Joseph J Ellis Contributions

When it comes to the world stage of historical education and educators, Jackson Lears would be considered a major player because of his prowess and overall skill as a historian. As a matter of fact, Jackson Lears is a well-renowned writer and historian in the United States of America and has extended many ties from himself to prestigious colleges and writing organizations across the United States. Lears has quite the record for his education, receiving his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Virginia, his Master’s from North Carolina, and his Ph.D. from Yale. He’s held a teaching position at Rutgers University as a professor of history since

Also, the variety of viewpoints presented in this book help to expand the reader’s knowledge. The editors provide a well-rounded collection of additional works that show the reader some of the major theories on a historical event. Basically, a reader is able to see historical issues through the eyes of professional historians. Interpretations of American History does not merely state the facts, it allows the reader to decide where they stand on the historical event in question. This can lead to a deeper, more profound study of history.

Joseph J. Ellis the author of American Creation which turns out to be a national best seller who wrote other book such as His Excellency, founding brother, American Sphinx, Passionate sage, after the revolution, and school for soldiers. What the author does that make this book a very unique book is he give us a brief back around of American coming to life after multiple attempt to set up a government. He tells us how we use much different culture to build our government from deciding if we should have a dictatorship like in England or not but have a democracy like the Romans. Joseph makes important arguments which could not be resolved at the time we were building the Constitution, of how we should governing a long-term argument over the

Colonial life in America was a time of many victories and failings. It was a learning experience for the people of the time. In a A People’s History of the United States and A Patriot’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn and Larry Schweikart tell contrasting stories of the issues of colonial life.

David O. Stewart, by profession, is a lawyer with a resume that includes everything from arguing appeals at the Supreme Court level to serving as a law court to the acclaimed Junior Powell. But in writing The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution (specifically, I read the First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition May 2008, copyrighted in 2007), he uses that experience in law to prove himself a gifted storyteller. Two hundred sixty-four pages long, this United States history nonfiction book does indeed have the substance to engage the reader throughout. It has special features that include two appendices featuring the elector system and the actual constitution of 1787, author’s notes, suggested further reading, acknowledgments and an index (which escalate the total length of the book to three hundred forty-nine pages long).

When it comes to American history , the credibility of our textbooks has been a problem recent years, especially those in high school. And what we are taught in class seem to be far away from our real life. Facing such an irrelevant and boring subject, most high school students have no choice but to suffer the course and struggle for it. The book Lies My Teacher Told Me may account for this phenomenon to some extent.

The author of this book, Charles W. Aker, was born in Indianapolis, April 2, 1920 to Ira and Mary Bird Akers. He was a US Navy vet and served in World War II in 1942 to 1946. After he fought in WWII he became a history teacher at the Eastern Nazarene College in 1948 then became the Director of Quincy Junior College in 1959. He then taught at Geneva College in Pennsylvania after which he went to Oakland University in 1966 and was appointed as chair of the history department in 1968. As well as being a teacher, he was also a member of many societies like the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and the American Historical Association just to name a few. Charles was a very well established author in his time and died February 1, 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Akers

George C. Daughan’s studied at Harvard University where he received a Ph.D. in American History and Government. After graduating Harvard he went on to spend multiple years in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. After honorably serving his country, Mr.Daughan’s went on to teach at many universities across the United

Francis D. Cogliano, a senior docent in American History at the University of Edinburgh and

Ellis, Joseph J. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Print.

At the beginning of the historical documentation of America, many individuals were amateurs and/or biased towards their native state. There were different sides as to what the American Revolution was about so, “If they wished to preserve their image unsullied by European incursions, Americans would have to develop their own narratives of nationhood” (Kornfeld, 40). This brought a movement of amateur writers creating historical

In Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph K. Ellis discusses a great deal of challenges that the revolutionary generation faced at home and abroad as well as how the relationship of the founding brothers shaped the new nation. Ellis discusses the compromise for the new location of the capital, the debate of slavery and why it was a big issue and lastly the friendships of Thomas Jefferson with George Washington and John Adams in three main chapters that are The Dinner, The Silence, and The Collaborators.

The author of this book is a professor of history at Columbia University and is one of the country’s most noticeable historians. He graduated from Columbia with his doctoral degree under Richard Hofstadter. Foner is one of only two people to be president of three major professional organizations. They are the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the Society of American Historians.

Joseph J. Ellis, born July 17, 1943, although born in Washington D.C., Maryland, Ellis lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with his wife, Ellen Wilkins Ellis. Ellis has three sons and is a happy owner of three dogs. He has written nine books and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation. In addition, he won the National Book Award for American Sphinx, a biography of Thomas Jefferson and his book, His Excellency: George Washington, was a New York Times bestseller. Ellis' essays and book reviews are regularly put in national publications like: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and many more. Many of his commentaries have been featured on CBS, CNN, CSPAN and PBS. PBS has also

Kenneth C. Davis is a historian and an author from Mount Vernon, New York City. Davis’s book “Don’t know much about history” was New York Time best seller for thirty-seven weeks straight and “combined in-print total of some 4.7-million copies.” Davis went to Concordia College in Bronxville while he was living in New York. However, he didn’t graduate from Concordia; in fact, he never graduated from college. In 1998 Davis was awarded with an honorary doctorate from Concordia College in New York. In his interview summary on Don’t Know Much he states that he didn’t do too great in high school, but he did fairly well in college even though he didn’t graduate. With knowing Davis’s background, I am confident that Davis is capable of writing a proper information piece even though he didn’t graduate because I doubt Concordia College just hands out doctorate degrees. In his work of acknowledgements, Davis states “leaving the comfort landscape of the “Don’t Know Much About” series to write about American history in a different style and format was both