Holt American History General: Vol 2 Eyewitness & Others Beginnings to 1865

by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc.

Book Overview

Call to Freedom, Grade 12 Eyewitnesses and Others Readings in American History, 1865 to Present: Call to Freedom This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0030950538
• ISBN13: 9780030950537
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Holt McDougal
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Age Range: 17 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12

Customer Reviews

Highest Recommendation

I have used this volume many times and recommend it to all of the social studies and language arts teachers in our large urban district. The insights it provides through the marvelous primary sources are exactly what teachers need to enhance students' understanding. The following excerpt from "An Immigrant Family Goes to School" always brings me to tears: "At last the four of us stood around the teacher's desk, and my father, in his impossible English, gave us over in her charge, with some broken words of his hopes for us that his swelling heart could no longer contain. ... This foreigner, who brought his children to school as if it were an act of consecration, who regarded the teacher of his primer class with reverence, who spoke of visions, like a man inspired, in a common schoolroom, was NOT LIKE other aliens, who brought their children in dull obedience to the law, was not like the native fathers, who brought their unmanageable boys, glad to be relieved of their care. I think Miss Nixon guessed what my father's best English could not convey. I think she divined that by the simple act of delivering our school certificates to her he took possession of America." The sources are brief and readable, covering a wide variety of issues. This is but a short example of the quality of the sources. The book is a must.