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They also cowrote a third and fourth volume of The Rise of American Civilization series: America in Midpassage: A Study of the Idea of Civilization (1939) and The American Spirit (1942). Standalone works include The Making of American Civilization (1937) and Basic History of the United States (1944). The Beards' textbooks sold five million ...
The William E. Massey, Sr., Lectures in the History of American Civilization is a series of public lectures held every one or two years at Harvard University since 1984. They are sponsored by the university's Program in the History of American Civilization and were endowed by an anonymous donor in honor of William E. Massey, former president of the A.T. Massey Coal Company.
Débray writes that the past century has seen a reversal of the previous order, where Europe was the centre of civilization to which the United States was a distant offshoot. Debray argues that American civilization forces an obsession with "space, image and happiness" upon Europe, suppressing a European focus on "time and writing", which leads ...
Michael Douglas Coe (May 14, 1929 – September 25, 2019) [1] was an American archaeologist, anthropologist, epigrapher, and author.He is known for his research on pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, particularly the Maya, and was among the foremost Mayanists [2] of the late twentieth century.
Teotihuacan (4th century BCE – 7/8th century CE) was both a city, and an empire of the same name, which, at its zenith between 150 and the 5th century, covered most of Mesoamerica. Aztec. The Aztec having started to build their empire around 14th century found their civilization abruptly ended by the Spanish conquistadors. They lived in ...
Mary Ritter Beard (August 5, 1876 – August 14, 1958) was an American historian, author, women's suffrage activist, and women's history archivist who was also a lifelong advocate of social justice. As a Progressive Era reformer, Beard was active in both the labor and women's rights movements.