Author: George Cantor
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493050230
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Bad Guys in American History recounts the events related to our country's most compelling outlaws, from colonial times to the 1930s. Complete with photographs of the outlaws and their haunts, this book investigates some of American history's most infamous acts and informs readers where they happened and how to visit those sites today. Both a history book and a travel guide, Bad Guys in American History shines a revealing light on the dark side of America's past.
Bad Guys in American History
Author: George Cantor
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493050230
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Bad Guys in American History recounts the events related to our country's most compelling outlaws, from colonial times to the 1930s. Complete with photographs of the outlaws and their haunts, this book investigates some of American history's most infamous acts and informs readers where they happened and how to visit those sites today. Both a history book and a travel guide, Bad Guys in American History shines a revealing light on the dark side of America's past.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493050230
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Bad Guys in American History recounts the events related to our country's most compelling outlaws, from colonial times to the 1930s. Complete with photographs of the outlaws and their haunts, this book investigates some of American history's most infamous acts and informs readers where they happened and how to visit those sites today. Both a history book and a travel guide, Bad Guys in American History shines a revealing light on the dark side of America's past.
The American Villain
Author: Richard A. Hall
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 144086988X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The American Villain: Encyclopedia of Bad Guys in Comics, Film, and Television seeks to provide one go-to reference for the study of the most popular and iconic villains in American popular culture. Since the 1980s, pop culture has focused on what makes a villain a villain. The Joker, Darth Vader, and Hannibal Lecter have all been placed under the microscope to get to the origins of their villainy. Additionally, such bad guys as Angelus from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Barnabas Collins from Dark Shadows have emphasized the desire for redemption—in even the darkest of villains. Various incarnations of Lucifer/Satan have even gone so far as to explore the very foundations of what we consider "evil." The American Villain: Encyclopedia of Bad Guys in Comics, Film, and Television seeks to collect all of those stories into one comprehensive volume. The volume opens with essays about villains in popular culture, followed by 100 A–Z entries on the most notorious bad guys in film, comics, and more. Sidebars highlight ancillary points of interest, such as authors, creators, and tropes that illuminate the motives of various villains. A glossary of key terms and a bibliography provide students with resources to continue their study of what makes the "baddest" among us so bad.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 144086988X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The American Villain: Encyclopedia of Bad Guys in Comics, Film, and Television seeks to provide one go-to reference for the study of the most popular and iconic villains in American popular culture. Since the 1980s, pop culture has focused on what makes a villain a villain. The Joker, Darth Vader, and Hannibal Lecter have all been placed under the microscope to get to the origins of their villainy. Additionally, such bad guys as Angelus from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Barnabas Collins from Dark Shadows have emphasized the desire for redemption—in even the darkest of villains. Various incarnations of Lucifer/Satan have even gone so far as to explore the very foundations of what we consider "evil." The American Villain: Encyclopedia of Bad Guys in Comics, Film, and Television seeks to collect all of those stories into one comprehensive volume. The volume opens with essays about villains in popular culture, followed by 100 A–Z entries on the most notorious bad guys in film, comics, and more. Sidebars highlight ancillary points of interest, such as authors, creators, and tropes that illuminate the motives of various villains. A glossary of key terms and a bibliography provide students with resources to continue their study of what makes the "baddest" among us so bad.
Villains, Scoundrels, and Rogues
Author: Paul Martín
Publisher:
ISBN: 1616149272
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
From the back pages of history, vivid, entertaining portraits of little-known scoundrels whose misdeeds range from the simply inept to the truly horrifying.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1616149272
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
From the back pages of history, vivid, entertaining portraits of little-known scoundrels whose misdeeds range from the simply inept to the truly horrifying.
Hoodlums
Author: William L. Van Deburg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226847191
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Du Bois to classic blaxploitation films like Black Caesar and The Mack, Van Deburg demonstrates how African Americans have combated such negative stereotypes and reconceptualized the idea of the badman through stories of social bandits - controversial individuals vilified by whites for their proclivity toward evil, but revered in the black community as necessarily insurgent and revolutionary."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226847191
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Du Bois to classic blaxploitation films like Black Caesar and The Mack, Van Deburg demonstrates how African Americans have combated such negative stereotypes and reconceptualized the idea of the badman through stories of social bandits - controversial individuals vilified by whites for their proclivity toward evil, but revered in the black community as necessarily insurgent and revolutionary."--BOOK JACKET.
Good Guys and Bad Guys
Author: Joseph Nocera
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781591841623
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Award-winning business columnist Joe Nocera explores how good guys and bad guys are defined in business, and concludes that things are often not what they seem.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781591841623
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Award-winning business columnist Joe Nocera explores how good guys and bad guys are defined in business, and concludes that things are often not what they seem.
American Villains
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Covers 177 of the most infamous assassins, serial killers, frauds, gangsters, murderers, terrorists, thieves, and traitors of American history.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Covers 177 of the most infamous assassins, serial killers, frauds, gangsters, murderers, terrorists, thieves, and traitors of American history.
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Author: James W. Loewen
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595583262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595583262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.
Teaching What Really Happened
Author: James W. Loewen
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807759481
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
“Should be in the hands of every history teacher in the country.”— Howard Zinn James Loewen has revised Teaching What Really Happened, the bestselling, go-to resource for social studies and history teachers wishing to break away from standard textbook retellings of the past. In addition to updating the scholarship and anecdotes throughout, the second edition features a timely new chapter entitled "Truth" that addresses how traditional and social media can distort current events and the historical record. Helping students understand what really happened in the past will empower them to use history as a tool to argue for better policies in the present. Our society needs engaged citizens now more than ever, and this book offers teachers concrete ideas for getting students excited about history while also teaching them to read critically. It will specifically help teachers and students tackle important content areas, including Eurocentrism, the American Indian experience, and slavery. Book Features: An up-to-date assessment of the potential and pitfalls of U.S. and world history education. Information to help teachers expect, and get, good performance from students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Strategies for incorporating project-oriented self-learning, having students conduct online historical research, and teaching historiography. Ideas from teachers across the country who are empowering students by teaching what really happened. Specific chapters dedicated to five content topics usually taught poorly in today’s schools.
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807759481
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
“Should be in the hands of every history teacher in the country.”— Howard Zinn James Loewen has revised Teaching What Really Happened, the bestselling, go-to resource for social studies and history teachers wishing to break away from standard textbook retellings of the past. In addition to updating the scholarship and anecdotes throughout, the second edition features a timely new chapter entitled "Truth" that addresses how traditional and social media can distort current events and the historical record. Helping students understand what really happened in the past will empower them to use history as a tool to argue for better policies in the present. Our society needs engaged citizens now more than ever, and this book offers teachers concrete ideas for getting students excited about history while also teaching them to read critically. It will specifically help teachers and students tackle important content areas, including Eurocentrism, the American Indian experience, and slavery. Book Features: An up-to-date assessment of the potential and pitfalls of U.S. and world history education. Information to help teachers expect, and get, good performance from students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Strategies for incorporating project-oriented self-learning, having students conduct online historical research, and teaching historiography. Ideas from teachers across the country who are empowering students by teaching what really happened. Specific chapters dedicated to five content topics usually taught poorly in today’s schools.
My First Days in the White House
Author: Huey Pierce Long
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811753115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A novel by the flamboyant Kingfish, one of Franklin Roosevelt's political rivals during the Great Depression.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811753115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A novel by the flamboyant Kingfish, one of Franklin Roosevelt's political rivals during the Great Depression.
Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves
Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195169522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This collection surveys the underside of American history through fifty of its most infamous characters from colonial times up through the twentieth century.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195169522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This collection surveys the underside of American history through fifty of its most infamous characters from colonial times up through the twentieth century.