Strive for Insight: Into Your Local, National, and World History - Softcover

Warren, Ted

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0991584783 ISBN 13: 9780991584789

Verlag: The Teenage Edge & Company, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Timely, Bold, Accurate. An excellent overview of 250 years of US history. Warren compels the reader to think critically. He informs, provokes, and inspires. For anyone wanting a more complete understanding of our shared history. A study guide for every history teacher, from middle school, high school, to university. Warren`s book is an ambitious narrative history. Teachers can use chapters to prepare lessons. Parents and friends can use chapters to develop meaningful communication with youth Strive for Inisght, with its direct prose and unique approach to learning, brings a new framework for understanding history. The reader will discover:Starting in this century, Part One introduces modern history using Northeastern Pennsylvania as the example for local history, the U.S.A. for national history, and world history in China, the Middle East and Europe. Then the reader goes back to the 20th Century through two more chapters on local, national, and world history. Part Two covers history from ancient times to the 19th century including; geology, geography and natural history from Northeastern Pennsylvania, the Native Americans and the first Europeans in Pennsylvania. The civil wars at Wyoming between the Connecticut settlers and the Pennsylvanians are viewed within the American Revolution. There follow major political revolutions in the USA, France, and St. Dominique. In the 17th and 18th centuries science and colonization evolved through the ideas of the British Elightenment. This led to the industrial revolutions in England and America, the American Civil War, and reconstruction of the U.S.A., including the development of the American West. Colonial Empires reached their apex in the 19th Century. Part Three introduces history powered by electricity to this day. Revolutions change the way of life on all stages of history. The reader learns about the commerce revolutions, issues concerning land, labor, capital, as well as the information revolutions, and some of the financial revolutions. In the Afterword, the reader discovers that she is the fourth stage of history. This leads to the larger question; How am I affected by my local, national, and world history? The reader is challlenged to develop individual concepts to follow the ideas working in history. Striving for Insight leads to understanding the context in which we live.

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Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1953, Ted Warren majored in European History at Harvard College before studying in Marburg, Germany. He ended up teaching History and English for thirty-three years to grades six through twelve at Waldorf Schools in Oslo, Norway and Princeton, New Jersey.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The Teenage Edge & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0991584783
• ISBN 13: 9780991584789
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 372
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland