This book chronicles American history through the stories of the individuals and movements that dreamed of a better future and then took action to make that dream a reality, arguing that the much heralded American spirit was not born as a gift of our founding, but was forged through our adversity and triumphs. From colonial revolutionaries to abolitionists, labor organizers to suffragists, progressives to civil rights activists, it was individuals and movements who dared to go against the American majority that both guarded and created our best national self.
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"...an important and clearly presented reminder that...dedicated humans can and do overcome adversity."--R. Muccigrosso, Choice
"An antidote for a society in pain."--O Magazine
"Fraser skillfully unfolds a rich, multicultural narrative that portrays a history of real people who were able to maintain hope and inspire social transformations against overwhelming odds. This text cannot help but awaken a passionate hope for the possible in all who venture within."--Diane L. Moore, Phillips Andover Academy and Harvard University
"An antidote for a society in pain."--O Magazine
"Fraser skillfully unfolds a rich, multicultural narrative that portrays a history of real people who were able to maintain hope and inspire social transformations against overwhelming odds. This text cannot help but awaken a passionate hope for the possible in all who venture within."--Diane L. Moore, Phillips Andover Academy and Harvard University
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James W. Fraser is Professor of History and Education and Dean of the School of Education at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts. He is also pastor of Grace Church, Federated in East Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of Between Church and State (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999) and his most recent book is The School in the United States: A Documentary History.
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ON A BEAUTIFUL FRIDAY MORNING in Philadelphia, June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee, a delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia, concluded his speech to the assembly with a motion: Resolve...that these United Colonies are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent states, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, New York, African American, Civil War, South Carolina, World War, New Mexico, Rosa Parks, San Miguel County, Hull House, Martin Luther King, Supreme Court, Mother Jones, Emancipation Proclamation, Seneca Falls, New England, John Brown, Emma Goldman, Frederick Douglass, Jane Addams, Knights of Labor, New Deal, Freedmen's Bureau, New Harmony, North America New!
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ON A BEAUTIFUL FRIDAY MORNING in Philadelphia, June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee, a delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia, concluded his speech to the assembly with a motion: Resolve...that these United Colonies are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent states, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, New York, African American, Civil War, South Carolina, World War, New Mexico, Rosa Parks, San Miguel County, Hull House, Martin Luther King, Supreme Court, Mother Jones, Emancipation Proclamation, Seneca Falls, New England, John Brown, Emma Goldman, Frederick Douglass, Jane Addams, Knights of Labor, New Deal, Freedmen's Bureau, New Harmony, North America New!
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- Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices on Resistance, Reform, and Renewal An African American Anthology by Manning Marable on 6 pages
- Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-63 by Taylor Branch on 6 pages
- No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States by Nancy F. Cott on 5 pages
- Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson on 4 pages
- The Declaration Of Independence by Sam Fink on 4 pages
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