| American History: Connecting with the Past Volume 2 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Brinkley, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0077776747 ISBN-13: 9780077776749 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies OUR PRICE: $172.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 973 |
| LCCN: 2014021721 |
| Lexile Measure: 1300 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 8.9" W x 10.7" (2.38 lbs) 576 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Brinkley's American History, a comprehensive U.S. History program, transforms the learning experience through proven, adaptive technology helping students better grasp the issues of the past while providing instructors greater insight on student performance. Known for its clear, single voice and balanced scholarship, Brinkley asks students to think historically about the many forces shaping and re-shaping our dynamic history. Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, and how they need it, so that your class time is more engaging and effective. |
Contributor Bio(s): Brinkley, Alan: - In addition to being a best selling textbook author, ALAN BRINKLEY is the Allan Nevins Professor of History and former Provost at Columbia University. He is the author of Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the 1983 National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War; and Liberalism and its Discontents. His most recent books are John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963 and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century both published recently. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard and taught previously at MIT, Harvard, and the City University Graduate School before joining the Columbia faculty In 1991. In 1998-1999, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He won the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Award at Harvard in 1987 and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia in 2003. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the board of trustees of the National Humanities Center and Oxford University Press, and chairman of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of Torino (Italy). He was the 1998-1999 Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. |