Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 288
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4758-1546-7 • Hardback • June 2016 • $103.00 • (£79.00)
978-1-4758-1547-4 • Paperback • June 2016 • $53.00 • (£41.00)
For thirty-one years, Mike Henry taught American History to students at all levels of the educational spectrum from elementary school to college. Since the inception of No Child Left Behind,he averaged a success rate of more than 80% on state mandated testing at a school where the majority of the students were at the poverty level. Mike is a two-time award winner of Who's Who Among America's Classroom Teachers. Following his retirement, he wrote Black History: More Than Just A Month, published by Rowman & Littlefield.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Let’s Try This Again—They were Looking for China and Japan but Ended up in America?
Chapter 2: Remember, One if by Land, Two if by Sea? No, this is Not a Math Question!
Chapter 3: George Washington . . . Some Say that it was because of His Teeth but if You had His Problems, You wouldn’t be Smiling Either
Chapter 4: If the British Set Fire to the White House, Why didn’t the Smoke Detectors Go Off?
Chapter 5: Americans Won their Freedom on Battles Fought in the East. So When it was Over, They Moved West. Sure, That Makes Sense.
Chapter 6: The Civil War: America’s Real Family Feud
Chapter 7: Following the War, America Lived Happily Ever After for the Next Few Years
Chapter 8: The Inventors: If You Build It, Someone Will Probably Show Up
Chapter 9: If it was the 20th Century, then why was it in the 1900s?
Chapter 10: You Mean John Wayne didn’t Win the War for Our Side?
Chapter 11: Hey Grandpa . . . Were You a Hippie?
Chapter 12: The 1980s and 1990s, Or, As we Call it, The Days When Machines Took Over the Country
Chapter 13: Y2K . . . Was that like the First Cell Phone?
Chapter 14: Internal Briefings: The Presidency
Chapter 15: One More Time! As History Repeats
Chapter 16: Unfinished Business
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