Education - History

"Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself."--Howard Zinn A new edition of the national bestseller and American...

"Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself." -Howard Zinn A new edition of the national bestseller and...

Life in the Medieval UniversityIn this picture the schoolboy is seen arriving with his satchel and being presented with a hornbook by Nicostrata, the Latin muse Carmentis, who changed the Greek alphabet into the Latin. She admits him by the key of congruitas to...

You may know that Harvard was the first college in the United States or that Penn is the oldest university. You may even know that the Yale mascot is named Handsome Dan or that Brown's first bear was named Helen. Perhaps you are aware...

Subtitled Modern American Edition of Twelve Lives, this volume includes adaptations of Plutarch's biographies of the following men: Greek: Lycurgus, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Alcibiades, Alexander Roman: Coriolanus, Marcus Cato, The Gracchi, Cicero, Caesar, Antony This edition makes the writing of Plutarch more accessible to...

The award-winning account of how America's educational system fails it students and what can be done about it Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficient--these are the stigmas that define America's educationally underprepared. Having grown up poor and been labeled this way, nationally acclaimed educator and author...

Living Fountains or Broken Cisterns: An Educational Problem for ProtestantsThere are few books which treat of the history of education, and fewer which attempt to show the part that the educational work has ever borne in the upbuilding of nations. That religion is inseparably...

Lost in Time: Our Forgotten and Vanishing Knowledge is a fascinating journey through the annals of human knowledge, exploring the cyclical nature of discovery and oblivion. This historiography of science and technology delves into forgotten epochs like lost civilizations and unveils surprising facts such...

Marine Maxims is a collection of fifty principle-based leadership lessons that Thomas J. Gordon acquired commanding Marines over a career spanning three decades of service. Dealing with the complexities and challenges of the contemporary operating environment requires an internal moral compass fixed true. These...

Martha Schofield, pioneer Negro educator - Historical and philosophical review of reconstruction period of South CarolinaTo the men and women who braved the dangers and suffered the hardships of frontier life and bore with fortitude the pain of social ostracism and the sting of...

McGill and its Story, 1821-1921The following pages give in general outline the century story of McGill University. They have no pretension to the title of detailed History, for it has been possible to chronicle only the circumstances which shaped the University in its infancy...

Cambridge and Its StoryI SHOULD wish to write one word by way of explanation of the character of the descriptive historical sketch which forms the text of the present book. Some time ago I undertook to prepare, for the Medival Towns Series of my...

Oxford and Its StoryTHE Story of Oxford touches the History of England, social and political, mental and architectural, at so many points, that it is impossible to deal with it fully even in so large a volume as the present. Even as it is,...

ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura Mi lucha, la obra de referencia del movimiento nacionalsocialista que Adolf Hitler escribe durante su encarcelamiento en 1923. En ella, el autor expone la ideología nazi que dirige a todos sus seguidores y, por su...

Discover the Hidden Wisdom of Scotland's Folk TraditionsMill Dust & Dreaming Bread takes readers on a captivating journey through the landscapes, legends, and lore of Scotland. This rich tapestry of folk belief and folk magic uncovers the enduring connections between land, community, and spirit,...

The remarkable story of Swiss aid worker Kathi Zellweger, whose history of engagement with a secretive, isolated North Korea over nearly three decades is unprecedented in its scope, access, and humanitarian impact. One of the first book-length accounts in English by an aid worker...

My Life in China and AmericaThe first five chapters of this book give an account of my early education, previous to going to America, where it was continued, first at Monson Academy, in Monson, Massachusetts, and later, at Yale College. The sixth chapter begins...

My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My EducationIt is now nearly a hundred years since Goldsmith remarked, in his little educational treatise, that "few subjects have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth." And during the century which has...

From Navajo men in service to their country came an extraordinary weapon in the Pacific Arena of World War II. Twenty-nine Navajo Marines were recruited to adapt their language into a code so secret and difficult that the Germans and Japanese could never break...

A Bible with large print in an easy-to-carry format that is ideal to take with you wherever you want to enjoy God's Word.Exploring God's Word on the go just got easier. This edition not only includes the full text of the trustworthy New King...