects another group, she argues. Change is both progressive and regressive. Change is embraced and at the same time rejected. The events of January 6th, 2021 demonstrate that.

For example, The territory of Washington granted women the right to vote in 1883, then took away that right in 1887. Women regained the right to vote in 1888 by another act of the territorial legislature, but that bill was overturned by the Territorial Supreme Court the same year. Women in Washington then re-regained the right to vote with the adoption of the new state Constitution in 1910. The Prohibition Amendment was supposed to result in a cleaner, more sober society. What it brought, among other things, was the rise of organized crime. The Eighteenth Amendment was the only change to the Constitution that restricted rights. The idea that change necessarily advances society is inaccurate. In fact, continuity and change can happen simultaneously.

The world is too complex for a linear narrative. The trajectory of society on an evolutionary tract that is positive is not a normal phenomenon. Change does not always mean better. Likewise, continuity has both its detractors and proponents such as the vote in the US Senate for removing the 17th, 37th, 42nd and 45th (twice) president from office after the House of Representatives had found those men guilty of various high crimes and misdemeanors.

Impeachment is not normal. Republicans impeached Andrew Johnson (D) for a myriad of things to include “heaping ridicule upon Congress.” Richard Nixon (R) resigned when it became apparent that he did not have the number of votes in Congress to keep him in the Oval Office. Republicans impeached Bill Clinton (D) for lying about committing adultery. And now the Democrats, who control the House, impeached Donald Trump, twice, including “inciting violence against the government of the United States.” Impeachments are not normal times.

Not unlike Andrew Jackson, Donald Trump attracted exceptionally divergent positions. All presidents have their detractors. Some more than others. Rush Limbaugh seemingly made his career going against the Clinton administration (and women and POC). But the model of this book is not about presidential personalities but rather, for example, are the domestic and foreign policies of presidents more of a continuity of policy, or, are some more in line with Gilded Age policies as some historians have pondered? A change from the path the US has been on since the Progressive era? And, how did those changes and continuities affect various groups of Americans?

The idea of “All men are created equal” didn’t mean “all men” in 1776 but by 1877 “all men” certainly included most American men, at least on paper. Women were granted the right to vote, then Native Americans, then the 1964 Civil rights Act, then the Americans with Disabilities Act. Our liberties seemingly expand over time. But then the Supreme has been chipping away at the 1965 Voting Rights Act since 2013. Then the Dobbs decision (2022) took away a women’s right to control her own body. A right she had since Roe (1973). So in some cases, liberties might be contracting.

Was the exclusion of Chinese or the forced Americanization of Native American children in the 19th century similar or not to policies that restrict Muslim immigration or remove immigrant children from their parents in the 21st century? Or, politicians who lament that certain ethnic groups do not assimilate as quickly or thoroughly as other groups in both the Gilded Age and more recently?

Are the speeches, policies, and practices normal throughout US history over the long run, or has US history altered its path since September 11th? Finally, what does that change or continuity mean? Vamos a ver.

In part, this book is not normal because the focus whenever possible is not on the elite, the Great Men, but on us -what that active duty Air Force staff sergeant and his pregnant wife from Wisconsin, both civil rights marchers, witnessed what was going on at the Mall in DC on August 28th, 1963, as opposed to focusing on the speeches of King, John Lewis and Rabbi Joachim Prinz. This book will focus on the thoughts of a then-seven-year-old watching TV, as his mom hurriedly made his lunch because as he overslept that morning, on September 11th 2001 as opposed to mentioning the goat book and that 11-word message whispered to President Bush by his Chief of Staff.

When possible, we use the diaries and letters of our relatives, co-workers, and friends. Gleaned from out-of-print newspapers, uncovered at local historical associations, and extracted from oral histories, some done by my students, we uncover the words, deeds, and experiences of average people. Sometimes my students are the subjects of those oral histories. Some of the narrative contained within this book is the work of my undergrads at Houston Community College. My student contributors are listed at the end of each chapter. This OER is a true collaboration. History through our experiences. This is Our Story.

Word Count: 324461

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Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Textbook
Date Added:
12/31/2018
San Antonio Review
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Volume V | Summer 2021

Short Description:
Fifth print edition of the international literary, arts and ideas journal, San Antonio Review.

Long Description:
The fifth print edition of San Antonio Review, an international literary, arts and ideas journal.

This issue of San Antonio Review includes nearly 300 pages of art, poetry, short fiction, reviews and more.

The issue opens with editors’ notes and a “Timeline of Irresponsibility” charting Texas leaders failures in responding to the SARS-Cov-2/COVID-19 pandemic, police violence and Winter Storm Uri, among other contemporary challenges. The feature essay by Baylor University professor Dr. Mia Moody-Ramirez, Ph.D. looks at Texas Republicans’ efforts to limit discussions in public school classrooms by attacking critical race theory. Founding Editor and Publisher William O. Pate II shares an excerpt of his work-in-progress transcription of the third volume of the report from the 1919 Texas House of Representatives Committee Investigation into the Texas Rangers for violence against Mexican Americans during the first quarter of the 20th century. A cartoon by Coyote Shook. Peter Berard, Ph.D., reviews the next world war. Postcard art by and a Q&A with Milicent Fambrough. Paintings by and a Q&A with Andrea Muñoz Martínez. Quotes, recommendations and much more.

Front cover image by A.S. Robertson. Cover design by William O. Pate II. Always read free at sareview.org.

Word Count: 76188

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Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Business and Communication
Career and Technical Education
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Graphic Design
History
Journalism
Reading Literature
U.S. History
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
San Antonio Review
Date Added:
09/13/2021
U.S. Child Labor History: A Documentary Lecture on Child Workers During the Progressive Era
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All of these children are part of U.S. child labor history, where many children were exploited by companies, working long 10-12, sometimes 16 hours shifts for as little as pennies a day. These kids were exploited until unions and federal and state labor laws protected kids. From 1870 – 1890, child labor increased three fold. 1870 was the 1st U.S. census that reported child labor statistics, and 750,000 children worked. Child labor peaked in 1900 when 18.2% of all U.S. kids under the age of 16 WORKED, often at very dangerous jobs.

Subject:
Ethnic Studies
History
Social Science
U.S. History
Material Type:
Lecture
Lesson
Author:
Professor Estrada Ph.D.
Date Added:
08/09/2023
US History II
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Short Description:
U.S. History II covers the chronological history of the United States from Reconstruction through the beginning of the 21st Century.

Long Description:
U.S. History II covers the chronological history of the United States from Reconstruction through the beginning of the 21st Century and introduces key forces and major developments that together form the U.S. experience, providing a balanced approach that considers 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), with particular attention paid to issues of race, class, and gender.

Word Count: 347824

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Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Pima Community College
Date Added:
11/12/2021
U.S. History II: 1877 to Present
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History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Textbook
Date Added:
01/26/2024
U.S. History I: Pre-Colonial to 1865
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Word Count: 97838

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Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Textbook
Date Added:
01/26/2024
US History I & II YAWP
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Word Count: 175609

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Subject:
Ethnic Studies
History
Social Science
U.S. History
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
San Jacinto College
Yvonne Frear
Date Added:
02/10/2022
United States Government
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Curated from OpenStax by Deborah Hoag.

Word Count: 233347

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Subject:
History
Political Science
Social Science
U.S. History
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Austin Community College
Date Added:
02/03/2022
United States History I
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Short Description:
U.S. History I covers the chronological history of the United States from before Discovery through Reconstruction.

Long Description:
U.S. History I covers the chronological history of the United States from before Discovery through Reconstruction and introduces key forces and major developments that together form the U.S. experience, providing a balanced approach that considers 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), with particular attention paid to issues of race, class, and gender.

Word Count: 267090

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Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Textbook
Date Added:
01/26/2024
United States History I
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Short Description:
U.S. History I covers the chronological history of the United States from before Discovery through Reconstruction.

Long Description:
U.S. History I covers the chronological history of the United States from before Discovery through Reconstruction and introduces key forces and major developments that together form the U.S. experience, providing a balanced approach that considers 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), with particular attention paid to issues of race, class, and gender.

Word Count: 261295

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Subject:
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Eric Vernold
Date Added:
10/11/2021