A History of Hope: When Americans Have Dared to Dream of a Better Future

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Palgrave Macmillan, 2002 - 347 strani
This book chronicles American history through the stories of the individuals and movements that dreamed of a better future and then took action to make that dream a reality, arguing that the much heralded American spirit was not born as a gift of our founding, but was forged through our adversity and triumphs. From colonial revolutionaries to abolitionists, labor organizers to suffragists, progressives to civil rights activists, it was individuals and movements who dared to go against the American majority that both guarded and created our best national self.
 

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The First Revolution Taos 1680
1
Mexico in the United States
43
4
67
The First Civil Rights
93
6
119
Feminists and Suffragists
121
7
151
The Many Faces of the Progressive
185
Hope in Hard Times
215
The Civil Rights Movement
253
The Movement Continues
285
Bibliography
319
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James W. Fraser is Professor of History and Education and Dean of the School of Education at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts. He is also pastor of Grace Church, Federated in East Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of "Between Church and State "(Palgrave Macmillan, 1999) and his most recent book is "The School in the United States: A Documentary History."

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