Geography as Inquiry invites teachers and learners to explore geography in exciting ways, across key concepts, connected to history and the social sciences, reestablishing its place in the social studies and history curriculum.

The methods of teaching history in grades 6-12 have changed over the last few years to be more interactive and collaborative. More and more, teaching and learning revolves around an essential triad of inquiry, primary sources, and literacy in a collaborative classroom environment. Teaching History Today is about placing inquiry, primary sources, and literacy foundations of history instruction front and center in the education of preservice history teacher candidates and in-service...

As Cooperstown eagerly awaited the back-to-back inductions of fan favorites Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter, longtime Hall of Fame voter and award-winning journalist Mark Newman took an accompanying and unique look into the proud history of the most successful sports franchise in the world. Yankee Legends is a Hall-centric approach to the Bronx Bombers featuring 50 new essays and many more tidbits, with special emphasis on all the pivotal points in pinstripe past.It’s Yogi Berra and...

The use of primary sources as texts in the classroom is growing. Teachers realize these vital witnesses provide opportunities to motivate students and improve learning. They bring students closer to the people, places, and events being studied and help students improve content knowledge while building skills. Recent trends in standards, such as Common Core, and the increasing use of the Document-Based Questions also promote primary source use.The strong push to use primary sources ...

Visual Literacy examines how teachers can use visuals to improve learning for all students. It provides teachers with a foundation in visual literacy, defined as the ability to read, think, and communicate with visually presented information. Results of studies of students’ using visual information indicate that most students are clearly lacking in the tools needed to use visuals effectively. The book orients teachers to visual literacy and the world of visuals. It discusses various classr...

This groundbreaking study finds Southern Baptists more diverse in their attitudes toward segregation than previously assumedFocusing on the eleven states of the old Confederacy, Getting Right with God examines the evolution of Southern Baptists’ attitudes toward African Americans during a tumultuous period of change in the United States. Mark Newman not only offers an in-depth analysis of Baptist institutions from the Southern Baptist Convention (...

A housing estate is in shock following a child’s disappearance. A girl and her invisible friend go their separate ways. A father and a son bond over Post-It notes. A single father and his daughter have different approaches to the disappearance of their dog. A father finds his way to coax his agoraphobic son back out into the world.My Fence is Electric and Other Stories is a collection of award-winning short stories looking at those moments in life that fizz with the electric intens...

What hit meant the most to you and why? It was a simple question of nine words, a magical number in baseball, and it led award-winning sportswriter Mark Newman on an eight-year journey that would bring about surprising stories and empowering life lessons from the minds of the most fabled Major League hitters in our time.Charming tales of heroic moments are delivered in a very different and captivating way, as unique as the men who made them happen right before our eyes. It all star...

Winner of the 2020 American Studies Network Book Prize from the European Association for American StudiesMark Newman draws on a vast range of archives and many interviews to uncover for the first time the complex response of African American and white Catholics across the South to desegregation. In the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, the southern Catholic Church contributed to segregation by confining African Americans to the back of white ...

Aldo Newman's physicist grandfather secretly provides Aldo with an experimental device, EDSL, he has invented which allows the wearer to travel into the upper spatial dimensions. Following Aldo's first day of middle school, he and his best friend Scotty "Skooch" Connors see the body of a man who has just been murdered. After being cajoled by classmates Anya and Belinda, they begin an investigation into who killed the man and why. Aldo explores a haunted house, takes on extra-dimensional be...

Are you single and looking for the woman of your dreams?Are you fed up trawling round bars and clubs, looking for something you can’t find?Have you considered online dating?Finding the right woman to share your life with isn’t easy. The competition is tough, bars and clubs are crowded, expensive places and you often meet all the wrong types that aren’t suited to you. But there is a solution in online dating that could help you find your ideal partner.In this book, Online Dating: The ...