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A History of US: Book 7: Reconstructing America 1865-1890 (History of Us, 7)
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by Joy Hakim
Sales Rank: 346635
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$8.95
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Features
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 160 pages
Published by: Oxford University Press, USAEdition: 3rd Edition July 23, 2002
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0195153316
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0195153316
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.6 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
From School Library Journal
Grade 6 Up?Written in a lively, conversational tone, this seventh book in the series goes beyond reviewing the presidents and the familiar events of the era, and provides anecdotes about everyday life during the post-Civil War era. Readers meet suffragettes, civil-rights advocates, Chinese launderers, black legislators, as well as key people like Thaddeus Stevens, P.T. Barnum, and Thomas Edison. Hakim adds many a new twist to even the most familiar biography. The layout, with many illustrations, marginal notes, and sidebars, is a bit busy; some readers may find it tiring. Also, the author often interjects questions into the middle of the text, which is distracting. The list of suggested readings is a good mix of fiction and nonfiction. This evenhanded overview will be a great source for report writers and browsers.?Elizabeth M. Reardon, McCallie School, Chattanooga, TN
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of John Adams
"A big breath of fresh air and the best possible news for the youngsters who get to read them."
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: A History of US: Book 7: Reconstructing America 1865-1890 (History of Us) (Paperback)
"Reconstructing America 1865-1890," the 7th volume in Joy Hakim's A History of US series, expands the notion of reconstruction, usually applied only to the Southern states of the former Confederacy to include the entire nation. In her preface to the volume Hakim declares "Are We Equal? Are We Kidding?" Her point is to underscore the Declaration of Independence's famous proposition that all men are created equal and to point out that ending slavery does not really free people if they are denied education and jobs. However, while the issue of racial division begins and ends this book, Hakim covers the entire domestic history of the United States in between the Civil War and the rise of the nation as a world power. This volume does not have a formal structure but you can still find four rather distinction units. The first (Chapters 1-10) talks specifically about Southern Reconstruction and the fight between President Andrew Johnson and Thaddeus Stevens, leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress. The second (Chapters 11-18) tells about the opening of the West and Indians ordered to reservations. The third (Chapters 19-25) contrasts the world of Boss Tweed and Thomas Nast, P.T. Barnum and Mark Twain, with the immigrants who came to both coasts of the country. The fourth (Chapters 26-37) starts with the beginning of the movement towards rights for women and ends with Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois taking on the Jim Crow laws, with the birth of the Industrial Revolution and its patron saint Thomas Alva Edison in between. As you can see, this is an inelegant division of these 37 chapters at best. But in the second half of the 19th-century of American history lacks the direction of the first, where the nation was hurdling towards Civil War. The idea that America was indeed reconstructing, or remaking itself, makes sense. However, there is no finality to the story at this point because equality between the sexes and the races are still a half and full century away respectively. One sign of the changing focus of history is that George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn is literally a marginal topic while the story of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce gets an entire chapter. These volumes are wonderfully illustrated, with historic photographs, paintings, and in this particular volume political cartoons that help bring the period alive. Throughout the book you will find detailed features on subjects such as the first conservationist, John Wesley Powell, and the Route of the Nez Perce in 1877. As always the margins are crammed with notes, definitions, mini-biographies, and choice quotations. For children raised on computers and the Internet it is clear that Hakim is speaking their language, and for parents home schooling their children they will find Hakim to be an active teacher who anticipates questions and concerns from students even when she is writing and book and they are reading it. This is an excellent series of American history textbooks.
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