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  • Class-Conscious Coal Miners

    The Emergence of a Working-Class Movement in Central Pennsylvania

    Series series SUNY series in Labor Studies
    Multifaceted study of Pennsylvania's coal miners during the post-World War One era.Bituminous coal miners in Central Pennsylvania were among the most militant and class-conscious workers in the United States in the post-World War I era. Class-Conscious Coal Miners examines the development of working-class consciousness as they fought to sustain their union, jobs, communities, and work pejoratives, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Black Legacy

    A History of New York's African Americans

    **Discover the complete Black history of New York—from 1609 to the present—by the award-winning author of Breaking the Chains and Black Indians. For readers 12 and up.Includes a new intro and last chapter with insights on modern-day movements like Black Lives Matter, plus 50+ historical maps, illustrations, and photos. Essential for NY teachers, librarians and teens.**From the arrival of the first ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Social Studies for Secondary Schools

    Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach

    Now in its fifth edition, this popular text for secondary social studies methods courses integrates discussions of educational goals and the nature of history and social studies with ideas for organizing social studies curricula, units, lessons, projects, and activities. Advocating an inquiry and activity-based view of social studies teaching that respects the points of view of students and ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • Teaching Climate History

    There is No Planet B

    Welcome to the Anthropocene. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, human-caused climate change has impacted the globe with the burning of fossil fuels. The debate in classrooms and the political realm should not be whether climate change is happening or how much it places human civilization at risk but over how societies and individuals should respond. This interdisciplinary book offers an ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Supporting Civics Education with Student Activism

    Citizens for a Democratic Society

    This book empowers teachers to support student activists. The authors examine arguments for promoting student activism, explore state and national curriculum standards, suggest activist projects, and report examples of student individual and group activism. By offering suggestions for engaging students as activists across the K-12 curriculum and by including the stories of student activists who ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • New York's Grand Emancipation Jubilee

    Essays on Slavery, Resistance, Abolition, Teaching, and Historical Memory

    Examines slavery, abolition, and race in the United States with a special focus on New York State.In this book Alan J. Singer discusses the history of race and racism in the United States, emphasizing the continuing significance of slavery's past in shaping our present. Each chapter addresses a different theme in the history of slavery and the abolitionist struggle in the United States, with a ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Teaching Global History

    A Social Studies Approach

    This updated edition of Teaching Global History challenges prospective and beginning social studies teachers to formulate their own views about what is important to know in global history and why.This essential text explains how to organize curriculum around broad social studies concepts and themes, as well as student questions about humanity, history, and the contemporary world. All chapters ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach

    A Handbook for Secondary School Teachers

    Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach uniquely addresses three problems that frequently concern pre-service and beginning teachers: classroom control, satisfying state and federal mandates, and figuring out exactly what is the role of the teacher. Integrating practical, theoretical, and critical teaching considerations, it presents a model student-centered approach for designing lessons, developing ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Education Flashpoints

    Fighting for America’s Schools

    Drawing on his widely read Huffington Post columns—rated one of the top educational blogs in the United States—Alan Singer introduces readers to contemporary issues in education in the United States. The issues are presented with a point of view and an edge intended to promote widespread classroom debate and discussion. Each section opens with a new topical summary essay followed by a series of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • We Have Never Been Woke

    The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite

    How a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without helping the marginalized and disadvantagedSociety has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely related, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Powers to Lead

    What qualities make a leader succeed in business or politics? In an era when the information revolution has dramatically changed the playing field, when old organizational hierarchies have given way to fluid networks of contacts, and when mistrust of leaders is on the rise, our ideas about leadership are clearly due for redefinition. With The Powers to Lead, Joseph S. Nye offers a sweeping look at ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Political Leadership

    An Introduction

    by Matthew Laing ...
    Drawing upon a diverse range of traditions and contexts, this authoritative new textbook presents a systematic introduction to political leadership. Making extensive use of examples of real leaders from a variety of cultural backgrounds, the book links theoretical ideas and concepts to real-world political leadership and in doing so helps students to make sense of why different leaders lead as ... Read more

    $42.99 USD