Modern America and World History Reader

The World in the Dynamic Modern Age. Meet the authors, poets, leaders and legislators from the middle of the nineteenth century through the twentieth century and into the 2020s. Explore firsthand accounts, letters, groundbreaking legislation, speeches, poems and humorous short stories from this era of rapid changes. Hear from those who lived through communism, the World Wars, the Holocaust, the Cold War, the Space Race, the fight for Civil Rights, and more. Tackle unabridged excerpts of original works by Marx, Tolstoy, Roosevelt, Chesterton, and Bonhoeffer, all in an easy-to-read narrative format. The more challenging of these readings are ideal for reading aloud and discussion. This Reader is illustrated with beautiful, full-color paintings from Mary Cassatt, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer and more, to bring the modern world to life. As with all Nourished Upon Ideas titles, artwork has been carefully selected to be suitable for all ages. Mark Twain, Florence Nightengale, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Clara Barton, Leo Tolstoy, Booker T. Washington, P.G. Wodehouse, G.K. Chesterton, C.S.