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II, John Whiteclay Chambers, was born on August 6, 1936 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John McCausland and Le-Arie P. Chambers.
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Between 1890 and 1920, the forces accompanying industrialization sent the familiar nineteenth-century world plummeting toward extinction. The traditional countryside with its villages and family farms was eclipsed by giant corporations and sprawling cities. America appeared headed into an unknown future. In lively, accessible prose, John Chambers incorporates the latest scholarship about the social, cultural, political, and economic changes which produced modern America. He illuminates the experiences of blacks, Asians, Latinos, as well as other working men and women in the cities and countryside as they struggled to improve their lives in a transformed economy. He explores the dimensions of the new consumer society and the new information and entertainment industries: newspapers, magazines, the movies. Striding these pages are many of the prominent individuals who shaped the attitudes and institutions of modern America: J. P. Morgan and corporate reorganization; Jane Addams and the origin of modern social work; Mary Pickford and the new star-oriented motion picture industry; and the radical labor challenge of “Big Bill” Haywood and the “Wobblies.” While recognizing a “progressive ethos”—a mixture of idealistic vision and pragmatic reforms—which dominated the mainstream reforms that characterized the period, Chambers elaborates the role of civic volunteerism as well as the state in achieving directed social change. He also emphasizes the importance of radical and conservative political forces in shaping the so-called “Progressive Era.” The revised edition in this classic work has an updated bibliography and a new preface, both of which incorporate particularly the new social and cultural research of the past decade.
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Conflict Resolution and United States History offers supplementary materials for U.S. history teachers (grades 5 through 16) with rich historical background; biographies of key historical figures; multiple perspectives; directions for doing negotiations, congressional hearings, moot courts and other historical simulations; analysis of consequences, questions for discussion and additional resources. Volume One includes nine conflicts from the Colonial Period through Reconstruction. Volume Two focuses on ten domestic and international conflicts from the Gilded Era through the 20th Century. Teachers report that the materials and teaching strategies motivate students to gain a rich understanding of historical developments, critical thinking and public speaking skills and to connect historical events with current day issues.
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(Conflict Resolution and United States History offers supp...)
Conflict Resolution and United States History offers supplementary materials for U.S. history teachers (grades 5 through 16) with rich historical background; biographies of key historical figures; multiple perspectives; directions for doing negotiations, congressional hearings, moot courts and other historical simulations; analysis of consequences, questions for discussion and additional resources. Volume One includes nine conflicts from the Colonial Period through Reconstruction. Volume Two focuses on ten domestic and international conflicts from the Gilded Era through the 20th Century. Teachers report that the materials and teaching strategies motivate students to gain a rich understanding of historical developments, critical thinking and public speaking skills and to connect historical events with current day issues.
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(Conflict Resolution and United States History offers supp...)
Conflict Resolution and United States History offers supplementary materials for U.S. history teachers (grades 5 through 16) with rich historical background; biographies of key historical figures; multiple perspectives; directions for doing negotiations, congressional hearings, moot courts and other historical simulations; analysis of consequences, questions for discussion and additional resources. Volume One includes nine conflicts from the Colonial Period through Reconstruction. Volume Two focuses on ten domestic and international conflicts from the Gilded Era through the 20th Century. Teachers report that the materials and teaching strategies motivate students to gain a rich understanding of historical developments, critical thinking and public speaking skills and to connect historical events with current day issues.
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II, John Whiteclay Chambers, was born on August 6, 1936 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John McCausland and Le-Arie P. Chambers.
Bachelor of Science, Temple University, 1958. Master of Arts, San Francisco State College, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1973.
Ancestor, John Chambers, yeoman Quaker farmer and his family, emigrated from Yorkshire, England to Pennsylvania in 1713, and purchased land in Chester County from William Penn"s agent. By the mid-nineteenth century, the Chambers family farm, with manor house, "Hilltop, " included more than 500 acres in London BritainTownship, southeastern Chester County, Pennsylvania Although the Quaker side of the family remained pacifists, Methodist Clark side fought in the Civil War in 97th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Chester County), with a brother, William Clark who was killed at St. Petersburg. Another brother, Jeptha Clark, cited for gallantry in storming of FortFisher, Wilmington, North Carolina Reporter, Pasadena (California) Indiana Star-News, 1958-1960, San Rafael (California) Indiana-Journal, 1960-1961.
News and documentary writer/producer KRON-television, San Francisco, 1961-1965.
Assistant professor of history Barnard College, Columbia University, New York City, 1972-1982, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1982-1987, associate professor, 1987-1993, professor 1993;department chair, 1997. Fulbright lecturer U. Rome, Spring 1982.
Project director Rutgers Center History Analysis, 1993-1995. National Endowment for Humanities grantee, 1974.
Humanities fellow Rockefeller Foundation, 1981-1982, Vis.fellow Institute Advanced Study, Princeton, 1995-1996.
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(Conflict Resolution and United States History offers supp...)
(Conflict Resolution and United States History offers supp...)
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Member Conference on PeaceRsch. In History (president 1975-1977), American History Association, Organisation American Historians, Society Historians of America Foreign Relations, Society Military History.
Married Dorothy Roman, 1958. Children: John Bret, Jeffrey Mark, Michael Adam. Married Amy Russo Piro, 1982.
1 child, Tacy Elizabeth.