Who Really Cares What Happened on March 3, 1903?
Making History Interesting to Students, Book 5
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History is the most boring subject in school. Don’t believe me? Ask any student. Or read the lead story in Newsweek March 28 and April 4, 2011: “How to Get Smart Again”.
If we want to make history a quality subject we have to make it relevant and interesting. What we are going to need are books that offer a fresh perspective on why history is important. What we need are books that are understandable, entertaining, and educational. In a nutshell, books like Who Really Cares What Happened on March 3, 1903?
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In this span between armistice and depression, Americans were kicking up their heels, but they were also bringing about major changes in the social and political structure of their country. Only Yesterday is a fond, witty, penetrating biography of this restless decade, a delightful reminiscence for those who can remember and a fascinating firsthand look for those who've only heard.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this book
- De Matthew M. Kayes en 06-11-07
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New World Coming
- The 1920s and the Making of Modern America
- De: Nathan Miller
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 18 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
Jazz. Bootleggers. Flappers. Talkies. Model T Fords. Lindbergh's history-making flight over the Atlantic. The 1920s was also the decade of the hard-won vote for women, racial injustice, censorship, social conflict, and the birth of organized crime.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My High School History Class Never Told
- De Charles Stembridge en 06-29-04
De: Nathan Miller
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Now I Know
- The Revealing Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts
- De: Dan Lewis
- Narrado por: Jeremy Arthur
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 814
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 722
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 718
Did you know that there are actually 27 letters in the alphabet, or that the U.S. had a plan to invade Canada? And what actually happened to the flags left on the moon? Even if you think you have a handle on all things trivia, you're guaranteed a big surprise with Now I Know. From uncovering what happens to lost luggage to New York City's plan to crack down on crime by banning pinball, this book will challenge your knowledge of the fascinating stories behind the world's greatest facts.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Scientifically inaccurate
- De Sara en 12-04-20
De: Dan Lewis
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Last Call
- The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
- De: Daniel Okrent
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 486
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 425
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 427
A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. Okrent reveals how Prohibition marked a confluence of diverse forces, including the growing political power of the women’s suffrage movement and the fear of small-town, native-stock Protestants that they were losing control of their country to the immigrants of the large cities.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Thorough Historical Review
- De Pierre en 11-12-12
De: Daniel Okrent
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Hershey
- Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams
- De: Michael D'Antonio
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 94
In this compelling biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael D'Antonio gives us the real-life rags-to-riches story of Milton S. Hershey, a largely uneducated businessman whose idealistic sense of purpose created an immense financial empire, a town, and a legacy that lasts to this day.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Benchmark for Chartiable, Rich Men
- De Boyd Tschaggeny en 01-30-19
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The Hour of Fate
- Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism
- De: Susan Berfield
- Narrado por: Jennifer Woodward
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
A riveting narrative of Wall Street buccaneering, political intrigue and two of American history’s most colossal characters, struggling for mastery in an era of social upheaval and rampant inequality. Today, as the country again asks whether saving democracy means taming capital, the lessons of Roosevelt and Morgan’s time are more urgent than ever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engaging
- De Jean en 06-08-20
De: Susan Berfield
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Electric City
- The Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia
- De: Thomas Hager
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 104
During the Roaring Twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country’s poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s “Detroit of the South” would be 10 times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy, and free of air pollution. And it would reshape American society.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Feels incomplete
- De M en 12-12-23
De: Thomas Hager
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Methland
- The Death and Life of an American Small Town
- De: Nick Reding
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 882
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 468
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 474
Crystal methamphetamine is widely considered to be the most dangerous drug in the world, and nowhere is that more true than in the small towns of the American heartland. Methland tells the story of Oelwein, Iowa (pop. 6,159), which, like thousands of other small towns across the country, has been left in the dust by the consolidation of the agricultural industry, a depressed local economy, and an out-migration of people.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written, but insubstantial
- De Flavius Krakdaddius en 02-10-10
De: Nick Reding
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"The Rest of Us"
- The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews
- De: Stephen Birmingham
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
The wave of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who swept into New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by way of Ellis Island were not welcomed by the Jews who had arrived decades before. These refugees from czarist Russia and the Polish shtetls who came to America to escape pogroms and persecution were considered barbaric, uneducated, and too steeped in the traditions of the "old country" to be accepted by the more refined and already well-established German-Jewish community. But the new arrivals were tough, passionate, and determined.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Book 3 of 3
- De Etoile NEOhio en 11-15-22
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Boom, Bust, Exodus
- The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities
- De: Chad Broughton
- Narrado por: Stephen McLaughlin
- Duración: 15 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 33,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and economic life for decades. Workers at the plant earned $15.14 an hour, had good insurance, and were assured a solid retirement. In 2004, the plant was relocated to Reynosa, Mexico, where workers sometimes spent 13-hour days assembling refrigerators for $1.10 an hour.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Story I thought I Knew
- De Meek84 en 07-08-18
De: Chad Broughton
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Tokyo Underworld
- The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan
- De: Robert Whiting
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 71
In the ashes of postwar Japan lay a gold mine for certain opportunistic, expatriate Americans. Addicted to the volatile energy of Tokyo's freewheeling underworld, they formed ever-shifting but ever-profitable alliances with warring Japanese and Korean gangsters. At the center of this world was Nick Zappetti, an ex-marine from New York City who arrived in Tokyo in 1945 and whose restaurant soon became the rage throughout the city and the chief watering hole for celebrities, diplomats, sports figures, and mobsters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Man with a fork in a world of soup
- De Kindle Customer en 09-01-20
De: Robert Whiting
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Chicago's Great Fire
- The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City
- De: Carl Smith
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
From an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memories of those who experienced it. Carl Smith’s compelling narrative at last gives this epic event its full and proper place in our national chronicle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good read
- De Lori en 11-23-24
De: Carl Smith
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Fulfillment
- Winning and Losing in One-Click America
- De: Alec MacGillis
- Narrado por: Danny Gavigan
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 173
Alec MacGillis’ Fulfillment is not another inside account or exposé of our most conspicuously dominant company. Rather, it is a literary investigation of the America that falls within that company’s growing shadow. As MacGillis shows, Amazon’s sprawling network of delivery hubs, data centers, and corporate campuses epitomizes a land where winner and loser cities and regions are drifting steadily apart, the civic fabric is unraveling, and work has become increasingly rudimentary and isolated.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Missing some important angles
- De D. Zimmerle en 08-19-21
De: Alec MacGillis
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Since Yesterday
- The 1930s in America
- De: Frederick Lewis Allen
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 14 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
In this panorama, subtitled The 1930s in America, Frederick Lewis Allen combines an eye for the significant trivia of everyday existence with a facility for neatly dissecting the political monoliths of the era. Whether discussing the varieties of bathtub gin or elucidating Keynesian economics, Allen displays, in the words of Edward Weeks of The Atlantic, "a talent for terse and telling resume which is the envy of any historian."
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Solid View of 1930s America
- De Jason Hutchens en 09-28-16
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Mitch, Please!
- How Mitch McConnell Sold Out Kentucky (and America Too)
- De: Matt Jones, Chris Tomlin - contributor
- Narrado por: Matt Jones, Chris Tomlin
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 371
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 339
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 335
They say all politics is local. In 2020, Mitch McConnell will have served five full terms as a US Senator. Thirty years. The Senate Majority leader's power is as undeniable as it is infuriating, and the people of Kentucky have had enough. Led by Matt Jones, they (and they alone) have the power to oust him from office. How did Jones, a local boy turned attorney turned sports radio host come to shine the brightest light on McConnell's ineptitude?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Danielle Purcell en 04-10-20
De: Matt Jones, y otros
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Five Points
- The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
- De: Tyler Anbinder
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 16 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 104
All but forgotten today, Five Points was once renowned the world over. Its handful of streets in lower Manhattan featured America's most wretched poverty, shared by Irish, Jewish, German, Italian, Chinese, and African Americans. It was the scene of more riots, scams, saloons, brothels, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in the new world. The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America's immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great historical piece
- De Jim Braunstein en 08-19-19
De: Tyler Anbinder
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New York, New York, New York
- Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
- De: Thomas Dyja
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy, Thomas Dyja - introduction
- Duración: 17 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 142
Dangerous, filthy, and falling apart, garbage piled on its streets and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble; New York’s terrifying, if liberating, state of nature in 1978 also made it the capital of American culture. Over the next thirty-plus years, though, it became a different place - kinder and meaner, richer and poorer, more like America and less like what it had always been.
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5 out of 5 stars
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OMG...right on 👍👍👍👍👍
- De howie wine en 04-04-21
De: Thomas Dyja